At work I have started to be the community team representative for the Bay Area Apache Mesos User Group meetups. Marketing has long handled logistics of these events, so my role has been more along the lines of welcoming attendees and playing MC so that the speakers feel welcome and the event runs smoothly.

On June 28th my first opportunity to speak at one of these events came up as I had to quickly fill in for a colleague who couldn’t make it into town for it. The event was on Microservices and SMACK Stack on Azure (strictly speaking, SMACK is: Apache Spark, Apache Mesos, Akka, Apache Cassandra and Apache Kafka, but like the LAMP stack you can swap out like components). Continuing a partnership that also included some internal collaboration that week, we partnered with several folks from Microsoft for this public event.

Prior to the meetup I worked with Patrick Brennan, who was our on-site Mesosphere liaison working with the team at Microsoft, to discuss preparations for the demo at the meetup. Since he was all set up with Azure already and my own time was limited, he tossed up a cluster I could use for the demos and then we made sure we had all the access controls in place to run the demo. I then collaborated with speakers Rob Bagby and Julien Stroheker who work on the Azure team over at Microsoft to put together an agenda where I’d lay the foundation for their talks by introducing DC/OS and doing a quick demo of the SMACK stack running on Azure. I’m quite happy to say that even with limited time to prepare, and my own lack of experience with Azure, everything came together. The ability to run DC/OS anywhere you want is something that makes me so proud to work on it so I can share the power of that flexibility with others.

Following my 20 minute primer and demo, Rob gave us a live tour of the Azure UI to demonstrate the mechanisms for using DC/OS on it. He including tips from the Learn DC/OS on ACS collection of documentation that he maintains, which I had only recently learned about and is incredibly valuable if you’re looking to run DC/OS with the Azure Container Service (ACS). His talk was followed by one from Julien, who is one of many folks working in the DC/OS community to come up with open source tooling to get DC/OS to do their bidding on specific platforms (cloud, on premises). In his case, he’s built a proof of concept DC/OS autoscaler for clouds, right now supporting Azure. The PoC code can be found on GitHub: julienstroheker/dcos-autoscaler.

Julien Stroheker sharing autoscaling

One of the most rewarding things about my job right now is seeing community-based efforts like this being created and shared. Just last week we held an office hours where we spoke to Flach Jauffrey and Benjamin Vouillaume who have written boot2dcos, which they’re using to turn employee desktops that are unused at night into DC/OS agents to process workloads. When employees leave for the evening, the machines are shut down, PXE booted to load up a Linux image and DC/OS and get to work. Very cool stuff.

But, as much as I enjoy it, enough about work! I took my first formal vacation day since I started in January the day after the meetup to spend the day with David, who was in San Francisco for a few days. His visit was one stop of several during a trip around the country by train that took just over two weeks. I admit that I’m a bit jealous of the ambition of his train trip. My own single cross country train adventure in May was just three and a half days, and went one direction. He did an entire clockwise loop that took him down south, through Texas and the southwest, up through California and then on to the Empire Builder, a route that goes further north than the California Zephyr that I took. Jealousy around his time on trains aside, I was very happy that he included a stop in San Francisco during his journey.

The day we spent together began in Union Square where we got him a transit card so we could get around the city all day. We also got an obligatory photo together next to the Powell Street cable cars. He had been to San Francisco many times, so we forewent the cable car ride and focused on spending the day at places he hadn’t seen yet. First on our list was Japantown! I love sushi and promised I’d give him a tour of my favorites so I could try to convince him to enjoy sushi. Alas, I’m quite sure I failed. He ate it, but even with my expertly crafted varietal mix of sweet, spicy, fishy and less so, it seems my dear friend is just not into sushi. I did enjoy trying though. While we were there we also stopped by Chocolate Chair, which is one of the many liquid nitrogen-driven ice cream shops that have been popping up. Their most recent claim to fame is Dragon’s Breath (SFGATE article here), which are colorful, flavored cereal puff balls that are infused with liquid nitrogen so that when you eat them fog very amusingly comes out your nose and mouth. Dragon! David bravely partook, I helped myself to a few, but mostly enjoyed my own very delicious bowl of strawberry ice cream.

