[Ubuntu-US-CA] Failing/failed hard disk advice

2014-06-17 Thread Grant Bowman
My new friend who is trying Ubuntu with a disk from Lyz (thanks Lyz) just sent me an email. An external hard drive Seagate (1TB, model #: srd0sp0, newegg carries them for $79) with USB interface is not mounting automatically. When plugged into the MacBook Pro computer a slight clicking sound is

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Wednesday, November 13th: San Francisco Ubuntu Hour

2013-11-14 Thread Grant Bowman
Lyz, thank you for hosting the monthly SF Hour and leading by example. Ubuntu Hours are a great way to speak with newcomers to Ubuntu and catch up with friends that have heard already or happen serve on the world wide Ubuntu Community Council. :-) https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Hour

[Ubuntu-US-CA] Privacy, Trademark Canonical

2013-11-07 Thread Grant Bowman
wow! RT @lcafiero RT @marciahofmann: Oh, Canonical. It's silly to use trademark law to try to silence a critic! Especially a critic who works at @EFF. https://t.co/25ipxoHxPY I am not happy to read about this in this way. Thoughts? fyi, Grant -- Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Request for Participation

2013-11-05 Thread Grant Bowman
are a good way to ask and answer questions. Ubuntu Hours are regularly scheduled in person meetings. Let's talk soon Cheers, Grant On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 7:37 AM, Matt Mootz mattmo...@gmail.com wrote: Hello I have some free time what would you need? Thanks, -Matt On Nov 4, 2013 1:15 PM, Grant

[Ubuntu-US-CA] Request for Participation

2013-11-04 Thread Grant Bowman
Would anyone like to help me out with some tasks for the team? We can discuss what I have in mind any number of ways. As we go into the holidays there is quite a bit we can do to prepare for the coming year like socallinuxexpo.org and some background administrative stuff. This cycle is also a big

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Fwd: Ubuntu 13.10 (Saucy Salamander) Final Beta released

2013-09-29 Thread Grant Bowman
, I am testing on a 32-bit machine and haven't as yet been able to try it on a 64-bit machine to see if the behavior is any different. Any comments? Cheers, Bob On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 10:05 AM, Grant Bowman grant...@ubuntu.com wrote: For those that haven't subscribed to the -announce

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Fwd: Ubuntu 13.10 (Saucy Salamander) Final Beta released

2013-09-29 Thread Grant Bowman
. Hopefully, Intel will come through with a fixed driver before the release date. Cheers, Bob On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 8:19 AM, Grant Bowman grant...@ubuntu.com wrote: Hi Bob, Thanks for sharing your experience with this. I haven't encountered this but my testing of 13.10 has been

[Ubuntu-US-CA] Fwd: Ubuntu 13.10 (Saucy Salamander) Final Beta released

2013-09-27 Thread Grant Bowman
For those that haven't subscribed to the -announce list yet here's the most recent 13.10 Saucy Salamander announcement with a link to the email list at the bottom. As it mentions the final release expected on October 17th, 2013. I am also curiously looking forward to reading a blog post at

[Ubuntu-US-CA] Re-Energizing ubuntu-us-ca

2013-08-31 Thread Grant Bowman
For those unaware, the loco-contacts list is for discussion among all country and state Local Community teams world wide. Non-official contacts are encouraged to subscribe as well. As Jono said in his email Awesome technology is not enough though. Silicon Valley is littered with the corpses of

[Ubuntu-US-CA] 2014 Ubuntu Phone (was Re: Edge Crowdfunding on CNNfn)

2013-08-24 Thread Grant Bowman
think? Grant On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 9:32 PM, Grant Bowman grant...@ubuntu.com wrote: FYI, this is THE headline on their website right now. http://money.cnn.com/2013/08/22/technology/mobile/ubuntu-edge-crowdfunding/index.html Grant P.S. Thanks to my brother in law for letting me know about

[Ubuntu-US-CA] Edge Crowdfunding on CNNfn

2013-08-22 Thread Grant Bowman
FYI, this is THE headline on their website right now. http://money.cnn.com/2013/08/22/technology/mobile/ubuntu-edge-crowdfunding/index.html Grant P.S. Thanks to my brother in law for letting me know about this. -- Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list Ubuntu-us-ca@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] backport of vim 7.4

2013-08-15 Thread Grant Bowman
On May 8th Bram Moolenaar outlined [1] plans for 7.4. It was announced Aug 10th [2]. It's mostly bug fixes though the two new features he calls out since 7.3.001 are the improved regex engine algorithm allowing proper highlighting of javascript and XML files and better python bindings. The patch

[Ubuntu-US-CA] backport of vim 7.4

2013-08-13 Thread Grant Bowman
the bug below to request that vim 7.4 be backported to 12.04 LTS Precise. Even if you aren't interested in vim as much as I am you might have an interest in this process. Regards, Grant -- Forwarded message -- From: Grant Bowman grant...@ubuntu.com Date: Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 1:50 PM

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Community removal; am I over-reacting here? Where is the discussion?

