Last Friday Christian Einfeldt put a call out to the Partimus Discussion list asking for some help moving the laptop donation from Intuit from his office (where they were delivered) to the school. I volunteered. I picked up Christian around 12:30 at the KIPP San Francisco Bay Academy and drove out to his office. The […]
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It’s alive! Egg-Bot + Xubuntu logo
August 1st, 2012 by pleia2
I mentioned previously that the good folks at Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories gave each of the recipients of the O’Reilly Open Source Award this year an Egg-Bot kit. In spite of my enthusiasm, it wasn’t until Friday night that I finally carved out some time to begin assembling mine: …and assembling… On Saturday morning I […]
Issue 275 released, thanks Ubuntu News Team!
July 25th, 2012 by pleia2
On Monday the Ubuntu News team released the 275th issue of Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter! I did a quick grep through the archives, and the following individuals have been included in the credits[0] since issue 250: Chris Druif Liraz Siri Vikram Dhillon Emma Marshall Benjamin Kerensa Unit193 Charles Profitt Neil Oosthuizen Nathan Dyer Matt Rudge Jose […]
Thursday and Friday at OSCON 2012
July 23rd, 2012 by pleia2
Although I’ve always wanted to go, I hadn’t actually planned on attending OSCON this year due to several factors (work, budget, etc). That changed when I received the email about winning the Open Source Award on July 9th, I was able to quickly schedule a couple days off of work to attend the last two […]
O’Reilly Open Source Award
July 20th, 2012 by pleia2
This afternoon I had the incredible honor of accepting an O’Reilly Open Source Award at OSCON for my work in the Ubuntu community. It’s been an exciting day and thanks to all my supportive friends at OSCON who were there with hugs and handshakes, it was an unforgettable experience. Now I would like to extend […]
Xubuntu Presentation at FeltonLUG
July 15th, 2012 by pleia2
Yesterday afternoon MJ and I headed south to Felton LUG so I could give a presentation with the ambitious title of “Everything you ever wanted to know about Xubuntu” for the group. The group was incredibly welcoming and engaged during my presentation, asking interesting questions throughout. At the end I was able to give a […]
My friends at FOSSCON 2012
July 10th, 2012 by pleia2
Last summer MJ and I flew to Philadelphia in the middle of the biggest heat wave of the year so I could give the keynote at FOSSCON, I wrote about it here. Unfortunately the timing didn’t sync up well for us this year and I won’t be able to make the trip back to attend. […]
Want some Xubuntu or Ubuntu Women stickers?
June 22nd, 2012 by pleia2
I have fallen in love with custom printing. Over the past several months I’ve been experimenting with several companies that do it, including CafePress, Zazzle, MOO and VistaPrint. Based on the product I want, I’ve had varied success with all of them, but for laptop stickers MOO has come out my favorite. As such, I […]
ACM Turing Centenary Celebration
June 17th, 2012 by pleia2
On Friday and Saturday I had the exceptional opportunity to attend the ACM Turing Centenary Celebration. I’ll start right off by saying it was an exciting and deeply intimidating event to attend. The ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) is actually quite an academic-focused organization in general, and while I read their Communications of the ACM […]
Quetzals and Pangolins
May 30th, 2012 by pleia2
Last year I wrote Stuffed animal K, L, M, N, O… documenting the stuffed toys I had started collecting as LoCo booth/event decorations for each Ubuntu release. The stuffed animal tradition ended with P as I couldn’t find a stuffed toy pangolin, and I had similar trouble with our Quetzal. I ended up with the […]