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Takes place from Mon 17 October – Fri 21 October on IRC in #ubuntu-classroom and #ubuntu-classroom-chat.

 

Road test our community

In just seven years, Ubuntu has become one of the most popular Linux distributions in the world with millions of users and a thriving community. Ever wondered what all the fuss is about? How have we achieved such a great feat in such a short space of time? Here’s where you can find out. Ubuntu Open Week is a week of IRC tuition and Q+A sessions all about getting involved in the rock-and-roll world that is the Ubuntu community. We organise this week for the beginning of a new release cycle to help new contributors get involved.

Ubuntu Open Week is a series of online workshops where you can:

• learn about the Ubuntu landscape
• talk to some of the key developers from the Ubuntu project
• find out about the Community and its relationship with Canonical
• participate in an open Q&A with Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of Ubuntu. (Mark is on vacation this week, but we’ll schedule a separate IRC session with him, stay tuned!)

Find out more about the Ubuntu Desktop, Server, Kubuntu, Edubuntu Xubuntu, Ubuntu Studio, Mythbuntu, UNR, anddownload them.

 

If you are interested in Ubuntu or linux or even open source products you are in the right place
Our Team along with other local groups host local events and training and support. Take a look at our calender
to find the next events or contact us on IRC on freenode #ubuntu-us-az or just click the link on the upper right
support link and pick a user name and join our chat channel. We hold a weekly meeting there and have more events
starting up all the time, so check back often. Our installfest is the last saterday of the month and we can help you install
Linux operating systems and programs. Or there is a server installfest on the Third Saturday if you are instersted in Servers. We will be hosting a 11.10 release Party on Oct 29 at the installfest. see the calender for locations and times

Todd

Ubuntu 11.10
Oneiric Ocelot Release Party Thurs October 13th 6:00pm until ??

at National Mechanics - 22 South 3rd St.
Philadelphia PA 19106
215-701-4883

RSVP HERE

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=22+South+3rd+St.+Philadelphia+PA+19106&sll=43.897892,-107.138672&sspn=28.341921,59.0625&ie=UTF8&z=16&ll=39.950099,-75.145841&spn=0.007369,0.021458&om=1&iwloc=addr

http://nationalmechanics.com/

Hang out. Have fun.

User Days is a chat-based series of classes in #ubuntu-classroom on irc.freenode.net (#ubuntu-classroom-chat for questions). Classes will cover everything from Unity to thecommand line to switching from another OS, check out the full schedule here:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UserDays

Full Blog post

http://people.ubuntu.com/~nhandler/classroom.html

these are done via IRC and a program called Lernid. Please contact me or a Team member on IRC.Freenode.com channel #Ubuntu-US-AZ to get these
free online training classes

here you will find a lot of good information on Linux and open source information
Please contact us for more information and join us for our Installfest Saturday
Aug 27 at UAT presented by azloco/plug see our calender for more info
Todd

We have just been Approved by Ubuntu as a official Team for another Two years. YEA!!!!!
I also want to note that we have 11.04 cd's and azloco email addresses
if you would like them please see me or a team member in the IRC
there is a link in the upper right corner or contact me. we are now planning a software freedom day event so stay tuned
toddc

toddc@azloco.com

We be renewing our Team with Ubuntu today at 1 PM az time please join us if you can at #ubuntu-meeting on freenode.com please contact if you need help. and we will also be meeting in http://azlocobbb.banditti.com/
during the meeting. We also have azloco email addresses so if you would like one just contact myself or a team member on #ubuntu-us-az or the link on the right upper tab.
Thanks
Todd
toddc@azloco

Assuming everything goes as usual...

Festival details at http://tpff.org/.
Software Freedom Day details at http://softwarefreedomday.org/.

Source: http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/global/1011/detail/

The Ubuntu Global Jam is an incredible opportunity for the Ubuntu community to unite together around the weekend of 2nd - 4th September 2011 to work together to improve Ubuntu. Everyone is able to contribute to the Jam, and everyone is welcome and encouraged to get involved. Curious about how to make a real difference to Ubuntu? This is a great chance to make that difference.

The Florida Team held our second Natty Release Party at the Pizza Gallery in The Avenue at Viera shopping area on May 1, 2011. We have been here at the Pizza Gallery for a previous release party, and we have always enjoyed this venue. Lupine made the arrangements, and everything was ready to roll when [...]

  On Saturday, April 30, our team held an excellent release party at Panera Bread located off of Vineland Ave. in Orlando. We had 14 total attendees, and enjoyed good food and fellowship while we discussed the new features found in Natty. Munz (Chris) and Bluebomber brought a long a couple of friends and everyone [...]

Hey Everyone!  We’re having our Natty Narwhal Release Party on Sunday, May 1st, at 6:30 PM.  It will be at Hanson’s Pub – in Washington Park.  You can find more information on the venue here:

http://www.hansonsgrill-tavern.com/

If you wouldn’t mind, please RSVP on our meetup page:

http://www.meetup.com/The-Denver-Boulder-Linux-Meetup-Group/events/17146193/

Thanks!  Looking forwarding to seeing you all there!

We are glad to announce the UofA / AZ LoCo / PLUG Installfest at the U of A Computer Science Dept.
in the atrium of a building and floor to be announced shortly. We will be doing full installs and answering Open Source software questions from 10 am to 4 pm. Please RSVP if you are able to attend or need help with anything. This is an excellent opportunity to get involved with us and to have fun meeting other open sourcer's.
Keep checking back for more details as they become available.

I have attached a final draft of the Installfest flyer that everyone can and print and distribute.

