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September 2010

Awesome Badgets for Southern Ontario Hackerspace Conference

Wed, 09/29/2010 - 14:13 — txwikinger

More information for the Southern Ontario Hackerspace Conference has just come in! The participants will receive badges that double as experimental boards for an ARM micro-controller.

Remember, this particular board is only available at SoOnCon 2010! So register now!

Only a few tickets left for the Southern Ontario Hackerspace Conference

Mon, 09/27/2010 - 15:02 — txwikinger

Hackers from Windsor, London, GTA, Toronto, Hamilton, Ottawa, Waterloo Region and other approximate areas in Southern Ontario need to hurry to buy tickets for this year's Southern Ontario Hackerspace Conference.

Tickets can be obtained here.

Famous Waterloo Region Release Party for Maverick Meerkat

Mon, 09/27/2010 - 14:53 — txwikinger

On October 16, 2010, another occurrence of the already famous Ubuntu release parties will be happening in Kitchener, Ontario in the Kwartzlab. This time, we will be celebrating the release of Maverick Meerkat which will be released on October 10. The event will be organised by the Ubuntu Canada LoCo.

Software Freedom Day in Kitchener - Waterloo Region, Ontario - Reminder

Fri, 09/17/2010 - 10:00 — txwikinger

Just a reminder, that tomorrow is Software Freedom Day and the local event for Kitchener, Waterloo Region in Ontario will be in the Kwartzlab. I hope many will find the time in their busy lives to come by and bring with them some friends that are not so familiar with open source yet. We will even have a drawing for computers that we will give away. More information in the earlier post.

SoOnCon 2010 - Hackerspace Conference for Southern Ontario

Thu, 09/16/2010 - 13:45 — txwikinger

On 1-2 October 2010, SoOnCon will be held in Kitchener, Ontario. SoOnCon is the Southern Ontario Hackerspaces & Makers Mini-Conference.

Tickets can be obtained already, and soon more information about all the talks and presentation at the conference will be available too.

Ubuntu.stackexchange has passed the 3000 answer milestone

Thu, 09/16/2010 - 12:22 — txwikinger

In less than 50 days, the Ubuntu stackexchange site has reached a new milstone - 3000 answers. Thanks for everybody who has participated so far. Please continue on to make sure that we reach more users of Ubuntu and its flavors and makes it easier for people to use and participate in free software as Mark Shuttleworth explains so eloquently.

Evolution does not follow a path guided by scientific categories

Thu, 09/09/2010 - 00:17 — txwikinger

Some of the discussions about the divergence or convergence of
the two stackexchanges sites Ubuntu and Unix/Linux shows that the discussion is lead not on the same dimension, but on two different ones.

The proponents of a convergence have a scientific categorization in mind, a taxonomy, similar to the way plants and animals are categorized, or the Dewey Decimal system in a library.

For these dimension of thinkers, sites that are subsets of one another, or sites that have considerable overlap in the possible set of questions are an aberration. It does not fit in the universe of this style of thinking.

The other dimension come from the observation of the communities. Communities do not grow according to the taxonomy scientist like to use. Taxonomies are simplifications which might be accurate for the purpose of a limited observation sufficient for the particular science. However, they are not sufficient for the needs and feelings of the communities.

Ubuntu.stackexchange has passed the 1000 question milestone

Wed, 09/08/2010 - 22:35 — txwikinger

After only 41 days, the Ubuntu stackexchange site has reached a new milstone - 1000 questions. Thanks for everybody who has participated so far. Please continue on to make sure we will reach more than 2000 questions before the end of the public beta.

Software Freedom Day in Kitchener/Waterloo, Ontario

Mon, 09/06/2010 - 00:33 — txwikinger

It is again the time of the year when we celebrate software freedom day!

This year the Software Freedom Day 2010 will occur in the Kwartlab. This event is a cooperation between Ubuntu Canada (Kitchener/Waterloo Chapter), KWLUG and the Working Centre.

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Ubuntu stackexchange site will continue as it is

Sun, 09/05/2010 - 12:35 — txwikinger

The Ubuntu stackexchange site will continue as it is, as its own entity, in parallel with the other site for Unix and Linux questions. Thanks for all the support so far from everybody who participated. We have now more than 2000 Users and coming close to 1000 questions of which 95% have been answered.

Please continue to help this site growing and make it a good place for Ubuntu users to find answers!