Work
- Partimus board member
- Our mission is to provide educational opportunities for educators and students using open technology.
- We currently serve middle schools in San Francisco and Oakland using repurposed hardware and FOSS software.
- If you want to work in a startup try hired.com. There's also a referral bonus.
Jewelry
- Boutique Academia designs and sells beautiful, unique science and math jewelry by Maile Urbancic
- Ethic Goods morse code jewelry made by women rescued from human trafficking
Activities
- Ubuntu Member, formerly California Team elected Leader
- Fedora Project Ambassador
- OLPCSF works with OLPC and Sugar Labs
- OLPC Mission principles & design videos
- Toaster project intended to enable any XO to share open source software iso images:
- create USB sticks (such as Sugar on a Stick)
- create a CD or DVD disc from an .iso image if the necessary writer hardware is available connected to the XO via USB
- Linux User Group (LUG) & open community supporter in the SF Bay Area
- BerkeleyLUG
- Diablo Valley LUG (the site is also a link resource)
- co-founder
- podcast co-host
- SF-LUG in San Francisco
- BALUG monthly in San Francisco
- noisebridge.net is a hackerspace in San Francisco
- Geeknic picnics
- Wikipedia editor
- Rackspace CloudU Certificate
- Sponsor of Dr. Douglas Engelbart's Open Hyperdocument System project.
- 42 school Cadet rank, July 2018 Piscine was a four week intensive C programming bootcamp - highly recommended
- Linux Picnic Last held 2011
- I spent three months during 2011 in Nairobi, Kenya working with Dreamfish. See my page for details.
- Collaborative Groupware Software from 2004
- Co-founder of Silicon Valley Public Access Link (SV-PAL), a self-sustaining nonprofit Free-Net ISP for Santa Clara County launched in 1994.
I offer some resources on this site for helping people and to point toward those that have helped me. I hope to encourage proficiency accomplishing your own outcomes using computers. I hope you can find others (online and in person) accomplishing similar outcomes.
Last update: May 19, 2023
© 2022 Grant Bowman
<grantbow@grantbow.com>.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.