Tabling by Riley O’Neill

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Riley O’Neill shares his experience using the World’s Smallest Political Quiz and the Nolan Chart for political outreach in Riverside, CA.

Riley O’Neill is a small business owner and lifelong resident in Riverside, Ca. Since 2004 he has been a moderator for the largest Libertarian Discussion group on myspace.com which at the time of writing has over 18,000 members. While in high school (2001-2002) he founded and operated an unofficial school website which served as a fairly uncensored student community site . He has had four radio/podcast interviews, one with Big Sauce Radio in 2007, One with Congressional Coast to Coast in 2007, and two with Voice of Radical Dissent in 2010. In 2010 he has worked to create a growing chapter of the Riverside County Libertarian Party by changing to monthly meetings and doing tabling prior to the meetings to look for new members.

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LUGIE October

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I’m at the Linux Users Group Inland Empre (LUGIE) meeting. I’d like to give a little update on what we have been disscussing.

So far we disscussed the new Ubuntu 10.10 coming out tomorrow. There isn’t too much exciting going on there.

The most interesting things are the updates to Ubuntu Netbook Edition (UNE) and the addition of commercial software to the software center.

Currently UNE doesn’t work on my Aspire One due to issues with the driver and acceleration.

The next presentation that was dived into was concerning the highly hackable Arduino board. Conveinently Ubuntu 10.10 has the software in the repos to program with it out of the box.

The presenter has shown us his project and his attempts to create a plain interface using gcc to code as opposed to the pretty IDE it uses by default.

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Lefty’s Reading Challenge

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I just finished issuing certificates for Lefty’s Reading Challenge and boy has it been a challenge for me. Students had the opportunity to read from the library for the month of November and win a prize from the Speedway of:

  • A certificate of completion
  • One (1) complimentary ticket for a parent or guardian to the CampingWorld.com 300 on Saturday, Oct. 9
  • One (1) complimentary membership to Lefty’s Kids Club that gets kids 12 and under free to NASCAR Qualifying Day on Friday, Oct. 8 and the CampingWorld.com 300 on Saturday, Oct. 9
  • A complimentary CPKids meal at participating California Pizza Kitchens

Not as many students completed as I had hoped but it seems to have been a good incentive for those that did. It also took quite a bit of work to track but it has been worth it.

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