The rest of the afternoon was spent over at the California Academy of Sciences. It’s one of my favorite science museums, and with it right there in Golden Gate Park and proximity to the MUNI Metro line, it’s a convenient and delightfully San Francisco place to visit to get a bunch of experiences at once. We hit the highlights of the museum: the living roof, the huge rain forest domed environment, the planetarium, the penguins, a bit of the aquarium. They also have a great Pterosaurs: Flight in the Age of Dinosaurs exhibit right now that I really enjoyed. When the museum closed at 5 a quick walk took us to the metro line that took us back downtown, where our adventures concluded with a lovely Mexican dinner at Tropisueño, and cupcakes over at the Metreon. Well-fed and a bit tired, his next train awaited him across the bay, so I saw him off on a ferry that would take him to the train station where he’d catch the Coast Starlight north. A sad farewell for me, for sure, but he had another week of train adventures ahead.

More photos from our touristing day in San Francisco here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/pleia2/sets/72157685698889625

As I mentioned, MJ had a friend in town that week too, a childhood friend who comes in a couple times a year and stays with us. When in town she works from an office out here, and then her and MJ do dinners and weekends together. I met up with them for a couple meals (including an evening at Kabul Afghan Cuisine down in Sunnyvale, must go back!), but mostly kept myself busy on my own. MJ and I did get to enjoy a dinner alone together on Friday, going over to my favorite local restaurant, Anchor & Hope, which we hadn’t been to together in some time. The food is great, the beer list is one of my favorites in the city, it’s just a block from home and in general it’s a comfortable place because we’re so familiar with it. A perfect place for a dinner together to reconnect and relax.

On Saturday, July 1st I wandered up to Berkeley to do what ends up being a quarterly trip to pick up the latest pile of comic books for the series I’m reading. As I may have written before, I’ve always enjoyed graphic novels and had an interest in comic books, but cost prevented any serious following as a youth, and it was only since Marvel came out with the Princess Leia series a couple years ago, and several other Star Wars titles, that I really started getting into them as an adult. Today I’m following the Wonder Woman reboot (rebirth), a selection of the Star Wars titles, and then I pick up a few here and there as they come up (a Lost in Space series last year, American Gods this year). A friend of mine also clued me into the six DC/Looney Tunes crossover comics that turned out to be really great. I was able to find a few of them while up there shopping too, and then went to eBay to grab the remaining ones. I drifted from the comic book store in downtown Berkeley over to the one closer to Rockridge, picked up a couple more books, and then I was hungry! That’s how I ended up with my solo lunch at Zachary’s Chicago Pizza in Oakland. It was delicious, and if you’re going to have a lunch by yourself, you might as well make it a giant plate of dough, cheese and tomatoes.

The next day Caligula got his second Golden Gate Park visit! It was fun for the four of us to get out. Plus, with how excited my normally lazy cat gets as soon as he goes to the park, it was nice to have three of us there to take turns walking him around where ever he wanted to go.

Soon, all friends had departed and our city was our own again. I promised MJ some quiet time during the long 4th of July weekend, so we decided not to make plans for the holiday. But we did make plans to go up to Richmond to visit the Golden State Model Railroad Museum. On our way up to Richmond we stopped at our favorite BBQ place, so we were happy and full by the time we saw the trains.

I had just recently learned about the museum from a friend at a Linux meetup and it’s run by the East Bay Model Engineers Society (EBMES). The members of the society maintain all the track layouts and then open the museum to the public on Sundays when they have trains running. It seems like a really interesting way of being a model train hobbiest, the building that houses it is big and I’m sure very few people have the space to make very much in their own homes, especially here in California where basements are rare and houses themselves tend to be smaller than elsewhere in the country.

It was a lot of fun talking to one of the members there. We told him of our recent Amtrak journey and geeked out a bit over the best passenger routes around California, even day trips that can be pretty interesting. He was right in my head when he mentioned you could take Amtrak up to Sacramento for the day and go to the train museum there (I still haven’t been!).

Getting to see all the trains running and people fiddling them got me an even more firm understanding of the scales. I had been considering N scale because I won’t have a lot of space (planning on putting my layout in my office, once I have one), but once I saw people working on them up close I think I’m going to go with HO scale. It’s the most popular (though N has been catching up), and it’s big enough to show nice details and not feel like I’m going to break a tiny delicate thing. It’s also small enough that I think I can enjoy a cute layout without taking up massive amounts of space. It was also interesting to learn how separate-worlds the different scale groups are, these people get super specialized in their scales and don’t really answer questions about the other scales. There also seems to be a friendly rivalry between them all. I also met a little girl who was super excited about all the geek stuff I was wearing, which was super sweet, and I hope convinced her that adults can sport train engine earrings and wear Star Wars t-shirts forever.