2013-04-26 Thread Grant Bowman
Hi Mark, How the single link to all community resources from the ubuntu.com website is displayed might better be discussed on a list that either addresses the website specifically like the ubuntu-website list https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/Ubuntu-website or all of the local

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Fwd: 13.04 Raring Ringtail Global Release Party

2013-04-26 Thread Grant Bowman
/CaliforniaTeam/Projects/UserGroupContacts/Groups If you don't yet have a group in your area perhaps hosting a low overhead Ubuntu Hour might help get one started. Organizing doesn't take much, just showing up. Regards, Grant On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 3:39 PM, Grant Bowman grant...@ubuntu.com wrote: So

[Ubuntu-US-CA] Ubuntu Hour Berkeley?

2013-04-05 Thread Grant Bowman
Sorry for the late notice but is anyone else able to host the Hour tomorrow? I do not expect much turnout. There was a very light meeting last month. Regards, Grant-- Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list Ubuntu-us-ca@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at:

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Meeting up in SFBA for UDS next week? (was: Ubuntu Developer Summits Now Online and Every Three Months)

2013-03-06 Thread Grant Bowman
Geoffrey, How did this go? Grant On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 8:40 PM, Geoffrey Thomas ubu...@ldpreload.com wrote: I know I'm not going to be the only person in the Bay Area who's going to take Tuesday and Wednesday mornings off work to pay full attention to this UDS. Would other people in the

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Project: Representative-Letters, Part Deux

2013-02-15 Thread Grant Bowman
, 2013 at 6:17 PM, Grant Bowman grant...@ubuntu.com wrote: Here is the project page. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam/Projects/Representative-Letters Please join me *after* our team meeting tomorrow night (stick around afterward) and/or any night this week M-F at 7:30 PM in IRC http

[Ubuntu-US-CA] Project: Representative-Letters, Part Deux

2013-02-09 Thread Grant Bowman
of organization have been involved in the planning of this team project. The devil will be in the details of implementation so let's get to work. Respectfully, Grant Bowman ubuntu-california.org -- Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list Ubuntu-us-ca@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https

[Ubuntu-US-CA] Project: Letters to our Representatives

2013-01-28 Thread Grant Bowman
Greetings, Oakland has been chosen once again for uds.ubuntu.com May 6-9, 2013! The s adjective and animal for uds-s have yet to be chosen. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DevelopmentCodeNames I would like to propose a letter writing campaign with ubuntu-us-ca volunteers. We will target our state

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Linux Dtrace

2013-01-26 Thread Grant Bowman
On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 2:42 PM, Grant Bowman grant...@ubuntu.com wrote: Is anyone working with the Linux patches to enable the use of dtrace with Linux? For those that are interested, Dtrace came from Sun and is now part of Oracle's Linux. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DTrace

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Shirt Design Contest

2012-12-27 Thread Grant Bowman
Just a reminder, this is your last chance to submit T-shirt designs! Happy Holidays, Grant On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 1:33 PM, Grant Bowman grant...@ubuntu.com wrote: It's that time again. Our first shirts [1] were wonderful but we are running out of them. Our first priority is to print new

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] RMS vs. Amazon search results feature

2012-12-17 Thread Grant Bowman
On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 6:01 PM, Jono Bacon j...@ubuntu.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 10:23 PM, Grant Bowman grant...@ubuntu.com wrote: What is the objection about Canonical making money in Ubuntu given the millions of dollars invested into Ubuntu? I think trust is the primary issue

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] RMS vs. Amazon search results feature

2012-12-13 Thread Grant Bowman
On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 9:55 PM, Jono Bacon j...@ubuntu.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 9:27 PM, Grant Bowman grant...@ubuntu.com wrote: For discussion: http://www.jonobacon.org/2012/12/07/on-richard-stallman-and-ubuntu/ I am trying to reserve judgement but the 12.10 install I tried seemed

