I live about 250 feet from the Wikimedia Foundation office in San Francisco, so when Beth Lynn Eicher told the Partimus crew about a How the Wikimedia Foundation uses CiviCRM presentation hosted at the Wikimedia Foundation on April 7th I had to attend. I didn’t know a whole lot about CiviCRM but as Partimus grows […]
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SCaLE9x
March 9th, 2011 by pleia2
On the evening of Thursday February 24th, suitcases in hand, MJ and I headed down to the San Francisco airport for a quick flight down to Los Angeles for the Southern California Linux Expo. We arrived at LAX just after midnight and were checked into our hotel room by 1AM. I went right to sleep […]
Ubuntu Hour, Ubuntu upgrades at CACS with Partimus
January 1st, 2011 by pleia2
On Thursday I wrapped up work and MJ and I headed down to Palo Alto for an Ubuntu Hour at Antonio’s Nut House. It ended up being a great venue for the meeting, we got a booth right near the door, it was relatively quiet, the food was good and we had plenty of space […]
Partimus on TV and fundraiser
December 16th, 2010 by pleia2
I was recently brought on the board of the non-profit Partimus, which provides repurposed computers running free software (currently Ubuntu and related apps) to students and schools which need them. The organization currently has six deployments across the Bay Area. Following a press release last month (Albert G. Stoll, Jr. | A Law Corp. partners […]
Ubuntu at the Creative Arts Charter School
August 15th, 2010 by pleia2
One of the schools Partimus has been working with over the years is the Creative Arts Charter School in San Francisco. Today I finally had the opportunity to visit the school. I arrived around 12:30 this afternoon where I met Christian Einfeldt who gave me a quick tour of the school and introduced me to […]
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 […]