This blog post by a teacher who's migrating his school IT system to an open-source infrastructure just came up on the Ubuntu-ie mailing list. It's happening in Northern Ireland but still goes on the list of "Irish schools using open-source" :)
That's really cool. The comments promise a follow-up post, I …
read moreArmed with my laptop and some notes, which I had spent the previous evening annotating then annotating the annotations, I stepped into the room where I was to teach my 7 (actually 6) students the basics of programming and Python.
The short version is, I think it went well. There …
read moreOn Wednesday, I will be teaching a small group of teenagers how to program, using Python. I'm both extremely enthusiastic about this, and scared out of my mind. As the day actually approaches, my mood tends to oscillate toward the latter more often :)
I have prepared some material... I think …
read moreThere were quite a few talks about Gnome, I'm going to highlight here 3 of them.
The first talk was about bug triaging in Gnome. I can't believe there are only 5 active bug triagers in the project (as in, people fully focused on cleaning up the bug …
I barely took any pictures at FOSDEM this year, so I'm going to steal (with credit!) pictures from various Flickr streams.
Saturday morning began with the customary welcome keynote, with a little twist for the FOSDEM dance (heh!). Wireless was up and running well before 12.00, which was a …
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