[Ubuntu-US-CA] svlug.org speaker for Dec 5th

2012-11-29 Thread Grant Bowman
There is an email list for svlug.org volunteers that I have been on for awhile. If any speakers are interested in speaking in Mountain View on Wed, Dec 5th please let me know (or subscribe via the link below) and I can get you in touch with the right people. They are also looking for a Jan 2nd

[Ubuntu-US-CA] Shirt Design Contest

2012-11-23 Thread Grant Bowman
It's that time again. Our first shirts [1] were wonderful but we are running out of them. Our first priority is to print new shirts. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam/Projects/Shirts-2012 We might want to reuse a proposed design as a new logo in the near future. It would be nice to use

[Ubuntu-US-CA] Ubuntu CD Project

2012-11-11 Thread Grant Bowman
! I am involved with the Ubuntu California team and an Ubuntu Member. http://ubuntu-california.org Have you talked with others involved with Ubuntu and/or Canonical about your project? Regards, Grant Bowman Director, partimus.org -- Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list Ubuntu-us-ca@lists.ubuntu.com Modify

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Election

2012-10-25 Thread Grant Bowman
the email addresses from Launchpad to the voting system. He should be able to track down omissions or errors. Thank you Philip for volunteering to run this election. Regards, Grant Bowman -- Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list Ubuntu-us-ca@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Repeating keys kernel bug

2012-05-15 Thread Grant Bowman
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 4:54 PM, Daniel Gimpelevich dan...@gimpelevich.san-francisco.ca.us wrote: On Sun, 2012-05-13 at 23:33 -0700, Tony Baechler wrote: This is not a kernel bug.  It happens in Windows and DOS as well, but especially in Windows.  It is a BIOS issue related to having a cheap

[Ubuntu-US-CA] Repeating keys kernel bug

2012-05-13 Thread Grant Bowman
My friend Alex let me borrow his functionally unusable zareason laptop. I reproduced the key sticking/repeat problem that seems to be kernel related. Has anyone else encountered this? Bug URLs are below with more details. This is believed to be tracked back to a very old, specific kernel version

[Ubuntu-US-CA] Felton LUG 5/12, 2PM at the Firehouse

2012-05-07 Thread Grant Bowman
Thank you Nick for agreeing to present on the 12th, right on the heels of UDS in Oakland this week! Grant -- Forwarded message -- From: Robert Lewis bob.l.le...@gmail.com Date: May 6, 2012 10:19 PM Subject: [Felton LUG] Next meeting 5/12/2012 2PM at the Firehouse To: Felton Lug

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Felton LUG speaker Sat May 12th at 2:00 PM on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

2012-05-02 Thread Grant Bowman
I would be grateful to speak with anyone interested in stepping forward. One of our missions as a group is encouraging new presenters and passing along our experiences by fielding such requests from active user groups. Grant Bowman On Apr 21, 2012 2:19 PM, Grant Bowman grant...@ubuntu.com wrote

[Ubuntu-US-CA] Felton LUG speaker Sat May 12th at 2:00 PM on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

2012-04-21 Thread Grant Bowman
it difficult to present. If you are willing to come demo he will be promoting it, however he needs to know in advance. This is a good opportunity for anyone wanting to practice their presentation skills. It's a friendly and knowledgable group in Felton between Santa Cruz and Los Gatos. Thanks, Grant

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] UDS archives

2012-04-12 Thread Grant Bowman
. I think http://ubuntu.mirocommunity.org/ is used more than youtube. Will you be attending remotely again or in person May 7-11 in Oakland? I'm looking forward to seeing people there. Regards, Grant Bowman -- Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list Ubuntu-us-ca@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe

[Ubuntu-US-CA] Lenovo G575 Suspend for Ubuntu 12.04

2012-03-21 Thread Grant Bowman
to try to get it solved before then. If anyone has any ideas please let me know. FYI, Grant Bowman -- Forwarded message -- From: Grant Bowman grant...@gmail.com Date: Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 3:06 PM Subject: G575 Suspend for Ubuntu 12.04 To: lenovo-g...@lists.launchpad.net I am

[Ubuntu-US-CA] Fwd: Ubuntu Developer Week next week!

