25 May 23:21
23 May 03:53
Ubuntu for Students - to rouse people interest.
Hi guys!
I'm John, a HS sophomore from Los Angeles. Very recently, I kickstarted an idea about making Ubuntu the main OS within John Marshall High School, a dilapidated high school, still standing and reeking of age, that has been using Windows XP for a decade now. For those who haven't heard, I have a post about it: http://epikvision.blogspot.com/2012/05/game-changing-proposal-ubuntu-for.html
here's the situation: although I created a proposal, I did not hand it in to the administration just yet (we only got one shot at this). David Montes and I are trying to build a support base and handy foundation of research data. We see three primary audiences: teachers, students, and the administration. The best way to go, we decided, is one audience at a time.
So, now that I'm trying to get students' attention, I would like to hear ideas and suggestions on marketing techniques and ways to rouse student interest. In my school, it's mighty difficult to spark students' interest of an OS that most has never heard of. So I leave some room for discussion. There's only 3 weeks left of school, and I hope to gain momentum asap.
One thing I thought about is to hold a demo hands-on for students to compare windows xp and ubuntu side by side. After that, the people would take a surveymonkey on their experience. I see some weakness, including limited resources (we can't just borrow a student laptop cart and install half of them ubuntu) or sponsorship (what room can allow us to carry this out? it's a lengthy process to get teacher permission). Many more exist, I'm sure.
2 people - David Montes and myself - alone can't make so grand a project possible without support. Ideas and suggestions are welcome, but hopefully, it is do-able within 3 weeks. Thanks for your time.
20 May 17:30
Meeting tonight, Sunday May 20th at 7PM
Hi everyone, Tonight, Sunday May 20th, we're having our regularly scheduled bi-weekly LoCo meeting at 7pm PT in #ubuntu-us-ca on irc.freenode.net For help connecting to IRC with a client, see: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/InternetRelayChat Or simply join us via your web browser by going here:http://ubuntu-california.org/chat/ Current Agenda: 1. Ubuntu Developer Summit Wrap-up The meeting page is available here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam/Meetings/12May6 And as always, logs will be available after the meeting and you're welcome to add your comments here on the mailing list if you're unable to attend. -- -- Elizabeth Krumbach // Lyz // pleia2 http://www.princessleia.com
16 May 23:21
Mountain View Ubuntu Hour on Thursday, May 17th at 7 PM
Everyone's favorite silicon valley Ubuntu hour (the first and still the best) is meeting again in May! Location: Red Rock Coffee, 201 Castro St, Mountain View, http://www.redrockcoffee.org/ (Convenient to Caltrain and VTA light rail, nice!) When: Thursday, May 17th, 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM What: Have coffee, grab an Ubuntu CD, chit chat with all kinds of Ubuntu users - beginners and expert. We love meeting new people :) We tend to congregate on the spacious 2nd floor, if available. Seek laptop users, some with Ubuntu tee shirts, and free Ubuntu CDs. Wifi is available for your browsing pleasure. Optional RSVP: http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/ubuntu-california/1783/detail/
13 May 20:08
Many Thanks
Many thanks to Nick Kassem for taking time out to come to the Felton LUG and presenting
Ubuntu 12.04 to the group. We had a larger turnout as a result and a lot of questions comments
and interaction.
We are lucky that so many great people volunteer and help others in our community.
Best Regards,
Bob
13 May 20:02
Repeating keys kernel bug
My friend Alex let me borrow his functionally unusable zareason laptop. I reproduced the key sticking/repeat problem that seems to be kernel related. Has anyone else encountered this? Bug URLs are below with more details. This is believed to be tracked back to a very old, specific kernel version but reproduces for me using both ubuntu 10.04's kernel as well as ubuntu 12.04's kernel.
Grant
On May 3, 2012 12:05 PM, <akleider-65eDfwRo+1xeoWH0uzbU5w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
7 May 19:54
Pasadena Ubuntu Hour - THURS MAY 10
Pasadena Ubuntu Hour
May 10, 2012 at 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Peet's Coffee in Pasadena
605 S Lake Ave
Pasadena, CA 91106
605 S Lake Ave
Pasadena, CA 91106
Meet up at the original Ubuntu Hour
location in Pasadena, CA! We meet at this location on the 2nd
Thursday of every month from 6pm to 7pm. Come on by, meet
someone new and have some fun! For more info about this event
please email: davidandrews-GeWIH/nMZzLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org
This Ubuntu Hour coincides with the San
Gabriel Valley LUG meetings. More info on SGVLUG: http://www.sgvlug.org/
* there is a very slight chance we'll have some official Ubuntu 12.04 LTS discs available. if not we will definitely have some next month.
* there is a very slight chance we'll have some official Ubuntu 12.04 LTS discs available. if not we will definitely have some next month.
