[olug] New OLUG member - Phil Shapiro (Takoma Park, MD)

[Joseph Gulizia]

Welcome....I think you are the furthest East.... I think one OLUGger is/was
in Vegas vying for furthest West.
On Oct 23, 2015 11:34 AM, "Phil Shapiro" <pshapiro at his.com> wrote:

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> Hi everyone -
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> I'm an open source enthusiast who recently joined OLUG. I live a bit out
> of town (around 1,149 miles),
> so I won't be able to make it to all meetings, but I'm going to enjoy
> participating virtually.
>
>
> At my day job, I work at a public library in Takoma Park, Maryland, a
> suburb of Washington DC.
> This library has 28 Linux stations available seven days a week. I help the
> youth and adults use our computer stations.
>
>
> I also write for MAKE magazine and Opensource.com -- a community resource
> sponsored by Red Hat.
> In my free time I love taking donated computers to people who don't have
> them. I also like making
> YouTube videos of various kinds.
>
>
> For an upcoming OLUG meeting, maybe someone might want to show multiseat
> computing using
> Fedora or Ubuntu. I'm familiar with multiseat on Fedora -- which is what
> my place of work uses.
>
>
> Here's a short video I made that shows multiseat in action. It's pretty
> miraculous, even though
> I've been using this solution for the past ten years at my job.
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> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqUzPcwQqjI
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> I have some extra Plugable devices that I can donate to the user group,
> which the user group might in turn
> want to donate to Do Space, the new digital place opening up in Omaha. It
> would be sweet to have some
> open source solutions set up for the public to see and learn from at Do
> Space. http://www.dospace.org/
>
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> I'm going to be doing some regular remote tech volunteer mentoring for Do
> Space via Skype or Google Hangouts.
>
>
> Incidentally, if there are any LUG members interested in volunteering at
> Do Space, they're looking for a commitment of three hours per week.
> The volunteer coordinator there is Cherie Gossett, reachable at
> volunteer at dospace.org She seems very accessible and open to ideas.
> Currently, most of the tech there is Mac and Windows -- but it stands to
> reason that open source solutions need to be available for the public
> to see, use, and try, too.
>
>
> phil
>
>
> You can follow Do Space on Twitter at
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> https://twitter.com/dospaceomaha
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>
> And here are some Twitter tips I assembled for MAKE magazine that might be
> helpful to folks you know.
>
>
> http://makezine.com/2014/02/14/how-to-follow-smart-people-on-twitter/
>
>
> I'm admittedly a bit overboard on Twitter, as I drink info and ideas by
> the gallon, rather than by the cup. That might not be
> the right approach for everyone.
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> --
> Phil Shapiro, pshapiro at his.com
> http://www.his.com/pshapiro/briefbio.html
> http://www.twitter.com/philshapiro
> http://www.his.com/pshapiro/stories.menu.html
>
> "Wisdom begins with wonder." - Socrates
> "Learning happens thru gentleness."
>
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