I'm hoping if you're reading this that you might be interested in volunteering this coming Saturday to help 12-16 year old girls at the upcoming Dare 2B Digital conference learn about HTML5 and open video. There's more information and background on what's happening on this wiki page.
Two kinds of volunteers needed:
1. Someone who is in the Bay Area and available this coming Saturday from 9-3:30pm to be on-site with us in Mountain View at the Computer History Museum and will work hands-on with the girls to demo Miro Converter, Universal Subtitles, and a little bit of Popcorn.js.
2. Anyone, anywhere, who can do translations to any language and who is available on Saturday anywhere in the 10:15am-3pm PST window to do some 'live' subtitling and show the workshop participants how amazing the universal subtitles project is.
Please get in touch if you are interested/available. Or sign up on the wiki.
Thanks in advance! I will be posting any demos, workshop materials, and an update post-event on how it went.
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Monday, February 7, 2011
Sunday, October 14, 2007
Ontario Linux Fest 2007
My Experience at Ontario Linux Fest 2007 - At the Toronto Congress Center.
Woke up at 6 am to get the dog walked and eat some breakfast before heading out to get Cesar. Thanks Cesar for being awake and ready to go!
We had to go up to Seneca first and grab the display material from Mary, who was also awake and on time. Perfect so far. Then we headed up to the airport vicinity where the google map had said the center was and I promptly got us a little lost. After checking at the gas station for direction, we were set straight and arrived on time to the conference center where we signed in, got a bag 'o shwag and found our table.
Once we were set up, I went to the "Women in Open Source" talk that Angela Byron was giving at 9:30. This was an excellent presentation and I was really excited to meet her in person and to talk briefly about her Summer of Code experience. I have been stalking that site for 2 years now and was never sure if it was something I could do or if only elite hackers applied. Meeting a real person who has done it and can speak to how it worked for her was inspiring. She works with Lullabot and thus, Drupal. After her talk I went to a "Hands on Demo" of Joomla and got to see how the other half lives. Joomla is exciting to me and I look forward to having a little bit of time to test out setting up a simple site with it.
Cesar had dutifully staffed the booth for a couple of hours so I went and took over so he could wander around and go to OpenMoko after lunch. At one point though, we plastered all the tables in both session halls with FSOSS flyers so as to get maximum awareness.
Talking to people about FSOSS was great - a lot of folks already knew about it and were coming. I spent a little time talking with Dru Lavigne and learning about FreeBSD. I even got a few install disks so maybe I'll be testing it out on a virtual machine soon. A few good networking opportunities presented themselves. I met the guy who does all the Linux on mainframes stuff for IBM and he gave me his card to contact him about IBM online learning.
In the afternoon I listened to the story of a LUG partnering up with the United Way up around Owen Sound and fixing up computers for families in need. I hear that we're doing some similar stuff at Seneca, so I'm going to be looking into how I could help with that project. What I like about this kind of project is that it can be anonymous - so that people in need don't have to feel like they are getting handouts. Also, this is a great opportunity to work on making Linux useable to people with ZERO technical skills. That's something I think really needs to keep being improved if there is going to be wider adoption. It also interests me because I need to become more comfortable with installing and configuring Linux so I can be an evangelist.
All in all, a great time was had and I came away with lots of new knowledge and curiousity about Linux and the community surrounding it plus, some new friendships in the making. I could get used to this conference lifestyle.
As a parting note:
did that penguin just move?
Woke up at 6 am to get the dog walked and eat some breakfast before heading out to get Cesar. Thanks Cesar for being awake and ready to go!
We had to go up to Seneca first and grab the display material from Mary, who was also awake and on time. Perfect so far. Then we headed up to the airport vicinity where the google map had said the center was and I promptly got us a little lost. After checking at the gas station for direction, we were set straight and arrived on time to the conference center where we signed in, got a bag 'o shwag and found our table.
Once we were set up, I went to the "Women in Open Source" talk that Angela Byron was giving at 9:30. This was an excellent presentation and I was really excited to meet her in person and to talk briefly about her Summer of Code experience. I have been stalking that site for 2 years now and was never sure if it was something I could do or if only elite hackers applied. Meeting a real person who has done it and can speak to how it worked for her was inspiring. She works with Lullabot and thus, Drupal. After her talk I went to a "Hands on Demo" of Joomla and got to see how the other half lives. Joomla is exciting to me and I look forward to having a little bit of time to test out setting up a simple site with it.
Cesar had dutifully staffed the booth for a couple of hours so I went and took over so he could wander around and go to OpenMoko after lunch. At one point though, we plastered all the tables in both session halls with FSOSS flyers so as to get maximum awareness.
Talking to people about FSOSS was great - a lot of folks already knew about it and were coming. I spent a little time talking with Dru Lavigne and learning about FreeBSD. I even got a few install disks so maybe I'll be testing it out on a virtual machine soon. A few good networking opportunities presented themselves. I met the guy who does all the Linux on mainframes stuff for IBM and he gave me his card to contact him about IBM online learning.
In the afternoon I listened to the story of a LUG partnering up with the United Way up around Owen Sound and fixing up computers for families in need. I hear that we're doing some similar stuff at Seneca, so I'm going to be looking into how I could help with that project. What I like about this kind of project is that it can be anonymous - so that people in need don't have to feel like they are getting handouts. Also, this is a great opportunity to work on making Linux useable to people with ZERO technical skills. That's something I think really needs to keep being improved if there is going to be wider adoption. It also interests me because I need to become more comfortable with installing and configuring Linux so I can be an evangelist.
All in all, a great time was had and I came away with lots of new knowledge and curiousity about Linux and the community surrounding it plus, some new friendships in the making. I could get used to this conference lifestyle.
As a parting note:
did that penguin just move?
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