RSVP to toddc@azloco.com

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Where:

1201 South Hayes Street, Arlington, VA 22202 Borders @ Pentagon City Mall in Arlington, VA

An opportunity to be seen by more of the unwashed masses and other riff-raff who wander through the mall. ;-) Also, an opportunity for those Virginians who dare not brave the wilds of DC.

10.10.10  was a great success for Ubuntu and for the Florida Team. We have had several release parties, stretching from Melbourne/Viera, down to Miami, and over into Tallahassee where they celebrated their Double Impact  Event (combining the birthday celebration for Ian, with the release of Ubuntu Maverick). Many people were doing in place upgrades, and [...]

On Saturday, October 16 from 1 to 4 pm we will be having a "release party" for Ubuntu Sugar Remix (USR). This is a joint event between the DC OLPC Learning Club (http://olpclearningclub.org) and our own LoCo Team. I'd like to make an appeal to any and all Ubuntu activists who would like to see Ubuntu be more widely used to join us in the development of USR. Adding Sugar to Ubuntu creates a computer for the whole family (see http://proyectojuanchacon.blogspot.com/2010/10/introducing-ubuntu-family...).

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The Maverick Meerkat (no relation to the Maverick McCain) is rapidly approaching. In a parallel universe, some of our LoCo folks — among them, Luke Faraone and Jeff Elkner — are lobbying, cajoling, and fixing last minute issues with the Ubuntu Sugar Remix (USR) in an effort to get it included in the official set of supported goodies.

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Ubuntu at  CPOSC 2010

Maddog_2009 and I headed down to a couple of Software Freedom Day 2010 Events, with one thing in mind… Celebrating Software Freedom Day, and  attending Ubuntu Hour – Miami-Dade in honour!!  The first event we attended was locatee on the FAU Boca Raton Campus. The Palm Beach County Linux User Group had a very nice [...]

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Just wanted to take a moment to share with all of you that this upcoming Saturday, the 18th of September, is Software Freedom Day 2010. I would like to encourage all of you to go out, celebrate, and spread the word about why all of us love and use Free Software. There are hundreds of [...]

Software Freedom Day is coming up again soon. PLUG and the AZ LoCo will be working together to do something to celebrate this. If you are interested at all in helping with this please let Scott Gwin know by emailing j.scott.gwin@ubuntu.com and/or emailing Dennis Kibbe at denninsk@linuxquestions.net. More info can be found at:
http://softwarefreedomday.org/ . Info may be coming in the near future at the PLUG website: http://plug.phoenix.az.us/.

Software Freedom Day (SFD) is a worldwide celebration of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). Our goal in this celebration is to educate the worldwide public about of the benefits of using high quality FOSS in education, in government, at home, and in business -- in short, everywhere! The non-profit organization Software Freedom International coordinates SFD at a global level, providing support, giveaways and a point of collaboration, but volunteer teams around the world organize the local SFD events to impact their own communities.

Objectives

1. to celebrate software freedom and the people behind it
2. to foster a general understanding of software freedom, and encourage adoption of free software and open standards
3. to create more equal access to opportunities through the use of participatory technologies
4. to promote constructive dialogue on responsibilities and rights in the information society
5. to be inclusive of organizations and individuals that share our Vision
6. to be pragmatic, transparent, and responsible as an organization

Dear all, this is with a lot of struggles that we have finally managed to open the SFD 2010 registration! As you can see there is still a lot of ongoing work on the site, and this includes a New Wiki where you can create your team page, a new home page for all the information about Software Freedom International and other generic and important stuff and much more to come. I want to particularly thank Thilo, JM, Matt and Robert for helping out as well as our web infrastructure sponsors, that is Canonical and Linode for providing our little corner on the web. Due to the delay there will only be 10 days to get free CDs this year, so don't slack! And happy SFD preparations! Oh and by the way, the direct link to registering your team is here http://cgi.softwarefreedomday.org/register.html after reading the StartGuide and creating your team page of course.

It’s time for another Geeknic, this one will be happening in Oaks, PA, just off of route 422 for easy access from the suburbs and the city.

We’ll be gathering at Lower Perkiomen Park for food, games, and fun from 2pm to 6pm on Saturday Sept 11th, 2010.  The location includes various sports fields, playgrounds, and walking trails, and there are a few geocaches near our location as well.  The event is free and food will be provided in a potluck fashion: we ask that attendees bring something along with them.   You can indicate what you will bring on the wiki when signing up.

Our last picnic geeknic was in the summer of 2009, and you can see pictures here.

Head over to http://wiki.geeknic.org/index.php/Lower_Perkiomen_Geeknic to sign up.  Contact jonathand@geeknic.org with any questions.

I found this howto for installing Nagios on Linode and thought I'd share it after using it to successfully install and configure Nagios.

Author: Amanda Folson
Published: May 26, 2010

Nagios is a flexible monitoring system framework that makes it possible to maintain consistent monitoring of a broad range of infrastructural components. Many users use Nagios to monitor a broad range of network services over protocols that include SMTP and POP3 (email), HTTP (web), ICMP (ping), and SSH. In addition to simple uptime monitoring, Nagios also contains features for advanced notification and graphing as well as an extensible plugin architecture that allows users to develop simple plugins for accessing unique monitoring information and providing customized reports.
Before beginning this document, we assume that you have followed our getting started guide and LAMP Guide to achieve a fully functional LAMP stack on your Linode. If you're new to Linux system administration, you may also want to consider the administration basics article in our using linux series.
These instructions work with the Linode platform. If you don't have a Linode yet, sign up for a Linux VPS and get started today.

