Ubuntu Pennsylvania Local Community Team

Our team will be running at table at the upcoming Central Pennsylvania Open Source Conference (CPOSC) 2009.

 The Central Pennsylvania Open Source Conference (CPOSC) is a small, low-cost, one-day conference about all things Open Source. It will be held on Saturday, October 17, 2009.

In order to make this happen, we need to raise $100 to sponsor the table there, team contact Bret Fledderjohn will be collecting donations and handling securing the table.Can you help sponsor our table at CPOSC 2009?

Thank you!

Ubuntu Pennsylvania team member Elizabeth Krumbach will also be presenting at this conference on “Contributing to Open Source Projects.”To see other speakers and topics see their speakers page. We have created a wiki page for this event:

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

You can also check out Bret’s blog post about the event!

On August 5th Alex Launi did a presentation on Bazaar (bzr) for the Philadelphia area Linux Users Group (PLUG).

As you may be aware, bzr is the version control system used by Ubuntu and many other projects. The talk follows in the series of version control system talks we’ve been having a PLUG, and was well-received by the audience.

Well done Alex! Slides here:Bazaar version control system

In other member news, Ubuntu Pennsylvania member Elizabeth Krumbach will be presenting on Women in F/OSS at PLUG Central in September. She also had a talk on Contributing to Open Source Projects accepted for the upcoming Central Pennsylvania Open Source Conference.

Jim Fisher (The Awesome!) received confirmation that we’ll be the stars of this upcoming Software Freedom Day at the Philadelphia Area Computer Society on September 19th from 8:30AM to 3:15PM. PACS meetings are held in the  Community Center at the Super Giant Food Store in Willow Grove PA 315 York Road, Willow Grove, PA 19090.

So far we have a presenter lined up who will give a talk about MythTV. We’re also looking to duplicate what we’ve done in the past with tables doing demos and such, but we need more ideas!

What will dazzle these primarily Windows and Mac users? Jim will be bringing along some of his older laptops to show how Linux can bring old hardware back to life, and has suggested we put together some information and have our experts available to discuss how free software works (who writes it? who packages it? who fixes it?).

We have a wiki page where you can add your ideas too,  and sign up for attending and volunteering with us that day:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PennsylvaniaTeam/EventsTeam/PhillySFD2009

Also check out our Forums and Mailing List thread about the event:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1219350

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-us-pa/2009-July/000859.html

This is the first of regular meetings to get the group more organized in the South Central Pennsylvania area. Have a cup of coffee with other members, talk, network, and let us plan some exciting events! This is open to everyone (made this a coffee location instead of a pub so that underage or alcohol opposed folk won’t be left out), so let’s have a good one.

Date: 08/08/09
Time: 1:00pm(EDT)
Where: Cornerstone Coffee House – Camp Hill, PA
Coordinator: Bret Fledderjohn
email: freelancer317 AT verizon DOT net

Wiki page w/ agenda is here:  https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PennsylvaniaTeam/EventsTeam/080809SCPA