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 […]
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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 […]
UDS Maverick Day 2
May 11th, 2010 by pleia2
Tuesday morning we were up bright and early for breakfast and the beginning of day 2 of UDS! As usual, the day for me started out over at the Community Roundtable. – Community Roundtable – In addition to being a general overview of the upcoming day, this roundtable really focused on the perception the community […]
Travel and UDS Maverick Day 1
May 10th, 2010 by pleia2
Saturday morning I woke up early to get to the airport on time and caught my flight out of San Francisco. The flight was slightly tense since I had to gate check my carry on (argh!) and further ash cloud problems were cancelling several flights out of the US that morning. I landed in Chicago […]
Nexus One, Ubuntu and leaving for Belgium
May 7th, 2010 by pleia2
Sunday was a pretty low-key day, which I really needed after all the release parties and events. MJ and I headed over to Kate O’Briens for lunch, turns out they have this *great* Corned Beef Quesadilla (yes, really). I then moved the SIM from my G1 to my new Nexus One. I had been reluctant […]
Ubuntu Women World Play Day Competition
May 6th, 2010 by pleia2
Last month Melissa Draper announced the Ubuntu Women World Play Day Competition. “A pivotal issue within computing cultures of today is the overemphasis on boys and men as the primary consumers of technology. Children learn by example and since the majority of media images consist of boys playing computer type games and girls playing with […]
Bay Area Lucid Release Parties and Bay Area Geeknic #1
May 2nd, 2010 by pleia2
What an exciting few days! Thursday night over 60 (maybe more, the RSVP list was longer and it was difficult to count!) Ubuntu fans poured into Thirsty Bear for a Lucid release party! This turnout was unexpectedly large (maybe reserve the room upstairs next time?) and wonderfully exciting! I was able to meet a whole […]
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, Lucid Lynx, Released!
April 29th, 2010 by pleia2
After much anticipation, the latest Long Term Service (LTS) release of Ubuntu was announced this afternoon: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS released As with each new release, this once again is seeking to be the biggest yet – and if IRC is any indicator that certainly will be the case: the #ubuntu channel on freenode soared to […]