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Ubuntu Development Class

Joe — Sat, 10 May 2008 05:13:43 +0000

I was catching up on reading Ubuntu Planet, and came across this post by Rich Johnson which really caught my eye. I’m going to help run Chapman’s ACM chapter next year, and we’re planning on having programming competitions, movie nights, study sessions, and some sort of “Learn How to Bug Triage!” or other open source themed event. After reading through it (and skimming the Ubuntu Chicago Mailing List), I realized that if I made the scope a bit broader, I could make it a lot more appealing.

So instead I figure we’ll start with a sort of “Introduction to Open Source/Linux” program, and depending on who shows up, move on to learning about how to start developing and contributing. It’ll be cool to have a bunch of people get together to help work on it, and the Ubuntu California team is interested in helping out as well. We have our annual Math/Computer Science picnic tomorrow, and I’ll bring it up with the faculty. If anyone has any other ideas for cool events to hold on campus, please let me know.

Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron

Joe — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:52:34 +0000

To the internet community:

New version of Ubuntu. Be nice and torrent it.

To “real life” friends/family:

Linux. Download + Burn to a CD. Put it in the computer and turn it on. (Or just let me know, and I’ll do all that for you..)

Tell me if you like it or not, and I won’t bother you about it for 6 months. Maybe.

Mozilla Thunderbird Bug Day!

Joe — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 02:13:12 +0000

I’ve finally managed to get some work done this week, and I’m hoping the keep on a roll. I just found out that today is the first Thunderbird Bug Day. I feel Firefox Bug Days are really effective, and help clear through a lot of different bugs on the platform. They’re also a great way to become familiar with the large codebase, and learn how development decisions are made (in real time) which is pretty exciting. The action’s taking place in #bugday on irc.mozilla.org. Also, the Mozilla Addons site has been given a slick visual refresh.

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My 5 today: #21235 (glibc), #204927 (firefox-3.0), #196376 (gdm), #206401 (gnome-screensaver), #21186 (grub)
Do 5 a day - every day! https://wiki.ubuntu.com/5-A-Day

MobLogic.tv

Joe — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 19:32:41 +0000

Slick political newsblog MobLogic.tv made me laugh my face off. This guy keeps it real.

The Pirate’s Dilemma

Joe — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 03:26:31 +0000

I have finally started reading Matt Mason’s The Pirate’s Dilemma, and it’s been a good ride so far. Torrentfreak has a video up on Mason’s keynote at the Medici Summit. He’s a really relaxed speaker, and has a great message about the changes that’re challenging the status quo.

Ubuntu US Meet-N-Greet

Joe — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:51:01 +0000

I encourage everyone to head over to #ubuntu-us on Freenode tonight for the Ubuntu US Teams meeting. It’s going to be a really informal get together; members from all state LoCo teams are invited to show up and get to know their fellow Ubunteros around the nation. If you’re free at 7pm PST (8 pm MST, 9 pm CST & 10 pm EST), come on and get involved

Foxkeh’s March Wallpaper!

Joe — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 08:38:49 +0000

If you haven’t heard of Foxkeh, the ridiculously awesome Mozilla Japan mascot, you should definitely stop by his blog. I’ve been so busy lately that I forgot to look at the March Wallpaper. I need to decide between rocking Ubuntu’s Hardy Heron or Mozilla’s Foxkeh as my background. I love gnome-look.org and everything, but I’m just so glad I don’t have to resort to these..

Also, listen to the Ubuntu UK Podcast’s first episode. Relevant and professional, it’s a great way to catch up on some Ubuntu news. It’s definitely been added to my list of favorite podcast, and I’m excited to see what these guys do in the future.

Careful … Ballmer’s targeting Web Developers next…

Joe — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 08:43:08 +0000

I’m almost done studying Japanese for the night, so I decide to check out techmeme. Bad idea.

Web Developers, Web Developers, Web Developers.

2 Weeks Until Spring Break

Joe — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 23:29:35 +0000

Supremely busy right now. Thinking over my application for Google’s Summer of Code, working on Common Lisp, studying for Linear Algebra, and hopefully finally getting paperwork through the bureaucracy of Chapman’s Student Employment office. I’m stoked to start working at the Networking office, it seems like I’ll get a lot of hands-on time and learn a lot.

Moral of the story: Get shiz done time.

5 A Day

Joe — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 18:27:22 +0000

Yes! I got bazaar working Finally, I can start reporting my 5 bugs a day.

Anyway, in regards to the topology problem, my professor is programming some crazy optimized shiz in Python. I figure my only chance to one up him (and multitask) is to write it in Common Lisp. Since that’s what I’m going to be writing my project for Programming Languages in, it’ll be great experience. So far, I’m thinking I’ll be able to take advantage of lists and cons to construct each possible topology. I’ve got a whiteboard in the Math Department Lounge covered with some ideas, so progress is being made.

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My 5 today: #192061 (cupsys), #52579 (gstreamer0.10), #188129 (ubuntu), #188097 (nautilus-cd-burner), #190499 (ubuntu)
Do 5 a day - every day! https://wiki.ubuntu.com/5-A-Day