#381 Article proposal: We’re in Kenya. Fedora at Murang’a University
Closed: published by rlengland. Opened by rlengland.

Article Summary:
This article shares my highlights from the Murang’a University event held on March 28.

Article Description:
The article is already drafted here in Google docs.

This article tells the story of how we introduced Fedora and open source to students at Murang’a University in Kenya, and how it inspired them to start contributing and growing a local tech community

https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/article-proposal-we-re-in-kenya-fedora-at-murang-a-university/148329


Hey,

here is the preview link: https://fedoramagazine.org/?p=41902&preview=true&preview_id=41902
I will appreciate any feedback

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@lochipi Your article looks good. I made a few minor wording changes, for language flow and simplification, but nothing major at all.

Scheduled for 9 April 08:00 UTC

Thank you Cornelius

The non-standard aspect ratio on the cover image might be a problem for some of the feeds that expect our usual standard. Particularly https://fedoraproject.org/start.

The non-standard aspect ratio on the cover image might be a problem for some of the feeds that expect our usual standard. Particularly https://fedoraproject.org/start.

Missed that. Thanks for the catch @glb. I rescaled and cropped it to fit the 1890x800 (at least very close)

I rescaled and cropped it to fit the 1890x800 (at least very close)

Do you remember that story about how a lone Amazon employee misplaced a decimal point and took down about half of the world-wide-web for several hours?

Excerpted from One Amazon Employee’s “Human Error” May Have Cost the Economy Millions:

On Tuesday, significant portions of the Internet were crippled when part of Amazon’s cloud, Simple Storage Service, experienced an hours-long outage. Amazon Web Services, the $404 billion company’s cloud-based computing system, has essentially become a backbone of the Internet; even an intermittent outage knocks out service to social-media platforms, web publishers, and other websites. Within several hours, Amazon’s S3 service was back online, but it had lasting ramifications: according to one estimate, it cost S&P 500 companies $150 million, and U.S. financial-service companies $160 million in lost revenue.

I've occasionally wondered what became of that employee. I imagine he is too traumatized to go near a computer ever again.

Let's be precise when we can. 🙂

Thank you for your feedback, @rlengland & @glb.

I rescaled and cropped it to fit the 1890x800 (at least very close)

Do you remember that story about how a lone Amazon employee misplaced a decimal point and took down about half of the world-wide-web for several hours?

Excerpted from One Amazon Employee’s “Human Error” May Have Cost the Economy Millions:

On Tuesday, significant portions of the Internet were crippled when part of Amazon’s cloud, Simple Storage Service, experienced an hours-long outage. Amazon Web Services, the $404 billion company’s cloud-based computing system, has essentially become a backbone of the Internet; even an intermittent outage knocks out service to social-media platforms, web publishers, and other websites. Within several hours, Amazon’s S3 service was back online, but it had lasting ramifications: according to one estimate, it cost S&P 500 companies $150 million, and U.S. financial-service companies $160 million in lost revenue.

I've occasionally wondered what became of that employee. I imagine he is too traumatized to go near a computer ever again.

Let's be precise when we can. 🙂

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Precision is the enemy of "Good enough" and timeliness 🙂

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