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Maryland Celebrates Software Freedom

The Ubuntu Maryland Loco Team, along with the Howard County Library, presents Software Freedom Day 2010 in Howard County, MD!
Software Freedom Day is a worldwide day to celebrate the accomplishments of and educate people on the value and values of Free software.This software is not only free in cost but also Free to share and [...]

Software Freedom Day In The Free State!

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 [...]

Ubuntu Is Installed – Now What?

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 [...]

Welcome New Ubuntu People In Maryland!

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 [...]

Welcome To Ubuntu May 20th in Columbia, MD

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 [...]

Welcome To Ubuntu in Maryland! May 20th

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 [...]

CALUG May 12th – Mackenzie Morgan

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 [...]

Maryland Lucid Release Party May 1

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 [...]

Daniel T Chen Live In Person April 14th At CALug

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 [...]

CALug March 10th With Justin Kirby

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 [...]