Joe Terranova

Hey people, long time no see.

Okay, first up is Software Freedom Day at PACS. The NJ LoCo Team helped out the PA Team with this event, and Dave Harding gave the main presentation. Pictures:

The rest are here.

Next up, the NJ LoCo Team was at the Columbus Farmer’s Market on Saturday. Farmer’s Market, you say? Well, we certainly talked to quite a few people who had never heard of Ubuntu (or linux) before, and we gave out at least 30 OpenCDs and 50 Ubuntu CDs (we never seem to count these things).

Pictures:

More are here.

As a follow-up to this, I figured I should post to let people know that I will not actually be posting a tally of expenses for September’s Event (though I will still be keeping a tally for myself). After talking to a friend, I’ve decided to table this line of discussion for now, as it’s causing more animosity than it should.

I’ve set an entry on my calendar for June 1st, at which point I will bring the issues — handling funds, handling liability, handling sponsors — up for discussion again. There will be disagreements, there will be long discussions, but — most importantly — there should not and will not be hurt feelings, accusations, falling outs, or any other behavior which has tainted current discussion. In 9 months time, we must have matured — both as teams and as team leaders — enough to be able to discuss issues larger than ourselves and our individual teams. If we haven’t, we’ll have larger problems than handling money.

I apologize if I’ve stepped on any toes. Expect a message from me on June 1st.

Update: apparently we’ll be discussing this at our next meeting, which should hopefully resolve this and help us move forward. Huzzah!

Last week I had set up ubuntu-us.org as a portal for US LoCo teams, since the page was previously a placeholder.

On Saturday the US Team Project met to talk about various things, including how to promote US teams. One of the things that came up was getting on the front page of Digg.

When I got into work this morning, I saw that jono was finishing up talking to US mentors about this article. Shortly after, it was submitted to Digg.

472 Diggs and quite a few new teams later, I’d say today was a great success for LoCo Teams in the US. I’d like to thank everyone who helped out in #ubuntu-us today, and good luck to all those new LoCo Team members!

As well, the New Jersey Team had a very productive meeting today to talk about what we’ll be doing for Software Freedom Day. Hopefully we’ll have more concrete details soon, but so far great progress guys!

To follow-up the LoCo Team’s Install Fest, CHLUG‘s July meeting was a new user night.

Dave (not pictured, because he was taking the pictures, and didn’t hand over the camera ) gave a talk about the Debian package management system.

Joe Smith gave a talk on Fedora package management.

I gave a talk on how to find support for Ubuntu

Jerry explained restricted software

And Bryan talked about everything ever (gnome-applets, the file system, and media).

More can be found here. Overall we had three new visitors from the install fest, and it looks like CHLUG is going to have one new member They’re looking forward to having more events in the future, and so do I.

First of all, hello Planet Ubuntu , and goodbye Planet Ubuntu Users. For those who aren’t aware, Planet Ubuntu Users is a great project which provides a blogging community for Ubuntu users. If you’re only familiar with Planet Ubuntu, check out Planet Ubuntu Users, as there’s some great posts you’re missing out on. Even though I’m a member now, PUU still gets a spot in my aggregator.

The Install Fest on Saturday went great! We did a new install for a new user, fixed weird font rendering problems (the culprit was a bug in FreeType), fixed wireless issues with an upgrade to Xubuntu Feisty, and, equally important, talked to several people who came by just to ask questions and get CDs. We’re having a follow-up new user night at CHLUG this Friday, and it looks like we’ll be getting great attendance.

I’d also like to thank everyone that helped out, and everyone that stopped by to show support. It went great, and I look forward to more events in the future.

Some highlights:

The rest are available here. On Friday CHLUG will be having a follow-up meeting on how to use Ubuntu. Should be fun!