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David Murphy: Continuous Integration with Tarmac and Vagrant

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As part of our self-improvement and knowledge sharing within Canonical, within our group (Professional and Engineering Services) we regularly – at least once a month – run what we call an “InfoSession”. Basically it is Google Hangout on Air with a single presenter on a topic that is of interest/relevance to others, and one of my responsibilities is organising them. Previously we have had sessions on:

  • Go (a couple of sessions in fact)
  • SystemTap
  • Localization (l10n) and internationalization (i18n)
  • Juju
  • Graphviz
  • …and many others…

Today the session was on continuous integration with Tarmac and Vagrant, presented by Daniel Manrique from our certification team. In his own words:

Merge requests and code reviews are a fact of life in Canonical. Most projects start by manually merging approved requests, including running a test suite prior to merging.

This infosession will talk about tools that automate this workflow (Tarmac), while leveraging your project’s test suite to ensure quality, and virtual machines (using Vagrant) to provide multi-release, repeatable testing.

Like most of our sessions it is publicly available, here it is is for your viewing pleasure:

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Source: FULL ARTICLE at Planet Ubuntu

News, Politics, Government

White House Hangout: Vice President Biden and Mayors Discuss Reducing Gun Violence

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By David Agnew

This week, Vice President Biden will host a virtual conversation with mayors around the country to discuss commonsense steps to reduce gun violence. Mayors know first hand the impact of gun violence on communities across the country – and they've come together to demand action.

On Wednesday, April 17th, at 2:45 p.m. EDT, the Vice President and mayors will discuss how we can protect our children and communities by reducing gun violence. We hope you'll tune in.

During the Google+ Hangout, Vice President Biden will be joined by:

  • Mayor Karen Freeman-Wilson, Gary, IN
  • Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Baltimore, MD
  • Mayor R.T. Rybak, Minneapolis, MN
  • Mayor Steve Scaffidi, Oak Creek, WI

Watch the hangout with Vice President Biden and mayors live on Wednesday, April 17th, at 2:45 p.m. EDT on WhiteHouse.gov, or tune in to the White House's Google+ page or YouTube channel.

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From: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2013/04/16/white-house-hangout-vice-president-biden-and-mayors-discuss-reducing-gun-violence

News, Politics, Government

How To Promote Diversity With Your Internship Program

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By Heather R. Huhman, Contributor

Let’s be honest, you already know the importance of hiring a diverse workforce. Diversity leads to better work environments, fresh ideas, and new ways of looking at old problems. In 2012, the Center For American Progress found people of color made up nearly one-third of the workforce and women made up nearly half. So you know it’s important to focus on diversity when hiring great employees. But what about when hiring great interns? Too many companies ignore intern diversity in their inclusion efforts and miss the boat on future talent. Why focus on intern diversity? So why is diversity so important in your internship programs? If you think interns are just fetching coffee and getting copies, you couldn’t be more wrong. Your internship program is actually a training ground for top talent. Look at your interns and you’ll be looking at the future of your company. The intern hire you make today has a 60 percent probability of being the entry-level superstar of tomorrow. By focusing on inclusion directly in your internship program, you can be sure to cultivate a diverse workforce. Even better, you can establish a company culture where differences are acknowledged and valued. “This is the kind of place where you can bring your whole self to work,” Suzanne Rosenthal, senior director of human resources for Viacom, said in a Google Hangout on internship diversity. “I think everybody subscribes to the idea that you’re going to work best when you’re bringing your whole self to work and who you are.” Diversity helps productivity, it helps creativity, and it builds an inclusive company culture many smart candidates will find attractive. A more diverse internship pool will also translate into greater entry level diversity. “Remember, organizational diversity doesn’t happen overnight,” said Ashley Mosley, engagement coordinator of InternMatch. “If you stress diversity when hiring interns, it’s giving your company a good foundation to build a more diverse workforce.” How do you promote diversity? Promoting diversity in your internship program means thinking strategically about the issues facing your industry and how to address them. You can’t just decide “we’re going to be more diverse” and then pat yourself on the back for a job well done. Look at your industry from a micro and macro perspective to pinpoint the problem areas when it comes to diverse hiring practices. While every industry has a different set of challenges, here are some general tips on how to cultivate a more diverse intern workforce: Start at the high school level While this is true for many subjects, when it comes to science, technology, engineering, and math (or STEM) subjects, early intervention is a smart policy for fostering greater diversity. STEM students today are the innovators of tomorrow, but soon we might be a little low on innovation. The World Economic Forum ranks the United States number 52 when it comes to quality of mathematics and science education. And the numbers are even more striking for underrepresented students when you consider African American and Latino …read more
Source: FULL ARTICLE at Forbes Latest

