Last Four FaiF Episodes

Post Syndicated from Bradley M. Kuhn original http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2011/11/11/more-faif.html

Those of you that follow my blog have probably wondered we’re I’ve
been. Quite frankly, there is just so much work going on at Conservancy
that I have almost had no time to do anything but Conservancy work, eat
and sleep. My output on this blog and
on identi.ca surely shows that.

The one thing that I’ve kept up with
is the oggcast, Free as in
Freedom
that I co-host
with Karen Sandler, and which is
produced by Dan Lynch.

Since I last made a blog post here, Karen, Dan and I released four
oggcasts. I’ll discuss them here in reverse chronological order:

In Episode 0x1C, which was released today, we published Karen’s
interview with Adam Dingle
of Yorba. IMO (which is undoubtedly
biased), this episode is an important one since it relates to the
issues of non-profit organizations in our community who waiting in the
501(c)(3) application queue. This is a detailed and specific follow-up
to the issues that Karen and I discussed
on FaiF’s Episode
0x13
.

In Episode 0x1B, Karen and I discuss in some detail about the work that
we’ve been up to. Both Karen and I are full-time Executive Directors,
and the amount of work that job takes always seems insurmountable.
Although, after we recorded the episode, I somewhat embarrassingly
remembered
the Bush/Kerry
debate where George W. Bush kept saying his job as president is hard
work
. It’s certainly annoying when a chief executive goes on
and on about how hard his job is, so I apologize if I did a little too
much of that in Episode 0x1B.

In Episode 0x1A,
Karen and I discussed in detail Steve Jobs’ death and the various news
coverage about it. The subject is a bit old news now that I write this,
but I’m glad we did that episode, since it gave me an opportunity to say
everything I wanted to stay about Steve Jobs’ life and death.

In Episode 0x19, we
played Karen’s interview
with Jos Poortvliet,
discussed the identi.ca upgrade, and Karen discussed GNOME 3.2.

My plan is to at least keep the FaiF oggcast going, and I’m
even bugging
Fontana that he and I should start an oggcast too
. Beyond that, I
can’t necessarily commit to any other activities outside of that (and my
job at Conservancy and volunteer duties at FSF). BTW, I recently
attended a few conferences (both LinxCon Europe and the Summer of Code
Mentor Summit). At both of them, multiple folks asked me why I haven’t
been blogging more. I appreciate people’s interest in what I’m writing,
but at the moment, my day-job at Conservancy and volunteer work at FSF
has had to take absolute priority.

Based on the ebb and flow (yes, that’s the first time I’ve actually
used that phrase on my ebb.org blog 🙂 of the Free Software community
that I’ve gotten used to over the last decade and a half, I usually find
that things slow down in mid-December until mid-January. Since
Conservancy’s work is based on the needs of its Free Software projects,
I’ll likely be able to return a “normal” 50 hour work week
(instead of the 60-70 I’ve been doing lately) in December. Thus, I’ll
probably try to write some queued blog posts then to slowly push out
over the few months that follow.

Finally, I want to mention
that Conservancy
has an donation appeal
up on its website. I hope you’ll give
generously to support Conservancy’s work. On that, I’ll just briefly
mention my “hard work” again, to assure you
that donors to
Conservancy
definitely get their money’s worth when I’m on the job.
Since I’m on the topic of that, I also thank everyone who
has donated to FSF
and Conservancy over the
years. I’ve been fortunate to have worked full-time at both
organizations, and I appreciate the community that has supported all
that work over the years.