Dave Richards - City of Largo Work Blog

Please contact me email drichard at largo.com or dave_largo on the IRC if you might be interested in a minor bounty project. Apparently the...

One if the hardest things about working with users is translating theircomplaints about using open source software into something actionable...

I feel like it would be easy to get into a rut of using a blog to vent about problems. I wanted to send out some kudos. I'm involved w...

I'm not going to jump on the Pulse Audio bashing bandwagon, but have a real question for those with knowledge of the current status on O...

Recently we had a technology planning meeting to talk about future projects that will be coming in the next 3-4 years. I expressed my views...

One of my coworkers built the fastest machine he could, and then tried to set a 'world record' Compiz benchmark. :) The specs: Hard...

We are still using Firefox 2.0 organizationally and it's very stable. We still have some sites that are not certified for 3.X, which I ...

Things around here have been busy. I have been QAing and testing Evolution 2.24 and its interaction with Groupwise heavily. We are nearly ...

Is it just me or does used bubblegum sound not so pleasant (shot below)? :)

I have been busy the last few weeks QAing software for deployment. OpenOffice 3.0 is running well, and has been pushed to our beta testers ...

This last week, I have been busy doing QA work on Evolution 2.24 with the Groupwise backend and submitting all of the issues to Novell. San...

In the last few weeks major projects that were consuming time have been completed. The new desktop servers have gone live and it's time...

I just got back to Florida after spending a few days at the UI Hackfest in Boston. It was my pleasure to meet everyone and watch the proces...

After some logistical work with Federico and myself, we have coordinated me going to the Boston UI Summit. I'll be doing a presentation...

I have been thinking more lately about Federicos "Document Centric" presentation. Document and file management is by far the hard...

I was asked to publish the objectives of our OpenOffice Writer test. The goal of this testing is to increase skills, and will also be used ...

I've blogged about it before; users have a deep emotional connection with Microsoft Office. I'm not talking about those of you that...

I am starting to get some numbers for those of you interested in GNOME performance, and for those that are considering deployments. Our GNO...

I have been busy working on the new desktop deployment. I have been training employees and granting permissions for those that will have US...

After over a year of work, terminal upgrades, patches and custom UI's we have locked in a date for the whole City to migrate to the new ...