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White House Displays Enthusiasm for Maker Movement's Potential in Google+ Hangout

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By Alex Kantrowitz, Contributor

The White House acknowledged the ascending Maker movement Thursday, engaging movement leaders in a Google+ Hangout and expressing enthusiasm for the movement’s potential to spark the American manufacturing industry. Hosted by White House innovation advisor Tom Kalil, the Hangout focused on the nature of the movement– it encourages people not just to consume but build their own products as well– and how it could help catalyze American manufacturing. The movement has been a growing force of late. Its flagship event, Maker Faire, drew a combined 165,000 people in just its New York and San Francisco locations in 2012. Many thousands more participated in “Mini Maker Faires” across the globe, all with the purpose of creating new products or watching others demo theirs. Outside of Maker Faire, the movement has also spurred the creation of “Makerspaces” across the country, i.e. physical spaces where “Makers” are encouraged to come and create products with available tools and training. …read more
Source: FULL ARTICLE at Forbes Latest

News, Politics, Government

White House Hangout: The Maker Movement

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By <a href="/author-detail/45">Kori Schulman</a>

This week, the White House will continue a series of conversations with Administration officials on Google+. On Thursday, March 28th at 3:00 pm ET, White House innovation advisor Tom Kalil will join a Google+ Hangout to discuss the Maker Movement with leading innovators and Makers from around the country.

More and more Americans are becoming Makers, a growing community of young people and adults who are designing and building things on their own time. For example, 120,000 people participated in the May 2012 Maker Faire in San Mateo, California, sharing projects such as a flame-powered pipe organ, a fully automated ragtime band, and a 12-foot-tall aluminum robotic face controlled by 12 joysticks.

President Obama believes we need to give more young people the ability to become Makers. As the President said at the launch of his Educate To Innovate campaign to improve science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education, “I want us all to think about new and creative ways to engage young people in science and engineering, whether it's science festivals, robotics competitions, fairs that encourage young people to create and build and invent—to be makers of things, not just consumers of things.” The Maker Movement can also promote innovation in manufacturing, one of President Obama’s top priorities.

During the Hangout, Tom Kalil will discuss the elements of an “all hands on deck” effort to promote Making, with participants including:

Watch the hangout with Tom Kalil live on WhiteHouse.gov, or tune in to the White House's Google+ page or YouTube channel. You can also join the conversation on Twitter using the hashtag #WHHangout.

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Source: FULL ARTICLE at The White House

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Jono Bacon: More Regular, Open, and Transparent Planning

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Continuing with the work to refine and improve how we build Ubuntu in an open, transparent, and collaborative way, I want to take a few minutes to discuss some work going on to improve the regularity of our planning and the benefits this brings.

Traditionally planning for Ubuntu has worked like this.

  • We ship a release.
  • Shortly before a release we rapidly prepare blueprints for the next Ubuntu Developer Summit (UDS). Everyone is welcome to participate.
  • We discuss topics at the UDS and jot down work items into blueprints.
  • We then execute on those work items over the course of the six month period.
  • We track this work on status.ubuntu.com and use burndown charts to visualize this progress.

While this has served us well, there are a few problems with this approach. The most notable issue is that we work in software, and a lot changes in software in a six month period. This means we define a set of work items, prepare the burndown, and then if requirements or direction changes it can be difficult to reflect those changes across our community and we have to go and postpone a bunch of work items and re-build our burndowns. This means that even though the changes are made to open blueprints, it can cause folks across our community to be out of sync. It also presents the misconception that everything at UDS is locked in for the duration of the six month cycle. If something changes in our strategy or a new opportunity opens up, it can be difficult to change coarse with everyone on the same page.

Solving this is part of our theme of making Ubuntu engineering as transparent and agile as possible.

