Our mission is to advocate Ubuntu and Free Software in the Washington, DC area, with a particular focus on educational applications. We frequently collaborate with the OLPC and SugarLab folks. We are open to all Ubuntu enthusiasts and users.
You can also find us at http://dc.ubuntuforums.org/ and http://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-districtofcolumbia/.
Software Freedom Day at the 33rd Takoma Park Folk Festival
Still waiting for confirmation (as of 2010.07.29), but if the check is eventually cashed by festival officials, we'll be tabling once again at the Takoma Park Folk Festival.
7611 Piney Branch Rd. (near Rt. 410)
Takoma Park, MD
Festival details at http://tpff.org/.
Open Source for Orgs presentation from 2008
Attached is a pair of PDF's created from a presentation by Kevin Cole, Mackenzie Morgan, and Nick Wheeler on February 23, 2008. The OpenOffice.org presentation is also available, but the configuration here maxes out at 1 MB per upload, and the presentation weighs in at 4.1 MB. C'est la vie.
Ubuntu DC LoCo InstallFest
| WHAT: | Ubuntu DC LoCo Installfest |
| WHERE: | Sunlight Foundation 1818 N Street NW, Suite 300 Washington, DC 20036 |
| WHEN: | 5:30pm to 8:30pm, Friday, May 21 2010 |
| WHY: | We're celebrating the release of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS by helping out anybody who wants to with the upgrade experience. Bring your friends! |
Lucid (10.4) Release Party
Dan writes:
Come join fellow Ubuntu enthusiasts and developers of Free/Libre/Open Source Software at the 10.04 Long Term Support release party! We'll be at Taste of India immediately off the Metrorail red line (Woodley Park/Adams Morgan/Zoo) from noon until whenever this Saturday, May 1, 2010. Feel free to bring guests, your laptops, netbooks, empty USB thumb drives, etc., for a rollickin' good time!
Best,
-Dan
Reapproved!
The DC LoCo team was just unanimously reapproved by the Ubuntu LoCo Council! Yay!
Free Culture X (FC X)
Students for Free Culture is convening the international free culture community for two days of networking, learning and acting. Free Culture X, the 2010 conference of SFC, will take place on February 13th and 14th at George Washington University in Washington, D.C.
FOSE 2010
Once again the Federal Office Systems Expo (FOSE) rolls into the Walter E. Washington Convention Center. The official details can be found at http://www.fose.com/Events/FOSE-2010/Home.aspx
And, once again, the local geeks will be representin'. The scheduling wiki can be found at http://cyberigor.com/fose/ and the mailing list at http://calypso.tux.org/mailman/listinfo/fose
BarCamp DC 3
Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library
901 G Street NW Washington DC 20001
(between Gallery Place / Chinatown and Metro Center stations)
http://barcampdc3.eventbrite.com/
Installfest for Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala
WHEN
Wednesday Nov 11, 5:30pm until.....eh when we finish we finish. Probably around 8-9pm.
(Why a Wednesday instead of Friday this time? Students never show up! We think they're too busy partying so, we're trying a non-party night)
Takoma Park Folk Festival photos are up
Or, at least some of them are. On Flickr, they are tagged both "tpff" and "TPFF 2009" (there are "TPFF 2008" ones from last year) and "ubuntu" as well, so if you have more to upload there, please tag. There were several people with cameras, but here's what's tagged as "TPFF 2009" and "ubuntu" so far.
