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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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 […]
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 […]
California Academy of Science, Cartoon Art Museum
September 3rd, 2010 by pleia2
Several months ago the Extreme Mammals exhibit opened at the California Academy of Science, on Saturday MJ and I finally took the opportunity to head down to see it. It was a beautiful day and we took MUNI over to Golden Gate Park. The Extreme Mammals exhibit itself was a real treat, the huge, the […]
Storage, Rogue, Touristing
August 6th, 2010 by pleia2
We bought a couple of in-building storage units a few months back, got them primed in May and did the painting in June and some final touch-ups in July. But eventually we were ready to move everything from our rental storage unit down the street to the ones we have here! Last weekend we rented […]
Second San Francisco Ubuntu Hour
July 29th, 2010 by pleia2
On Tuesday I hosted the second San Francisco Ubuntu Hour. We had four people in attendance (thanks for dropping by James, Grant and Michelle!). It ended up being quite an evening for gadgets. As is typical, I brought along my mini9 and Grant showed up with his ever popular OLPC laptop. Then Michelle showed up […]
La Trappe Cafe
July 16th, 2010 by pleia2
While I was down at Noisebridge for their weekly Linux Discussion meeting this week I met another local sysadmin who ended up having some great tips as far as beer in the city. That night I took advantage of one of his tips and MJ and I hopped on a bus down to La Trappe […]
Phillies v. Giants
April 29th, 2010 by pleia2
When I lived up in Maine I went to a Portland Sea Dogs game once while in High School. In 2006 I went to a Readings Phillies game. On Monday night I went to my first Major League game! The Phillies were in town to play the Giants. And we lost. No wait, San Francisco […]
Visiting Alcatraz
April 28th, 2010 by pleia2
I didn’t realize Alcatraz was in the bay just outside of San Francisco until I visited for the first time back in 2008. Wow, that’s not too far off either! Since then I’ve wanted to go, so when Nita was in town visiting this past weekend and suggested it I jumped right on board. We […]
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Upcoming busy weekend: Ubuntu Lucid release parties and a Geeknic!
April 27th, 2010 by pleia2
I managed to pack my schedule around the Release of Ubuntu Lucid, 10.04. The first event I’ll be attending is down at Thirsty Bear Brewing Company in San Francisco on Howard near 3rd. Date: Thursday, April 29, 2010 Time: 7:30-10:30 PM Sign-up: Here Come and join the Ubuntu California LoCo Team in celebrating the Ubuntu […]