Prepare for Nagios Installation

Ensure that your system's package repository and installed packages are up to date by issuing the following commands:
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
Install Dependencies
Before we can begin installing Nagios, we must first install several prerequisites. Issue the following command:
apt-get install build-essential php5-gd wget libgd2-xpm libgd2-xpm-dev
Create Users and Groups
Create a new system user account to run Nagios under. Issue the following commands:
adduser --system --no-create-home --disabled-login --group nagios
groupadd nagcmd
usermod -G nagcmd nagios
usermod -a -G nagcmd www-data
Now we're ready to continue with the installation of Nagios itself.
Install Nagios
Download Nagios Software
Begin by downloading the latest version of the Nagios Core. At the time of writing the latest version of Nagios is 3.2.1, but be sure that you are downloading the latest version by checking the Nagios download page. Issue the following command:
cd /opt/
wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/nagios/nagios-3.2.1.tar.gz
Next, download the official plugin package for Nagios. At the time of writing this is version 1.4.14, but check the Nagios plugin download page to ensure that this remains the latest version. Issue the following commands:
cd /opt/
wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/nagiosplug/nagios-plugins...
Build and Install Nagios Core
Issue the following command to extract, compile and install the Nagios Core software:
tar -xzvf /opt/nagios-3.2.1.tar.gz
cd /opt/nagios-3.2.1
./configure --with-command-group=nagcmd

make all
make install
make install-init
make install-config
make install-commandmode
Configure Nagios Core
Begin by editing the /usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/contacts.cfg file's email field, according to the example below:
File excerpt: /usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/contacts.cfg
define contact{
contact_name nagiosadmin ; Short name of user
use generic-contact ; Inherit default values from generic-contact template (defined above)
alias John Doe ; Full name of user

email nagiosuser@ducklington.org ; <<***** CHANGE THIS TO YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS ******
}
Issue the following commands to configure the web interface for Nagios:
cd /opt/nagios-3.2.1
make install-webconf
Now issue the following command to create a password for the nagiosadmin user. To learn more about HTTP Authentication consider our documentation. You will use this password to log into the Nagios administration panel when it is configured.
htpasswd -c /usr/local/nagios/etc/htpasswd.users nagiosadmin
Now reload the configuration of the web server by issuing the following command:
/etc/init.d/apache2 reload
Before we continue with the web configuration of Nagios we need to install the default plugins for Nagios.
Build and install Nagios Plugins
To install and configure the Nagios plugins, issue the following commands to extract, build, and install them:
cd /opt/
tar xzf /opt/nagios-plugins-1.4.14.tar.gz
cd /opt/nagios-plugins-1.4.14

./configure --with-nagios-user=nagios --with-nagios-group=nagios
make
make install
We're now ready to run Nagios for the first time and continue with the configuration process!
Running Nagios
Issue the following command to ensure that Nagios will be restarted following a system boot.
chmod +x /etc/init.d/nagios
/usr/sbin/update-rc.d -f nagios defaults
Run the following command to check your Nagios configuration file for errors:
/usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -v /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
Any errors will be shown in red. If everything is okay, you may issue the following command to start Nagios for the first time:
/etc/init.d/nagios start
Now you can access the web based administration and reporting tools by visiting http://ducklington.org/nagios/, where ducklington.org refers to your Linode's default virtual host. You may also access this interface by visiting http://12.34.56.78/nagios/ where 12.34.56.78 is the IP address of your Linode. You will need to authenticate with the nagiosadmin user you created earlier.
Configure Nagios Alerts
A great deal of the power of Nagios is its ability to send notifications and alerts of the status of the components of your network on a very granular level. While most of this fine grained configuration is beyond the scope of this document, we have outlined some basic notification systems below.
Installing Prerequsites to send Mail Alerts
Before Nagios can send Alerts by way of email, basic mail services need to be installed. Issue the following command:
apt-get install mailutils postfix
When the installation process prompts you to define the type of mail setup you're running, select "Internet Site." You will also want to specify the machine specific hostname for this server during the installation process. Next, we'll need to update the path to the mail binary in the Nagios command file. Change both references from /bin/mail to /usr/bin/mail. The relevant section of this file should look like this:
File: /usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/commands.cfg
define command{
command_name notify-host-by-email
command_line /usr/bin/printf "%b" "***** Nagios *****\n\nNotification Type: $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$\nHost: $HOSTNAME$\nState: $HOSTSTATE$\nAddress: $HOSTADDRESS$\nInfo: $HOSTOUTPUT$\n\nDate/Time: $LONGDATETIME$\n" | /usr/bin/mail -s "** $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ Host Alert: $HOSTNAME$ is $HOSTSTATE$ **" $CONTACTEMAIL$
}

