BALUG Tu 2013-01-15: Grant Bowman: ubuntu-california.org Q&A; & other BALUG news
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items, details further below: BALUG Tu 2013-01-15: Grant Bowman: ubuntu-california.org Q&A BALUG Tu 2013-02-19: Elizabeth Krumbach on Linux deployments in Ghana Petition US Government - free / open source software in schools Book(s), CDs/DVDs, and other "door prizes", etc. "slides" from: BALUG 2012-07-17 screen(1) presented by Michael Paoli volunteering to help BALUG Twitter https://twitter.com/#!/BALUG_org
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Bay Area Linux User Group (BALUG) meeting Tuesday 6:30 P.M. 2013-01-15
For our 2013-01-15 BALUG meeting, we're proud to present:
Grant Bowman - ubuntu-california.org[1] Q&A
Everything you ever wanted to know about the California Team and the Ubuntu community. How to represent Ubuntu[2] in local Linux User Groups and participate online and around the world in the semi-annual Ubuntu community events scheduled around the six month Ubuntu release cadence in April and October.
Mr. Bowman has been a consultant and Internet professional for over twenty years and is presently a Director of Partimus[3]. He is one of three elected ubuntu-california.org[1] leaders, an Ubuntu Member, Fedora[4] Ambassador[5] and former employee of suse.com[6]. He is active with berkeleylug.com[7], noisebridge.net[8], SF-LUG[9] and DVLUG[10] and his website is at grantbow.com[11].
1. http://ubuntu-california.org/ 2. http://www.ubuntu.com/ 3. http://partimus.org/ 4. http://fedoraproject.org/ 5. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors 6. https://www.suse.com/ 7. http://berkeleylug.com/ 8. https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Noisebridge 9. http://sf-lug.com/ 10. http://dvlug.org/ 11. http://www.grantbow.com/
Please RSVP if you're planning to come (see further below).
For our 2013-01-15 BALUG meeting, we're proud to present:
So, if you'd like to join us please RSVP to:
rsvp@balug.org
**Why RSVP??**
Well, don't worry we won't turn you away, but the RSVPs really help BALUG and the Four Seas Restaurant plan the meal and meeting, and with sufficient attendance, they also help ensure that we'll be able to eat upstairs in the private banquet room.
Meeting Details...
6:30pm Tuesday, January 15th, 2012 2013-01-15
Four Seas Restaurant http://www.fourseasr.com/ 731 Grant Ave. San Francisco, CA 94108 Easy PARKING: Portsmouth Square Garage at 733 Kearny: http://www.sfpsg.com/
Cost: The meetings are always free, but for dinner, for your gift of $13 cash or more, we give you a gift of dinner - joining us for a yummy family-style Chinese dinner - tax and tip included (your gift also helps in our patronizing the restaurant venue and helping to defray BALUG costs such as treating our speakers to dinner).
------------------------------ For our 2013-01-15 BALUG meeting, we're proud to present:
Elizabeth Krumbach on Linux deployments in Ghana
In October of 2012 Elizabeth Krumbach accompanied other volunteers from Computer Reach[1], a non-profit based out of Pittsburgh, PA, on a trip to Ghana in western Africa to assist with the deployment of 100 Edubuntu[2]-based desktop computers. In this talk she will share photos and details of the trip, along with some of the lessons they learned about doing such a deployment in a developing country, covering hardware, software and training requirements. For a bit more background, one can also have a look at her earlier Ubuntu User[3] article: Road Trip: Delivering Edbuntu systems to Ghana[4].
Elizabeth Krumbach works as a Linux Systems Administrator focused on continuous integration, holds a position on the Ubuntu Community Council[5] and is the Treasurer and a Director at the non-profit Partimus[6]. She has held a leadership position in the Ubuntu Women[7], Ubuntu Classroom[8] and Ubuntu News[9] projects for several years and recently took over as Marketing and Website lead for the Xubuntu[10] Linux distribution. Former coordinator for the Philadelphia area Linux Users Group[11], she is now living in San Francisco and is one of the leaders of the Ubuntu California[12] team where she coordinates Bay Area Ubuntu events and meetings, install fests, booths and hosts Debian dinners every couple months for Bay Area Debian[13].
1. http://computereach.com/ 2. http://edubuntu.org/ 3. http://www.ubuntu-user.com/ 4. http://www.ubuntu-user.com/content/download/3340/22578/file/070-073_edubuntu... 5. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CommunityCouncil 6. http://www.partimus.org/ 7. http://women.ubuntu.com/ 8. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Classroom 9. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NewsTeam 10. http://www.xubuntu.org/ 11. http://www.phillylinux.org/ 12. http://ubuntu-california.org/ 13. http://bad.debian.net/
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Petition US Government - free / open source software in schools
If you've not seen it[1], there's an on-line petition[2] to urge the US Government to favor and encourage free Open Source software use in and by schools.
1. http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-talk-balug.org/2013-January/004925.ht... 2. http://wh.gov/Rz6C
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Book(s), CDs/DVDs, and other "door prizes", etc.
Goodies we'll have at the meeting (at least the following):
eBook review copy (only one copy remains): A Practical Guide to Linux Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming, 3rd Edition, Mark G. Sobell http://www.informit.com/title/013308504X http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-talk-balug.org/2012-November/004885.h...
CDs/DVDs, etc. - have a peek here: http://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=balug:cds_and_images_etc We may also be able to "burn" images per request or copy to USB flash, etc. Donations of blank or +-RW media, USB flash, or funding thereof, also appreciated. See the above URL for details.
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"slides" from: BALUG 2012-07-17 screen(1) presented by Michael Paoli
Missed that meeting, or want to review the materials? Have a peek here: http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-talk-balug.org/2013-January/004926.ht...
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volunteering to help BALUG
Want to volunteer to help out BALUG? Quite a variety of opportunities* Drop us a note at: balug-contact@balug.org Or come talk to us at a BALUG meeting. *e.g.: o assist on publicity o assist on speaker coordination/procurement, etc. o webmastering o archivist/history/retrieval/etc. o Linux Systems Administration (e.g. do/assist/learn, with/under some quite experienced and skilled Linux systems administrators). o and other various/miscellaneous tasks BALUG "ought" to be doing or would be good to do (feel free to bring in ideas!)
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