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Maryland Tour Finksburg — Saturday

Don’t forget to join the Ubuntu Maryland Loco team in Finksburg, MD this Saturday December 5th from 9:30am-11:30am.
I’ll be giving a talk at 10am on what Ubuntu is and how it can benefit you!
Check out the event page for more information!

Ubuntu Maryland Tour

This is an idea that’s been coming together in my head for a while.
What we are going to do is about once a month go to an area in Maryland and talk about Ubuntu, Linux and Free Software. We will take requests on areas to visit. With some luck we can find a volunteer to [...]

Maryland FOSS Online Project

Hi everyone! Ubuntu Maryland Team member and University of Maryland Lug (my first LUG way back when) President Craig Younkins has started a new project. Let’s Help FOSS.
This is an online event Saturday night from 8-10pm. From his original email:
Let’s….
– Contribute code to your favorite FOSS project
– Confirm, triage, [...]

Pizza And Disks At CALug

The Columbia Area Linux Users group will be meeting Wednesday November 11th. We will be having a presentation by Phil Shapiro on Inkscape.
This meeting will be starting a bit early, 6:30pm, so that we can enjoy some pizza provided by Praxis Engineering, a local growing consulting firm.
And if you’re looking for Karmic CDs we’ll have [...]

Karmic Release Party In Maryland!

Greetings All!
The Ubuntu Maryland team will be celebrating the release of the Karmic Koala this Saturday the 31st of October at Fuddruckers in Columbia, MD. We’ll be gathering from noonish til 2ish. We’re going to try to be in the back of the restaurant to make it easy to find us.
As with previous release parties [...]

Software Freedom Day In Maryland

Software Freedom Day is coming up quick. Here in Maryland the Ubuntu Loco team will be presenting a series of talks to educate the public on Free software. We will be at the Miller branch of the Howard County Library on September 19th from 10-30-3:30pm.
Please join us for a day of great talks and discussion [...]

Software Freedom Day 2009

Software Freedom Day 2009 planning is getting into full swing!
As the Ubuntu Maryland team did last year, we are planning a day of talks and discussions about Open Source Software and its benefits. While there may be a bias towards the Linux platform in general and the Ubuntu distribution in particular we are open to [...]

Random Things

I’ve been keeping myself pretty busy lately with several things going on.
The Ubuntu Maryland Local Community Team will be starting plans for Software Freedom Day on September 19th soon. The tentative thoughts are to have a similar event to what we did last year with a day of tutorials and discussion on Free and Open [...]

Ubuntu One Thoughts

I waited and debated on what, if anything, to post on this topic. I didn’t want to chime in and just be another voice but every voice should be heard if it wants to speak. I was hoping that after Mark Shuttleworth spoke his thoughts on the matter of the naming of the Ubuntu One [...]

Maryland Jaunty Release Party

Day: Saturday April 25, 2009
Time: 12 pm
Place: Fuddruckers at 6486 Dobbin Way, Columbia, MD 21045
Join us to celebrate the release of the Jaunty Jackalope!
We are going to try to have some home made CDs to hand out.
Bring a 1GB or larger flash drive and we’ll set you up with a LiveUSB version of Jaunty Jackalope! [...]