One approach we are experimenting with in the Ubuntu Engineering Management team at Canonical is to increase the regularity and transparency of how we plan. Instead of locking in every six months we will do it like this:

  • We host the virtual UDS (vUDS) every three months and use the event as a means to plan out the next three months of work. All discussions are open, everyone is welcome to participate.
  • Blueprints will be used to track that work and work items will be divided up into monthly milestones.
  • On the last week of every month we will review the work performed in the last month to see how well it was completed and then plan the forthcoming month’s work. This provides an open opportunity to identify blockers, define new goals, and change coarse if needed.
  • A new burndown chart will be generated on status.ubuntu.com and we will host a Google+ Hangout presenting the goals for the next month to ensure that everyone is fully up to speed on what is going on.

Now, to set expectations clearly: this is just an idea for how to improve this workflow, and we are doing it for the first time this week, but the idea is that it will dramatically increase the transparency of which teams are working on what, making it easier for others to (a) know …read more
Source: FULL ARTICLE at Planet Ubuntu

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Luminosity of Free Software, episode 8

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This week’s Luminosity of Free Software show will be recorded tomorrow on Friday, instead of the usual Thursday time slot. I have another engagement tonight, and it will be interesting to see how viewership changes, if at all, on Fridays.

Topics tomorrow will include:

  • Plasma Media Center: .. or “PMC” as we lovingly refer to it, had its first stable release this week We’ll take a peek behind the scenes to see what drives it. We’ll also glance at it’s goals, purpose and future.
  • freedesktop.org Summit: If you haven’t heard of this event that’s happening in three weeks time, don’t feel bad as it wasn’t announced very broadly at all. I’ll share with you what I’ve learned about the event and speculate on what we can hope to come from it.
  • Lernstick: Not just “Bootable Linux on a USB device”, but also a log in key that can automatically create the user on the stick and mount the USB device as the home directory. Pulling this off is trickier than one might think. I’ll examine how this device designed for schools works as well as look at where it is in use today.
  • Q&A: Otherwise known as “chaotic happy fun time” in which you ask questions and I do my best to foment further discussion. 🙂
See you there on Google+ Hangout tomorrow (Friday) at 20:00 UTC. You can watch the live feed (assuming all that magical hangout stuff decides to work) or afterwards at your leisure on my Youtube channel. I watch the chats in G+, Youtube as well as in #luminosity on irc.freenode.net during the show. Ask questions and offer additional information there.

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Source: FULL ARTICLE at Planet KDE

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Calligra Sprint 2013

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Last weekend I have been taking part in this years Calligra sprint, which once again was at the Linuxhotel in Essen. This year we had something special as the sprint was actually happening in two places at the same time. While one part of the team was in Essen, the other part of the team meet in Bangalore. This was simply due to the problem that we could only fly a limited number of people around the globe. Both meetings were connected via Google Hangout which worked reasonably well, except for some microphone problems.Another nice additions was that we also had a kitchen, where Thorsten and Arjen cooked lots of pasta andsauces.

Calligra track

Most of the time in the general Calligra track was spent on discussing upcoming changes and technologies. With many new upcoming Qt 5 mobile plattforms the mobile Calligra version are getting more and more important. For Calligra as a whole we have to change the way how we integrate the UI with the rest of the applications and which libraries we want to use or not use.

One of the big technologies that that KOffice 1.x was build around is KParts. It was used to embed documents into other documents, to embed the application in Konqueror and much more. Over time many of these usecases have been solved differently or are becoming far less common than they used to be while at the same time it has been making more and more trouble. So our long is to replace KParts in the future. As a one possibility to a new framework Friedrich presented his Kasten framwork.Altogether this will need a lot of time to complete, but will result in a much better architecture.

Beside these big topic there are were many smaller discussion around topics like QML user interface, more focus on testing and an a development process where we created stable snapshots of the master branch. There are also some interesting developments on things annotation and docx export.

A bit sad was the discussion around unmaintained applications. After some maintainers got busy with life recently some application are unmaintained and see no further development at the moment. This is not a very surprising development as we have been working with a bus factor of 1 for years on these applications.Affected by this are Karbon, Plan and Braindump. We decided that for now the applications will get a splashscreen that informs about the unmaintained state, but still stay as part of the official release. Unless new maintainers step up, these application look towards an uncertain future.

