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The following things are making me happy:

Finding I'm volunteering for One Laptop Per Child nearly every day and changing the world, and really enjoying it.

How the OLPC effort in Aotearoa is growing growing growing.

How many people came out to talk about how stupid Mark Shuttleworth's comment was (you know which one). "Girls" are among those that made open source what it is today, whether shuttleworth realises it or not.

Statusnet project going from strength to strength (and starting on the journey to world domination)

How Drupal is no longer this unheard of strange CMS that Brenda keeps pitching -- it's being used everywhere, for years now, in place in NZ that i've never been near. Clients turn up already wanting Drupal.

Public sector remix project gaining steam for being awesome.

How many amazing people are coming to Wellington for LCA2010 - including open source ninjas i've "known" for years and never met.

oh, and the thought that in about 2 months I will be able to see my own feet again.

Who: Alastair, Grant, Tom, Tabitha, Brenda, Tim, Martin, Dave, Sigi, Carl

Downloaded Sugar on a Stick Strawberry

Pippy-29 found little problem, can write new but cannot open existing files

Catching up with Martin on school server activity and OLPC

Tim is working on Sahana - emergency management application that can help with finding and linking people together using Sugar/XOs as well as other hardware.

Brenda brought a cool pen called LiveScribe which we all loved playing with

Working on a website for Welly testers to help people find us and what we doing. http://laptop.org.nz - it has pointers to OLPC and Sugar sites, and feeds of our photos and our blogs.

Talked about Software Freedom Day (20 September 2009) and Linux Conference (January 2010). I put in a miniconf proposal for http://www.lca2010.org.nz/ - see it here http://laptop.org.nz/miniconf

Great day!

Wellington testing team

Testing summary - 4 July 2009, Wellington NZ

Who: Dave, Sigi, Shane, Tabitha, Brenda, Callum, Grant

What:

tested Sugar on a Stick on IBM hardware, Model, Physics-2, GeoQuiz-4, Cellgame-1, Bridge, GeoCompris, and gave feedback on sugarlabs website usability.

another stuck keyboard, this time its the shift key not control key, so we might need some spare parts maybe. Callum to repair.

Visitor from Dunedin: Shane. showed him how it all works.

Callum fixed last week’s non-starting XO: they don’t boot unless the clock has a value - he’s built the appropiate data cable which we can use if need to program another motherboard.

Testing summary - 27 June 2009 Wellington NZ
Who - Tabitha, Tom, Grant, Callum and Brenda

back at the Southern Cross, tried getting devkeys, changing dates, played cellgame-1 and XOlympics-1

Spent more time looking at different ways of upgrading Sugar on XO
hardware and also how to run Sugar on other hardware in an emulator.

Wrote proposal draft for Mini conf at the Linux Conference to be held
in Wellington, New Zealand, January 2010. Looking for other
contributors/supporters so feel free to put your hand up! http://www.lca2010.org.nz/

i interupt to "war on copy right" for a public announement:


┌┤brenda@gargi:~/├────────┤10:50 ├┤0.38, 0.33, 0.27├
└┤1├% php -r "echo date('Y-M-d g:i:a P', 1234567890); "
2009-Feb-14 12:31:pm +13:00

!!!!!!

there must be cake.

I'm in the finals for a Wellingtonisa Award, for Best Contribution by a Wellingtonian to the Internet

If there is something going on in Wellington that involves Linux, Drupal, open-source software, geek women or beer, you can bet that Brenda will be involved in it. As one of the driving forces behind the Girl Geek Dinners, she’s actively working to increase women working in technology. With her championing of open source, she’s building the knowledge base in the world, and with her constant Tweets, she’s keeping Wellington entertained – although we have no idea how she manages to do so much at once

All you need to do is go down to question 15 and VOTE

Dear the Malt House Wellington.

I love good beer -- and i love the beers at the malthouse, but i can't go there anymore now i've seen a photo of the urinals in your mens toilets.

It's way way beyond creepy and disgusting to know the men i'm having a drink with are taking a leak into a women's mouth.

What kinda sick person puts these in a bar's toilet?

please lemme know when they're gone.

-Brenda