Interview with Joomla user Alice Grevet

Jul 07, 2010 GMT

Over on the Joomlablogger site, Kristoffer Sandven announced a new series of interviews with Joomla users. In his first interview, Kristoffer talks to Alice Grevet. Alice says, "I find the community to be very welcoming and full of the most wonderful people. We are stronger when we share what we know and learn from each other." Alice also talks about how she got involved with the Joomla! community and its community magazine, and about female-involvement in the Joomla! community. She says, "I joined the magazine because of something Amy tweeted. I had read about the magazine, but her encouraging message, and maybe also the fact that she is female, provided the nudge I...

Linux Pro Magazine Gets Fresh

Jun 30, 2010 GMT

Our monthly magazine was long overdue for a redesign, but this task is easier said (debated, researched, etc.) than done. If you're familiar with print publishing, you know that we have a frantic schedule that never slows down. In our case, the pace has only picked up as we continue to launch new magazines. Yet somehow our amazing editors and production team squeezed a Linux Pro Magazine (a.k.a. Linux Magazine outside North America) redesign into the mix. I tried to stay out of their way and anxiously awaited the results.The new design rolled out with our July issue (#116), which is on newsstands now. In addition to tweaking the look of...

SC10: Doctoral Showcase (travel grants available!)

Jun 28, 2010 GMT

Here's a friendly reminder from SuperComputing 2010 to Ph.D. students:The Doctoral Showcase invites Ph.D. students in HPC, networking, storage and analysis, who anticipate graduating within the next 12 months, to submit a short summary of their research. Those selected will present a 15-minute summary of their best research to experts in academia, industry and research laboratories. Students are encouraged to submit a one-page summary of their research, publication list, and three slides on their major results for consideration by the reviewers.For more information, email doc-showcase@info.supercomputing.org.Submissions Due: July 26, 2010Submission Site: http://submissions.supercomputing.org

Code for America: accepting applications for 2011 fellows program

Jun 21, 2010 GMT

Found this gem in my overflowing, post-vacation in-box today:Code for America is a new non-profit organization, loosely based on Teach for America, which recruits talented web professionals to give a year of service building technology for city governments. We are now accepting applications for its 2011 fellows program. We're seeking developers, designers, product managers, data wranglers and researchers who wants to make a difference. It's a unique opportunity to build a new generation of Gov 2.0 apps to make city governments work better. CfA fellows get a crash course in how cities work, mentorship and networking with the top names in tech and government, and a platform to launch...

POSSE Worchester State

Jun 07, 2010 GMT

POSSE Worchester State, the Red Hat-sponsored open source bootcamp for professors, starts tomorrow. Our blogger Bruce Byfield wrote about the event last year. I first heard about POSSE at the Community Leadership Summit last summer, when I met Mel Chua. (That just reminded me to register for CLS!)Check out Mel's blog to hear more about what happens at POSSE Worchester State.

SC10: Take advantage of Education, Diversity, and Volunteer Programs

Jun 03, 2010 GMT

Thought you couldn't afford SuperComputing 2010? Rethink it! In addition to job fairs and networking opportunities, SC10 announced that it will have education, diversity, and volunteer programs at the November 13-19 event in New Orleans. The announcement says, "In keeping with the theme for this year’s conference, 'The Future of Discovery,' SC10 is now offering opportunities to students, faculty, and emerging leaders from groups traditionally underrepresented in computing to discover the international conference for high-performance computing, networking, storage and...

Ohio LinuxFest Call for Presentations Open

Jun 01, 2010 GMT

Thanks to Mackenzie 'maco' Morgan for submitting this:The Call For Presentations is open for exactly one month more! Prior speaking experience is not necessary. It was the first place I ever gave a technical presentation, and the crowd is very welcoming of first-time speakers. This conference's audience is very broad, so the speaker committee tries to get a nice spread of topics. System administrators, developers, and desktop users all attend, and really, over the last two years I've noticed it's the desktop-user focused talks which are really lacking in the proposals. So, if you think you can't possibly have something technical enough to say in front of all these people without sounding...