The visit was inspiring too. I’m somewhat tempted to buy a couple kits to start playing with things before I have space for it, just because I’m excited. Resisting for now though, I shall have space soon enough (within the year, I hope!) and I have enough other projects for other hobbies to keep me busy in the meantime.

A lot more photos from the museum here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/pleia2/sets/72157683695335350/

While we were up in Richmond we also saw signs for the Rosie the Riveter/WWII Home Front NHP museum. I had no idea it existed, it’s a little warehouse building not too far from the model railway museum. The museum starts with the focus on Rosie the Riveter and the changing roles of women as WWII progressed, but also touched upon general life at home in the US during and just after the war, the internment camps for Japanese-Americans and more. The displays were bright and interesting, and well organized. Unfortunately we got there pretty late in the afternoon so we had to skim through the exhibits pretty quickly. I’d like to go back at some point to view it properly, there’s also a short movie that goes along with the exhibits that plays regularly throughout the day and they do events there, so it might be worth looking at a calendar for when we can make time to go up again.

More photos from our visit to this museum here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/pleia2/sets/72157682967715334

I mentioned in my last general update post that I’d started doing a bit more work with Partimus lately. Last Friday MJ departed on a week and a half long business trip and so on Saturday I made plans to meet up with our executive director at one of the low-income housing facilities in the tenderloin, just beyond Union Square. For the first hour I worked on debugging an issue with guest sessions failing to log in. It was an issue we’d seen across all the locations that we service and ended up being impossible to diagnose remotely with the tools we had. Sitting there digging through logs and doing tests finally led me to figure out what was going on, the details of which I shared here. Essentially the command to remove the temporary guest users was failing due to a stuck lock file so the system was adding a guest user every time someone logged in until it couldn’t make any more (it hit UID 999). I wrote a script to remove the lock file and delete stray users that any of our volunteers can run if this happens again, but I’ll bake a more permanent solution into a custom Lubuntu ISO I hope to help build soon.

However, the main goal of this visit was to take a look at the PXE boot server that one of our volunteers built. It’s been tested and works for installing 32-bit Lubuntu, but we want 64-bit and in general need to do an audit and document what this server does so we can improve it, and replicate it on other sites as needed. This introduced me to the basement of the building, where lots of spiders live. I get along with spiders, but there was also no internet access or cell signal down there, so I brought along my handy portable hard drive (one of my best investments ever!) and cloned the drive so I could work on it at home. I won’t get to it this weekend, but I hope to carve out some time next Sunday to start digging into it.

I’ve been staying incredibly busy with work this week and would love to write about that now too, but that will have wait until another blog post. It’s 10PM and need to get to bed soon. I need be on the road by 7:45AM tomorrow morning to get down to Santa Clara for the Cloud+Data Next conference. I’ll be giving a Day 2 Operations talk in the early afternoon. It’s a talk that I was uncertain about before I gave it the first time, but it’s really grown on me, and I’m really proud of the improvements I’ve been putting into it. Wish me luck tomorrow!

I’ve been on the Board of Directors for Partimus for the past 5 years. In that time we’ve done projects in public charter schools, after school programs and a library. This year our focus has been work at a homeless shelter in San Francisco. See an interview with Elizabeth Pocock, our on site contact responsible for the oversight of the Partimus computer pilot project here.

This is also the non-profit that gets a donation from Boutique Academia for sales of the Ubuntu necklaces and earrings. So purchase a shiny gift for someone this holiday and help out Partimus too!

Partimus is based in the San Francisco Bay Area. We’re also always looking for volunteers, so if you’re familiar with Ubuntu (or Linux in general) and are looking for a way to give back, please contact me at lyz@partimus.org. We’re especially looking for technical talent to help us organize and deliver on some of our technical goals, like creating custom ISOs for our schools and developing solutions to make it easier to deploy them and keep them updated (PXE boot servers, local proxies, etc). You can also hop on our tech-partimus mailing list and browse our archives if you’re interested.

