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Five fast minutes on The Open Source Way – Ignite at CLSWest

Monday, February 15, 2010

In January 2010 I participated in an Ignite session at the Community Leadership Summit West.  CLS West is a subset of the annual CLS, to be held this year again near OSCON in Portland, OR on 17 and 18 July 2010.
This talk is in O’Reilly’s Ignite format, which is 20 slides that auto-advance every 15 [...]

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Community Leadership Summit up on the westside

Thursday, January 7, 2010

CLS West is happening this Saturday 9 January at DeVry University in Daly City.  I’ll be there all day, talking about catalyzing and community and stuff, then giving an Ignite talk at a closed-door event.
This is a follow-up to the successful CLS that occurred before the last OSCON in San Jose.  The idea was born [...]

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Interesting open systems problem

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

(This article arose from my sitting on an open source round table on Monday 08 June in Santa Clara, CA at ConnectivityWeek 2009.  My slides with full speaker notes are available.)
For those who’ve never heard of building automation systems (BAS) and the smart grid, you have my pardon to take a few minutes to go [...]

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Presenting ‘Participate or Die’ at CommunityOne Monday 01 June

Monday, June 1, 2009

If you, your friends, colleagues, business associates, or just about anyone who needs …

Support for how and why to invest resources in open source
A cluebat about why your organization should participate in upstream projects

… then send them to Esplanade 302 for my 11:50 am session this Monday 01 June, the first day of CommunityOne.  I’ll [...]

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New face in meaningful Linux shows, and a reportlet on OpenPrinting

Monday, May 25, 2009

(Back from nose to the grindstone, Spring at home is busy and end-of-quarter targets I’ve been working on for Red Hat are nearing completion. Appears that blogging and tracking email lists has fallen a bit to the wayside.)
From Wednesday 08 April to Friday 10 April, I was in fabulous and mildly-rainy San Francisco to attend [...]

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‘Participate or Die’ presentation from LinuxFest Northwest

Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Running a little late posting these because I wanted to produce a nice set of speaker notes, and they didn’t exist before I gave the talk at LinuxFest Northwest. In addition, there were some slides that were missing from the presentation (my bad!), which had me going to a Web browser during the talk [...]

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Measuring community contributions at LF Collaboration Summit

Friday, May 1, 2009

Folks at the Linux Foundation have just posted a bunch of video from the 2009 Collaboration Summit, including our panel on 8 April, Measuring Community Contribution (Flash video … but they do have a downloadable OGG!)  Joe ‘Zonker’ Brockmeier (OpenSUSE community manager) led the panel that included James Bottomly (Linux kernel SCSI maintainer [...]

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Intersections — “Open source lifestyle: classroom to career and beyond” from FOSSLC (was OSBootCamp)

Monday, April 6, 2009

In the Fedora Ambassador gig, at nearly every event there is an opportunity to get a view of the intersection of Fedora, open source, and the many backgrounds, experiences, and questions of other people at the event.
Take last Fall’s OSBootCamp as an example.  This series of no-cost events was put on by an organization that [...]

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Igniting teacher passions; last observations from CUE 2009

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

The last day of CUE 2009 I was stuck by the pure awesomeness of one of the final presentations in the open source pavilion.  It was titled Intro and Demo Open Source (Free) Software Programs for Educators! (found 1/3rd of the way down the conference sessions page).  The three presenters, Shin, Katalin, and Branka, were [...]

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Stumbling around in the K-12 space

Friday, March 6, 2009

This week I’m fulfilling a talk obligation that David Nalley and I set up last Fall, to talk about the advantages of bringing a culture of participation to the classroom.  In particular, this is the Computer-Using Educators (CUE) conference, with teachers and technology coordinators from K-12 districts across the country.  K-12 is short-hand for primary [...]

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