News, CLC, School, etc.

I don’t usually (read: ever) start my blogs with a link, but today will be different.

Matthew Helmke’s latest blog post on Planet Ubuntu got me thinking about some recent news.

Our leader of the Ubuntu Chicago Team, Richard Johnson, is stepping down . This is important on several fronts:

Richard is good at what he does. Regardless of how many jokes I make about him.

Richard is a good friend who taught me tons about Linux and introduced me into many people in the Open Source world.

Richard nominated myself, along with Jim Campbell J1mc to help replace him.

So where does this put me? Well I want to help out and I’ve been doing lots of agenda setting, Wiki editing, meeting scheduling, etc. So sure, I would be a logical candidate for leadership. However, I am simply uncomfortable with the tag ‘leader’ since we are a TEAM. I don’t want to overshadow anyone with my own thoughts, ideas, projects, or sex appeal. LOLAMRITE?!? ;p

We as a team are working on a project at Christian Life College, in Mt. Prospect, IL. We are migrating their broken and essentially useless Windows 2003 server to an Ubuntu server and setting up their network that is worthy of being called ‘geek friendly’. Even if the school is not the most technologically advanced, it is still exciting, imho.

Wiki Page

And on a personal front, I passed all my classes. Exciting! I think so anyway.

-Eddie M.