Archive for the ‘conference’ Category
Sunday, April 21st, 2013
Exact flavors subject to change! Many will be in small batches, and disappear fast.
Ingredients will be available each LN2 session to make non-dairy and/or no-sugar-added frozen treats, along with various toppings and mix-ins such as bacon maple syrup.
LN2 Good Intentions
Friday night, 11pm-1am
Chocolate Ice Cream (yeah, just plain chocolate)
Zesty Lemon ...
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Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012
Penguicon is the annual volunteer-run convention combining open source software, science fiction, food geekery, and more in one swell DIY-in-Detroit package! I'll write up details of my Penguicon 2012 experience soon, but first I wanted to say what a great job Penguicon did at running their ...
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Sunday, October 23rd, 2011
I used to work at a company that provided logistics and supply chain management solutions. I've also been to large outdoor events, and been an active participant in professional conferences and geekfests of various flavors. Prompted by a disaster I ran into yesterday, I'm sharing some tips I've learned along ...
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Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011
I enjoyed what I got to do at Penguicon this year (this weekend just past), including
Technical:
Giving a technical presentation: There were about 12 attendees for my Continuous Integration talk Sunday morning (see description in comments). There were a few sysadmin types; most were developers, most from small ...
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Friday, June 13th, 2008
Jack Vinson's impressions of a recent conference caught my eye. I'm not crazy about the name (I so much prefer "participatory web" to web/anything "2.0"), but I know I'm fighting against the tide here. Anyway, several interesting bits:
"The Wachovia presentation this morning appears to have opened some people's eyes on ...
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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 ...
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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
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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