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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First Mountain View Ubuntu Hour
October 22nd, 2010 by pleia2
On Thursday evening I attended the first Mountain View Ubuntu Hour, where we had 13 attendees! This ended up being a bit of a combination Ubuntu Hour and release party for the folks in Mountain View, and I brought along a few of Ubuntu and Kubuntu 10.10 CDs for attendees. Thanks to nUboon2Age of Ubuntu […]
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 […]
Dublin Maverick Meerkat Release Party
October 11th, 2010 by pleia2
On Saturday I took an 11:05 AM flight out of San Francisco, met up with MJ at the Philadelphia airport, and from there took a flight to Dublin, arriving on Sunday at 8:30 AM. Thankfully we were able to check in to the O’Callaghan Davenport Hotel early. We had a nice Irish breakfast at the […]
Some recent tech meetups
September 27th, 2010 by pleia2
On September 15th, the Women Who Tech telesummit occurred. Work has been pretty busy for me lately, so I had to take care of obligations there and couldn’t participate in the summit, maybe next year. However, I was able to go to attend the San Francisco after party, which was delightfully held just a couple […]
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 […]
Ubuntu California at Picn*x 19
August 22nd, 2010 by pleia2
On Saturday I got up bright and early to catch a 9AM ride with Grant Bowman to the annual Linux Picnic (Picn*x19) as they celebrated the 19th anniversary of the Linux kernel. We arrived on site to help with setup shortly before 10AM. Shortly after arriving Mark Terranova and Robert Wall also showed up and […]
Ubuntu US website, upcoming Linux Picnic
August 19th, 2010 by pleia2
On Monday evening we had an Ubuntu US Teams over in #ubuntu-us on freenode (logs, minutes) where we did final discussion on the relaunch of our website. We were running Drupal5 on a Linode (thanks again for the donation, Linode!) running Hardy and I’ve been eyeing an upgrade to Lucid. While considering this I spoke […]
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 […]
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 […]