On Tuesday I hosted the second San Francisco Ubuntu Hour. We had four people in attendance (thanks for dropping by James, Grant and Michelle!). It ended up being quite an evening for gadgets. As is typical, I brought along my mini9 and Grant showed up with his ever popular OLPC laptop. Then Michelle showed up […]
Archive for July, 2010
How to Ask Smart Questions by Martin Owens
July 24th, 2010 by pleia2
While I wouldn’t say that direct user support is one of my more substantial contributions to the Ubuntu community, I do contribute some in #xubuntu, #ubuntu-beginners and various not-strictly-support channels like some LoCo channels and #ubuntu-women. Doing user support on IRC is one of those things that makes me feel more connected with the community […]
Xubuntu Artwork
July 20th, 2010 by pleia2
Some love Gnome, others love KDE, for me it’s XFCE all the way. When I jumped on the Ubuntu bandwagon several years ago it was only natural that I’d use Xubuntu. Isn’t it lovely? Now, I am completely useless when it comes to artwork[0], so I will once again stand on the shoulders of artistic […]
La Trappe Cafe
July 16th, 2010 by pleia2
While I was down at Noisebridge for their weekly Linux Discussion meeting this week I met another local sysadmin who ended up having some great tips as far as beer in the city. That night I took advantage of one of his tips and MJ and I hopped on a bus down to La Trappe […]
Viva Las Vegas!
July 12th, 2010 by pleia2
So, in Vegas we Saw Penn & Teller, got pink M&Ms, saw lots of animals, but how did we get there? Where did we stay? Where did we eat? Did we gamble? As I mentioned in a previous post, the trip was over a 4 day weekend to celebrate our Anniversary on the 3rd (oh, […]
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Bay Area Geeknic 2.5: Tailgate party!
July 11th, 2010 by pleia2
This morning I hopped on BART and headed over to the Oakland Coliseum for Geeknic 2.5. Why 2.5? We wanted to have a Geeknic this month, but Mark is traveling the rest of this month, most people were unavailable last weekend due to the holiday, yesterday was a busy day for folks too, today was […]
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Animals in Vegas (aside from the humans)
July 10th, 2010 by pleia2
I asked a friend of mine for some advice regarding “stuff to see in Vegas” and among her recommendations was to check out the MGM Tigers, along with a mention of tigers at the Mirage. Animals in Vegas? Cool! So I went searching for what other kinds of animals could be found in Vegas and […]
New Ubuntu Women Logo
July 9th, 2010 by pleia2
One of our Maverick goals was to redesign our team logo to work with the new Ubuntu Brand. We enlisted the talents of Troy Sobotka (who came up with our great former logo) to come up with a simple, clean idea which we can use on the upcoming redesign of ubuntu-women.org and as our logo […]
Pink M&Ms!
July 9th, 2010 by pleia2
While in Las Vegas last weekend I checked out the original M&M’s World. 4 stories of M&Ms merchandise, insane! But most notable was the “My Color” Wall which has M&Ms in all kinds of crazy colors. Including pink! So of course I got some. Pink ones taste better than the other colors, of course.
Do you Ubuntu… with Penn and Teller?
July 8th, 2010 by pleia2
This past weekend I was in Las Vegas with my boyfriend for our 1 year anniversary (hooray!), and as a crazy huge fan of the duo, while I was there I had to see a Penn & Teller show! After the show they stood in the lobby for signing and photos, so I was able […]