http://blog.nixternal.com Free Software Chicago Style: letting proprietary solutions sleep with the fishes Thu, 22 May 2008 19:33:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I wanted to let all of the Planet KDE and Planet Ubuntu readers know just how awesome our communities are. 24 hours ago I wrote a blog post titled, "KDE 4.1 documentation needs your help," and we received and overwhelming response. On a typical day, #kde-docs on IRC has about ... http://blog.nixternal.com/2008.05.22/kommunity/ Wow what a day! I woke up this morning to an email from Allen Winter letting us know that he would like to implement a documentation freeze on June 3, 2008. That is like 2 weeks away! There is still a lot of documentation work to be done and very ... http://blog.nixternal.com/2008.05.21/kde-41-documentation-needs-your-help/ OK, so the scenario is this...You are a new Linux user or want to try Linux, but would like to know more before hand. You hear about a local Linux Users Group and prior to going to one of their events, you sit back for a moment and try to ... http://blog.nixternal.com/2008.05.14/what-is-your-vision-of-a-lug/ Right now I am working with the members of the Ubuntu Chicago LoCo team on creating a solid proposal for developing "Ubuntu Development Courses" that members of the Chicago community will lead. Right now we are looking for those that are in the Chicago land are that may be interested ... http://blog.nixternal.com/2008.05.05/ubuntu-chicago-and-ubuntu-development-classes/ If you are located in or near the Chicago land area, this Thursday, May 1, 2008, ICS will be holding a Qt Quickstart seminar. Registration is free and there is the ability to register for upcoming Qt Quickstarts in May for the Detroit, Michigan area as well as the Washington, ... http://blog.nixternal.com/2008.04.29/qt-seminar-in-chicago/ No, not a masquerade party, but a Tasque'rade party! After hanging out with Jorge Castro and Joe Brockmeier last weekend at Penguicon, I was beat up with Gnome quite a bit. Being the groovy KDE dude that I am, I hung around and listened to their Gnome speak, and ... http://blog.nixternal.com/2008.04.28/tasquerade-party/