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Category Archives: Talks

Video and notes for Art of Invention 2010-03-16 – History of Electronics

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

This post is a home for my notes and video links for a class I am co-teaching/assisting with today at AFE in Santa Cruz.  The class is Art of Invention for kids in the age range of 8 to 11 (3rd to 5th grade), and last week was the first part of the electronics section.  [...]

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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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Remix in the mountains – talking Fedora at FeltonLUG

Monday, April 13, 2009

On Saturday 04 April I gave a version of the ‘Fedora Remix’ talk at FeltonLUG.  The Fedora Remix talk covers what remixes and spins are and why to care, then dives in to using all the tools available (`livecd-creator`, `livecd-iso-to-*`,` liveusb-creator`, `pungi`, and `revisor`.)  I used a local `yum` repository of Fedora 10 base, using [...]

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Show ‘em how participation is done with a talk at the Red Hat Summit or JBoss World; deadline extended to 16 March

Monday, March 9, 2009

My favorite thing to hear from the mouth of Red Hat’s CEO Jim Whitehurst is (to paraphrase), “Red Hat is here to help customers becomes contributors to the projects that matter to them.” In that vein, I’ve made a few submissions of a talk/keynote, “Participate or Die“, including one to this year’s Red Hat Summit [...]

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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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Notes from FUDCon BarCamp talks

Monday, June 23, 2008

In the talks that I was participating in on Saturday’s FUDCon BarCamp, I wrote notes and linked them from the final schedule. Unlike other types of conferences, there tend to be far, far fewer prepared slides for BarCamp sessions than typical presentation situations. I’m sure there are some slides that people have to [...]

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Talking with developers

Monday, April 21, 2008

The standard Fedora presentation is to show:

what is Fedora?
who is Fedora?
why does Fedora matter?
how do you join the open source movement?

I’m going to give a variation of that at CommunityOne in a few weeks, and be prepared to answer questions on those topics plus others in the “Operating System Community Panel.” However …

what do [...]

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Fedora at Sun’s Community One event

Friday, April 18, 2008

On Monday 5 May, I’ll be attending Sun’s CommunityOne, an open and no-cost event for developers. Aside from going for the general interest and relationship to $dayjob, I’ll be giving a talk on Fedora and sitting on an “Operating System Community Panel.” As a bonus, the Community One pass gives access to the [...]

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EPEL duple at the Red Hat Summit

Monday, April 14, 2008

Super excited that both Michael Stahnke’s talk and my EPEL talk got accepted for the 2008 Red Hat Summit. You may notice that I matched the style of my page to Michael’s. This reflects the EPEL talks that are a duple, that is, two parts made to fit together into a more meaningful [...]

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