Giving Tuesday post: On Giving Tuesday, help us give computers to low income shelters

Donate here.

Based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Computer Reach not only does work in their region, but has deployed Ubuntu-based computers all over the world. This is the organization I went to Ghana with in 2012. Their counts page details the Linux and Mac computers provided to organizations worldwide.

Giving Tuesday post: #GivingTuesday

Donate here.

Based in Austin, Texas, I Reglue met founder Ken Starks several years ago at a conference and his work has always been an inspiration for Partimus. They recently completed a successful Indiegogo campaign to continue their work, but like all of our non-profits they can always use more funding to focus on their core efforts.

See sidebar on the main site to donate, they also accept hardware donations.

And Beyond

This is just a sampling of organizations doing this work. If you want to donate or work locally, I strongly encourage looking in your area for computer recycling programs using Linux, for both donation and volunteer opportunities.

I recently received an email from the company founder, Maile Urbancic, about the possibility of adding more to their lineup in the form of tie clips and during the discussion the alternate idea of tie pins came up.

This is where you come in, would you be interested in purchasing an Ubuntu tie clip? How about an Ubuntu tie pin?

I’ve created a Google form to collect responses and comments: Vote now!

Imagine an Ubuntu logo!

I plan on closing this poll on July 10th and sending the results off to Maile.

But not everyone wanted earrings! This week Boutique Academia started selling an Ubuntu Necklace!

And to show the size and that these too come in the Rhodium plated silver color:

Even better, $10 of each purchase goes directly to supporting Partimus, a non-profit in the San Francisco bay area that puts Ubuntu-based desktops and laptops into area schools.

I just bought one of each (and the Steel Pleiades necklace made it into my cart as well, this shop is too awesome).

I squeezed in some Partimus work this month, first by attending a BALUG meeting where we held a silent auction for Raspberry Pi donated to us by James Tatum and a generous donor walked off with a fun new toy. The trio of local board members also had a meeting with our lead technologist and the principal of one of the schools that has been re-evaluating their technology policy and brought us in to see where we wanted to be coordination-wise. It’s really great being a part of these planning talks with schools and I’m excited to see that they’re seeking to build the infrastructure to support the technology that we can bring in to them. We also were able to meet with an SFSU student who worked with us last semester to gather information about the organization and offer some logistical tips about what our strengths and weaknesses are, and where our organizational time will be best spent moving forward. It was great to have his insight to bolster what we’ve been hearing from Grant’s experience this year going to Foundation Center classes and what I’m learning about statistics and metrics gathering from my upcoming trip to Ghana.

On September 21st the bay area was treated to one of the Space Shuttle Endeavour’s flyovers. It would have been very cool to see it from the Golden Gate Bridge, but being a work day I instead took my laptop up to the roof to work from there and joined my other neighbors for about an hour as we waited and then finally saw it circle the city!

It was quite far away, but I did manage to get some heavily zoomed photos of it passing a couple San Francisco landmarks that are visible from our roof, the Bay Bridge and Sutro Tower.

Endeavour passing Sutro Tower

More photos here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/pleia2/sets/72157631590020239/

That week I also had a Google Hangout with fellow Ubuntu Women leader Cheri Francis and tech geek and novelist Veronica Henry who was writing an article about the project for the popular blog, ReadWriteWeb. The article came out on September 28th: Meet The Ubuntu Women – They’re More Involved Than You Think. Exciting!

Last weekend I was on call weekend while my boss was out of town speaking at a conference and the San Francisco summer decided to strike as that was wrapping up. Temperatures this week headed into the 80s and our condo still hasn’t quite cooled down. It’s hardly worth complaining about, 3 days of discomfort is much less than any other place I’ve lived! And this “summer” was shorter than in the two years past. I joked that San Francisco was preparing me for my stay in Ghana, as the temperatures here and in Accra were about on par during those days. On Tuesday I hosted an Ubuntu Hour, 8 days early. There only ended up being 4 of us, and 3 who came to dinner after, but there were some great conversations and connections made. I was particularly interested in the voice-command work that one of the attendees from the South Bay was working on for fun and how he was quickly learning about the accessibility implications, which allowed me to go into my own speech about the need for more developers on open source accessibility tools.

Warm weather also caused me to seek out relaxation on the roof a lot this week, indeed, that’s where I’m writing this post from! Actually in the same spot this picture was taken on the 30th, but it’s dark out now.