7 May 19:20
7 May 17:13
Felton LUG 5/12, 2PM at the Firehouse
Thank you Nick for agreeing to present on the 12th, right on the heels of UDS in Oakland this week!
Grant
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From: "Robert Lewis" <bob.l.lewis-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
Date: May 6, 2012 10:19 PM
Subject: [Felton LUG] Next meeting 5/12/2012 2PM at the Firehouse
To: "Felton Lug" <felton-lug-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org>
We have a speaker for our Saturday, May 12th, Felton LUG meeting at 2PM.
Please try to attend so that we can all learn more about
Ubuntu 12.04 release and have a lively discussion.
His name is Nick Kassem and I used to work with him several years ago
and have high regard for his knowledge. Lets have a good turnout and
discussion to make his time visiting us worthwhile.
He has been working with Ubuntu for many years and has hands-on experience
with Ubuntu 12.04 (Beta & LTS).
A bit of background on Nick is that he holds a BS ME & MS CE degrees.
He was a Technical Director at The Santa Cruz Operation for
over 6 years. He Worked at Java Software (Sun Microsystems inc.)
for about 10 years and as a Technical Director there did numerous
engineering presentations at JavaOne & authored the first book on J2EE
Enterprise computing. He now does technical consulting (mainly in IPTV and
communication infrastructures & network design).
He will present some powerpoint slides followed by our usual Q&A session.
Cheers,
Bob
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Date: May 6, 2012 10:19 PM
Subject: [Felton LUG] Next meeting 5/12/2012 2PM at the Firehouse
To: "Felton Lug" <felton-lug-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org>
We have a speaker for our Saturday, May 12th, Felton LUG meeting at 2PM.
Please try to attend so that we can all learn more about
Ubuntu 12.04 release and have a lively discussion.
His name is Nick Kassem and I used to work with him several years ago
and have high regard for his knowledge. Lets have a good turnout and
discussion to make his time visiting us worthwhile.
He has been working with Ubuntu for many years and has hands-on experience
with Ubuntu 12.04 (Beta & LTS).
A bit of background on Nick is that he holds a BS ME & MS CE degrees.
He was a Technical Director at The Santa Cruz Operation for
over 6 years. He Worked at Java Software (Sun Microsystems inc.)
for about 10 years and as a Technical Director there did numerous
engineering presentations at JavaOne & authored the first book on J2EE
Enterprise computing. He now does technical consulting (mainly in IPTV and
communication infrastructures & network design).
He will present some powerpoint slides followed by our usual Q&A session.
Cheers,
Bob
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7 May 04:00
Re: Booth at Maker Faire
Thanks James!
I'll send you more info. in the next few days.
Cheers,
Jack
On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 4:01 PM, James Ouyang <jyouyang-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
Hey Jack,
I can definitely help out on Sunday (and maybe Saturday afternoon).
See you tomorrow,
James
On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 10:37 AM, Jack Deslippe <jdeslip-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Thanks Philip and Aaditya! I'll send you more information in the next day
> or so including how to get in for free and times etc...
>
> I'll be in and out of UDS next week; so, if you are going, I'll probably run
> into you there as well.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jack
>
> On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 1:32 AM, Philip Ballew <philipballew-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
> wrote:
>>
>> I will be there, can be there both days possibly. I would be glad to help
>> out.
>>
>> On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 11:07 AM, Jack Deslippe <jdeslip-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> > Hi All,
>> >
>> > I know everyone is busy prepping for UDS, but I wanted to bring your
>> > attention for a minute to an event happening the weekend after:
>> >
>> > I have gotten a booth for BerkeleyLUG (actual title is - "Bay Area Linux
>> > Groups") at the maker faire in two weeks - http://makerfaire.com/. I am
>> > hoping a couple people from Ubuntu California can make it to help man
>> > the
>> > booth and show off the latest and greatest stuff in Ubuntu. Let me know
>> > if
>> > you are interested - I should have some free or discounted tickets
>> > available.
>> >
>> > Elizabeth - can I get some disks? :)
>> >
>> > -Jack
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6 May 20:05
Meeting tonight, Sunday May 6th at 7PM
Hi everyone, Tonight, Sunday May 6th, we're having our regularly scheduled bi-weekly LoCo meeting at 7pm PT in #ubuntu-us-ca on irc.freenode.net For help connecting to IRC with a client, see: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/InternetRelayChat Or simply join us via your web browser by going here:http://ubuntu-california.org/chat/ Current Agenda: 1. Ubuntu Developer Summit: May 7-11: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam/Projects/UDS-Q 2. Booth at Maker Faire: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-us-ca/2012-May/001954.html The meeting page is available here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam/Meetings/12May6 And as always, logs will be available after the meeting and you're welcome to add your comments here on the mailing list if you're unable to attend. -- -- Elizabeth Krumbach // Lyz // pleia2 http://www.princessleia.com
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