Tuesday evening I attended Geekdinner Cape Town again, the food was good and it was a nice crowd. Antifeatures I did a mini-talk on Anti-features. It’s something that I’ve been aware of for a long time but never quite put...
Ben Crisford is hosting an Edubuntu bug day on Tuesday, 6 April on #edubuntu and #ubuntu-bugs on freenode. The plan is to triage and squash some of the 330 or so bugs assigned to packages that we include in Edubuntu...
For the past few months I’ve been working on the LTSP-Cluster team at Revolution Linux. Today we’re releasing the website so that we can tell the world what we’ve been doing! LTSP-Cluster is a set of tools and plugins for...
As Scott posted before, the Edubuntu Bug day went quite well last week. This coming Thursday (21 January) we’re doing a Wiki Hug Day to to focus our efforts on fixing things in the Edubuntu wiki namespace, it includes: Fixing...
Edubuntu 2.0 I should really blog about Edubuntu more. The Edubuntu project initially kicked off nicely, but with time as things changed things ended getting somewhat stale. Earlier this year we decided to rebootstrap the project. Edubuntu Project 2.0 is...
Last night I attended the Quarrelsome Quince Geekdinner (wow it’s the end of November already!?). It was ok. The talks were good, Adrianna Pinska (aka confluence) did very well on the kareoke slideshow which was titled something like “The Winners...
For the Karmic release, Ubuntu-ZA had 4 release parties that took place in Stellenbosch, Cape Town, Pretoria and Brandford, that’s 4 release parties in the country for one release- a new record for our LoCo Team! I attended the Cape...
Just a few minutes ago, I finally became a MOTU! MOTU is short for Masters of The Universe (which is also the name for the old He-man comics and TV series, if you can remember that) and it’s the team...
The Return of Edubuntu Edubuntu 9.10 has landed! For the past few releases, it has been an add-on CD to Ubuntu. Our users have have made overwhelming requests for a full-blown installation CD again and we have listened. Edubuntu 9.10...
Story time! (Warning: Ramblings and emo ahead) The only white guy in the room About two years ago, I thought that it would be a good idea to join the classes at the gym for group sessions rather than just...
Yesterday was the 6th International Annual Software Freedom Day. I attended the Cape Linux Users Group event at UCT. It was different to all the previous ones we’ve had in that it was a much more geeky event rather than...
Yes, it’s true! There is indeed an alpha 6 image for Edubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala)! This is the first ever working installation DVD image for Edubuntu. In the beginning, Edubuntu was released on a single CD that shared 95%+ of...
… or at least, not any more crazy than any other gender. Emacs Virgins I’ve been trying to avoid getting involved in these discussions, but the RMS Female Emacs Virgin “joke” has brought some issues to my attention that I...
Renewed Enthusiasm Recently I’ve been wondering if I really want to be involved with Edubuntu or not, I blogged about it, and have been talking to Jordan Mantha about a lot of the issues we have had. I also booked...
GLUG hosted a talk tonight by Michael E. Bohn from Sun Microsystems on OpenOffice.org migration. Blurry Phone Pic Michael is a German working in South Africa assisting local government with ODF migration, he’s been involved with OpenOffice.org since the early...
Recently, when I run into people I haven’t seen in a while, the number one question I’m asked is “What is dented!?” I then wonder for just a split second what they mean and then I realise they’ve seen it...