I’ve been filling free moments lately with reading a lot, taking my Nook with me when I go out to grab as I’m waiting for the bus or on a train somewhere (I drew the line at reading while walking down the sidewalk when I realized being aware while walking through a city is the smarter thing to do). And I’ve spending the time before bed watching A History of the World since 1300 Coursera lectures. I’m so taken with these classes, and my dorking out for history has me really loving this class, particularly when I can supplement it with documentaries on Netflix. I don’t think I’ll formally do this class with the assignments though, time for that is just lacking and I think I’ll get a sufficient enough out of it the way I’m going. I wish I had more time for these, I’m part of the way through a Python class but had to put it on hold until I have more brain bandwidth.

Oh, and we’re planning a wedding! We finalized the guest list and sent out emails to get people’s addresses last month, heard back from about 40% of the people. The Save the Date cards we ordered are on their way to our home, but aren’t scheduled to arrive until Tuesday, the day before I leave. Not sure how I’m going to manage to get everything I need done and write 50 addresses on envelopes. We’ll see how far I get. I’m planning to meet up with my maid of honor and one of my bridesmaids to see if we can pick out my dress and theirs while we’re in Philadelphia next month. Still so much to plan, but I don’t think we’ve sailed past any important deadlines yet.

Finally, on Wednesday I leave for Ghana. I’m really excited about the trip and we had a Google Hangout a couple nights ago to work out some of the logistical details and all get on the same page about timing. We also now have more details about the areas we’re visiting, even if we don’t actually have a solid schedule of who we’re meeting and when, hopefully I’ll have time to write more about this before I leave. I mentioned that two days after that trip I’m heading to Copenhagen for the Ubuntu Developer Summit, but I didn’t actually mention the trip following that to Philadelphia for a week. I’ll be on the ground in San Francisco for 9 hours following the Copenhagen trip before MJ and I finally get to spend some time together, on a plane and then handling family stuff all week. Phew.

I’ll come home on November 11th and stay put for a whole month before I snag another plane to head down to San Diego to participate in the panel at the LISA ’12. It was exciting the other day to receive the program in the mail – there’s my name!

Hoping to get this trip booked this weekend, along with all my last minute preparations for the Ghana trip.

I picked up Christian around 12:30 at the KIPP San Francisco Bay Academy and drove out to his office. The laptop boxes were huge, and I think we bent the laws of physics in our efforts to get them into our 2-door car along with 2 flat panel monitors and the cart we used to carry them.

The laptops are all Thinkpads, a mix of X61s and T43s. The hardware could do with some cleaning up due to some dust buildup, but it should be no problem to get Ubuntu running on them. I grabbed two of them to give to James Howard who is working on setting up an imaging server using Ubuntu 12.04 rather than the old 10.04 which we’re still using on many of the systems at the schools, free education on free software!

I took a quick picture of the two laptops while they were staying at my home this week:

After dropping the laptops off at Creative Arts Charter School we ordered a pizza and headed back to KIPP. At KIPP we finished running the ethernet cables and applying updates to the Ubuntu 10.04 systems in a 5th grade math classroom. I was delighted to learn that the computers in that room are in part being used to view Khan Academy Math videos.

It was 5PM by the time we finished running the cables and doing the system updates and we had to leave the building. In all a very productive day. Christian also wrote about it over on the Partimus blog, along with work last weekend that I couldn’t help with (other obligations last Saturday): 30 hours of work in just a few days.

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 Avenue Stroll, the east bay’s largest street festival! The Solano Avenue Merchants Association invites you to come and see what makes Solano Avenue such a wonderful place.

Over five hundred vendors, non-profit organizations, food booths and entertainers!

I arrived at the BART station a little after 9:30AM and was picked up by Lisa who brought me to the booth where Jack and Ian and his sister had already had most of the booth set up. We got to work getting the rest together as we began welcoming the first visitors to the booth.

Throughout the day we gave out about 50 pressed CDs and over 100 CDs burned by booth volunteers. This year we noticed an increase in folks asking for 64-bit so we’ll be sure to have more on hand next year.

We must have spoke with hundreds of people throughout the day, many of whom had heard of Ubuntu (it is Berkeley, afterall) but weren’t sure what it was and where happy to learn that they could try a LiveCD for free. We even had one person who approached us and responded “Yes, since you gave me a CD last year!” when we asked him if he was familiar with Linux or Ubuntu. We wrapped up the booth when the stroll closed at 6PM.

