Archive for the ‘conference’ Category

OLPC Penguicon Roundtable notes

Thursday, May 1st, 2008

 Benjamin Mako Hill (Penguicon Guest of Honor, OLPC Common Resources developer, and of other fame) joined us, so the roundtable started with a 15-minute Q&A with him (I hope he was ok with that; the panelists (Frank Schreiber, cmdln, and I) hadn't really come up with a game plan for ...

OLPC Roundtable at Penguicon 2008: Links

Thursday, May 1st, 2008

Links relevant to the post I will make shortly: Benjamin Mako Hill Benjamin Mako Hill's entry about Penguicon BMH after Negroponte's remarks OLPC changes and uncertainty OLPC developers are not open source fundamentalists Disruption and Hope Back to the Roundtable: cmdln's detailed write-up of Mako's comments at the start photo 1 photo 2

Penguicon 2008 Overview

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

Due to unavoidable circumstances, I was unable to make it to the con (in Michigan) until Saturday night, but I did make it to the Giant Singing Tesla Coil and the Hampster Dance, and then was able to assist with the making of 6 liquid nitrogen ice cream flavors that night.   From midnight until past 2 am :  mint irish cream triple chocolate cinammon orange creamsicle vanilla raspberry another chocolate soda slushies Sunday, ...

Co-Paneling at Penguicon 2008

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

Penguicon 2008 is almost here!   Guests of Honor include Jono Bacon (Ubuntu Community Manager for Canonical), Benjamin Mako Hill (Debian/GNU, MIT Media Lab, Free Software Foundation, Ubuntu, Wikimedia), and Vernor Vinge (multiple-Hugo-winning science fiction author, computing visionary).  I'll be participating, too!  I'm on two panels, both on Sunday, April ...

Exhibiting Linux and XOs at FOSE

Sunday, April 6th, 2008

This Thursday, I helped out at the Tux.org booth at FOSE.  Tux is the name of the Linux mascot penguin.  TUX is a network of Linux User Groups (like the Northern Virginia group to whom I presented the OLPC XO user interface, journal system, etc. in February).  FOSE is the ...

Liveblogging the January NoVaLUG meeting

Saturday, January 5th, 2008

This  morning I'm at the Northern Virginia Linux User Group meeting.  The topic is photo management software for Linux (presentation by Theodore Ruegsegger), but they also asked anyone with an  XO to bring it along, so Jonathan Blocksom put the word out on the One Laptop Per Child Learning Club ...

OLPC News DC Meetup A Success

Thursday, November 15th, 2007

... even if the XO mesh/wi-fi wasn't.  At the peak of the get-together, there were 25-30 people talking with each other and looking at all the different laptops, tablets, e-book readers (and one step-powered portable emergency power generator).  OLPC News write-up, pictures, and links to many more pictures will give you the ...

Blogging Panels at Penguicon

Monday, April 30th, 2007

After my Knowledge Gardening talk was accepted for Penguicon 5.0, Matt Arnold the Programming Wrangler copied me on email asking who was interested in co-panelling on [a list of possible topics]. I picked "Blogging Your Life Without Losing Your Job, Or Your Mind", and emailed my co-panelists ...

Talking ’bout my Presentation

Friday, April 27th, 2007

My Knowledge Gardening talk at Penguicon went very well. I was delighted with the interest in my talk and the discussion afterwards. I had put in a lot of prep time putting what I knew into slide format and researching examples (saved to my links library) of knowledge ...

The Future of Learning

Wednesday, April 11th, 2007

I've been getting ready for Penguicon coming up next weekend, putting Knowledge Gardening slides together and re-working them after a dry run, looking at other slides/presentation technology (S5) for later consideration, and so on. If I weren't going there, though, I might be tempted to run down to NC for ...

Looking forward: Presenting at Penguicon!

Tuesday, March 27th, 2007

Penguicon is an open source / science fiction con mashup. Penguicon 5.0 will take place April 20-22, 2007, in Troy, Michigan. They're estimating they'll get about 800 attendees this year. Geekery will abound, from Nanotech Safety to Security and Psychology to Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream. Guests ...

NSF Town Hall at CIKM 2006

Thursday, March 22nd, 2007

An unscheduled event at the ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management was a presentation by Le Gruenwald from the NSF, all about their restructuring (what was going where, what was going away, and what new stuff was coming in) and what that meant to the grant application process.  I wrote down ...

CIKM, WIDM 2006 Papers

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007

If you missed CIKM 2006, you could get a copy of the proceedings from the ACM.  Conveniently, they distributed the papers to attendees (one disk of CIKM, one of WIDM).  Some of the more interesting papers not mentioned in the links in my previous entry: Mining Blog Stories using Community-based and Temporal ...

Conference on Information and Knowledge Management 2006

Tuesday, March 20th, 2007

Jeff Heard's review last week of his favorite paper from CIKM 2006 reminds me that I never got around to writing up the same ACM conference I attended in November (it was in DC ... the next one's overseas, out of my reach).  I looked around to see if anyone had saved me the ...

Lunacon and Libraries and Geek Spaces, oh my!

Monday, March 19th, 2007

This weekend I attended Lunacon, a science fiction/fantasy convention in New York (state).  The most interesting panel I attended was "Libraries in Fact and (Science) Fiction" -- panelists included librarians (mostly academic, from what I could tell) and a science fiction writer.   The moderator, Sharon Foster, had heard of the ...