# 'notify-service-by-email' command definition
define command{
command_name notify-service-by-email
command_line /usr/bin/printf "%b" "***** Nagios *****\n\nNotification Type: $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$\n\nService: $SERVICEDESC$\nHost: $HOSTALIAS$\nAddress: $HOSTADDRESS$\nState: $SERVICESTATE$\n\nDate/Time: $LONGDATETIME$\n\nAdditional Info:\n\n$SERVICEOUTPUT$" | /usr/bin/mail -s "** $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ Service Alert: $HOSTALIAS$/$SERVICEDESC$ is $SERVICESTATE$ **" $CONTACTEMAIL$
}
Issue the following command to restart Nagios and put the changes into effect:
/etc/init.d/nagios restart
You will now be able to successfully configure and send email alerts using Nagios.
Configuring Basic IRC Notifications
You can also configure Nagios to send notifications to an IRC channel. Issue the following commands to download, extract, and build the IRC bot:
cd /opt/
wget http://www.vanheusden.com/nagircbot/nagircbot-0.0.29b.tgz
tar -zxvf /opt/nagircbot-0.0.29b.tgz
cd /opt/nagircbot-0.0.29b
make
make install
You are now ready to run the bot, however you will need to specify some parameters such as the IRC network and channel. For a list of parameters, issue the following command:
nagircbot -h
Now to start the Nagios IRC bot issue the nagircbot command. See the following example as a starting point. Replace irc.ducklington.net with the domain of your IRC network, and #bucknell with the name of the IRC channel to which you would like to send notifications. Replace nagircbot with the desired nickname for your bot, and ident and realname with the ident and real name strings for the IRC bot.
nagircbot -f /usr/local/nagios/var/status.dat -s irc.duckligton.net:6667 -c \#bucknell -C -n nagircbot -u ident -U realname -I 900
In the above example, "-f /usr/local/nagios/var/status.dat" tells the bot where to get status updates. The "-C" flag will allow the bot to send colored messages to the channel depending on the status of the service. When services are down, red status messages are displayed, and these messages turn green when the service has recovered. Warnings are displayed in yellow, but do not typically represent a critical status. The "-I 900" parameter tells the bot to send a status message to the channel every 900 seconds (or 15 minutes). For example, the bot may send something like "Critical: 0, warning: 1, ok: 6, up: 2, down: 0, unreachable: 0, pending: 0", which indicates that there are no critical messages and 1 warning.
These two examples only scratch the surface of the kinds of monitoring and notifications that are possible with Nagios. Explore the resources listed below and the administrative interface for more information regarding the setup and configuration of Nagios. Congratulations on your new Nagios monitoring and notification system!

This guide is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. Please feel free to redistribute unmodified copies of it as long as attribution is provided, preferably via a link to this page.

Still waiting for confirmation (as of 2010.07.29), but if the check is eventually cashed by festival officials, we'll be tabling once again at the Takoma Park Folk Festival.

Festival details at http://tpff.org/.
Software Freedom Day details at http://softwarefreedomday.org/.

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Attached is a pair of PDF's created from a presentation by Kevin Cole, Mackenzie Morgan, and Nick Wheeler on February 23, 2008. The OpenOffice.org presentation is also available, but the configuration here maxes out at 1 MB per upload, and the presentation weighs in at 4.1 MB. C'est la vie.

The votes are in and the overwhelming response is that we should move the Sunday Night Meeting to 7:00pm MST. According to the emails I've received we should be seeing a rise in the number of participants in our weekly meetings; I hope so. So, starting this week, July 25th, the new meeting time will be 7:00. Put it on your calendars and please come. It should be fun.

Hey everyone,

I was late in ordering our 10.04 CDs but they arrived today. If you want/need Ubuntu/Kubuntu/ and/or Server CDs please respond to this email with your Name and shipping address. It would also be nice if you could help with the cost of shipping as it will cost me to send them to you. In the PHX valley they will be available free at upcoming Installfest and PLUG east side meeting and east side Stammtische.

Scott Gwin
j.scott.gwin@ubuntu.com

This past Saturday, July 10 we had a get-together at Nate Hutchings house. It was loosely organized at the last minute and it was a tasty good time. In attendance were flakeparadigm and a bud jasee, Hatthew Helmke, lenards, my friend mathewmpp and myself. Though it would have been very nice to see more of the team in attendance we weren't lacking anyhting. We had planty of good conversation and Nate cooked up tasty hot dogs, hamburgers, bratts and topped it off with a wonderfully smoky blueberry crumble desert. Thank you Nate for the tasty eats and your use of wood chips to add to the overall great flavor. Let's hope we can do this again later in the summer or in the fall and get a much larger group together as it was a great experience.

Hey all,

I am finally scheduled to go in front of the ubuntu Membership Board on Tuesday 6th at 13:00 AZ time in #ubuntu-meeting. It would be great if you would show your support by attending this meeting and showing me your support. You can help my chances of being granted membership on the first try by editing my wiki and adding an endorsement for membership. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/j.scott.gwin This will also show you a little about the process of getting yourself ready to apply for Ubuntu membership yourself.

Alright!! Thank you all for your support. The AZ LoCo was the most represented group in that meeting. Way to go guys. Now we just need to start grooming more of you for Ubuntu membership.

Team founder and contact Bret Fledderjohn was interviewed for the US Teams “LoCos, Leaders, and Lessons Learned” series over at Ubuntu-US.org, check out the interview here:

LoCos, Leaders, and Lessons Learned: Pennsylvania Team: http://ubuntu-us.org/?q=node/14370

WHAT:	Ubuntu DC LoCo Installfest
WHERE:	Sunlight Foundation 1818 N Street NW, Suite 300 Washington, DC 20036
WHEN:	5:30pm to 8:30pm, Friday, May 21 2010
WHY:	We're celebrating the release of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS by helping out anybody who wants to with the upgrade experience. Bring your friends!

I just created a linked in page for the Arizona Ubuntu LoCo team: (http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=3014215&trk=myg_ugrp_ovr) in an attempt to make us more visible on the internet and, perhaps, make us easier to find for people needing/wanting our help. If you can think of other places where we can make our presence known, please let us know so we can make use of that info or create an entry for the team and give us the info so we can keep track of it.