2011-07-09 Thread Grant Bowman
For those that aren't on the ubuntu-devel-announce list... Grant -- Forwarded message -- From: Daniel Holbach daniel.holb...@ubuntu.com Date: Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 5:23 AM Subject: Ubuntu Developer Week next week! To: ubuntu-devel-annou...@lists.ubuntu.com Hello everybody, I'm

[Ubuntu-US-CA] LWN's take on Harmony

2011-07-09 Thread Grant Bowman
The following is for reference regarding Harmony, a Canonical led project relating to contributor agreements. Grant http://lwn.net/Articles/450543/ Project Harmony 1.0 and its discontents [Announcements] Posted Jul 7, 2011 12:22 UTC (Thu) by corbet The Harmony Project (an effort to create a

[Ubuntu-US-CA] Ubuntu talk at Felton on May 14, 2011

2011-05-16 Thread Grant Bowman
Here's an email I just sent to the Felton LUG following up after the talk I gave on Saturday. We had a great discussion. Cheers, Grant -- Forwarded message -- From: Grant Bowman grant...@ubuntu.com Date: Mon, May 16, 2011 at 4:41 PM Subject: Ubuntu talk at Felton on May 14

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Tablets!

2011-04-01 Thread Grant Bowman
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 9:45 AM, Ronald McCollam ronald.mccol...@canonical.com wrote: Hello, Grant! On Fri, 2011-03-25 at 13:13 -0700, Grant Bowman wrote: Wiki pages or some similar system that accepts submitted contributions might be a great way to harness the efforts people are making

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Walnut Creek Global Jam on the 1st April 2011!

2011-03-31 Thread Grant Bowman
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Jono Bacon j...@ubuntu.com wrote: Hi Everyone, I just wanted to share again that I am holding a Walnut Creek Global Jam event that will take place at Saxby's Coffee (see

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Grub 2 Issues

2011-03-27 Thread Grant Bowman
On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 7:24 PM, David Wonderly david.wonde...@kubuntu.org wrote: On Friday, March 25, 2011 09:16:42 pm Alan Ostlund wrote: On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 9:38 PM, Alan Ostlundmjol...@sbcglobal.net wrote: I installed it 2 weeks ago, now I can't access my MBR.  Has anyone else run

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Tablets!

2011-03-25 Thread Grant Bowman
Hello Ara, On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 6:04 AM, Ara Pulido a...@ubuntu.com wrote: Hello Grant, On 03/25/2011 02:20 AM, Grant Bowman wrote: Greetings community, I was helping a friend install Natty on a ExoPC tablet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExoPC two weeks ago but found the lack

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Ubuntu Hour: Palo Alto moved to Fri 1st April (no joke)

2011-03-24 Thread Grant Bowman
Hi Drew, Will you be hosting a Global Jam event too? Jono is holding one that day in Walnut Creek. http://loco.ubuntu.com/teams/ubuntu-california Grant On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 2:47 PM, nuboon2age nuboon2...@gmail.com wrote: Okay sorry for moving this *again*, but we're going with Friday 7pm

[Ubuntu-US-CA] Tablets!

2011-03-24 Thread Grant Bowman
in theory. Regards, Grant Bowman http://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam -- Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list Ubuntu-us-ca@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca

[Ubuntu-US-CA] Starting Out With Linux

2011-03-12 Thread Grant Bowman
A question I hear sometimes is how do I get started with GNU/Linux? The question is difficult to answer as everyone has heard of and understands different pieces of the computing puzzle and start from different places. To me this boils down to a lack of knowing beginning keywords. I often start

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Ubuntu hour vallejo

2011-03-10 Thread Grant Bowman
Hi Dave, I think it went well for a first effort and I enjoyed it very much. There is quite a bit going on to talk about related to Ubuntu and learning about the various aspects of the community. Events like these and many Linux User Goups are a great way to learn and share. Cheers, Grant On

[Ubuntu-US-CA] Firefox setting for Page Down

2011-01-13 Thread Grant Bowman
... Preferences... 2. click the Advanced button on the top right, then General tab 3. uncheck the Always use cursor keys to navigate within pages checkbox. Evidently F7 toggles the same or a similar option too. Cheers, Grant Bowman -- Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list Ubuntu-us-ca@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings

[Ubuntu-US-CA] Our Shared LoCo Team Identity

2010-12-21 Thread Grant Bowman
resources. Consistently using the same identifiers for our team resources will reduce errors and confusion. I look forward to understanding alternative reasoning. Grant Bowman -- Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list Ubuntu-us-ca@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Happy International Buy Nothing Day

2010-12-04 Thread Grant Bowman
doing our best to work together in regional teams to help advocate, promote, translate, develop and otherwise improve Ubuntu. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoTeams To be clear, I look forward to continuing to work toward these goals with you and others on the team. Happy Holidays, Grant Bowman https

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Happy International Buy Nothing Day

