Well it is that time of year again! Software Freedom Day is September 18th!
This year the Ubuntu Maryland Local Community Team will again be holding a day of talks and discussions about Free and Open Source Software at the Miller Branch of our co-sponsors the Howard County Library! We are currently planning to have the event from 10am until 2pm.
Currently we are looking for speakers! If you have a Free and/or Open Source project you would like to educate us about let us know and we’ll put you on the schedule! If there is an aspect of Free software that you would like to hear about let us know that as well and we will do our best to find a speaker for that topic!
Send us an email at sfd10@ubuntu-maryland.org with your offer to give an educational talk or your requested topic.
Please join the Ubuntu Maryland Loco Team Thursday June 17th for our meeting at the Howard County Library Central Branch starting at 7pm!
Last month we gave an overview of Ubuntu and some installation tips. Now that you have installed Ubuntu we will be touching on a few introductory topics that will help you start using your new OS. Among the items we’ll cover as a part of the presentation will be installing applications, navigating the menus, some basic system configuration, and using OpenOffice.org. We are planning time for questions after the planned demonstrations.
Please visit our event page if you would like a PDF version of the flyer to print out and post at your favorite locations!
Looking forward to seeing you there!
At our last meeting for the Ubuntu Maryland Local Community Team we had a new format to play with and test out. Starting with a presentation and finishing up with a general discussion.
I gave a talk I wrote entitled ‘Welcome to Ubuntu’ which is a starting point for people new to Ubuntu. What it is about and how things work from a high overview perspective. What you can expect once you have installed the Ubuntu distribution. We had over a dozen people turn out for the event and some great questions and discussions about Ubuntu and Free software.
So for the next meeting on June 17th we will continue with this format. I have a tentative talk in mind and will post again in a few days once I have a title and firm idea of what will be discussed.
Just a few more days until my talk entitled ‘Welcome to Ubuntu‘.
This will be an introductory talk about what Ubuntu Linux is and how you can use it in your daily life. So if you or someone you know is curious and would like to come out on May 20th to the Howard County Library Central branch from 7-9pm. I and my team will be happy to talk to you about the benefits of Ubuntu!
If you bring a USB drive with 1GB or more free space we can install a live USB version of Ubuntu for you to use and install from!
We will also be providing free Ubuntu CDs for all who attend!
Please join the Ubuntu Maryland Local Community team for our meeting May 20th 7pm at the Howard County Library Central Branch.
This month’s meeting will feature a presentation entitled “Welcome to Ubuntu”. This is an introductory level talk to welcome new users into the Ubuntu world.
With the latest Ubuntu release, Lucid Lynx, we have a new long term support version of the operating system. Now is a great time to learn the advantages of running a Linux distribution. If you’ve had questions about using Ubuntu and wondering if you can do it (which you can, sorry to spoil the talk:)) join us!
We will have a Q&A session afterwards and all that attend will receive a free Ubuntu Lucid Lynx CD!
See the wiki for details and a flyer you can hand out to your friends and post at your favorite community spot, coffee shop, school bulletin board… you get the idea!
Please join the Columbia Area Linux Users Group this Wednesday from 6:30-9pm where we will welcome Mackenzie Morgan from the Kubuntu (and other *ubuntu verse fame) where she will be discussing the Ubuntu Development Processes! This will provide a developers perspective on contributing to the Ubuntu distribution that many of us use and enjoy!
We will once again be enjoying pizza and soda provided by Praxis Engineering and should arrive about 6:30pm.
Additionally we will have Ubuntu Lucid Lynx CDs to hand out. This is the latest long term support release from Ubuntu, so get them while they are fresh!
As normal we are meeting at the Columbia, MD offices of Tenable Network Security. The address is 7063 Columbia Gateway Drive Suite 100 Columbia, MD 21046[3,4]. The building is easily identified by the Nessus eye keeping watch from the side of the building. Please enter at the back patio door near the blue tables.
Join the Ubuntu Maryland Team for the release of Ubuntu’s next LTS release the Lucid Lynx!
We will be gathering for lunch at Fuddrucker’s in Columbia, MD this Saturday May 1 from 12pm until 2ish. As normal we will be offering to create LiveUSB disks (if you bring a 1GB or larger thumb drive) and have a demo machine or two running the latest and greatest Ubuntu or Kubuntu release. If you would like a CD please drop me an email as we will only be burning them by advance request this time around.
If you intend to join us it would be nice if you would sign up so we can get an approximate head count to get a large enough area in the restaurant.
I am happy to announce that we have a speaker for CALug’s April 14th meeting. Daniel T Chen has volunteered to give a talk for us entitled “Making Ubuntu Audio Not Suck”
Summary: As the Ubuntu desktop matures in 10.04 LTS (“Lucid Lynx”), bugs are being squashed across the entire software stack. The presenter will summarize continuous efforts to work around commonly broken sound hardware and to fix outstanding audio bugs in high-profile applications.
Bio: Daniel T Chen is a community Ubuntu core developer who has gained and lost grey hairs fighting the ALSA and PulseAudio backlashes.
So be sure to join us on Wednesday, April 14th from 6:30-9:00pm for this great talk! We will be enjoying pizza and soda provided by Praxis
Engineering from 6:30-7ish and Dan will take the spotlight about 7. As normal we will be meeting at the Columbia, MD offices of Tenable
Network Security. The address is:
7063 Columbia Gateway Drive Suite 100
Columbia, MD 21046
Enter at the back patio with the blue tables. Look for the building with the Nessus eye watching out for you!
Don’t forget if you’re in the Columbia, MD area March 10th and want to learn about contributing to the KDE project in a non-technical manner come and join us for the Columbia Area Linux Users Group meeting!
Justin will be presenting his talk “Making the leap from KDE user to contributor”. Justin will discuss simple ways for KDE users to become contributors, even without knowing a thing about developing code. His talk will provide specific details about various teams that exist within KDE, what you can do to help them out, and who to talk to if you have questions.
Justin Kirby is an active contributor to the KDE Promo team. He has been a user of KDE for about 3 years but more recently got actively involved in giving back to the community in July of 2009. You can learn more about the KDE Promo team on their wiki.
We will be meeting at the Columbia, MD offices of Tenable Network Security from 6:30-9pm. From 6:30-7 we’ll be enjoying pizza and soda provided by Praxis Engineering. The entrance is at the back patio with the blue tables.
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Hi Everybody,
Due to the snow conditions we are canceling the February CALug meeting.
I want to thank Jonathan Riddell for volunteering to give a talk to our group. Justin Kirby has agreed to come to our March meeting and give his talk to us at that time.
That being said, the KDE 4.4 release party scheduled for Fuddruckers in Columbia, MD on Friday is still on. Jonathan is planning to give his talk (without slides) and a Q&A at this event! So if you were looking forward to hearing what he has to say drop by, dine with us and hopefully learn something useful for desert!
* My attendance Friday evening is dependant on seeing a plow between now and then on the road outside…