Open Source Comes to Campus NEIU Chicago, April 26th

On Saturday, April 26th, there is going to be an Open Source Comes to Campus event at Northeastern Illinois University. It's open to all students. I've been helping a bit with organizing it and I'll be mentoring at the event. If you'd like to learn the basics and make your first contribution to FOSS, please follow the link below and sign up :) 
http://chicago.openhatch.org/#signup

Hope to see you then, and happy hacking.

GNOME & LUG & Flourish!

I'm going to be running a GNOME and LUG booth tomorrow at Flourish! Other members of the LUG -- Jim Campbell, Lincoln Bryant, and eviljoel -- are also going to be stopping by to help out at various points during the day. One of our group's founding members, Chris Webber (MediaGoblin*) is speaking about The Road Ahead for Network Freedom at 2 pm so I'm skipping out on booth-tending for that. If you are around, be sure to come by and say hello to us :)

* I've helpfully linked to the MediaGoblin campaign page, in case you forgot to donate :)

Hacking + Talks + February

LUG + Hack Saturday, February 22nd 
We'll be meeting on Saturday, February 22nd at Pumping Station: One (3519 N Elston, Chicago).  If you'd like to come by early and hack we should be there at around 12 pm.  
Formal talks will start at 2 pm. Lincoln Bryant of the University of Chicago will give a talk on how university sysadmins use Puppet to manage their servers. We may have an additional speaker lined-up within the next few days. You can RSVP on meetup.com.

Chipy Project Night
Chipy has their first monthly project night coming up on Thursday, February 27th from 6:30 pm to 9 pm at Braintree (111 N Canal St, Suite 455, Chicago). RSVP: meetup again :)

Writing about FOSS Diversity for opensource.com

Today Opensource.com published an article I wrote about my experiences as a FOSS contributor, the strategies I've learned to promote diversity, and why I feel diversity is important. If that kind of topic interests you you can read it :)

Happy reading, and happy hacking!

Chicago LUG Meeting Saturday, January 18th at 2 pm

We'll be having the monthly Chicago LUG meeting on Saturday, January 18th, at 2 pm, at Pumping Station: One (3517 N Elston Ave, Chicago, IL). Drew Fustini (Element 14) will be presenting on Beaglebone Black, a hackable development platform similar to the Raspberry Pi, but built using open hardware.

I'm planning to show up at noon to hack on GNOME stuff (you can show up too), and there will most likely be some hacking time after Drew's talk.

Videos from last month's talks are on the interwebz now: you can find Jeff Schroeder's talk "Twelve Days of Metrics: Graphite for the Masses" by simply clicking this enticing link disguised as a sentence fragment, and you can view Bonnie King's "(Red Hat) Software Collections" in basically the same way.

See you all on the 18th. Happy hacking :)