2010-11-26 Thread Grant Bowman
Respectfully, what does this have to do with Ubuntu? Grant Bowman https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 7:21 PM, nuboon2age nuboon2...@gmail.com wrote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buy_Nothing_Day http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=104195596316003 Buy Nothing

[Ubuntu-US-CA] X.org Keyboard Problems in Ubuntu (several versions)

2010-11-02 Thread Grant Bowman
or it may be some similar bugs that are unrelated. What are other people's experience with this? Regards, Grant Bowman https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam -- Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list Ubuntu-us-ca@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] California Team Leader Announcement

2010-10-28 Thread Grant Bowman
. Grant Bowman https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam -- Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list Ubuntu-us-ca@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca

[Ubuntu-US-CA] Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) USB Installation Tips

2010-10-24 Thread Grant Bowman
Hello Ken, Thank you very much for sharing your valuable experiences by writing this up and emailing the sf-lug.org mail list. I am forwarding this to our state wide Ubuntu team as well. Cheers, Grant Bowman https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam -- Forwarded message -- From

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Maker Faire Wrap-Up

2010-10-24 Thread Grant Bowman
Awesome work, everyone! Sorry I missed it. Grant On Oct 24, 2010 6:44 PM, James Tatum jta...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 6:38 PM, Jessica Ledbetter jess...@jessicaledbetter.com wrote: On Sun, O... Discs provided and made by Jack. Outstanding preparation sir :) Thanks for putting

[Ubuntu-US-CA] Comcast IPv6 Trial Maverick

2010-10-21 Thread Grant Bowman
http://lwn.net/Articles/410829/ Level Up to IPv6 with Ubuntu 10.10 on Comcast (Linux.com) [Announcements] Posted Oct 20, 2010 18:03 UTC (Wed) by corbet Linux.com has a tutorial on how to participate in the IPv6 trial[1] being run by Comcast, a major US ISP. In phase one of their trials they are

[Ubuntu-US-CA] Fwd: Ubuntu 10.10 is Released

2010-10-10 Thread Grant Bowman
This is the official announcement for your viewing pleasure. I will be forwarding it to local Linux User Groups as well. It's not too late to announce a release party if you are still on the fence. I'm going to two today with more to come. Grant Bowman https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam

[Ubuntu-US-CA] California LoCo Team Assistance

2010-10-03 Thread Grant Bowman
problems seem highly inconsistent with my experiences of other parts of the Ubuntu community that I have seen and been involved with. I look forward to assisting in whatever corrective action is deemed appropriate by the council and getting our team back on track. Regards, Grant Bowman Ubuntu

[Ubuntu-US-CA] Fwd: Announcing the First LoCo Day Event

2010-10-03 Thread Grant Bowman
This was sent to loco-contacts and I think some of us might be interested in participating. Grant Bowman https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam -- Forwarded message -- From: Nathan Handler nhand...@ubuntu.com Date: Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 3:48 PM Subject: Announcing the First LoCo

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] San Diego Ubuntu Hour! All Interested San Diegans Ping Me Back!

2010-09-28 Thread Grant Bowman
wi fi for an hour. Go for it! Grant Bowman https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam -- Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list Ubuntu-us-ca@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca

[Ubuntu-US-CA] OLPC SF Community Summit 2010! Fri, Oct 22 - Sun, Oct 24

2010-09-23 Thread Grant Bowman
knowledgeable and experienced people in attendance from all over the world. I would enjoy seeing anyone else that can attend. Regards, Grant Bowman https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam -- Forwarded message -- From: OLPCSF Contact cont...@olpcsf.org Date: Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 8:38 PM

[Ubuntu-US-CA] Acknowledgement of California's Worldwide Tech Leadership

2010-09-21 Thread Grant Bowman
://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam/Meetings/10September19 wasn't the most positive experience for everyone, but with effort I know we can grow and adapt to capture more of our shared potential. Grant Bowman https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam http://socialentrepreneurship.change.org/blog/view

[Ubuntu-US-CA] Installfest workshop in Davis - Saturday, September 25th

2010-09-18 Thread Grant Bowman
LUGOD does a great job on their installfests. Details are attached below. Cheers, Grant -- Forwarded message -- From: nbs n...@sonic.net Date: Sep 18, 2010 1:25 AM Subject: [vox-announce] Linux Installfest workshop in Davis - Saturday, September 25th To:

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Fwd: Google Data Centers run on Ubuntu

2010-09-08 Thread Grant Bowman
For those trying to follow along. On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 12:09 PM, Grant Bowman grant...@gmail.com wrote: Google said They run Ubuntu publically. Now we can tell others. On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 12:13 PM, Rami Taibah tai...@gmail.com wrote: Source? In addition to what I tried to forward from

