On Saturday MJ and I packed up our picnic goodies and headed down to Los Gatos (no, I didn’t bring my cats or my NetFlix DVDs) to Vasona Lake County Park for the second Bay Area Geeknic.
This was a smaller geeknic than the first, but we had the essential ingredients for a great day.
Good people!
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Good food!
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And beautiful weather! But it’s California, so was there any question about that? I also remembered to wear sunblock! Thanks again to the folks at Gidget Kitchen for working so hard to make it happen.
Last night I hosted the first Ubuntu Hour in San Francisco. I made it easy on myself and we had it at The Roastery, which is very close. Place and timing worked out better than I could have planned, since our event was 6-7PM and the SF MySQL Meetup just the next street over at 7PM! Most of our attendees from the Hour ended up heading over there after.
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I’m very happy with this inaugural Hour, 5 of us attended ad we even got 64-bit 10.04 installed on a MacBook (and by “got installed” I mean we chatted while the installer chugged away, and then offered tips about how he could get wifi going at home). Currently I’m planning on having it once a month (4th Tuesday) but I’ll consider making it more often, especially since it’s so easy for me to host.
Friday, Jun 25th, 2010 at 5:16
Thanks for posting this! You brought back nice memories of a Geeknic I attended, I was very lucky it happened at the same time I was in the area :)
And an Ubuntu Hour ? Nice ;)
Friday, Jun 25th, 2010 at 10:22
The Ubuntu Hour was fun! Such a great idea :)