[ubuntu-us-ma] greeting

James Gray jamespgray at gmail.com
Tue Feb 23 16:44:12 GMT 2010


We'll be having our regular monthly meeting where we discuss various
projects and things we are working on.  I can't find the agenda but I
imagine it will include Ubuntu Anime Boston
http://www.ubuntu-massachusetts.com/events/9/ and perhaps talking
about holding a testing day for the upcoming lucid lynx release.

On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 11:36 AM, Caroline Meeks
<caroline at solutiongrove.com> wrote:
> Thanks!
> What will be going on on Thursday March 4th at Harvard Democracy Center?
>
> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 11:32 AM, James Gray <jamespgray at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Caroline - hope this information is helpful:
>>
>> Regarding packaging, this might be of interest:
>>
>> http://ubuntupackaging.wordpress.com/2010/02/22/re-booting-the-packaging-training-sessions/
>>
>> You might stop by during one of our meetings or other events on our
>> calendar or stop by our irc channel.
>>
>> http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=8fjaig5v8cbm8ohol0tmkf0pvg%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America/New_York
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 11:18 AM, Caroline Meeks
>> <caroline at solutiongrove.com> wrote:
>> > Hi Martin,
>> > Thanks for the info on the Learning Team! Are there classes where people
>> > learn to package?
>> > I have class at Harvard till 7pm on Tuesdays all semester. Is there
>> > another
>> > time I can meet people?
>> > Thanks!
>> > Caroline
>> >
>> > On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 8:46 AM, Martin Owens <doctormo at gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hello Caroline,
>> >>
>> >> There are various people on here and I hope they will introduce
>> >> themselves. Most of the work we do is advocacy and education so only a
>> >> few of us are programmers, sysadmins etc.
>> >>
>> >> We had a wonderful talk from Walter Bender a few years back and I fully
>> >> support the work Sugar labs is doing.
>> >>
>> >> I'm a board member for the world wide Ubuntu Learning project, we are
>> >> attempting to create a community of writers who can produce learning
>> >> materials which can teach various skills in relation to Ubuntu. I'd
>> >> appreciate your thoughts on that project.
>> >> http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Learning
>> >>
>> >> We're also doing a session on Tuesday evening and it might be a good
>> >> opportunity to meet up in person and have a talk afterwards about what
>> >> our groups are up to. This would be near Coply Sq. Boston.
>> >>
>> >> Martin,
>> >>
>> >> On Mon, 2010-02-22 at 21:43 -0500, Caroline Meeks wrote:
>> >> > Hello Massachusetts Ubuntuees!
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > I am Caroline Meeks, I am working on the Sugar project, specifically
>> >> > making Sugar on a Stick useful in Massachusetts Schools.
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > Sugar is the kids operating system designed for the One Laptop per
>> >> > Child project.  www.sugarlabs.org - The video is a great
>> >> > introduction.
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > From a teachers point of view its free, has tons of pedagogically
>> >> > sound, interesting and free activities, supports collaboration and
>> >> > portfolios.  activities.sugarlabs.org has tons of free activities.
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > From a kids point of view its colorful, fun, they can play games with
>> >> > classmates and create cool things. Kids love it.
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > From a Linux Geek point of view its a UI that can be on top of any
>> >> > flavor of Linux. It was built on Fedora but there is an active
>> >> > project
>> >> > to port it to Ubuntu.  We could use help! The url for the project
>> >> > is: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuSugarRemix
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > One of our biggest needs right now is help packaging.  Please contact
>> >> > me if you are a packager or even if you want to learn to be a
>> >> > packager. ;)
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > We are also running pilots here in Boston, but right now we are on
>> >> > hold until we complete the move to Ubunutu for better hardware
>> >> > coverage and also work on reliability issues. Hopefully this summer
>> >> > and next fall we will need people to work with kids and families in
>> >> > the Boston area.
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > Thanks!
>> >> > Caroline
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 10:03 PM, Martin Owens <doctormo at gmail.com>
>> >> > wrote:
>> >> >         Hello there,
>> >> >
>> >> >         Do ask any questions you have about Ubuntu.
>> >> >
>> >> >         Martin,
>> >> >
>> >> >         On Tue, 2010-02-16 at 21:13 -0500, gaitdoctor at aol.com wrote:
>> >> >         >
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>> >> > Solution Grove
>> >> > Caroline at SolutionGrove.com
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