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Category Archives: General

Providence, RI Tree Planting

From my Sister-in-law: Call for volunteers- especially West Siders !!! I know tomorrow is an extremely busy day for everyone and I know you all have neighborhood cleanups to attend, But, we (PNPP) need additional able bodied tree planters for our tree planting between Westminster St and Broadway tomorrow (Saturday 4/20/13) morning from 10:30 am [...]

Leaving Ubuntu

After some consideration of both recent and historical decisions by Canonical in regards to the Ubuntu project and distribution, the lack of any noticeable dissension by the community leadership, I’ll be deleting my Launchpad account, along with all memberships to Ubuntu groups, this Saturday, March 2nd. The date represents the six year anniversary of my creating the account, [...]

Ubuntu Maryland New Contact

I want to let everyone know that the Ubuntu Maryland Loco Team has a new contact. Ron Swift has stepped in to take over the reigns. Those who have been involved with the team know that he has been an invaluable part of the team since its earliest days. Whenever help was needed he has [...]

Merry Christmas Everyone!

I hope that the day was wonderful for everyone, and if not then you made the best of it!

Going to FUDCon!

Yup, I’ll be heading to Blacksburg, VA for the Fedora FUDCon 2012! I’m looking forward to going to this event. I’ve recently switched a couple of machines over to Fedora and been happy with the results so far. It’ll be interesting to see how one of these events works for someone fresh to the Fedora [...]

Resolve To Talk To Your Group!

So I’ve been doing the whole reflecting on the last year and goal setting and planning for the next year thing. As part of the process I look at the schedules for the various groups that I am a part of and those that I run. In particular I want to talk about the Columbia [...]

Talking About Enhancing The B&N Nook Color

On Thursday, May 19th I’ll be giving a talk to the Open Source Maryland group at the Howard County Library Central Branch from 7-9pm. Titled “Exploring the possibilities of the best tablet value on the market, the Nook Color”. The talk will be an introduction to the publicly available information about enhancing the Nook Color [...]

Opensource Maryland Meeting April 21

Come and join the Opensource Maryland group for our monthly meeting this Thursday April 21 from 7-9pm at the Howard County Central Library. Our feature presentation this week will be given by Ron Swift. He will be giving an introductory talk on OS virtualization and some of its uses with VirtualBox. Following the presentation we will [...]

Reminder — CALUG April 13th

Greetings Everyone! We will be welcoming David A. Lane, KG4GIY. He will be speaking on the topic of HAM radio and Linux applications, or lack thereof. So be sure to join us at the Columbia, MD offices of Tenable Network Security from 6:30-9pm. Enter at the back patio door near the blue tables. The Nessus eye logo is on [...]

CALUG April 13 – David A Lane, KG4GIY

Greetings Everyone! It’s that time of the month again, time to announce our speaker for the April 13th Columbia Area Linux User Group meeting. We will be welcoming David A. Lane, KG4GIY. He will be speaking on the topic of HAM radio and Linux applications, or lack thereof. So be sure to join us at the Columbia, [...]