Bi-Annual Release Party for an Ubuntu Release

Karmic Koala, 9.10 @ Holiday Inn, Waterloo, NY

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Holiday Inn Waterloo, 2468 Rt 414 (Mound Road), Waterloo, New York 13165

• Public Awareness Event: 1pm until 3pm
  • Donald (Ducky) Newel, Freedom of Foss
  • Elizabeth (pleia2) Krumbach, Who Uses and Contributes to Open Source Projects (And how you can too!)
• Pizza Party: 3pm until 5pm
  • Reception, pizza and soda served.

room: deleware Room

amenities: free wireless

Recap

We had a great release party and thanks go out to all the attendees and both presenters as well as the Holiday Inn of Waterloo for hosting the event. We had a booth stationed outside of the conference room showcasing Ubuntu variants on multiple computers. Thanks goes out to System76 for their demo laptop as well. We had a mirror repository setup in the main room for anyone interested in upgrading on site.

Our first presenter Donald (Ducky) Newel discussed the 'Freedom of FOSS', which focused on what Free and Open Source software is and why it's important. He explained the benefits of the open source model by highlighting how it affects the average computer user and demonstrated many examples that users can benefit from. There was a lively question and answer session towards the end of the talk and it ran over the allotted time.

Next up on the program was Elizabeth (pleia2) Krumbach, who gave an inspiring talk on Who Uses and Contributes to Open Source Projects and how you can too. She focused on how anyone of any skill level can contribute to Open Source by simply getting involved. The key points were that you don't have to be a programmer or guru to contribute in meaningful ways that can help grow the community. We had another lively question and answer session followed by pizza and drinks.

Dan writes:

Come join fellow Ubuntu enthusiasts and developers of Free/Libre/Open Source Software at the 10.04 Long Term Support release party! We'll be at Taste of India immediately off the Metrorail red line (Woodley Park/Adams Morgan/Zoo) from noon until whenever this Saturday, May 1, 2010. Feel free to bring guests, your laptops, netbooks, empty USB thumb drives, etc., for a rollickin' good time!

Best,
-Dan

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The release party is now confirmed for Sunday May 2, 2010 to be held at Bar Louie in Westminster, CO @ 5:30pm. Please RSVP this will help me make sure we have all the support we need.

We have the back room all to ourselves with a dedicated bar tender, pool table, and lounge area. I am also finalizing the possibility for an open pool table with them. Bar Louie should prove to be a great venue. They have 40 different beers on tap and a large selection of food and appetizers.

Not only will this event be to celebrate another great release of Ubuntu, but it will also be where I hand over the control of the group to David. After 2 yrs of serving the group with release parties and cd hand outs. Its time to let someone else take the rains.

The DC LoCo team was just unanimously reapproved by the Ubuntu LoCo Council! Yay!

Have you heard of Boom Startup? Check it out at http://www.boomstartup.com and come meet with us 5:00 pm Friday April 16, 2010 at Thanksgiving Point in the Amber Room. We are welcoming all business and tech people who have an idea, are looking for one, or are looking to take advantage of this great networking opportunity.

Details:

Rochester Riverside Convention Center

November 21-24, 2009

Presentation Details:

Educational Technology and Equity in Today's Schools Presenter: Charles Profitt, NY State Ubuntu Community The use of Free Software will enable educational leaders to transform their communities learning environment by lowering the cost of students having access to the same software used at school on their home computer.

NYSCATE Information

NYSCATE is an organization of dedicated technology using educators, committed to transforming teaching and learning, in order to provide our children with an education that prepares them to live satisfying and productive lives.

What is NYSCATE? NYSCATE (The New York State Association for Computers and Technologies in Education), is a non-profit, professional organization representing more than 2,000 technology using educators and administrators in New York State. NYSCATE is an affiliate of the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), and cooperates with such partners as the New York State Education Department, state and national educational organizations, private sector corporations, and publishers to further the use of technology in our schools. NYSCATE is involved in helping define statewide policy regarding the use of technologies in education. Please read the President's Welcome message to learn more.

Who is NYSCATE? NYSCATE has drawn strength and support from its talented and diverse membership since 1965. With a current membership of over 2,000 members, all regions of the state are represented in our community of teachers, administrators, school board members, parents, consultants, and business people.

Annual Conference Information

Once again it is with great excitement that we welcome you back to Rochester, NY for the 44th Annual NYSCATE Conference. Each year, the committee works incredibly hard to ensure that each experience you have is new and inspiring. This year, we are thrilled to have an incredible line-up of internationally known keynote speakers including Sir Ken Robinson, Chris Lehmann, Elliot Soloway, Cathie Norris, David Jakes and Peter Reynolds. The goal of this years event is to stress collegial collaborations during a very difficult budget year. You will notice that we have reduced registration fees and completely eliminated the organizational membership fee. We are working hard to make sure you can still get a national conference experience, while attending an in-state event.

70-1400 RIT Campus

DOX Electronics will give a presentation on computer security

Details:

70-1400 RIT Campus

room: 70-1400

Dr. Peter Anderson, Professor Emeritus RIT, will give a presentation on J.

J is Ken Iverson's APL in disguise. Unlike APL, programs are written in ASCII; like APL it is a superb "array processing language" -- Iverson called it an executable mathematical notation.

J is a functional language: functions are first class object, easy to define and manipulate. It is interactive, like Python, Perl, etc.

J reminds me a lot of the Unix shells with lots of well thought out elementary components and the glue to stick them together (i.e., pipes, redirection, etc.). J supplies the primitives for dealing with arrays (lists, table, report) and the glue, several types of function composition, to make a superbly useful system.

See http://jsoftware.com/(approve sites) for a copy of the software as well as lots of free books and articles.

Barnes and Noble @ RIT

Bill Bukowski will give a presentation on Virtual Box? 3.x

Topic

Landon, a NY State Ubuntu Community team member from Syracuse, will give a presentation on backup options for Ubuntu

Details:

Golisano Building RIT

room: Upstairs Community Room

Details:

Building 70, RIT Campus Rochester, NY 14623

Large Lecture Hall / Auditorium

Topic

Joint meeting with Lugor and OWASP Rochester. Ralph Durkee, of Lugor and OWASP Rochester will deliver a presentation about Apache Web Server and Web App Firewall w/ Mod_security.

