September was quite a whirlwind month for me, and while I won’t be travelling anywhere on a plane in October (first month I haven’t since June!) it looks like it’s going to be a fun-filled month as well. Now catching up… PLUG Into Hive76! We had another successful meeting on the 24th, Kevin Valentine and […]
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Philadelphia be Jammin’!
October 3rd, 2009 by pleia2
The Philadelphia Mythbuntu Jam is in full swing, Andrew Keyes has been taking photos and posting them up on flickr: Andrew Keyes Flickr: Philly MythJam 2009: Big 4M original panorama Huge 14M original panorama We ended up with 22 people coming out, we’re having a blast!
Philadelphia Software Freedom Day!
September 20th, 2009 by pleia2
Yesterday the Ubuntu Pennsylvania Team hosted a Software Freedom Day event. We arrived at the Philadelphia Area Computer Society‘s meeting space in the community center of Giant grocery store in Willow Grove around 8:30AM and spent the morning in the lobby with several computers. We answered questions and chatted with folks coming through about everything […]
Pink keyboard, beer and SFD
September 18th, 2009 by pleia2
Tonight I was at Staples picking up some last-minute items for the Ubuntu Pennsylvania Software Freedom Day Event tomorrow morning. While I was there I was seduced by the OmniTech Flexible Keyboard, in pink. Teri Solow had pointed me in the direction of a similar one a couple months ago, but the price tag for […]
ABE.pm and PHL.pm at Victory and the rest of my weekend
September 14th, 2009 by pleia2
On Saturday I headed down to Victory Brewing’s brewpub to meet up with the Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton Perl Mongers (ABE.pm) and the Philadelphia Perl Mongers (phl.pm) for a joint meetup to check out the Victory tour and hang out. I boringly just had a Hop Devil, and only one at that since I had to drive home, […]
Ubuntu US and Pennsylvania updates
September 7th, 2009 by pleia2
Ubuntu US Teams On August 26th the USTeams Project had a meeting: Minutes Logs Huge thanks to everyone who attended! There were a couple of major topics that came up: Visibility of the team itself, how do State teams know they can come to us for help? Some thoughts that were floated including getting ourselves […]
PLUG into Hive76, my PLUG Central talk and OpenHatch.org
September 5th, 2009 by pleia2
On Thursday the 27th we hosted the first real PLUG into Hive76 meeting! We had 15 people show up from the groups involved (Hive76, PLUG, Linux Meetup) and brainstorming plans went well. Dan posted a little info about the meetup on the Hive76 blog: PLUG Into Hive76 == Success! Plus, Jim Fisher brought OREO CAKE! […]
Wedding, sick, Nessy, Xen server
September 4th, 2009 by pleia2
The wedding I attended on Saturday for Jonathan and Crissi was very nice (photos by Andrew Keyes): There was nommy cake! And I told #plug folks once the wedding was done (I met Jonathan through PLUG): Unfortunately, after arriving home after the wedding I was feeling a bit tired, later in the evening I started […]
Upcoming talks, photos from Virtualization Roundtable
August 17th, 2009 by pleia2
I have two upcoming open source talks: “Expanding involvement of Women in F/OSS” at PLUG Central on September 2nd. I’ve spoken on this topic before, and committed to this one prior to my retirement from the subject in the public arena. I considered changing topics, but the folks at PLUG are a good bunch and […]
PLUG Into Hive76
July 27th, 2009 by pleia2
Last Tuesday Dan Toliaferro dropped by the Ubuntu Pennsylvania channel (#ubuntu-us-pa on irc.freenode.net) and asked if anyone would be interested in a new “Linux Night” in Philadelphia. We began discussion his venue, Hive76, a new hackerspace on Spring Garden Street. I proposed a collaboration with PLUG. He invited the folks from the Philly Linux Meetup.com […]