Open Source at SF State University - Events

Mark Shuttleworth to speak at BALUG on March 25, 2008

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 20:42:00 -0700

From the BALUG site:

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

LUG Radio Live coming to the US

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 20:38:53 -0800

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.

Massive F/OSS Installfest for Schools (March 1st)

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 16:01:29 -0800

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.

Feb 9 OLPC meet at SF State

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 13:13:20 -0800

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 2007: A great success

Fri, 14 Sep 2007 16:31:59 -0700

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!"

Software Freedom Day 2007 at SF State

Tue, 11 Sep 2007 00:12:53 -0700

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.

Relevant Links:

OSCON 2006: OSCON pics

Tue, 01 Aug 2006 11:27:15 -0700

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/

OSCON 2006: Building the Ubuntu Community

Thu, 27 Jul 2006 17:22:02 -0700

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:

OSCON 2006: Firefox flicks

Thu, 27 Jul 2006 08:01:53 -0700

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/

OSCON 2006: Lightning states of...

Thu, 27 Jul 2006 07:57:50 -0700

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.

OSCON 2006: The bigotry of open source

Wed, 26 Jul 2006 17:23:53 -0700

I am at O'Reilly's Open Source Conference which is being held in Portland, Oregon. The event is teeming with geeks and coders from all over the place. The energy level is quite high. The one thing I don't get is - why are so many of these "purveyors of open source software" using closed source software? Practice what you preach! Use open source software!!!

No, I am not talking about Windows XP. I am talking about Mac users. Isn't the Mac OSX closed source? So why have a soft corner for a closed source OS? Is the enemy of your enemy, your friend or are you just not willing to "do it yourself"? I wonder...

OSCON 2006: Going open source

Wed, 26 Jul 2006 12:03:45 -0700

My notes on this presentation (OSCON 2006) are based on Lars Thalmann's experience with MySQL cluster that was developed at Ericsson R&D and was later purchased by MySQL as open source software.

Ericsson Business Relations (a unit within Ericsson) managed this project in its early days. Focus was on availability (5 nines) and long sales/deployment cycles. The development model was traditional and closed source. Only customers saw the software - no free downloads. Ericsson had its own internal API and a SQL layer and ODBC layer to be accessible to the outside. Then things changed. Ericsson started to cut down on its assets. Ericsson lost interest in this clustering technology as it wasn't really Ericsson's core competency. On the other hand, MySQL needed a solution in the cluster database space, so the sale came about.

OSCON Blog...

Wed, 03 Aug 2005 12:57:54 -0700

A handful of people from different CSU campuses are at the O'Reilly Open Source Conference (OSCON 2005). We all have blogs, mostly notes from the meetings and sessions.

Take a look at http://cats.cdl.edu/index.pl/osconblog