350 Free Linux Computers for Northern California Schools
Last month I blogged several times about the then upcoming Alameda County Computer Resource Center and Untangle "Installfest for Schools" event.
With a good deal of support from the local free software and open source community, the event seems to have come off beautifully - working together, volunteers managed to assemble 350 working computers for schools [...]
SCALE 6x: Wrapup - People
While I met a lot of great people at SCALE (Michael, Moose, Sharon and a host more) I had generally interesting non-private discussions with (or observations about) the following:
Allison Randal - OSCON co-chair and Parrot architect - gave a great presentation on Parrot and an excellent low-stress guide to effective speaking. We also spent some [...]
SCALE 6x: Getting Back
By Sunday morning, SCALE had wound down. Various participants were scattered around the hotel lobby – chatting about the previous days, waiting for shuttles with their bags and napping after a few to many late night discussions. Outside the hotel, a small army of police had gathered in the wake of an unfortunate window-washer falling [...]
Planning my SCALE 6x Attendance
In about a week, I'll be heading down to Los Angeles to participate in SCALE 6x, the sixth annual Southern California Linux Expo. In addition to visiting the event, I'll be giving my Age of Literate Machines presentation, updated for 2008 and supported by more research. I'll be joining another Mozillion - Chris Blizzard, who [...]
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2007 MySQL Users Conference
I wonder how many people will attend a session at a tech conference where the start of the description reads as follows:
Hey You! Yes, You! Manager, marketeer, sales professional: are you tired of 98lb weaklings kicking silicon in your face?
I am thinking this way because my friends at MySQL AB are putting on another MySQL [...]
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About Zak Greant: Bio and Background
Hi! My name is Zak Greant and I've tired of writing things in the third person (at least for today.)
I own a strategic consultancy called Foo Associates – we help technology organizations adapt to and thrive on the electronic frontier. We're a tiny shop, but we've got great clients (like eZ Systems AS and the [...]
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PHP Con West
This year's PHP Con West is happening from October 21st to 24th in Santa Clara, California. The usual suspects will be speaking - with the exception of Rasmus. I have a session on the first day of the conference (after the code sprint and tutorial days) titled Opening the Toybox: A Hands-on Overview of MySQL's [...]
The Devil and the Penguin Speaker Notes
My speakers notes for presentation that I gave at the Southern California Linux Expo are available here.
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I will be at the Southern California Linux Expo for most of the day and will be presenting a talk at 1500 on Free/Open Source Software licensing, use and community issues.
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Home, home, home…
This trip has been different than the rest - I have never spent so long of a time in California and never before in L.A. and everything here feels subtly different. The city is so strange - miles of crouched low buildings, desolate freeways, broad streets that whisper "dusk" from deep in the backs their [...]