Event Report – BarCamp Rochester

Last Updated on Wednesday, 22 April 2009 12:53 Written by Brian Wednesday, 22 April 2009 12:52

This past Saturday I made the trip out to Rochester for the BarCamp being held there. Much to my surprise it was very FOSS oriented and friendly. I got the chance to meet up with a few fellow Ambassadors / Fedorians : Karlie Robinson ; Charles Profitt ; Luke Macken ; and Remy DeCausemaker.

Karlie held a talk on the OLPC and the 4th Grade Math Project which was ulimately the reason I attended the event and there was quite a bit of interest in the project from BarCampers.

Luke and Remy did a talk on civx.us – an Open Source Public Government Information System

I also attended a talk on OpenStreetMap which I found quite interesting.

Due to a previous commitment I was unable to stay for the entire event but I am plan on and look forward to attending the next event.

Fedora on XO

Last Updated on Tuesday, 7 October 2008 03:04 Written by Brian Tuesday, 7 October 2008 03:03

I was one of the lucky ones to be selected to help test Fedora on XO.

So I went out and purchased the required Sandisk Extreme III 4 gig SD Card needed for this and the only thing missing was the XO itself.

I just received a call from my wife that the XO has arrived at my home just in time for my scheduled testing block tomorrow evening. I am really stoked about testing and filing bug reports on the XO.

So now I am counting down the seconds left at work so I can get home and finally see this “Green Machine”