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 […]
First the DojoSec meeting was very well done and well attended. The videos are up on the multimedia page. Thanks to Marcus J. Carey for putting these together and speakers like Marcus J. Ranum for attending them. Then a reminder that the Columbia Area Linux Users Group is meeting this Wednesday, March 11 at the […]
Thursday, February 26, 2009
So last Saturday the Ubuntu Maryland Team got together at the Howard County Library to jam on some bugs with the rest of the world. First of all thanks to everyone that turned out. We had about a dozen people show up and many of those were new faces. I started the morning with the […]
Sunday, February 15, 2009
So much going on, where to start. I’ll start with a big thank you to Paul W. Frields from the Fedora Project for an excellent talk at CALug last Wednesday. He gave us a presentation on remixing Fedora that led to pleasantly running over our regular end time. Many things were discussed and asked about […]
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Come out and join the Ubuntu Maryland Team for the Global Bug Jam! February 21 is the big day that we will be getting together at the Howard County Library’s Miller Branch. I’ll be giving a talk at 9:30 am on how to report and triage bugs in Launchpad. After that we will work on […]
That’s what Peg said to me earlier today in reference to my Dell Mini running KDE 4.2. Early last week her laptop broke in such a way [at the hinge] that I’m unable to fix it myself and it is so old that it is not worth the cost to repair. It is at the […]
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Hi Everybody. I have a few things to talk about so I’ll cover them in order. First, thanks to all my friends and family that donated financially and/or encouraged my effort at Plungapaloza ’09 for the Maryland Special Olympics. Together we raised $600 and helped to enhance some lives. You can see my pictures and […]
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Over the last month I’ve seen a few posts that makes me wonder about the choices made in open vs closed software. These examples are all related to choices in the microblogging category. The choices are that of identi.ca vs twitter. The first was an announcement of a new launchpad feature. This was announced as […]
Monday, December 29, 2008
A couple weeks ago I got an email that will forever change the beginning of 2009 for me. It was an email that reminded me to do something I’ve been talking about for years but never got around to for various reasons. This year is different. This year I’ll be Plunging. What is Plungapalooza you […]
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Just a quickie note to let everyone know that Nate is hosting a meeting of the Ubuntu Maryland Loco team in Salisbury, MD. It will be at the Red Door Sub Shop December 6th at 10am. Power outlets and wifi will be provided and the management has been warned (or they gave permission as Nate […]