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Friday.  The end of a long week.  There isn’t much I like better than to kick back with a bottle of India Pale Ale*.  Usually a fine craft brew from Stone, Dogfish Head, Victory, or Clipper City/Heavy Seas.

Tonight, though, is a departure.  There is a new brand of IPA to be had: FreeIPA 1.0.

Congratulations to our friends in the FreeIPA project on their 1.0 release!

I’m really proud that Red Hat has initiated this and is committed to making it an upstream project.  I think there is a lot of value there for us in the Free Software community.  Microsoft and Apple already integrate with similar technology but we can do better.  Check it out, hack on it, contribute.  1.0 is just the beginning.

* Technically American India Pale Ale

“Morally adversaries isolate themselves when they visibly improve their well being to the detriment of others (i.e. their allies, the uncommitted, etc.) by violating codes of conduct or behavior patterns that they profess to uphold or others expect them to uphold.”
John R. Boyd from The Strategic Game

After a decade of working at Johns Hopkins University on the Hubble Space Telescope’s Advanced Camera for Surveys I have left that amazing team to join another…

I am happy to announce that as of mid-January I have joined Red Hat as a member of the Desktop Team. Yay!