Carl Schmidtmann will give a presentation on Ubuntu and Linux Security

Details:

Barnes and Noble

room: Upstairs meeting room

Welcome to the Ubuntu-Arizona Weekly Newsletter, Issue #121 for the week March 8, march 14, 2010.

* Arizona Loco Newsletter
* One Hundred Twenty First Edition
* Powered by Ubuntu
* Wednesday-March 17, 2010
* Arizona Loco Team Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArizonaTeam

* Next meeting: Sunday March 21, 2010 9:00 PM
* Server: Freenode: IRC Channel #ubuntu-us-az

In This Issue

* Announcements: he new Ubuntu Branding - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Brand . Ubuntu 10.04 beta 1 freeze now in effect - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LucidReleaseSchedule . Alan Pope: Why (I think) Ubuntu is Better Than Windows - http://popey.com/blog/2010/03/11/why-ubuntu-is-better-than-windows/ . The Linux Desktop Will Have Its Day: Q&A With Canonical Founder Mark Shuttleworth - http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/69444.html . Redesigning Ubuntu – behind the scenes on 10.04 - http://www.linuxuser.co.uk/news/redesigning-ubuntu-behind-the-scenes-on-... . Ubuntu, The Ultimate Linux Distribution - http://www.daniweb.com/news/story265826.html# . Ubuntu goin' gray, like the Mac OS way? - http://www.junauza.com/2010/02/ubuntu-goin-gray-like-mac-os-way.html . There will be an Installfest this coming Sat. the 20th at the Tempe Escalante Center. (http://tinyurl.com/yzdv42e) Like the installfests at UAT, this one will be from 10 - 4. So the schedule for installfests will be as follows for the next few months:
* Feb 27th - UAT
* Mar 20 - Escalante
* Mar 27 - UAT
* April 10 Escalante
* April 24 - UAT,
* April 24 - Licid Release Party - Boulders
* May 8 - Escalante
* May 22 - UAT
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1399585
http://www.azloco.com/node/128

* There will be a 10.04 Lucid Lynx release party at Boulders on Broadway in Tempe (http://www.bouldersonbroadway.net/) on the 24th of April. http://azloco.com/node/120

* PLUG and class announcements: Both Valley Stammtische this week: Tempe on Tue - http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/node/422 , Avondale/Goodyear on Wed - http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/node/590 . New Installfest@Escallante this Saturday - http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1399585 and http://www.azloco.com/node/128 . Next PLUG planning IRC meeting is one week from tonight. It's the hour before the LoCo meeting and in #PLUGaz - http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/node/2276 . PLUG west side meeting a week from Wednesday. Topic: Dave Walker will do a basic demo on the history of Asterisk, demo install of FreePBX and setup a couple of extensions. http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/node/345 . Installfest@UAT a week from Saturday - http://plug.phoenix.az.us/node/169

Read the whole thing at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArizonaTeam/Newsletters/10March17

Tomorrow is our ReApproval meeting with the Ubuntu Council where we will be presenting our Application for ReApproval. This is part of the council’s new review process to make note of what teams have become inactive and/or waining in activity.

So if you are a CoLoCo member please visit the Application and provide and additional information that you see fit, and join us on irc.freenode.net in channel #ubuntu-meeting @ 2pm MST.

Hope to see some of you all there.

Welcome to the Ubuntu-Arizona Weekly Newsletter, Issue #120 for the week March 1, march 7, 2010.

* Arizona Loco Newsletter
* One Hundred Twentieth Edition
* Powered by Ubuntu
* Wednesday-March 10, 2010
* Arizona Loco Team Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArizonaTeam

* Next meeting: Sunday March 14, 2010 9:00 PM
* Server: Freenode: IRC Channel #ubuntu-us-az

In This Issue

* Announcements: Lucid Alpha 3 Released - http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/lucid/alpha-3/ (Ubuntu), Can you hear the music? - Ubuntu One Store FAQ: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuOne/MusicStore , New Ubuntu Members: Americas Board Meeting - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2010-February/000872.... , Ubuntu Brainstorm - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/ , Dustin Kirkland: Attention Encrypted Home Users - http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2010/02/attention-encrypted-home-users.html , Laura Czajkowski: Ubuntu Women has a new IRC Channel - http://www.lczajkowski.com/2010/02/25/ubuntu-women-new-channel/ , A preview of Ubuntu 10.04 - http://thepcreport.net/2010/02/preview-of-ubuntu-10-04/ , An Update On The Boot & Power Performance In Ubuntu 10.04 - http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ubuntu_lucid_boot2&num=1 , Ubuntu goin' gray, like the Mac OS way? - http://www.junauza.com/2010/02/ubuntu-goin-gray-like-mac-os-way.html , Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 3 Released - What's new? - http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/02/ubuntu-1004-alpha-3-released-later.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+d0od+%28Omg!+Ubuntu!%29 , The schedule for installfests will be as follows for the next few months:
* Feb 27th - UAT
* Mar 20 - Escalante
* Mar 27 - UAT
* April 10 Escalante
* April 24 - UAT,
* April 24 - Licid Release Party - Boulders
* May 8 - Escalante
* May 22 - UAT
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1399585
http://www.azloco.com/node/128

* There will be a 10.04 Lucid Lynx release party at Boulders on Broadway in Tempe (http://www.bouldersonbroadway.net/) on the 24th of April - http://azloco.com/node/120

* PLUG and class announcements: PLUG security hackfest Tue - http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/node/2136 , PLUG East Side meeting Thur - http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/node/168 , Both Valley Stammtische next week: Tempe on Tue - http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/node/422 - Avondale/Goodyear on Wed - http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/node/590 , Next PLUG planning IRC meeting is two weeks from tonight. It's the hour before the LoCo meeting and in #PLUGaz - http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/node/2276 , Free Software Stammtisch in Prescott Tue - http://www.lugy.net/

Read the whole thing at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArizonaTeam/Newsletters/10March10

Bryan Behrenshausen reports that the Millersville University Open Options: Remix Computing with Open Source Software Event was a success!

