ABLEconf founder

There are two ABLEconf 2011 review meetings scheduled.

One is Monday afternoon at Mesa Community College from 17:00 to 18:00 in room BA 1E.

Click on the link "Southern & Dobson" then "View the Interactive Campus Map and Directory."

The other wrapup meeting will be after the Free Software Stammtisch starting at 21:00 a week from Tuesday.

Iguana Macks

SCaLE 9x was a great event. There were lots of great talks, a fun hallway track and even an added game night. Lots of good stuff. Not only did they do all that, but they did it in a new location.

The minutes from the post-event meeting show that 9x had a 20% attendance increase and was cash positive. It also had , an expo floor that spilled out into another room.

Free registration for ABLEconf is now open.

Attend the free-admission, one-day business-oriented (think "free" as in "freedom") conference to get insight on leveraging FOSS tools to reduce IT costs while increasing flexibility.

Presentations on topics such as open source cars, cloud computing, Free Software for business, Free Software for education, business migrations to Open Source, hackerspaces and Free Software for maintaining translations.

Local-Motors is looking for a PHP Web Developer. Doubt it gets you the company car, but they might let you play with it some :). You'd get to be part of a start up that's doing some cool stuff.

Local-Motors is also seeking a PR person and a graphics designer. See the jobs page for info on all their openings.

Here's the link to the video feed for my Tunneling With SSH talk tonight at SCaLE9x. 16:30 California time. Requires allowing javascript for conferencebywire.com and flash.

Earlier this afternoon I finished the Moodle setup for my first presentation, Moodle GIFT Question Format, at SCaLE 9x. The presentation is in an hour.

I added the presentation to the Moodle instance. Now the presentation knows where the class is and the class knows where the presentation is. I just need to get the info to those attending :).

There is an Arizona BoF Saturday night at SCaLE 9x. We will meet in Los Angeles C at 19:00 after my Moodle GIFT Question Format presentation.

The conference reception and weakest-geek show start at 19:30.

Update: The Call for Presentations deadline was extended to Saturday, 2010Feb05, in order to take advantage of FUDcon being in town with lots of great potential speakers in the crowd.

Local Motors, creators of small production cars using Creative Commons licensing for car and part designs, is auctioning a Rally Fighter at the Barrett-Jackson car auction. The Rally Fighter is a really cool street legal off-road machine built for the desert of the southwest.

ABLEconf has opened it's call for presentations. Proposals are due by January 22nd.

Want to tell others about how your business uses Free Software? Does Free Software save your business money or otherwise make it more capable? Working with Android, Maemo, OpenMoko, MeeGo or other Free Software mobile platforms? Are you using Free Software in government or education? Submit a proposal to let us know how.