Krita BOF

Beside the Calligra discussion we also had a BOF with the Krita developers, which actually took place over all three days. Krita development is running really well and we are more and more popular in areas outside the usual open source community. Boud reported about presenting Krita Sketch at Mobile World Congress and some news from the VFX world. I did already know that Krita was used in visual effects, but so far didn’t know …read more
Source: FULL ARTICLE at Planet KDE

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Luminosity of Free Software, episode 7

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I’ve started prepping for tomorrow’s Luminosity of Free Software show, in which the following topics will be covered:

  • Decentralized online communication: This was suggested by a viewer in a blog comment last week, and I think it’s an important topic. I’ll be looking at this from three angles: why it is important, what has gained traction and what has not, and what tools exist right now with an emphasis on “real time” communication ala Jabber and identi.ca.
  • Node.js: I’ve been using Node.js for a while and have found it to be an interesting approach to web services. This neatly fits with the first topic in some way, so what better excuse than to give a “50,000 foot view” of this rather cool project along with maybe making a case for why we should care about this stuff more on the desktop, too.
  • Color management: Also a viewer suggested topic, this is another area of progress for Free software when it comes to graphics. We’ll look at some of the management tools and what it does for the desktop, applications and people doing serious graphics work.
  • Q&A: Otherwise known as “chaotic happy fun time” in which you ask questions and I do my best to foment further discussion. 🙂
See you there on Google+ Hangout tomorrow (Thursday) at 20:00 UTC. You can watch the live feed (assuming all that magical hangout stuff decides to work) or afterwards at your leisure on my Youtube channel.

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Source: FULL ARTICLE at Planet KDE

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Calligra Spring 2013 Sprint started

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The Calligra contributor community finally is meeting again for a sprint weekend, both virtually and in real life: There are 6 people at the Thoughtworks Bangalore office in India, sitting and hacking on stuff already since the morning. And 11 people are gathering at the Linuxhotel in Europe until the evening, to follow and join them the next two days. Other people are popping up in the random Google Hangout sessions, and of course in the IRC channel #calligra.

Today was arrival day, so more or less dynamically structured. Still the Krita people had already their BoF, as most of them arrived early. Tomorrow then there will be great discussion day, topics will be e.g. a new document/view-architecture and improving QML-support.

With doing a few more 2.x releases in the futures, Calligra is slowly approaching the 3.0 version, as a milestone where the individual programs not only are useful as serious viewers, with e.g. excellent import filters for MS formats, but finally also as reliable, easy to use and well integrated editors (which most still need to become).

Krita, as the current flagship, is already making waves in the world of movie and GFX studios, also Intel having used a special version (Krita Sketch) at their CES booth!
Author is going to find a so far unclaimed niche, while Kexi is getting closer to occupy its targetted one. Words, Stage, Sheets are offering alternative UX to what AOO | LO | MS have. Plan quietly evolves into a serious project planner. And more.
While these are all exciting developments, there are also new challenges in the future: KF5 & Qt5 & QML2 & Plasma Active.
Also some old challenges are still around: while now only more Kexi has Qt3Support dependencies, the started big refactoring of the central Calligra libraries waits to be finished.

There are lots of reasons to keep on pushing Calligra programs and libraries: built on Qt/kdelibs and with a quite modular architecture, it’s quite easy to adapt to new platforms out there, which e.g. can be seen with Calligra Active or the plugins for Okular, which have been done with only little effort in comparison. And Qt5 brings even more hope and options.

This sprint would not be possible without the supporters of KDE e.V., thanks to them to make it financially possible for us to meet up to develop plans for the future roadmaps. So if you, dear reader, want to do your little contribution to the future of KDE software as well, consider to Join The Game as a supporter of the KDE e.V. !

Thanks also to KO GmbH for supporting the sprint, to Thoughtworks Bangalore for hosting the Indian part of the sprint and for the Linuxhotel for the community-friendly offering in their great setting for the European part. And thanks to Claudia, the KDE e.V.s business manager, for her quick and uncomplicated handling of any issues.

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Source: FULL ARTICLE at Planet KDE

Movies & TV

The Hobbit Hangout With Sylvester McCoy

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If you’re a fan of The Hobbit, then you’re in for a special treat later today (or tomorrow, depending on timey wimey zones) as actor Sylvester McCoy, who plays wizard Radagast The Brown in An Unexpected Journey, will be joining us in the UK office for an IGN Hangout.

