Thursday, November 12, 2009
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, and gather […]
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Greetings all! The Ubuntu Maryland team will be having a meeting this week at the Central Branch of the Howard County Library. Among the topics to be discussed will be our plans for SFD09! Tentative plans for the day include talks as we did last year. These talks were on Open Source projects and ways […]
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 […]
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 […]
In a previous post titled Free Happenings I mentioned the March meeting of DojoSec. Since I posted there has been another speaker added to the evening, so now the line-up is: iPhone Forensics – Walter Barr and Sean Morrissey Snort – The Forensics Tool? – David Warren Cyberwar is BS – Marcus J. Ranum Also […]
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 […]