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This weekend, April 4^th and 5^th, is the annual Flourish Conference, a decent sized free software conference held at the University of Illinois at Chicago. This years guest speakers include Bruce Perens, John ‘Maddog’ Hall, James Bottomley, Brian Fitzpatrick, Ben Collins-Sussman, and me of course, plus many more. Some of the events being held include a mini-BarCamp, a Hack-A-Thon, and a Web Framework battle. If you are in or around Chicago, I hope to see you there! I will be giving a talk on the KDE community as well as KDE 4.

Lighter side of things, I updated my Vista box to SP1 this past week. I haven’t been attacked by the driver issues and what not, but I am getting killed every time I let the computer fall asleep. I can click my mouse button to wake the computer up, but upon wakeup, neither the keyboard or the mouse work. I was going to file a bug report, however I was unable to find their bug tracker

I see we are now a few weeks away from the 8.04 release. That is pretty groovy. Is it me or did this release cycle seem to go on forever? Dapper was 9 months yet seemed faster. Edgy was 3 months and was really fast. Feisty and Gutsy flew by, but Hardy, heck we still have a few weeks to go. What a busy cycle. I am excited with a lot of the new features with our beloved Kubuntu release. Thus far, Kubuntu Hardy with KDE 4 has been rock solid. The only issue I had during this entire cycle was the libc6 issue. Remember that one? That was fun

My blog was recently updated to Wordpress 2.5. I am not sure yet if I really like the whole new admin interface just yet. It seems a bit slower than the previous releases, but it does look a tad bit better in most ways. I didn’t have any problems either. Gotta love those one-click installs that Dreamhost provides. All I had to do was just update the database and rock on. None of the problems like with the previous 2.2.x releases that drove many of us up a wall.

Oh well, here’s to you and hoping that I see you at Flourish! Take care!

https://wiki.kubuntu.org/ChicagoTeam/PackagingJam

Sunday, December 16^th from 10am until 4pm, the Ubuntu Chicago LoCo team will be holding its first ever Packaging Jam in order to teach users how to correctly package for Ubuntu. Tomorrow will be an introduction to get new packagers familiar with the tools and operations of the MOTU and Ubuntu packaging in general. If you would like to make it out, check out the link above for more information as well as complete the instructions located on our mailing list in this post. Hope to see you there tomorrow!

Thank you to all of the community volunteers who stepped up this past week to make OpenWeek a success once again. Everyone did a great job and the people who joined and asked questions did so in top fashion. So cheers to everyone who got involved and to everyone who stopped by and here is hoping to see you at the next OpenWeek in about 6 months!

To view the logged sessions, just click on one of the session names at the bottom located at https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UbuntuOpenWeek and read on! Thanks to Alan Pope for getting all of the logs to the wiki and thanks to those who helped.

Tomorrow, Tuesday the 23rd at 21:00 UTC, I will be giving a talk on Kubuntu in #ubuntu-classroom on IRC (Freenode). While working on the talk for tomorrow, I kept trying to word it to fit in with every body’s skill set. Anyways, for those of you showing up tomorrow, what type of background information would you like to see? Just toss out some ideas that I can work with. Thanks!

OpenWeek Info

If so, then make your way to the Ubuntu Chicago and College of DuPage Gutsy Release Party and Install Fest. It is now midnight here in Chicago and I have just finished burning a set of CDs for tomorrow. I used some LightScribe love on them, however I rushed the job. I used an Ubuntu label image I found online, but the Kubuntu, Xubuntu and Edubuntu ones I made. The Xubuntu one isn’t the greatest, only because I couldn’t do the logo like the rest, because of that pesky mouse in the middle, and the last time I checked, a CD was like a donut, it has a hole in the middle

Anyways, tomorrow from 10am until 4pm (CST) at the College of DuPage. 425 Fawell Blvd, Glen Ellyn, IL 60137. We will be in room SRC 1544, and as long as I don’t forget, I will put up some signage at the 2 main entrances. So if you don’t see a sign, you are in the wrong place, unless it is the roundish looking white building, then you are in the right place. Just come on down to the first floor and have some fun!

HERE are what the CDs look like after LightScribing them. Not the best, but they work

Just a quick thank you to the crew over at System76 for the flyers and the “Powered by Ubuntu” stickers for the Ubuntu Chicago Gutsy Release Fest and the CoDLUG Install Fest. If you are in the Chicagoland area, please stop on by. Bring a computer and lets install Gutsy!

Here is the flyer!