{"id":7635,"date":"2013-02-21T16:57:50","date_gmt":"2013-02-22T00:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/?p=7635"},"modified":"2016-11-03T10:33:01","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T17:33:01","slug":"ghana-presentation-at-balug-dvlug-interview-mini-9-and-off-to-scale11x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/2013\/02\/ghana-presentation-at-balug-dvlug-interview-mini-9-and-off-to-scale11x\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana presentation at BALUG, DVLUG interview, Mini 9 and off to SCaLE11x!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday I had the pleasure of heading out to Chinatown for a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.balug.org\/\">Bay Area Linux Users Group<\/a> to give a presentation on the work I did in Ghana with <a href=\"http:\/\/computereach.com\/\">Computer Reach<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.africaictright.com\/\">Africa ICT Right<\/a>. This was the first formal presentation I&#8217;ve done on the adventure, my previous two talks being a lightning talk at UDS and a more informal style Q&#038;A talk at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phillylinux.org\/\">Philadelphia Linux Users Group<\/a> meeting back in January.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately for my audience, I came down with round 2 of my <em>Epic Cold of 2013<\/em> on Monday night. I ended up skipping dinner with the BALUG crowd and just doing the presentation in an effort to not spread my plague. I arrived around 7:45 to get set up.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/images\/journalpics\/022013\/balug_february_19_2013.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/images\/journalpics\/022013\/balug_february_19_2013_sm.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"0\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The talk went well, aside from the sniffles, and as with all these talks I&#8217;ve had some great conversations following it both at the meeting and via the mailing list afterwards.<\/p>\n<p>This morning I learned that my interview for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvlug.org\/\">Diablo Valley Linux Users Group<\/a>&#8216;s podcast had been published. I primarily talked about my work with <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.ubuntu-women.org\/\">Ubuntu Women<\/a> and similar projects. More info and download available here: <a href=\"http:\/\/sharethebytes.com\/shows\/episode10-women-of-ubuntu\/\">Share The Bytes: Episode 10 &#8211; Women of Ubuntu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Finally, I made some improvements to my little Dell Mini9. I&#8217;ve been thinking over this past year or so that I&#8217;d be replacing it with something &#8220;any day now&#8221; but I really do love netbooks and am quite saddened that the market for them has dwindled so significantly. I do like my work-issued ultrabook for the sleek design and weight, but it doesn&#8217;t fit in my purse, which is one of my hard requirements. So I ended up buying <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000F7QRTG\/\">2 gigs of RAM<\/a> to replace the 1G chip, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B003KWGHBQ\/\">a new battery<\/a> to replace the lousy &#8220;high capacity&#8221; one I bought last year (aside from being huge and heavy, it never was very high capacity and it took hours to charge).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m now sitting in the airport waiting for my flight to Los Angeles. I&#8217;ll be attending the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.socallinuxexpo.org\/scale11x\">Southern California Linux Expo 11x<\/a> and presenting tomorrow at Ubucon on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.socallinuxexpo.org\/scale11x\/presentations\/ubuntu-cloud\">Ubuntu in the Cloud<\/a>. Very much looking forward to it, and hoping this cold I&#8217;m continuing to battle doesn&#8217;t make too much of a mess of my trip!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday I had the pleasure of heading out to Chinatown for a Bay Area Linux Users Group to give a presentation on the work I did in Ghana with Computer Reach and Africa ICT Right. 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