From the BALUG site:

For our 2008-03-25 meeting we are proud to present:
Mark Shuttleworth of Ubuntu/Canonical.

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Registration for LugRadio Live USA 2008 is now open at http://lugradio.org/live/USA2008/register, and tickets for the two-day spectacular cost only $10 for the full weekend, including full access to all talks, the exhibition, evening events, and a free bag o'swag for visitors. Pre-registrations also enjoy additional benefits at the show and the first 50 registrations will receive a free copy of Postal 2: Share The Pain (subject to age verification), thanks to Running With Scissors. All pre-registrations will also be entered into a raffle to win prizes by a variety of vendors.

LugRadio Live USA 2008, the 'rock-conference' from the team behind the popular LugRadio podcast (http://www.lugradio.org), brings the successful and unique formula of the UK LugRadio Live events to The Metreon in San Francisco on the 12th and 13th April 2008. The event is supported extensively by Google and also supported by Dice.

Untangle and the ACCRC are working on an installfest for Northern California schools that will take place on Saturday March 1st.   The event will refurbish hundreds of unwanted computers that would otherwise get thrown out with Ubuntu and then donate them to schools.  There will be four installfest locations (San Francisco, Berkeley, San Mateo & Novato) and we really need your help to make this happen.  We need help installing Ubuntu, breaking down broken computers and just plain cleaning up after ourselves so there is something for everyone todo, no matter how technical they are.  You can find out more info on the event and how you can volunteer here.

Calling all San Francisco Bay Area OLPC enthusiasts! If you have an XO laptop, or are just interested in seeing how they work, come on down to SF State campus for a get together on Feb 9, 2008. If you have an XO or two (or ten), bring them! If not, bring your enthusiasm.

What: OLPC meet at San Francisco State University

Why: Curiosity, strength in numbers, plain fun! Build a mesh network, share activities, pictures, measure distances with acoustic tape measure!

When: Saturday, February 9, 2008 from 10am to 2pm

Software Freedom Day events were a great success and of course, a lot of fun. There's something liberating about heckling passers-by and enticing them with free software.

"Free software, free software! Come and get it. Free software, free software! No strings attached. Nothing to sign. No forms to fill out. Come and get it. Free software, free software!"

SF State students from the Information Management Systems Association (IMSA) will be hosting Software Freedom Day on campus (Malcolm X Plaza) on Thursday, the 13th of September, 2007 from 10am to 4pm. As faculty advisor for IMSA, I'd like to invite you to come by their tables and find out how free and open source software can be of some use to you! 

Software Freedom Day (SFD) is an annual worldwide celebration of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). SFD is a public education effort, not only to celebrate the virtues of Free and Open Source Software, but also to encourage its use, to the benefit of the public.

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Some of my OSCON photos are up on Flickr. I have more, but I've run into my limit for the month...and its only the 1st of August!!!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/52302911@N00/sets/72157594216912528/ 

This talk was by Jeff Waugh who works on the Ubuntu team and has experience with the GNOME team in Australia.

How the Ubuntu community came about? The Ubuntu project is the brainchild of Mark Shuttleworth, who wanted to build a Linux distro that was clean, simple and easy to use. Interestingly, before building a distro, he went about building a community. A community with shared values and shared vision. His group, which largely intersects with employees of Canonical, Ltd. got together and brainstormed about the concept of what people need and how it can be done. Ubuntu has a Code of conduct which is explicitly spelled out. This lays a foundation for a common ground to work from. Next is the Ubuntu commitment - explicitly spelled out a well, and typically found printed on their free CD covers. Some of those points are:

Last night, Asa Dotzler from Mozilla Firefox presented a collection of the top few movies (flicks) made by people in the Mozilla Firefox community to promote Firefox. They also presented  "behind the scenes" videos of work on the flicks at Mozilla's offices in Mountain View, CA

Check out http://www.firefoxflicks.com/

This was a session from last night on the state of software. The updates were done in 5 minutes, hence the term "lightning".

Here are my notes:

State of:

Project GlassFish 

• Java EE 5 (note jump in versioning of J2EE).
• http://blogs.sun.com/theAquarium
• http://java.sun.com/javaee/theAquarium

GNOME

• Very poorly presented. Some updates on the GNOME conference in Spain. A tiny mention of Summer of Code projects from Google and the fact that no women applied.