On Sunday I met up with fellow Partimus board members Christian Einfeldt and Grant Bowman and volunteers from Ubuntu California, San Francisco Linux Users Group and Bay Area Linux Users Group for a day of installation, triage and cable running at the KIPP San Francisco Bay Academy. KIPP is among the highest performing middle schools […]
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Ubuntu earrings – now in silver!
August 4th, 2011 by pleia2
Back in June I wrote: Buy Ubuntu earrings and help schools using Ubuntu! 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 […]
Fosscon video now available
August 2nd, 2011 by pleia2
For Fosscon on July 23rd Gene Riordan, my co-worker over at LinuxForce, brought along his camera and took a somewhat impromptu video of my keynote! In spite of the city noise and fans you can actually hear me and it turned out ok. You can’t see my slides, but they’re available here and you can […]
Fosscon 2011
July 26th, 2011 by pleia2
Before the sun came up on Friday the 22nd MJ and I were at the San Francisco airport waiting for the 6:15AM flight that would put us on the ground in Philadelphia shortly after 2:30PM that afternoon. Upon landing we stepped off the plane and were greeted by a wall of heat. As soon as […]
UCW: Working With Other Groups In Your Community
July 22nd, 2011 by pleia2
On Wednesday for Ubuntu Community Week, a week long series of sessions in IRC (Internet Relay Chat), I did a presentation titled “Working With Other Groups In Your Community” where I explored some of the projects that LoCo (Local Community) teams I’m involved with have worked on over the years. I was inspired to do […]
Custom stickers!
July 17th, 2011 by pleia2
I love stickers. My sticker books made out of construction paper from childhood have been lost to time and moves, but I still have my giant Lisa Frank sticker holder. It took me a long time to put a sticker on a laptop, but it finally happened with my beloved pink mini9 when my abuse […]
Fosscon is approaching!
July 11th, 2011 by pleia2
Fosscon on July 23rd in downtown Philadelphia is quickly approaching! I mentioned back in May that I’d be flying out to Philly to do the keynote for Fosscon and now the speaker line-up also includes: Deb Nicholson – Community Organizing for Free Software Activists Mark Jason Dominus – Join my army of git zombies Walt […]
Can you write article summaries for Ubuntu Weekly News?
July 10th, 2011 by pleia2
Now that Ubuntu Weekly News is getting back on track we’ve identified some needs volunteer-wise. Back in January I posted Looking for a quick way to help Ubuntu Weekly News? Where I expressed our need to collect news and non-planet.ubuntu.com blog links about Ubuntu from the past week. We still need these, so thanks for […]
LoCo Directory: Now with default team time zones!
June 30th, 2011 by pleia2
While we were all at UDS in Budapest last month there was a great session about the LoCo Directory. Toward the end of the session I piped up to ask about time zones. Time zones have always been a tricky problem for the directory, since some teams cover multiple time zones the first solution to […]
Here we go! wiki.ubuntu.com upgrade at 23:00 UTC
June 16th, 2011 by pleia2
Over the past few months I’ve written a couple of posts regarding the status of the review and testing process to finally upgrade the contributing and team coordination resource wiki.ubuntu.com. Today Canonical Sysadmin Brad Marshall sent out this update: At 16th June 2011, at 2300 UTC for an estimated 1 hour wiki.ubuntu.com will be in […]