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Photos from Philly Karmic Release Party

Photos from the Philadelphia Karmic Release party have been posted:

Thanks to everyone who showed up, 13 in total, and a special thanks to those of you who came from out of state (a couple folks from New Jersey, one from Maryland!) and everyone who got in the spirit of Halloween and dressed up 🙂

Pittsburgh Karmic Release Party, October 30th @ 7PM

We’ve already mentioned the Philly Karmic Koala Release Party, Oct 31st from 2-6PM. Now Pittsburgh has an event planned too!

Friday, October 30th, 7:00 PM

Fox & Hound

2002 Northway Mall, McKnight Road

Pittsburgh, PA 15237

GOOGLE MAPS

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1298063

CPOSC Photos

Thanks to everyone who came out to make our CPOSC table such a success!

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Photos of the event have been posted to our gallery:

http://gallery.ubuntupennsylvania.org/main.php?g2_itemId=830

And there are even more photos over on Flickr under the “cposc” tag:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/cposc/

CPOSC 2009 Tomorrow!

Its mid-October already? Indeed! Which means it’s time for CPOSC! Fliers are printed, poster is ready, volunteers have signed up, raffle tickets are in hand.

Details about the table we’re running can be found on our wiki page: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PennsylvaniaTeam/EventsTeam/CPOSC2009

Hope to see you there! It’s also not too late to volunteer, so please let us know if you’d like to lend a hand – or just drop by and mingle 🙂

Philly Karmic Koala Release Party, Oct 31st from 2-6PM

It’s been a busy fall, and we aren’t stopping yet! The Philadelphia team has secured a space for our Karmic Koala Halloween party, thanks again to Jim Fisher for handling the logistics on this.

Philly Karmic Party

For more information, check out our wiki page about this event:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PennsylvaniaTeam/EventsTeam/PhillyKarmicRelease 

Mythbuntu Jam, Success!

Mythbuntu Jam 
 
Thanks  to Matt Mossholder (this is his third Myth event with us!), Johnathan Baab (our local Mythbuntu developer) and David Harding (our MythTV expert who spoke at Software Freedom Day) for an amazing event on October 3rd. We had 22 people come out, pizza, a presentation, a book raffle, MythTV and lots of great conversation. Thanks again to all who helped organize this event, and to everyone who came!
 
Panoramic photos from Andrew Keyes: 
Big 4M original panorama
Huge 14M original panorama
 More photos:
 

Philadelphia Software Freedom Day, Success!

Thanks to everyone who came out to our Software Freedom Day with the Philadelphia Area Computer Society in Willow Grove!

Early in the day we set up systems in the lobby for people coming in to check out. At noon the main presentation of the day was given by David Harding, on MythTV. Following the presentation we set up a table in the back of the main presentation room and gave out Ubuntu and Open Disc CDs, fliers about our team and info about some upcoming events.

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There were lots more photos of the event, Elizabeth Krumbach posted some here and a blog entry here and more photos from Andrew Keyes are located here.

Money raised for CPOSC table – thanks!

We have now raised the money needed for our table at CPOSC!

Big thanks to the following who have helped us reach this goal:

  • Bret Fledderjohn
  • Luke Brooks
  • Jim Fisher – Pechter’s of Southern NJ
  • Elizabeth Krumbach
  • Mike Ezell – Renewable Technology

Bret has organized all of this and we’re now listed on the CPOSC sponsors page.

Again, if you’re interested in attending the conference joining us register now, and sign up on our wiki:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PennsylvaniaTeam/EventsTeam/CPOSC2009

CPOSC 2009 Sign-Up

Registration has opened for the Central Pennsylvania Open Source Conference 2009, if you’re interested in attending (and perhaps helping us with our table?), head over there. If you sign up by Sept 22nd you’ll also get a t-shirt!

We are still looking for donations to pay for the $100 table at the conference, so if you can donate please click the donate button in the sidebar of this site. Every little bit helps! If we have 20 people donating $5 each and we’ll be set 🙂

We’ve also opened sign-ups for volunteers at our table and fleshed out the wiki page for this event, so if you’re planning to attend and help us out please sign up here:

October 3rd Myth, Docs and Bugs for GlobalJamDay!

For the Ubuntu Global Jam the weekend of October 3rd the Philadelphia team will be hosting a Myth, Docs and Bugs Jam at Resources for Human Development (RHD) (this is the same location where we had our last BugJam).

Date: Saturday, October 3, 2009

Time:  1-5PM

Location:  Resources for Human Development, 4700 Wissahickon Ave., PhiladelphiaCost: Free

We have set up a wiki page with further details which we’ll be updating and for sign-up, this event is free and open to the public:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PennsylvaniaTeam/EventsTeam/PhillyMythJam2009

Hope to see you there! 🙂