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Coffee Shops Network: September 2014

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Friday, September 5, 2014. From a followup email to someone I met at a conference (one typo fixed):. Thanks for getting back to me. We were at the same table is all, and I have your business card. Win a game, send a dollar to the World Wild Life Fund from the donut. Posted by Kirby Urner. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Code School Meets Art School.

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Control Room: OSCON 2015 Begins!

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Monday, July 20, 2015. Holden is in from the UK and we met up with Patrick and Deke at Hop House. Last night. Today, he and I were both in the Docker tutorial. Brilliantly presented and organized by Andrew Baker, with Twilio in DC. He had a large number of Ubuntu cloud instances ready to give us each one-on-one access to a docker-ready platform. I met up with Alex Martelli then rejoined Steve and we shortly adjourned to lunch, in the vast "Holodeck" as some call it, in the Oregon Convention Center, there...

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Control Room: ISEPP Kick Off: 2013-2014

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Thursday, November 21, 2013. ISEPP Kick Off: 2013-2014. Terry picked a great speaker to kick off the lecture season this year. Eric Drexler is a clear thinker who really helped get the ball rolling on nanotechnology. Skip Rung, ONAMI director, gave the intro for obvious reasons. These would work together in nano-factories to produce nano objects by the billions. This kind of thing already happens in the electronics industry. We're already surrounded by nano-devices and maybe don't call them that.

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Control Room: USDLA Keynote

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Monday, April 27, 2015. Hal Plotkin, with experience in the Obama administration, is now with Creative Commons. His abbreviated history of the copyleft movement (skipping the GNU / GPL. Chapter) led to this punch line: in some scenarios, dropping proprietary content in favor of equally high qualtiy open content saves enough money to assure students get a properly equipped personal workspace to get on-line. A focus of Hal's keynote was CC-by. Above) and learn about some success stories. We got some statis...

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Control Room: Discipline and Record Keeping

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Friday, July 17, 2015. Discipline and Record Keeping. Although many Friends don't think of it this way, keeping accurate and complete records falls under the Truth Testimony. Are these records to be believed? If the answer is "no" then we may conclude:. A) they're meant as fiction (storytelling) perhaps with embedded teachings. B) they're obsolete (out of date) and in that sense misinforming. C) they're deliberately misinforming. D) the records are riddled with outright lies. Are slouches, Some NGOs have...

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Control Room: Asynchronous Learning Engine (ALE)

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Sunday, August 02, 2015. Asynchronous Learning Engine (ALE). I created a stub outline of an Asynchronous Learning Engine on GitHub today (link below). That may sound impressive however all the classes are abstract stubs, with an underlying metaphor. The implementation is left as an exercise. Some are in a hurry, some not. Some have time to study hard, others have only tiny windows in their day, to inch ahead. Few if any synchronized events are required therefore. It's not about all moving in ...The Fligh...

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Control Room: Of Kepler and Aristotle

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Saturday, July 25, 2015. Of Kepler and Aristotle. I've grown in both my respect and understanding for several historical figures in recent years, Descartes and Mercator in particular. Both had to navigate in the treacherous waters of fear, based in strife among namespaces. Religious wars were rampant in other words. Mercator ended up in jail for a spell, whereas Descartes. Johannes Kepler, however, I'd come to appreciate much earlier, through Arthur Koestler's works. Here was a guy really into. The disco...

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Control Room: Management by Rotation

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Tuesday, December 11, 2007. Usually the CEO, CTO and CFO of a company have their faces published in various glossy annual reports, on coffee mugs or whatever, so their ability to "blend in". Among the rank and file is compromised. A 2nd tier manager enjoys more anonymity, plus may have been recruited from within the company to begin with, so won't be seen as "just clowning around" if she or he joins a baggage handling team or some IT project for a spell on the front lines. As a neophyte apprentice, a "lo...

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Control Room: Go Humans Go

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Sunday, November 08, 2009. I attended Quakers' Adult Education session. This morning, Bridge City Friends Meeting. We had a large group, including some out-of-towners attending a steering committee meeting at the Annual level (Quakers rank their meetings in terms of their business meeting's frequency, from yearly. Like NPYM) to quarterly. Like WQM) to monthy. BCFM being a monthly meeting) . Our topic was Witness. Sections thereon heading into our new Faith and Practice. Yes, you could say Quaker oats was...