Just writing to report our success at last night’s library event,
“Open Options: Remix Computing with Open Source Software.” Nearly 50
people attended the panel discussion and listened to our experts
discuss everything from open source software to the future of the
commons. And following the talk, many students and faculty spent time
watching Ubuntu software demonstrations, discussing ways to implement
these technologies into their personal and professional lives, and
snacking on cookies while browsing a selection of the library’s
collection (related to everything from the political economy of
software to handbooks on GNU programming). What’s more, I watched
many attendees leave the event carrying Ubuntu CDs, netbook remix
flash drives, the Open CD, and copies of OpenOffice — not to mention
stickers, buttons, and pamphlets.

The event would not have been nearly as successful as it was without
the support of many Ubuntu PA LoCo team members. Many thanks to
Elizabeth Krumbach and Bret Fledderjohn for helping to promote the
event and coordinate the team. And a sincere “thank you” to Jim
Fisher and Thomas Ward for not only preparing but also shipping Ubuntu
CDs, flash drives, stickers, and other goodies to us at Millersville
University. And finally, we must indeed thank Chris Knittel and his
buddy Dan Hodges, who drove all the way from Camp Hill to demo Ubuntu
on a desktop, notebook, netbook, and G1 mobile phone for all our
guests. After the panel discussion, these gents cooly fielded a
barrage of questions from students and faculty for nearly a half-hour.

It’s hard to believe: After nearly five months of planning and
coordinating, the event is behind us. We hope the success of the
evening not only demonstrates the feasibility of another (perhaps on
Software Freedom Day), but also prompts students and faculty to think
critically about the nature of the tools they use — and the open
options available to them as they remix the future and remake the
world.

Those with Facebook accounts can view photos here: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=152068&id=37366458921

Thanks again to Bryan for contacting the team and giving us the opportunity to participate in this event!

Welcome to the Ubuntu-Arizona Weekly Newsletter, Issue #119 for the week February 22, February 28, 2010.

* Arizona Loco Newsletter
* One Hundred Eighteenth Edition
* Powered by Ubuntu
* Wednesday-March 3, 2010
* Arizona Loco Team Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArizonaTeam

* Next meeting: Sunday March 7, 2010 9:00 PM
* Server: Freenode: IRC Channel #ubuntu-us-az

In This Issue

Announcements:

* The next event is the Tempe install fest on March 20 and we will need help. Our big concern is having flyers out in the city.

PLUG and class announcements:

* PLUG Devel meeting this Thur - http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/node/552 . PLUG Planning IRC meeting next Sunday, an hour before the AZLoCo mtg - http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/node/2275 . PLUG security hackfest a week from Tue - http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/node/2136 . PLUG East Side meeting a week from Thur - http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/node/168 . Free Software Stammtisch in Prescott a week from Tue - http://www.lugy.net/

Read the whole thing at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArizonaTeam/Newsletters/10March3

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Welcome to the Ubuntu-Arizona Weekly Newsletter, Issue #118 for the week February 15, February 21, 2010.

* Arizona Loco Newsletter
* One Hundred Eighteenth Edition
* Powered by Ubuntu
* Wednesday-February 24, 2010
* Arizona Loco Team Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArizonaTeam

* Next meeting: Sunday February 28, 2010 9:00 PM
* Server: Freenode: IRC Channel #ubuntu-us-az

In This Issue

toddc began with some announcements:

* I will be sitting in for scott_ev and posting his meeting notes since many of our members (including scott_ev) are cruising back from California down I-10 at 90mph err 75 mph and might drop their Internet connection or laptop battery's run out.

* New member, dbman63, introduced himself and was welcomed to the Team:
"Hi I'm Dana. I'm a Database Administrator @ Intel, and have tinkered a little bit with Linux since Red Hat 7.1, but still consider myself a Newbie."

* There will be no Human Theme In Ubuntu 10.04 - http://anotherubuntu.blogspot.com/2010/02/no-human-theme-in-ubuntu-1004.... . Mark Shuttleworth: Meta-cycles: 2-3 year major cycles for free software - http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/288 . Interview With Jono by Joe Barker - http://blog.joeb454.com/2010/02/an-interview-with-jono/ . Interview with Dustin Kirkland, Ubuntu Core Developer about encryption in Ubuntu - https://slo-tech.com/clanki/10008en/# . Upcoming Ubuntu Global Jam and your Loco Team - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Jams , https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuGlobalJam/Stories and http://chrisjohnston.org/2010/ubuntu-global-jam-march-2010 . Dell dropping its Ubuntu offerings? - http://www.infoworld.com/d/adventures-in-it/dell-dropping-its-ubuntu-off... . Univ. of Arizona student builds Ubuntu-Atom powered spider-bot - http://www.neoseeker.com/news/13107-u-of-arizona-student-builds-ubuntu-a... . Canonical’s Latest Ubuntu Developer Pitch - http://tinyurl.com/yh8s4l6 .