We’ll be livestreaming the interview via Google+ Hangout to this page where we’ll be speaking to the actor about appearing in Peter Jackson‘s fantasy epic alongside Gandalf, the forthcoming Hobbit sequels, all things Middle Earth and Tolkien, plus we’ll even squeeze in some questions about his tenure as the seventh Doctor in Doctor Who.

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Source: FULL ARTICLE at IGN Movies

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Thoughts and worries about the proposed new Ubuntu processes

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Today began in a virtual UDS session (Google Hangout) with the Xubuntu team. The video can be seen here: http://summit.ubuntu.com/uds-1303/meeting/21666/community-xubuntu-contingencies/ . Xubuntu devels stopped by #kubuntu-devel and asked us to bring our list of concerns to share. The list we developed:

  • The new system will do away with releases for each upstream KDE release, which is a prominent feature of Kubuntu. One idea is to do releases of LTS+PPA with latest KDE but that’s against policy and needs technical changes to make happen. Or will there be a way to create ISOs from PPAs?

  • Mir is a worry since KWin will clash with it (a compositing manager inside a compositing manager). How good will continued Wayland and X support be?

  • Where to put Beta releases of software? Testing is a huge part of quality. So while a PPA seems the obvious suggestion, but they’ll get less testing there. Now we use a beta ppa only for backports. Consistent quality would require staging major changes somewhere else.

  • How will library transitions be handled outside of cadence?

  • Launchpad breakdowns. We are trying to automate more of our building tasks, but often the scripts must be run repeatedly because of Launchpad timeouts.

  • Weakness of unit & hardware testing. This is crucial for a successful rolling release.

  • Security updates – who gets them? When, and how often? (LTS will get them as usual, but for rolling it seems the monthly snapshots don’t get any? you need to use rolling)

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Source: FULL ARTICLE at Planet KDE

Video Gaming

Assassin's Creed Hangout With Rich George

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It’s been a crazy day of Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag news. We’re hanging out with IGN editor Rich George and discussing everything we’ve seen so far, talking through the reactions from gamers, and sharing new observations.

Watch our Google Hangout from 3:30PM, right here. Got a question you want us to discuss? Post it in the comments below or tweet @IGN with the hashtag #AC4.

Ashley Jenkins heads up the community and social media team for IGN. She speaks semi-fluent meme and has a lifelong vendetta against beets. Follow her on Twitter at @jinxcellent or IGN and send pictures of cats.

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Source: FULL ARTICLE at IGN Video Games

News, Politics, Government

Hanging Out with First Lady Michelle Obama

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By <a href="/author-detail/45">Kori Schulman</a>

First Lady Michelle Obama participates in the Let’s Move! Google+ Hangout

Ed. note: This post was originally published on the official Let's Move! website.

Earlier today, First Lady Michelle Obama joined her first ever Google+ Hangout live from the Blue Room of the White House. Continuing our series of “Fireside Hangouts” on Google+, Mrs. Obama participated in a virtual conversation about Let’s Move!, her initiative to ensure our nation’s kids grow up healthy and reach their full potential.

During the Hangout, the First Lady discussed the new Let’s Move! Active Schools program designed to bring physical activity back to schools, the importance of family dinner, steps to get healthier lunches into schools – and favorite dance moves (of course, it’s the dougie. And yes, everyone in the hangout dougied together.) Watch the full video:

First Lady Michelle Obama participates in the “Let’s Move!” Google+ Hangout in the Blue Room of the White House.

March 4, 2013.

(Official White House Photo by Chuck Kennedy)

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Source: FULL ARTICLE at The White House

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Chris Johnston: vUDS

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Most people are probably aware by now that this Tuesday, 5 March starts the first of the new virtual Ubuntu Developer Summit events. In order to handle the changes nicely, we have made some changes to the Summit Scheduler. The changes that we made allows a meeting and/or a summit to be set as ‘virtual.’ When a meeting is set as virtual, the meeting page will render with a new virtual layout. This layout includes the Google Hangout broadcast, the IRC channel via the webchat client, and the Etherpad, all embedded on in the page. The required participants for a meeting will also be given a link to participate in the hangout. Both the embedded broadcast and the hangout link have to manually be added by the track lead prior to each meeting. If the hangout broadcast isn’t available when you visit the page, please be patient and wait for the data to be added. Once the information is added to Summit, the meeting page should automatically load the hangout broadcast.

