[ubuntu-us-ma] Ubuntu'ers - What do you like to do?

[Ralph deGennaro]

Awesome, thanks James!  Anyone else?  Some offline conversations also have
some ideas floating around.  Something can coalesce soon I think....

-Rio


On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 8:23 PM, James Gray <jamespgray at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi All, I am just now writing my own lists.  I haven't had a chance to
> go through and respond to emails in a while.  I hate writing long
> emails on my phone and work has been a bit crazy for a number of
> weeks, construction is going on at my house and I've been away on
> vacation.
>
> I've been using Ubuntu since early on, since Breezy I think.  My
> machines are mostly running 10.04 now.  I haven't really seen much
> that temps me to upgrade.  I plan to hold off until 12.04 LTS,
> although 11.10 might convince me otherwise.
>
> Things I do with Ubuntu:
>
>    1. read/write email
>    2. Listen to music
>    3. Rip my CDs
>    5. Organizing photos
>    6. Store documents and records of various things
>    7. Play games like Wesnoth
>    8. Occasional hobby programming usually in Python
>    9. Surf the web - read news and stuff
>    10. Watch videos, usually we use my wife's laptop these days.
>    11. Work from home using Windows XP via virtual box.
>
> Things I'd like to do with Ubuntu
>
>    1. Run or participate in more educational sessions
>    2. Finish setting up my home network, maybe include my own dhcp
> and/or dns servers for example.
>        (this is more a issue of time then anything else.)
>    3. Maybe do some android programming.  (My wife and I both have
> androids we got recently.)
>        I don't even know if android programming tools support Ubuntu,
> but I suspect they do.
>    4. Do more with Lubuntu, an LXDE desktop for Ubuntu.
>    5. I'd like to attend the FOSS group in Natick sometime, but it is
> in the middle of my work day. :-(
>
> On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 11:56 PM, Martin Owens <doctormo at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2011-07-12 at 17:48 -0400, Penelope Stowe wrote:
> >> If I were to put together a small Ubuntu Hour in the Western MA/North
> >> Central CT area for sometime in the next three weeks, would you be
> >> interested? I've been considering doing so (I'm about 15 min. south of
> >> Springfield), but just haven't had the time and wasn't sure if there
> >> were other people around here.
> >
> > Hey Penny,
> >
> > You might be interested in the PiCon happening sometimes soon; I've been
> > talking to them about letting us come and give a few talks or just hang
> > out and put some guerrilla style posters up :-D
> >
> > No phone numbers will be shared this time, promise! *still embarrassed
> > over that*
> >
> > Martin,
> >
> >
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