Blogs | Justin Wheeler

For the last few months, I am working on one of my greatest projects yet.

In July, I shared an update about my new role as AI Alignment Community Architect at Red Hat, focused on Fedora.

This is the third and final post in my series on Flock to Fedora 2026.

Flock to Fedora is the flagship contributor community event for the Fedora Project.

In the blink of an eye, it was over almost as quickly as it began.

I attended Red Hat Summit 2026 in Atlanta last week from May 11-13.

The intersection of open source development and artificial intelligence (AI) is currently a minefield of valid excitement and legitimate anxiety.

It has been a minute.

This blog post summarizes the discussions and action items from the Infrastructure and Release Engineering workshop held at Flock 2024 in Rochester, New York, USA.

To all Outreachy May 2024 applicants to the Fedora Project, Today is May 2nd, 2024.

This year, I am mentoring again with the Outreachy internship program.

A short poem that I was inspired to write after a short drive running errands, and I was absorbed momentarily into the beauty of the natural world around me.

A poem to describe love from a constantly suspended state of waiting and wonder.

2023 is almost over.

My musing this time is an underdeveloped thought about diversity, equity, & inclusion; allyship; and being a white person.

Read more of my poetry on my blog.

Friend, are you okay?

Trust is a word and a concept that is on my mind lately.

The answer suddenly appeared that the only way to solve my dilemma of two split worlds was to find the middle path.

In my daily reading, I came across three product roadmaps from Proton, developers of several open source, privacy-centered products.

This thought was pressed into my mind as I looked over all that I had created.

Recently, my team with the CHAOSS Project had a data concern emerge when I was working on a project to run a community survey.

Since February 2021, the CHAOSS Project is conducting a funded, long-term review of its governance, practices, and processes in a diversity, equity, and inclusion (D.E.I.)

Originally published on 27 September 2022 via unicef.org.

Read more of my poetry on my blog. one, two I fell in love with you Caught me by surprise three, four My focus was on you There was me, you, & the road five, six I took each breath Felt each beat of my heart seven, eight I realized Your rhythm Pulled into…

It is with a sad heart that I share that the crystalcraftmc.com forums are permanently retired as of 6 February 2022.

How do we understand value when we talk about sustainability?

I was visiting the Fedora Council ticket tracker when I noticed this ticket up for discussion.

Open Source is a means to collaborate and solve common problems; during the COVID-19 pandemic, open data and tools proved useful in quickly tailoring and deploying life-saving services.

There are moments I reflect back on my life when I met someone who interacted with me in an impressive way.

Community participation and engagement in corporate Open Source projects is valuable, yet difficult to foster.

For a long time, it was a “yes”.

A part of me holds nostalgia for this aspect of the Internet I grew up with.

I often wonder how to best measure and communicate Open Source value.

Language is powerful.

Përshëndetje nga Tiranë, or in Albanian, hello from Tirana!

This post was co-published on the UNICEF Innovation Fund blog. 2020 saw the launch of a formalized Open Source Mentorship programme for the UNICEF Innovation Fund, built up on two years of work from RIT LibreCorps expertise and consulting.

Recently a Spotify playlist curated into my feed.

This first appeared on the Open Source Initiative Wiki.

When I first saw the letter asking for Richard Stallman and the FSF Board of Directors resignations with merely five signatures, I knew I had to sign.

Read more of my poetry on my blog.

Four years ago, on March 13th in 2017, I woke up for breakfast in the city of Sarajevo in Bosnia & Herzegovina.

When I launched my blog, I always envisioned writing cute snapshots of insight into my life.

From January to May 2020, I completed an independent study at the Rochester Institute of Technology on Business and Legal Aspects of Free/Open Source Software.

In May 2018, Mozilla and Open Tech Strategies released a 40-page report titled, “Open Source Archetypes”.

The bookmark was creeping on my browser’s toolbar for months.

October is here!

Trigger warning: Grief, police violence, death.

This El Ten Eleven article is part of my Tervigersate column on my blog, where I review albums by musicians spanning multiple genres.

Trigger warning: Grief, death.