I think the most inspiring part about the day was seeing the diversity of people who are users of Ubuntu and having the opportunity to try and attract them to contributing. Coming to a general community event like this one really is quite a different experience than the technical venues that teams tend to target, not the least of which being that we were the only software related booth at the festival.

More photos from the event can be found here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/pleia2/sets/72157627650086116/

The job of Partimus that day was to review the available computers (all donated Pentium 4s with at least 512M of RAM) and end the day with new Ethernet cables run and 14 machines freshly installed with Ubuntu 10.04 LTS in 3 classrooms.

I met up with Christian shortly after 10AM and we got started, he blogged about the day over on the Partimus blog: Fun, Pizza & Ubuntu Linux at a public school! Christian has been working tirelessly with these schools over the summer to schedule meetings with teachers and others in the school to figure out what their needs are for the upcoming school year. Without him none of this would be possible, his talent for reaching out and years of experience volunteering at these schools serves us very well during each one of these volunteer days.

Michelle Mastin was the next to show up, she blogged about the day here: Partimus Install Day – Setting Up Ubuntu Machines for an SF School. Linux gadget guru extraordinaire Michelle came armed with Ubuntu 10.04.3 ISOs and I got to adding them to my USB stick when Michael Paoli of Bay LUG arrived and lent his laptop to the duty of burning CDs as we quickly discovered that only about 25% of the machines would boot from USB natively. Michelle and I got to work installing two machines in a social studies classroom which would be used for video editing.

Upon Grant’s arrival he worked with Michael and Christian to get the second social studies classroom going, doing the heavy lifting required to get the computers and CRT monitors that were strewn throughout the hallways into the classroom and set up. Installs were soon running on them as well, weeding out one system with a failing hard drive and Michael getting to work on the large managed switch which needed to be reset in order to function properly in the classroom setup.

Christian ordered pizza and we gained 2 more volunteers, Eric and Joseph, when the nearby SF-LUG meeting let out after 1PM.

With our fresh volunteers we got to work on running cables and installing the systems in the 3rd classroom, a math class whose teacher requested six machines for their students. We wrapped this lab up, updates and a few configurations made to every system (change of theme and background, standardization of resolution, creation of an unprivileged student account, installation of flash) around 4PM, just in time for the arrival of a 3rd pizza (with 7 hungry volunteers the 2 pizzas earlier wasn’t enough!).

While we were packing up we were able to meet one of the teachers who I gave my card to in case she had questions. It was a tiring day and Michelle was kind enough to give me a lift home, but a good day, as working in these schools always is!

More photos from the day available here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/pleia2/sets/72157627262380407/

And thanks to this day I was finally able to update Partimus’ page about KIPP with photos! partimus.org/ksfba.php

Since then there have been several requests for a silver color and Maile Urbancic of Boutique Academia responded to those requests!

The silver color Ubuntu earrings are now a reality, they are rhodium plated (rhodium is silver colored, but doesn’t tarnish like silver). You can now get your very own for $18.99, plus shipping and tax, where applicable.

As I mentioned in my first post about this, $6 per pair will go directly to the operating costs of the non-profit Partimus.org which puts Ubuntu-based systems in the hands of school children through projects and computer labs in schools in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Partimus is a registered 501(c)3 non-profit in the United States, details for how to donate directly can be found here. Please request a donation receipt if you need it for a tax exemption. Be sure to visit Partimus.org or contact me directly at lyz@partimus.org for more details about the work we do.

The Ubuntu earrings are now a reality! You can now get your very own for $18 (plus shipping and tax, where applicable).

Best of all, Boutique Academia will be graciously donating $6 per pair to Partimus.org to help the efforts of Partimus, which works on deploying and maintaining Ubuntu labs in San Francisco Bay Area schools and beyond.

So pick up some earrings for yourself or a loved one, and help out public schools using Ubuntu at the same time!

I just placed an order for a pair of my own :)

Partimus is a registered 501(c)3 non-profit in the United States, details for how to donate directly can be found here. Please request a donation receipt if you need it for a tax exemption. Be sure to visit Partimus.org or contact me directly at lyz@partimus.org for more details about the work we do.