I got involved in the Ubuntu Women Project back in 2006, and since 2007 I’ve made yearly posts discussing project status: Ubuntu Women Project Status (2007) Ubuntu Women Project Status – Mid 2008 Ubuntu Women Project Status – Early 2009 But I have to say that this update is the one I’m most excited about. […]
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Geeknic and SF Ubuntu Hour
June 23rd, 2010 by pleia2
On Saturday MJ and I packed up our picnic goodies and headed down to Los Gatos (no, I didn’t bring my cats or my NetFlix DVDs) to Vasona Lake County Park for the second Bay Area Geeknic. This was a smaller geeknic than the first, but we had the essential ingredients for a great day. […]
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 […]
Instructors Confirmed for Ubuntu User Day on July 10th
June 12th, 2010 by pleia2
Last week we decided to postpone User Days until Saturday, July 10th so we could get more presenters and let more people know about it. Over this past week Nigel Babu, Chris Johnston and I worked hard to contact prospective instructors and get the schedule pinned down, which we finished yesterday afternoon. The schedule for […]
Ubuntu Lynx Stuffed Animal
June 5th, 2010 by pleia2
On May 26th OMG! Ubuntu! published an article: Buy A Limited Edition Lynx Toy From Ubuntu & Help Save Real Lynx’s, Too! Neat! From the store page: Canonical will contribute a portion of each sale to the ‘SOS Lynx Foundation‘ as part of the Ubuntu One Music Store initiative up to a joint total of […]
New monitor and LinuxChix meetups
June 4th, 2010 by pleia2
I’ve been wandering up and down the peninsula quite a bit this week. First was Wednesday night when I finally met Terri Oda! We met at Shiva’s Indian Restaurant in Mountain View with John Hawley and BJ Wishinsky, both of whom are also locals but I hadn’t met yet. It was a really delightful dinner, […]
Ubuntu California Installfest at Noisebridge
June 1st, 2010 by pleia2
On Sunday MJ and I spent the day at Noisebridge for the Ubuntu California Lucid Installfest. Unfortunately our scheduling ended up to coincide with Carnaval San Francisco 2010, but aside from traffic woes in the area it made for some lively entertainment outside and quite the view for attendees. Leif Ryge was our gracious Noisebridge […]
UDS Maverick Day 5
May 16th, 2010 by pleia2
Last day of UDS! – Community Roundtable – It was discussed that the LoCo Council will be formally deprecating the unmaintainable LoCo Team List wiki page in favor of loco directory. We also did some reviewing of good sessions throughout the week. – Ubuntu Women UDS-M Goals – The Ubuntu Women team has a full […]
UDS Maverick Day 4
May 16th, 2010 by pleia2
And on to day 4… – Community Roundtable – First off, Laura Czajkowski explained the LoCo Council healthcheck, a series of monthly Q&A sessions on IRC where the LoCo Council is available to answer questions from the community. The rest of the session was spent on smaller topics, including calendars on fridge, the idea of […]
UDS Maverick Day 3
May 13th, 2010 by pleia2
Day 3! – Community Roundtable – Once again started my day in the Community Roundtable discussion. Not much noteworthy to the outside world came of this, mostly just administrative loose ends that needed to be tied up, including touching base with Canonical about some things, changing some of the scheduled sessions (oh no, conflicts!), making […]