I spent the long holiday weekend in San Francisco with MJ. So I’ll start there, for those of you not hovering over twitter MJ and I started dating this weekend :) . MJ and me after fireworks on the 4th We’ve been close friends for years, and in spite of the distance this progression in […]
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Southeast LinuxFest!
June 19th, 2009 by pleia2
This past weekend I rode down to the Southeast Linuxfest in Clemson South Carolina. I tagged along with Freenode reps Jonathan Simpson and Crissi, plus Andrew from the Pennsylvania Ubuntu LoCo team. I was able to take Friday off from work for the drive down to Charlotte, NC where we were staying, the drive down […]
Ubuntu Open Week: Ubuntu Women Project
April 28th, 2009 by pleia2
Tomorrow, April 29th, at 23:00 UTC I’ll be doing an Ubuntu Open Week session on the Ubuntu Women Project in #ubuntu-classroom (#ubuntu-classroom-chat for questions and discussion). I will be focusing on: General intro to project Why we feel such a project is important Project resources Aside from the basics of above I’ll try to put […]
PLUG at the Trenton Computer Festival
April 25th, 2009 by pleia2
Today I woke up at 6:30AM (oh, is that why I’m so tired?) to head out to the Trenton Computer Festival where I was running a table to promote PLUG. I was accompanied by friends Stephen Nichols and Mike Edwards. Upon arrival things were a bit confusing – but within about 20 minutes we’d finally […]
Philadelphia Geeknic: Success!
April 20th, 2009 by pleia2
The first Geeknic, right here near Philadelphia, took place yesterday at Betzwood Park. We topped out at around 30 people, we invited folks from Ubuntu Pennsylvania, Ubuntu New Jersey, PLUG, PhillyGeek, PASUG, PACS, Temple ACM, a few other nearby LUGs and through advertising in the Freenode motd (yes, some people do read those!). We even […]
Upcoming Linux events near Philadelphia
April 18th, 2009 by pleia2
April 19, 2009: Philadelphia Geeknic 2009 @ Betzwood Park On March 31st PLUG member Jonathan Simpson and I had the following exchange: < JonathanD> pleia2: lets setup a geeknic < pleia2> geeknic? < JonathanD> geeknic < pleia2> define please < JonathanD> it’s a geeky picnic! < pleia2> oh :) The rest was history! I was […]
Wallace and Gromit Exhibit at the Science Museum in London
April 9th, 2009 by pleia2
This is my last post about England, I promise (until I go back! I can’t help myself, I loved it there). The day before I left we headed back into London to go to the opening day of Wallace & Gromit’s World of Cracking Ideas Exhibition. Wow! Opening day of a Wallace and Gromit exhibit! […]
UKUUG Spring 2009 Conference
April 4th, 2009 by pleia2
On the 25th and 26th of March I attended the UKUUG Spring 2009 Conference. The first day I was a bit apprehensive, because of public transportation. Getting from Liverpool Street station to Great Portland Street on the tube turned out to be easy, and the conference really was right across the street from the station. […]
Philadelphia Flower Show
March 1st, 2009 by pleia2
Yesterday morning I met up with Stephen, Alisa and their mother to head over to the Members Preview day of the Philadelphia Flower Show. We hit Sam’s Coventry Diner prior for some breakfast and headed down to Philly around 11. I’d never been to the show before (which is billed as the biggest indoor flower […]
Philadelphia Bug Jam!
February 23rd, 2009 by pleia2
On Saturday the Philadelphia team of Ubuntu US Pennsylvania hosted our BugJam. PLUG member Art Alexion graciously offered us space at Resources for Human Development in great room with wired connections for the event, and access to a kitchen for our goodies. People started arriving around noon and we got things set up, retrieved the […]