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Category Archives: Ubuntu

Ubuntu Install Fest March 8th

We can now announce that our next Ubuntu Maryland Install Fest will be on March 8th and hosted by the Loyola College Center for Community Informatics in Columbia, MD. The event will run from 10-2:30. More details will be following.

2008 Stuff

Another year arrives! So this is the typical ‘what to do with the year’ letter. I’ve been giving this some thought and here’s what I’m thinking, in no particular order with the exception of the first item. I want to continue to grow the fantastic relationship that I have with Peg. She and I are […]

Ubuntu Maryland Loco – Going For Approval!

Tonight I added the Maryland Ubuntu Team to the next Ubuntu Community Council Meeting Agenda. A couple weeks ago I contacted Josh to put together an outline for our Application Page. I then emailed Jono to get his thoughts on the page that was there and what needed to be done to tweak it. To […]

The MD Ubuntu Team (Re)Presented

What a great evening! The Ubuntu Maryland LoCo Team was invited to the Central Maryland Users Group to give our “Why Ubutnu?” presentation. Joel was our speaker. John was there with a demo machine that doubled as a repository and Craig had the monitor and networking gear to tie my presentation laptop together with John’s […]

Going For Ubuntu Approval

Over the last few days I’ve been looking into the steps to get the Maryland LoCo Team approved by the Ubuntu Community Council. After talking with Richard Johnson who has been acting as a mentor to our team via the US Teams Project he thinks we’re looking good. So I shot off an email to […]

Software Freedom Day Summary

What a great day it turned out to be, weather wise and event wise. At the Howard County Library the Ubuntu Maryland Local Community Team held an install fest. With a strong turnout by our members and the public we had a real successful day. We started out the morning getting set up. I was […]

An Ubuntu Maryland Update

The Ubuntu Maryland Loco Team is going great! We’ve had a meeting every month at the Howard County Central Library since our initial gathering in March. So far every month we’ve had a new new faces show up with new ideas. Our team has put together some great things. We have Josh working our wiki […]

Ubuntu Maryland Team Meeting May 17th

May 17th will be the next meeting of the Ubuntu-Maryland LoCo Team. I’ve posted the agenda over at the forums for your reading pleasure.

VPN Home

I finally had a chance to confirm that my VPN works! I was able to connect into my home network from outside via OpenVPN. Having a library with open WiFi is a good thing! I also announced in the forums that the Planet is about ready for business. I’ll have the agenda for the meeting […]

Geek Stuff

Over the weekend when not working on the porch and yard, I kind of geeked out a bit. It started Friday night finally getting my Knoppmyth box running with the DirecTV satellite box. I’ll be posting a page in the near future with the details on the little tricks I needed to use to get […]