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Meg Ford: November 2013
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Saturday, November 30, 2013. Unbricking the OLPC XO-1.75 B1. A really long time ago I went to the X.Org conference in Chicago. It was actually the first tech conference I went to. At one point I nervously poured cream into the coffee tray instead of my cup; at a different point I signed up for a list to receive a developer version of the XO 1.75. The OLPC did actually send me one, but it was bricked. I installed the Screen package on Fedora, changed some permissions so Screen could access the new firmwar...
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Meg Ford: April 2014
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Thursday, April 17, 2014. 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.
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Meg Ford: January 2014
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Monday, January 6, 2014. 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. And you can view Bonnie King's "(Red Hat) Software Collections" in basically the same way. Posted by Meg Ford.
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Meg Ford: October 2012
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Wednesday, October 31, 2012. GNIGHTS of GNOME Hackfest Report. If you are interested in coming to a future meeting, we will be posting updates on the new Chicago LUG site. See you next time. Posted by Meg Ford. Thursday, October 18, 2012. GNIGHTS of GNOME Hackfest October 27. And me, with lots of local hackers and FOSS enthusiasts stopping by to hang out, ask questions, and talk about their own projects). The local North Side hackerspace here in Chicago. If you are in Chicago, come and hack with us!
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Meg Ford: GNOME & LUG & Flourish!
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Friday, April 4, 2014. GNOME and LUG and 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 :).
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Meg Ford: June 2013
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Sunday, June 23, 2013. Sound Recorder: Update Two. I spent the past week working mainly on backend code for the listview. I found that most of my effort this week went to figuring out how the necessary classes functioned. To start with, last week I stole some code. After reading some code over and over (mainly selections.js. Pointed me to some Gst.Discoverer code in Totem. Posted by Meg Ford. Saturday, June 15, 2013. Sound Recorder, Update One. So I have indeed been coding. The backend functions. I'v...
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Meg Ford: February 2014
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Saturday, February 8, 2014. LUG Hack Saturday, February 22nd. We'll be meeting on Saturday, February 22nd at Pumping Station: One (. 3519 N Elston,. 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. 111 N Canal St, Suite 455,.
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Meg Ford: September 2013
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Sunday, September 22, 2013. GSoC Final Report: GNOME Sound Recorder. State of the Sound Recorder. As I reported last week, I finished my scheduled tasks for the Sound Recorder project. I spent last weekend doing code cleanup and fixing a few bugs before Pencils Down happened on Monday. Earlier this week I tagged a release and pushed my codebase to git.gnome.org. What I learned about coding. For doing an amazing job this summer. Happy hacking :). Posted by Meg Ford. Tuesday, September 17, 2013. This Satur...
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Meg Ford: May 2014
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No posts. Show all posts. No posts. Show all posts. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). MS Computer Science, Northeastern Illinois University. Thesis: Natural Language Processing, Twitter, and Domestic Violence. BFA, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. My thesis was on Bauhaus. I maintain GNOME's Sound Recorder. Application and co-organize the Chicago LUG. View my complete profile. Ethereal template. Powered by Blogger.
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