I’m happy to report that the OLPCSF Community Summit 2010 on Oct 22-24th was an outstanding success! We had an excellent team of volunteers whose skills in a variety of different areas really came together under Sameer Verma’s lead and the attendees of the summit itself brought energy to the event that was palpable. On […]
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First Mountain View Ubuntu Hour
October 22nd, 2010 by pleia2
On Thursday evening I attended the first Mountain View Ubuntu Hour, where we had 13 attendees! This ended up being a bit of a combination Ubuntu Hour and release party for the folks in Mountain View, and I brought along a few of Ubuntu and Kubuntu 10.10 CDs for attendees. Thanks to nUboon2Age of Ubuntu […]
San Francisco Mayor Proclaims October 23, 2010 OLPC Day
October 22nd, 2010 by pleia2
Tonight we launch our One Laptop per Child San Francisco Community Summit 2010 with an opening reception at 5PM. I’m so excited! But the big announcement today was that the Mayor of San Francisco, Gavin Newsom, has proclaimed that October 23, 2010 is One Laptop per Child Day in San Francisco! For more see the […]
Cousins, Ubuntu Hour, Birthday!
September 29th, 2010 by pleia2
On Monday night I headed down to Yoshi’s San Francisco to have dinner with my local cousin Brendan and visiting cousin Audrey. They are both cousins from my father’s side, and while I have seen Brendan since moving here, it had been 5 years since I’d seen Audrey. It was a lovely sushi dinner with […]
Some recent tech meetups
September 27th, 2010 by pleia2
On September 15th, the Women Who Tech telesummit occurred. Work has been pretty busy for me lately, so I had to take care of obligations there and couldn’t participate in the summit, maybe next year. However, I was able to go to attend the San Francisco after party, which was delightfully held just a couple […]
OLPC San Francisco Community Summit 2010
September 22nd, 2010 by pleia2
Back in April I went to a Bay Area Linux Users Group (BALUG) meeting where Sameer Verma was doing a presentation titled One Laptop per Child (OLPC) Project: Plan, Updates, Direction, Participation (slides here). It was an inspiring presentation, Sameer’s excitement for the project was infectious and I asked a bunch of questions and attended […]
Ubuntu California at Picn*x 19
August 22nd, 2010 by pleia2
On Saturday I got up bright and early to catch a 9AM ride with Grant Bowman to the annual Linux Picnic (Picn*x19) as they celebrated the 19th anniversary of the Linux kernel. We arrived on site to help with setup shortly before 10AM. Shortly after arriving Mark Terranova and Robert Wall also showed up and […]
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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Geeknic and SF Ubuntu Hour
June 23rd, 2010 by pleia2
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. […]
Painting, Partimus and Open Computing Showcase
June 13th, 2010 by pleia2
I’ve been on call this weekend, which was one of the busier ones I’ve had, but I still had time for other things. Saturday was spent finishing the major painting work of the storage units, I’m so glad that’s almost done, we just need to do some touch up later this week. From there it’s […]