* Schedule for installfests:
* Feb 27th - UAT, Mar 20 - Escalante,
* Mar 27 - UAT, April 10 Escalante,
* April 24 - UAT,
* April 24 - Licid Release Party - Boulders,
* May 8 - Escalante, May 22 - UAT

We have posted some flyers already and will be posting more this week - http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1399585 and http://www.azloco.com/node/128

* There will be a 10.04 Lucid Lynx release party at Boulders on Broadway in Tempe (http://www.bouldersonbroadway.net/) on the 24th of April. - http://azloco.com/node/120

PLUG and class announcements:

* West Side meeting this Wednesday - http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/node/346 . PLUG and AZLoCo Installfest at UAT this Saturday - http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/node/160 . PLUG Devel meeting a week from Thursday - http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/node/552 . Next PLUG IRC meeting is in two weeks as next Sunday is still in Feb

Read the whole thing at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArizonaTeam/Newsletters/10February24

All this week I will be teaching classes on Django at 1pm Eastern (1800 UTC) in #ubuntu-classroom.  It is a series of 4 classes, taking you from getting Django setup to a working application, learning about Views, Models, Forms and Templates.  We started off getting a Django project setup and will continue tomorrow with creating our first models.  At the end of this course series, we will have a working application that can be used to track other sessions being held in #ubuntu-classroom.

Logs from today’s class can be read here: http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2010/02/23/%23ubuntu-classroom.html#t18:01

Welcome to the Ubuntu-Arizona Weekly Newsletter, Issue #117 for the week February 8, February 14, 2010.

* Arizona Loco Newsletter
* One Hundred Seventeenth Edition
* Powered by Ubuntu
* Wednesday-February 17, 2010
* Arizona Loco Team Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArizonaTeam

* Next meeting: Sunday February 21, 2010 9:00 PM
* Server: Freenode: IRC Channel #ubuntu-us-az

In This Issue

Announcements: What Individuals Can Do For Their LoCo Team - http://ubuntu-us.org/?q=node/14366 . Ubuntu Unleashed 2010 Edition Review - http://www.thelinuxblog.com/ubuntu-unleased-2010-edition-revie/ . Yahoo Pays Canonical, Now They're The Ubuntu Default - http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NzkyNg . There will be a 10.04 Lucid Lynx release party at Boulders on Broadway in Tempe (http://www.bouldersonbroadway.net/) on the 24th of April - http://azloco.com/node/120 . March 20 Tempe install fest - http://www.azloco.com/node/128 .

PLUG and class announcements: Both Valley Stammtische are this week - http://www.LuftHans.com/Free_Software_Stammtisch . PLUG planning IRC meeting next Sunday the hour before the LoCo mtg - http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/node/2274 . West Side meeting next Wednesday - http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/node/346 . PLUG and AZLoCo Installfest a week from Saturday - http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/node/160 .

Read the whole thing at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArizonaTeam/Newsletters/10February17

This post acts as a courtesy reminder regarding the Ubuntu Utah presentation this evening on Linux Virtualization. Our very own Trevor Sharpe (Heartsbane) will be presenting, and its sure to include new and useful information about Linux Virtualization solutions.

Details follow:

Where: University of Utah
MEB Building, #2555
Parking is free

When: 6:00pm - 8:00pm

See previous posts for map links.

Welcome to the Ubuntu-Arizona Weekly Newsletter, Issue #116 for the week February 1, February 7, 2010.

* Arizona Loco Newsletter
* One Hundred Sixteenth Edition
* Powered by Ubuntu
* Wednesday-February 10, 2010
* Arizona Loco Team Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArizonaTeam

* Next meeting: Sunday February 14, 2010 9:00 PM
* Server: Freenode: IRC Channel #ubuntu-us-az

In This Issue

scott_ev began the meeting by reminding everyone that he is only filling in temporarily until johnc4510 can get back.

A new member introduced himself and was welcomed to the Team:
* randlieb: Hi...just moved to the Verde Valley area from Fayetteville, AR. Was about to start up an Ubuntu installation class at the local Community Access tv statio there when I moved. I would like to try to start something like that here in the Cottonwood-Sedona area... I have been using Ubuntu on my home computer since 2005.
* Announcement of a new Linux enthusiast by xHans: "Sonya and I are proud to announce the arrival of our son Hans Augustus! We are amazed and blessed. And quite a bit scared :) . It has been a true joy to have him in our lives these last couple days."

scott_ev then gave some announcements: Mark Shuttleworth: Meta-cycles: 2-3 year major cycles for free software - http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/288 . Announcement of an additional install fest every month sponsored by the City of Tempe, and the schedule for the install fests - http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1399585 and http://www.azloco.com/node/128 . SCaLe Ride Sharing - http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1400877 . Ubuntu 10.4 Lucid Lynx Alpha 2 Released - http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/lucid/alpha-2/ (Ubuntu). Donation of a signed copy of the Ubuntu Unleashed 2010 Edition (Ubuntu Unleashed 2010 Edition Review - http://www.thelinuxblog.com/ubuntu-unleased-2010-edition-revie/ ). There will be a 10.04 Lucid Lynx release party at Boulders on Broadway in Tempe - http://azloco.com/node/120 . Announcement of the next install fest in Tucson planning. Suggestion that we need to set some guidelines about hardware requirements for different types of installs at an installfest. Announcement of an Ubucon at SCaLE8X on Friday, February 19th, 2010 - http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale8x/ .

PLUG and class announcements:

* PLUG security hackfest Tuesday - http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/node/2135 . PLUG east side Thursday - http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/node/164 . Both Valley Stammtische are next week - http://www.LuftHans.com/Free_Software_Stammtisch

Read the whole thing at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArizonaTeam/Newsletters/10February10