[Ubuntu-US-CA] Fix: [NBLUG/talk] Ubuntu 10.04 Keyboard Mouse Freeze

2010-09-07 Thread Grant Bowman
Here is a fix for a seemingly serious problem with 10.04 irqbalance. Grant Bowman http://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam -- Forwarded message -- From: Howard h.schnir...@pacbell.net Date: Sep 7, 2010 4:39 PM Subject: Re: [NBLUG/talk] Ubuntu 10.04 Keyboard Mouse Freeze To: General

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Bay Area: Ubuntu Tables at Picn*x 19 - The Linux 19th Anniversary Picnic August 21, 2010

2010-08-20 Thread Grant Bowman
Thanks for keeping things moving everyone! See you there tomorrow and berkeleylug.com for those that are interested on Sunday. Cheers, Grant On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 5:10 PM, Elizabeth Krumbach l...@ubuntu.com wrote: I've also created a loco directory event where you can sign up to volunteer

[Ubuntu-US-CA] Ubuntu Server at nblug.org Tomorrow at O'Reilly

2010-08-09 Thread Grant Bowman
FYI, Grant -- Forwarded message -- From: Kyle Rankin k...@nblug.org Date: Aug 9, 2010 9:28 AM Subject: [NBLUG/Announce] General Meeting TOMORROW: Costalab To: annou...@nblug.org Start: 2010/08/10 - 7:30pm End: 2010/08/10 - 9:00pm Location: O'Reilly Media Speaker: Glen Worstell

[Ubuntu-US-CA] Fwd: Ubuntu Developer Week: 12th-16th July 2010

2010-07-11 Thread Grant Bowman
Here's the announcement that went to the -devel-announce list for those not yet subscribed. If you are interested I recommend using the link at the bottom. Cheers, Grant Bowman https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam -- Forwarded message -- From: Daniel Holbach daniel.holb

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Fwd: Linux Installfest workshop in Davis - Saturday, June 12th

2010-06-11 Thread Grant Bowman
Hello Alex, I apologize for the delay in responding. I will be there tomorrow with some discs, both burned and official pressed discs. Regards, Grant Bowman https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 11:52 AM, Alex Mandel tech_...@wildintellect.com wrote: Another local

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Best Practices Guidelines

2010-06-01 Thread Grant Bowman
encourages us to work together toward our common goals. What do you think? Cheers, Grant Bowman https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 10:34 AM, Grant Bowman grant...@gmail.com wrote: This is a new document announced by the LoCo Council for use by all teams like ours

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Dealer

2010-05-31 Thread Grant Bowman
Sunday evening at 7 PM on http://freenode.net in the #ubuntu-california channel. Let us know if you have any more questions. Regards, Grant Bowman https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam -- Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list Ubuntu-us-ca@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https

[Ubuntu-US-CA] Fwd: Best Practices Guidelines

2010-05-30 Thread Grant Bowman
This is a new document announced by the LoCo Council for use by all teams like ours. Comments and discussion are encouraged. Grant Bowman https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam -- Forwarded message -- From: Paul Tagliamonte paul...@ubuntu.com Date: May 30, 2010 7:13 AM Subject

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Installfest @ Noisebridge on May 30

2010-05-20 Thread Grant Bowman
to the appropriate places for review. Grant Bowman https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam [1] Specifically (but not limited to) Approved Use, Community Advocacy bullet 3: * there is no suggestion (through words or appearance) that your project is approved, sponsored, or affiliated with Ubuntu

[Ubuntu-US-CA] CD Sleeves

2010-04-26 Thread Grant Bowman
We only have two days left. https://code.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-california Is the WTFPL really the most appropriate? Is the scale8x version what you currently recommend? Would anyone like to help get something ready from these sources that has the new branding and colors? Grant Bowman https

[Ubuntu-US-CA] Web 2.0 Expo May 3-6 at Moscone in San Francisco

2010-04-26 Thread Grant Bowman
The registration code websf10ema1 gets you a FREE Expo Hall Only pass. A free Expo Hall Only DOES get you into loads of free stuff. http://www.web2expo.com/ Cheers, Grant Bowman https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam -- Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list Ubuntu-us-ca@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Non-Javascript Countdown Images?

