TOMORROW: Mark Shuttleworth at BALUG 2008-03-25!; & other BALUG News
Contents: * TOMORROW: Mark Shuttleworth at BALUG 2008-03-25 * Ian Murdoc in September and additional upcoming dates & speakers * Installfest for Schools * Contacts, etc.
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TOMORROW: Mark Shuttleworth at BALUG 2008-03-25
If you're planning to come, please RSVP to: rsvp@balug.org if you haven't already - Thanks.
For our 2008-03-25 meeting we are proud to present:
Mark Shuttleworth[1] of Ubuntu[2]/Canonical[3].
Mark is founder of the Ubuntu Project[2], and also founded Thawte[4] (which specialized in digital certificates), HBD Venture Capital[5] (invests in early stage South African companies with high growth potential) and The Shuttleworth Foundation[6] (non-profit organization that accelerates social innovation in Africa with a particular focus on education), and also formed Canonical[3] (commercial sponsor of Ubuntu, and committed to the development, distribution and promotion of open source software products, and to providing tools and support to the open source community). In April 2002, Mark also became the First African in Space[7], arriving via Soyuz TM-34 to the International Space Station and spending several days there, and returning via Soyuz TM-33.
If you intend to come, please RSVP to: rsvp@balug.org Why RSVP? Well, we probably wouldn't turn you away, but the RSVPs really help the Four Seas Restaurant plan settings/food/staffing and help ensure that we're able to eat upstairs in the private banquet room.
Subscribe to our (low volume) Announce list[8] to be sure and be notified of our upcoming events.
1. http://www.markshuttleworth.com/biography 2. http://www.ubuntu.com/ 3. http://www.canonical.com/ 4. http://www.thawte.com/ 5. http://www.hbd.com/ 6. http://www.shuttleworthfoundation.org/ 7. http://www.africaninspace.com/ 8. http://www.new.balug.org/#Lists
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Ian Murdoc in September and additional upcoming BALUG meeting dates[9] and speakers (see our web page[9] for more details): 2008-04-15 Eric Allman 2008-05-20 Jeremy Allison 2008-06-17 Andrew Morton 2008-07-15 Mike Linksvayer, CTO, Creative Commons 2008-08-19 (speaker confirmation pending) 2008-09-16 Ian Murdock, founder of Debian[10] Subscribe to our (quite low volume) Announce list[8] to be sure and be notified of our upcoming events.
8. http://www.new.balug.org/#Lists 9. http://www.new.balug.org/#Meetings%20(upcoming) 10. http://www.debian.org/
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Installfest for Schools[11]
The (first?) Installfest for Schools[11] was held 2008-03-01, and was a highly successful event. Be sure to check out the new LWN.net article[12] covering the event. With a combined community effort by Alameda County Computer Resource Center (ACCRC)[13], Untangle[14], additional volunteers/supporters/donors/contributors - including also many User Groups (among them San Francisco Linux Users' Group (SF-LUG)[15] and Bay Area Linux Users Group (BALUG)[16][17]), and a quite large number of volunteers (over 100 volunteers total among four locations), several hundred computers were built and configured with Ubuntu and additional free software for donation to schools. Some additional articles/write-ups, etc.: [17][18][19][20]
11. http://www.untangle.com/installfest 12. http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/273770/1d48ed5372f22879/ 13. http://www.accrc.org/ 14. http://www.untangle.com/ 15. http://www.sf-lug.org/ 16. http://www.balug.org/ 17. http://www.thejournal.com/articles/22165_2 18. http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/sf-lug/2008q1/003914.html 19. http://news.softpedia.com/news/Old-Hardware-Gets-New-Lease-of-Life-with-Ubun... 20. http://www.untangle.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=35...
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Contacting BALUG: http://www.new.balug.org/#Contact Feedback on our publicity/announcements (e.g. contacts or lists where we should get our information out that we're not presently reaching, or things we should do differently): publicity-feedback@balug.org