Posted in Collaboration, Documentation on Oct 12th, 2009
This site lists who they’ve identified as the top 50 technical writers on the web, which I stumbled upon via a link from Scott Nesbitt’s blog. While this list will certainly provide me with additional documentation resources, I notice a dearth of open-source documentation names in that list. No Shaun McCance, no Emma Jane Hogbin, [...]
Posted in Bugs, Collaboration, LoCo Teams on Jan 27th, 2009
Per Daniel Holbach’s recent blog post about the Global Bug Jam, I thought I’d add my two cents (or give you a penny for my thoughts, and donate the additional penny to charity) about what the Ubuntu-Chicago Local Community Team is planning for the Global Bug Jam.
There are still quite a few details for us [...]
Posted in Collaboration, Documentation, Website, Xubuntu on Jun 8th, 2008
Cody Somerville has been writing quite a bit lately about what’s going on with Xubuntu, focusing a lot on the strategy document and some technical goals for the next release, but we also have a couple of other things in the works – some items that are kind of on the fringes of the distro, [...]
Posted in Collaboration, Desktop Linux, Documentation, Teamwork, Xubuntu on Mar 25th, 2008
The Xubuntu documentation for 8.04 is done, and the doc-centered folks are now working on updating the wiki. There are still quite a few holes in it for now, but we’re working fairly quickly. I like the new menu bar. It makes it easy to get around.
Also, I know it’s not much notice, but tomorrow [...]
Posted in Collaboration, Documentation, Xubuntu on Oct 30th, 2007
The Ubuntu documentation team has recently migrated all flavors of *Ubuntu documentation from Subversion over to Bazaar. There are now separate branch repositories for each of the flavors, and instructions on how to download the repositories (and how to submit your changes) are up on the Ubuntu wiki. Thanks to Matthew East and a few [...]
Posted in Collaboration, Documentation, Xubuntu on Aug 15th, 2007
After thinking things through for a while, I finally got around to making a few updates to j1m.net. Previously I had everything over on j1m.net/chi-ubuntu, but I’m moving my posting activities over to the root page of my site. I’m still working on Xubuntu (quite a bit), and I’m still a member of [...]
Posted in Collaboration, Documentation, Xubuntu on Jun 22nd, 2007
Things have been pretty hectic lately. It seems like there’s always too much to do in Chicago in the summertime. I’m excited about what is in store, though. Freddy Martinez and I have been working on Xubuntu documentation, basing it largely off of Ubuntu’s Feisty documentation, and we have to submit our first set of [...]
Posted in Collaboration, Desktop Linux, Documentation, Xubuntu on May 16th, 2007
Tonight I went to a couple of Linux-related events after work, and I’m glad I made it out. I first went to an initial set-up meeting for a Chicago Gnome user group. We had some informal discussions about Gnome, and what a Gnome user group might be and do in the city.
Kevin is [...]
Posted in Collaboration, Desktop Linux, Xubuntu on Mar 21st, 2007
I went to the organizational meeting for Free Geek Chicago last Wednesday night, and got pretty inspired about what the group doing.
Free Geek Chicago is kind of like Habitat for Humanity, but for computers. Basically, people can work at the facility for 20 hours (over several weeks), and then earn a free computer. People can [...]
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