2010-04-23 Thread Grant Bowman
-for-your.html and is deployed so that these links will work for wiki pages that want to display the last days of our countdown: http://ubuntucountdown.appspot.com/one.png http://ubuntucountdown.appspot.com/two.png http://ubuntucountdown.appspot.com/three.png With best regards, Grant Bowman https

[Ubuntu-US-CA] April Ubuntu Activities

2010-04-05 Thread Grant Bowman
interest at all. Regards, Grant Bowman https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam -- Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list Ubuntu-us-ca@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca

[Ubuntu-US-CA] Radio show is looking for: Women in Unix Community

2010-03-18 Thread Grant Bowman
I hope some of the women on these lists consider responding. Cheers, Grant Bowman https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam -- Forwarded message -- From: Weak. jam...@weak.org Date: Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 12:40 PM Subject: [buug] Fwd: Women in Unix Community To: b...@weak.org b

[Ubuntu-US-CA] Fwd: Last Minute Beta 1 Coverage! Prepare your ISOs :-)

2010-03-16 Thread Grant Bowman
I just sent this to loco-contacts. Beta 1 is Thurs (morning for us). If you care to help, please do. Syncing the images will speed the time to get a final image on your machine if you care for it. I'm curious to see where the close box ends up, lol. Cheers, Grant Bowman https

[Ubuntu-US-CA] Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit in SF April 14-16

2010-03-12 Thread Grant Bowman
The Collaboration Summit is an invitation only event in our golden state. I heard about this thanks to the Linux Weekly News article attached below. If anyone knows of a way to have a California LoCo presence let us know and I'm sure we can put something together. Regards, Grant Bowman https

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Asking For Opinion: Leadership Appointment Process

2010-03-09 Thread Grant Bowman
   * +1 - you agree with the above proposal. +1 Jono, thank you for taking the time to work with us and outline this process. I hope everyone takes a moment to expresses their opinion to Jono privately or on the list. Grant Bowman https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam -- Ubuntu-us-ca

[Ubuntu-US-CA] Sale on CD-Rs Spotted

2010-02-14 Thread Grant Bowman
weeks. Cheers, Grant Bowman https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam -- Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list Ubuntu-us-ca@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca

[Ubuntu-US-CA] Ubuntu Developer Week starts tomorrow!

2010-01-24 Thread Grant Bowman
it by following these instructions (on Karmic):  * sudo add-apt-repository ppa:lernid-devs/lernid-releases  * sudo apt-get update  * sudo apt-get install lernid http://www.jonobacon.org/2010/01/05/lernid-0-4-released-and-demo/ - Grant Bowman https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam -- Ubuntu-us-ca

[Ubuntu-US-CA] Fwd: [CPLUG Announce] CPLUG Free Your Machine

2010-01-21 Thread Grant Bowman
Here's an interesting event taking place at Cal Poly this weekend. Grant -- Forwarded message -- From: James Pearson james.m.pear...@gmail.com Date: Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 12:46 AM Subject: [CPLUG Announce] CPLUG Free Your Machine To: Linux related questions/answers and

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] TONIGHT Join 5-6P Mon 11th - 1st Evening Meeting test IRC VOIP online Ubuntu at BerkeleyTIP-Global - for forwarding

2010-01-11 Thread Grant Bowman
in your events will subscribe to your list for your announcements. Thank you, Grant Bowman https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 4:36 AM, giovanni_re john...@fastmail.us wrote: Hi Ubuntu Californians :) 1) Who runs this list? 2) The Ubuntu California group is invited

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] SVLUG Jan. 6th meeting (Wed.): Ubuntu Linux

2010-01-09 Thread Grant Bowman
Oops, I forgot to include is the Global Jam in March! https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuGlobalJam Grant On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 9:22 PM, Grant Bowman grant...@ubuntu.com wrote: Thank you Mark Terranova for presenting on Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala last night at svlug!  It was a well attended meeting

[Ubuntu-US-CA] New California Govt IT Policy on Open Source

2010-01-08 Thread Grant Bowman
)]. Grant Bowman https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2010 22:39:58 - (UTC) From: Ed Rogers e...@rogersecommerce.com Subject: [NBLUG/talk] Open Source is now acceptable To: t...@nblug.org http://www.cio.ca.gov/Government/IT_Policy/ITPL.html

[Ubuntu-US-CA] Fwd: Simplified Main Inclusion Request process

2010-01-08 Thread Grant Bowman
recommend they subscribe directly. https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-announce Regards, Grant Bowman https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam -- Forwarded message -- From: Martin Pitt martin.p...@ubuntu.com Date: Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 8:42 AM Subject: Simplified Main

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] SVLUG Jan. 6th meeting (Wed.): Ubuntu Linux

