{"id":5157,"date":"2011-10-14T21:18:30","date_gmt":"2011-10-15T04:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/?p=5157"},"modified":"2016-11-03T10:48:34","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T17:48:34","slug":"ubuntu-11-10-in-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/2011\/10\/ubuntu-11-10-in-philadelphia\/","title":{"rendered":"Ubuntu 11.10 in Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"

My fiancé is a network engineer who frequently has to travel for conferences, and this month I tagged along for a week to visit my old home of Philadelphia.<\/p>\n

I decided I would attend a meeting of the Philadelphia area Linux Users Group<\/a> (PLUG) North chapter on Tuesday evening. When I noticed they didn’t have a speaker a few weeks back I volunteered to give a presentation on Ubuntu 11.10.<\/p>\n

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I uploaded my slides here: ubuntu-11.10-plug.odp<\/a>, ubuntu-11.10-plug.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n

Please excuse the Unity and Gnome3 jabs, I knew all 12 of the people who attended the meeting and it was all very casual, well-taken and lead to great discussion, YMMV :)<\/p>\n

Thursday was release day! We planned our schedule for the week so that we had Thursday free from conference stuff and could attend the Ubuntu Pennsylvania Release Party<\/a> at National Mechanics in downtown Philadelphia, just blocks from our hotel.<\/p>\n

I brought along my Ocelot stuffed toy to share in the festivities (and help mark our table as the Ubuntu one!).<\/p>\n

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We ended up with somewhere around 20 people coming out. I moved to California about a year and a half ago and there were lots of new faces from the last time I’d been to an event. It was also great to catch up with several friends who I hadn’t seen in quite some time.<\/p>\n

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One of the LoCo members was able to burn a couple CDs, a few netbooks were floating around running Oneiric off of USB sticks and we even had a couple upgrades completed. I got to meet a programmer who was looking for ways to get involved with Ubuntu, had some interesting ideas about making the desktop itself more contributor-friendly and who had already uploaded some things to spreadubuntu.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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I’ve uploaded a few more photos from the event here:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/gallery.ubuntupennsylvania.org\/v\/20111013\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Huge thanks to the new Ubuntu Pennsylvania team contact and recently approved Ubuntu Member Jim Fisher<\/a> (jedijf) for organizing such a great event at such an accommodating venue.<\/p>\n

Finally, in addition to all the release excitement, today I learned I’d been re-elected to the Community Council. Thanks again to the community for their faith in my position there, it means a lot and I feel really good about the path forward!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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