On Thursday night I hosted the typical Ubuntu California release party at Thirsty Bear Brewing Company in downtown San Francisco. We had… A thirsty pangolin! A hungry penguin! A guy in a Fedora shirt (hi Jeff!)! And lots of people having fun! All told we probably had 20 people who came and went throughout the […]
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12.04 Presentation for Bay Area Linux Users Group (BALUG) and upcoming SF Release Party
April 18th, 2012 by pleia2
Last night, as announced here and mentioned here, Grant Bowman and I did a presentation for the Bay Area Linux Users Group (BALUG) on Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin). When I arrived a gentleman I’d been corresponding with over email had his netbook set up for me to look at. He couldn’t remember his password and […]
Linaro Dinner, Ubuntu and Debian Evening and Saving Pangolins
February 17th, 2012 by pleia2
On February 5th several people from the Ubuntu California team headed over to Redwood City for dinner with Ubuntu-loving attendees from the Linaro Connect conference. It was Super Bowl Sunday so we lucked out at a pizzeria that lacks a television – they seemed to be doing a brisk delivery service but the restaurant was […]
SCALE 10x
January 29th, 2012 by pleia2
I spent last weekend at the the Southern California Linux Expo. I flew down to Los Angeles Thursday evening. Friday morning I gave my Ubucon talk on Getting Involved with Ubuntu. To accompany this talk I had handouts that gave a bunch of URLs to resources within the project that I covered in the talk. […]
Ubuntu Hour, SCALE 10x and Ubuntu User Days
January 12th, 2012 by pleia2
Last night I hosted the monthly San Francisco Ubuntu Hour. We had a last minute change of venue due to the coffee shop we meet in deciding to close early without warning (ah, the joys of local small businesses), but fortunately we were able to use the lobby one door over and people managed to […]
Ubuntu at ITT Tech, Linux Format and SCALE
December 16th, 2011 by pleia2
Wednesday night I held a well-attended Ubuntu Hour and Debian dinner here in San Francisco. Lots of great discussion at both meetups, huge thanks to everyone who came out! Last night I gave another (first was in September) “Introduction to Ubuntu” talk for a Linux class at ITT Tech in Oakland. After my short talk […]
Northern California Ubuntu Hours and SF Release Dinner!
October 21st, 2011 by pleia2
I was in Philadelphia for the actual release day of Ubuntu 11.10 so I went to the Pennsylvania team’s release party (congrats again on your reapproval!). In San Francisco I ended up postponing the regular monthly Ubuntu Hour a week and we held an Ubuntu Hour and then an 11.10 release dinner on Wednesday the […]
Ubuntu California at Solano Stroll 2011
September 14th, 2011 by pleia2
It has become a an annual tradition, BerkeleyLUG teams up with Ubuntu California and the local non-profit Partimus to staff a booth at the Solano Stroll in Berkeley, California. From the Stroll website: Since 1974, The merchants, restaurants, and professionals, as well as the twin cities of Albany and Berkeley CA, have hosted the Solano […]
Ubuntu California at Picn*x 20 and Android cookies
August 28th, 2011 by pleia2
This past week I worked with Jack Deslippe to get everything together for the 20th Linux Anniversary Linux Picn*x in Sunnyvale, California. Saturday morning we were ready for the picnic! We arrived around 11AM and got the table set up: It was the inaugural use of the Approved Team Gifts from Canonical (Ubuntu banner and […]
Weekend boats!
August 8th, 2011 by pleia2
During his commute on Friday MJ heard about the Pacific Voyagers visiting San Francisco, so on Saturday following a breakfast of waffles and blueberries we headed out to check them out. They crossed the Pacific in their small boats, you can check out their page charting the course here. Crazy. The event was held on […]