2010-01-07 Thread Grant Bowman
to people of different levels of experience and knowledge of Linux in general and specifically Ubuntu. Comments welcome. Regards, Grant Bowman, Ubuntu Member https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam From: Rick Moen r...@linuxmafia.com Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 22:16:35 -0800 Subject: [svlug] [svlug

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] User Group Contacts wiki page

2009-12-27 Thread Grant Bowman
/UserGroupContacts/Groups Cheers, Grant Bowman https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam -- Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list Ubuntu-us-ca@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca

[Ubuntu-US-CA] News about Ubuntu Desktop Canonical CEO

2009-12-18 Thread Grant Bowman
Silber. Both execs do not see major strategic changes on the horizon. Silber's official blog and Linux.com each have more details on how the change will be implemented. This item was pointed out to me (much to my surprise) while I was presenting to the http://www.baylisa.org group yesterday. Grant

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Installfest / tutorial in University Village, Albany

2009-12-15 Thread Grant Bowman
Francisco in a few months. Feedback encouraged. Grant Bowman https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 9:41 PM, Maile Urbancic maile.urban...@gmail.com wrote: Michael, Your LTSP lab sounds interesting.  Unfortunately, the University Village computer center is pretty tightly run

[Ubuntu-US-CA] Fwd: LoCo Directory

2009-12-14 Thread Grant Bowman
, gathering support for the event, keeping track of past events, meetings etc. https://blueprints.launchpad.net/loco-directory/+spec/loco-directory-event-registration Cheers, Grant Bowman https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam -- Forwarded message -- From: Daniel Holbach daniel.holb

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Pressed Canonical CD distribution

2009-12-14 Thread Grant Bowman
[2], however requests need to be expressed via email for now. Now that we are an approved team it is wonderful that we have this problem. Suggestions for how to improve this process will be useful during 10.04 Lucid Lynx LTS release cycle planning. Grant Bowman https://wiki.ubuntu.com

[Ubuntu-US-CA] Sunday's Meeting Agenda

2009-12-11 Thread Grant Bowman
/distroblogs/43697-call-for-ubuntu-loco-stories 4. T-shirt discussion 5. proposal: to cancel a regular IRC meeting an agenda item must be added to the previous meeting's agenda well in advance Regards, Grant Bowman https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam -- Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list Ubuntu-us-ca

[Ubuntu-US-CA] camp-KDE

2009-12-08 Thread Grant Bowman
. Now that we have two designated warehouses the logistics complication increases. We had the same problem inside the US branch of SuSE where, for awhile, I was handling these requests for trade shows, partners and other needs. Grant Bowman https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam -- Ubuntu-us-ca

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Ubuntu-us-ca Digest, Vol 30, Issue 6

2009-12-04 Thread Grant Bowman
community in your area. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam/Projects/UserGroupContacts/Groups Cheers, Grant Bowman https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 4:05 PM, Joe Smith yasumo...@gmail.com wrote: Hey David! Good to hear from you :) There are a few people up in your

[Ubuntu-US-CA] QATesting with LoCos like California

2009-11-17 Thread Grant Bowman
great potential to allow part time LoCo contributors to make a solid contribution. I have subscribed to the blueprint. I know several Linux User Groups that may be willing to participate as well. My first UDS has been stellar so far. See you around this week! Grant Bowman https://wiki.ubuntu.com

[Ubuntu-US-CA] Wed Nov 18th UC Berkeley Sproul plaza - Ubuntu CD Sleeves

2009-11-11 Thread Grant Bowman
. The PDF is available here. download link: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam/Projects/CDSleeves?action=AttachFiledo=gettarget=nbussett2.pdf project page: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam/Projects/CDSleeves Volunteers are welcome to stop by as well. Grant Bowman https://wiki.ubuntu.com

[Ubuntu-US-CA] Karmic Party in SF Thurs Nov 12

2009-11-10 Thread Grant Bowman
Here is an announcement that went out to another email list about this Thursday's event. Grant -- Forwarded message -- From: k9d starpa...@gmail.com Date: Nov 10, 2009 4:41 PM Subject: [m3d.n00z] starpa...@databeez in SF this week // karmic kola // video from LA stop // !~ To:

[Ubuntu-US-CA] Grub 2 Upstart Links

2009-11-08 Thread Grant Bowman
. grub 2: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Grub2 grub 2 discussion in which I participated on pages 5 6: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1285897 upstart: http://upstart.ubuntu.com/ Cheers, Grant Bowman https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam -- Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list Ubuntu-us-ca

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