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On Tuesdays, I have a 3 hour night class, in which all the outlets don’t work, so I’m only running on battery. Two weeks ago, I hardly had enough battery for 3 hours on a full charge; today I came with 80% charge, which lasted the entire class, and still had some to spare. Looks ( Read more... )

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Hey people, long time no see.

Okay, first up is Software Freedom Day at PACS. The NJ LoCo Team helped out the PA Team with this event, and Dave Harding gave the main presentation. Pictures:


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For those of you unaware, there’s been quite a bit of discussion recently in the US Teams Project about the possibility of starting a non-profit organization, to accept donations and to shield individual LoCo teams of liability; the main conclusion has seemed to be that having ( Read more... )

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Last week I had set up ubuntu-us.org as a portal for US LoCo teams, since the page was previously a placeholder.

On Saturday the US Team Project met to talk about various things, including how to promote US teams. One of the things that came up was getting on the front page of ( Read more... )

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First of all, hello Planet Ubuntu
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Any decision you take will affect users and colleagues, and we expect you to take those consequences into account when making decisions.

In response to this question. For those not familiar with the issue, here.

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Presentation went well yesterday.Relevant blog posts from Liz and Jim. Pics from my side are available here. Some of mine:


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• I’m trying to organize an Ubucon. First step: figure out where the hell it can be hosted. I’m looking at Central Jersey at the end of July, so I’ll try calling TCNJ tomorrow or early next week. If you know a suitable place, let me know!
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In short, TCF went very well. Pictures are available here (Picasa) and here (F-Spot). Some highlights:


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I seem to have hit a sore spot with regards to my last entry; Dave wrote a fairly scathing entry about my remarks on running Windows in qemu, and running beryl, etc. Let me take a moment to set a few things straight:

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