Please don’t forget to test using hangouts prior to UDS starting so that we can minimize the number of issues we have with the hangouts. A “best practices” guide has been created for use during the Ubuntu On Air events. Please take the time to look at these practices before Tuesday.

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Source: FULL ARTICLE at Planet Ubuntu

News, Politics, Government

Join First Lady Michelle Obama in Google+ Hangout about Let’s Move! on Monday

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By <a href="/author-detail/475">Colleen Curtis</a>

Ed. note: This post was originally published on the official Let's Move website. You can read that post here.

Last week, First Lady Michelle Obama traveled around the country to celebrate the third anniversary of Let’s Move!, her initiative to ensure that all our children grow up healthy and reach their full potential.

Mrs. Obama highlighted great progress being made in schools, towns and businesses across America. She also announced several new programs that will help families make healthier choices and will enable our kids to be more physically active, including a new MyPlate partnership that identifies recipes that meet USDA nutrition standards on the largest food sites on the web, and the launch of Let's Move Active Schools, which empowers schools to find free or low-cost ways to incorporate movement before, during, and after the school day.

On Monday, March 4th at 11:10 a.m. ET, the celebration continues as the First Lady joins her first ever Google+ Hangout.

Mrs. Obama will participate in a completely virtual conversation from the Blue Room of the White House, speaking with families from around the country. The hangout will be moderated by Kelly Ripa, co-host of LIVE with Kelly and Michael, and we hope you’ll join, too!

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Source: FULL ARTICLE at The White House

Video Gaming

Get Ready for Wednesday’s PS4 Event Today

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Excited for tomorrow’s PlayStation event in New York City that’s likely to be the reveal of the PlayStation 4? IGN is. In fact, we’re so excited that we’re hosting a Livestream for the event tomorrow at 2 p.m. – a full hour before the conference kicks off.

But that’s not enough! Today at noon Pacific (3 p.m. Eastern), IGN is a hosting a Google Hangout with five lucky viewers and one PlayStation loudmouth – hey, that’s me, Greg Miller. You can watch it below (when we have the link ready) and Tweet questions @IGN with #PlayStation2013 to be part of the show.

Greg is the executive editor of IGN PlayStation, cohost of Podcast Beyond and host of Up at Noon. Follow IGN on Twitter, and keep track of Greg’s shenanigans on IGN and Twitter. Beyond! 

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Source: FULL ARTICLE at IGN Video Games

Science & Technology

Astronauts Want to Hangout with You from Space on Feb. 22th

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Somewhere, high above the earth and its amazing tech gadgets, a group of fearless astronauts are just hanging out in space. What are they doing up there right now? Wouldn’t you like to talk to them while they’re in space? As reported by CNET, NASA is planning to host its first ever Google+ Hangout from the International Space Station.

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Source: FULL ARTICLE at IGN Tech

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The Luminosity of Free Software Episode 2!

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The day and time for the next live video cast on Google Hangout has been set. There was a clear preference among those who responded to the survey. (Thanks to you all!) The live show will happen this Thursday, the 7th of February at 20:00 UTC.

If you’d like to be there live, just add me to your circles on Google+ and you’ll get an invite. If you can’t make it, the video will appear on Youtube directly after the video cast concludes and you can pick it up there. Either way, feel free to leave questions, comments and topic suggestions in the comments below. You can, of course, bring your questions to the live show, too!

Here is the agenda (as currently planned) for the show:

  • Marble-ocity: Cool things you can do with the Marble mapping application. 5 minutes
  • Forkification: a reflection on the phenomenon of major Free software communities that have experience significant forks in recent years (MySQL, OpenOffice, XFree86, GNOME … ) and those that have maintained their community in one piece (PostgreSQL, Linux, XFCE, KDE …). 5 minutes.
  • Vivaldi tablet: finally! I can briefly share what we have been working on, our timelines and the implications for KDE software on devices. 5 minutes.
  • Audience interaction: updates from last week’s audience interaction, then on to new topics: discussion, questions and answers. 30-45 minutes.

See you there!
Source: FULL ARTICLE at Planet KDE