Meeting users where they are
With both a two-day conference and a three-day sprint, the Open Help Conference made for a busy week, but I must say that it was a success. We had people there from Gnome, Mozilla, OpenStack, Red Hat, BSD, as well as people who were interested in learning about open-source help. Everyone had something to share. [...]
Open Help Conference, 2011
I’m in Cincinnati in advance of the Open Help Conference, an event organized around open source docs, and the building of community documentation efforts in commercial projects. The conference will kick-off this evening with a social event, and will continue (with both the conference and post-conference docs hackfests) through Wednesday. The event has some great [...]
My UDS in photos
Here’s a few pictures from UDS: Saying goodbye to Matt Zimmerman at the UDS opening keynote. It took me until Friday to thank Matt for his advocacy around women’s issues, as well as LGBT and gender issues. There aren’t many people in positions such as his who do so, so many thanks, Matt. Best of [...]
Ubuntu documentation at UDS: A summary
Now that my week at the Ubuntu Developer Summit is over, and I have completed my safe flight back, I thought I would write up a blog post about my experience while I complete my recovery from jet lag. My week at UDS was a challenging week. A great week. A week in which I [...]
Flourish Open Source Conference – Call for Speakers
The University of Illinois at Chicago is once again planning to host their Flourish Open Source conference, and have put out a call for speakers. The event will be held April 1-3, 2011, on the university’s campus on the near Northwest side of Chicago. Though the conference is run by student volunteers, you wouldn’t know [...]
Project News & Status Updates
Here’s a somewhat quick run-down of some projects with-which I’ll be participating, and some other projects that, while I might not be a direct participant, I am curious to watch develop. Xfce Updates I see the LXDE project get a good amount of attention lately, in large part (I think) because it uses somewhat less [...]
Upcoming FLOSS-related Events in the Midwest
Here’s a quick rundown of some upcoming Free and Open-Source software events in the Chicagoland / greater-midwest area. Saturday and Sunday, August 21 and 22, 2010: Barcamp Chicago Running all day and night this Saturday and Sunday 215 E. Ohio Street in downtown Chicago Numerous presentations, and a “BarCompany” startup hackathon Sunday, August 29: Ubuntu [...]
