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Mike McNeil
Founder & CTO at Balderdash and creator of Sails.js
Front Dev 2
Sails.js: Rags to...Open Source
How to back up a Debian system using backupninja
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Steven Vaughan-Nichols
Contributing Editor with ComputerWorld and Columnist CBS/ZDNet
Business
Open Source, Marketing, and Using the Press
Bill Shelton
Software Development Team Lead for Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Open Gov/Data
Out in the Open – A Case Study of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s Open Source Program
Ross Mason
Founder & VP Product Strategy Mulesoft
MidDay Keynote
The Second Digital Revolution is Here. Are You Ready for Hyperconnectivity?
Steven Vaughan-Nichols
Contributing Editor with ComputerWorld and Columnist CBS/ZDNet
Business
Open Source, Marketing, and Using the Press
How to back up a Debian system using backupninja
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I love these Norwegian oat biscuits, and that is partly because they have freed the recipe on the packet. Think of the possibilities for product development the company can draw from its consumers. A shame they haven't opened for a rich conversation.
Pamela Vickers
Software Developer with Big Nerd Ranch, Atlanta Rails Girls
Business
Your Company Culture is Awesome (But is Company Culture a Lie?)
AJ is presenting on cartography for the web and mobiles, with an emphasis on using open source tools, at the North American Cartographic Information Society's annual meeting. More details here: developmentseed.org/blog/2011/oct/11/presenting-cartograp...
Women in Technology Panel
Moderated by DeLisa Alexander
Featuring Dr. Megan Squire, Elizabeth Joseph, Erica Stanley, Estelle Weyl, Karen Sandler
How to back up a Debian system using backupninja
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Panel featuring Yehuda Katz, Steve Klabnik, Sean Massa & Erin Ritchie
Back Dev
The Culture of Open Source
Women in Technology Panel
Moderated by DeLisa Alexander
Featuring Dr. Megan Squire, Elizabeth Joseph, Erica Stanley, Estelle Weyl, Karen Sandler
Pamela Vickers
Software Developer with Big Nerd Ranch, Atlanta Rails Girls
Business
Your Company Culture is Awesome (But is Company Culture a Lie?)
Nathen Harvey
Co-Host of Food Fight Show & Director of Community and #LEARNCHEF / Chef
DevOps
Introduction to Infrastructure as Code & Automation / Introduction to Chef
Over the holiday (fifteen glorious days off) I found myself on a TAADD (Technology assisted attention deficit disorder) binge. It started with one PC that I wanted to format and gift to a less fortunate family, it then moved to gathering and setting up four more, this led to Open Source software experimentation. I am now sitting in bed with my trusty hound at my feet, writing in OpenOffice Writer in place of MS Word. I am not even sure why, perhaps I was infected with an OpenSource virus or something.
In setting up the gift PC's I decided that I should give Ubuntu a shot. I had read here and there that it was a well built interface that was a good crossover for Linux noobs. Wow, I am impressed. This isn't a first timers reaction either. As an IT provisional I do my yearly(ish) visit to OpenSource land to check out the growth and try to assess it's place in my world. I guess it has been too long.
The installation
The two machines that I set up were old HP Pavilion's running inadequate RAM and tired 1.3 GHZ Celeron processors. They were machines that have been shelved for about 5 years and were slated for the recycling center. I downloaded the latest ISO (8.10) from ubuntu.com and burned it to a CD. I popped it in and the installer took me through a few painless steps before launching into a long unattended process. The most difficult part for a beginner or non-nerd would be making the right choices in the partition module. For these installs it was an easy choice to delete all and carry out a clean installation. After about forty minutes, I was asked to reboot and the system was ready for some action.
The Interface
I found Ubuntu to be intuitive, stylish and surprisingly quick given the crap hardware that it was running on. For an avid windows user there were two notable distractions. The first was the taskbar being located across the top. This was easily corrected (or ruined depending on your perspective) by clicking-dragging it to the bottom of the screen. The second distraction was the single-click execution with the mouse. Users who have never experienced Mac or Linux desktops might be a bit confused about this. I knew about it from previous experiences and still found myself double-clicking everything. I am sure that in time this would become a learned adjustment.
The Software
This was one part that I was sincerely impressed with. When I traversed the options in the applications menu I found the OpenOffice 2.4 suite (all comparable with MS Office), Firefox, Evolution Email, a slick note taking / cataloging tool called TomBoy, F-Stop and Gimp for the digital photography buff, and RythymBox for digital media. This was all right out of the default install. Because I was set up in the “batcave” where I only have wireless access, I was not able to really kick the tires on the web software (no wifi card available).
Conclusion
All in all, this OS has got to be the best OpenSource solution that I have seen. It's out of the box functionality and intuitive interface make it a great choice for use on recycled or re-purposed hardware. I have been planning on adding a lunch-room PC at work for our warehouse staff, I think that I will be using Ubuntu to see what kinds of “average user” reactions I get.
Panel featuring Yehuda Katz, Steve Klabnik, Sean Massa & Erin Ritchie
Back Dev
The Culture of Open Source