FOSDEM 2026

feedback@mwinters.net (Michael Winters) — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve never been to a FOSS conference. I’ve never been to Europe. I’ve never contributed to a Linux distro (only apps). I’ve never heard of the Beefy Miracle, and I have no idea what the mustard signifies…

I guess this is the year I do all the things!

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Like all classic epics, our story starts with a hero sitting in an airport terminal, staring at a screen that simply says, “Delayed”. It turns out that you need pilots for airplanes, and if you don’t have one then nobody gets to go. Somebody should tell Delta!

Fedora, Community Health, and the birth of Hatlas

feedback@mwinters.net (Michael Winters) — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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I’ve been quite busy the past many months, contributing to the Fedora project in ways that I never planned.

I initially thought that I would join to help the ops folk modernize a few things and brush up on my Ansible. But I quickly discovered that Fedora Infra is quite a difficult beast to get one’s hands around, even if you have decades of professional infra skills behind you. There are a large number of reasons for this, and none of them are, “someone is an incompetent jerk”, which makes it a difficult problem to solve. (As with most complex systems, emergent feedback loops are tricky.)

Fedora on Michael Winters

FOSDEM 2026

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Fedora, Community Health, and the birth of Hatlas

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