My open blog on education, outreach, and open source!

Welcome!

I have finally decided to create and attempt to maintain a blog containing my musings and thoughts, which could be interesting but are random at times. My focus will be on education, outreach, and open source.  Of course I am sure I will deviate and mention space science, Christmas and other holidays, and other random things as I think of them!

Some of my goals include discussing:

• Education and how Open Source can radically change education:
• Open source as an opportunity for kids of all ages
• Open source hardware:  Arduino, Maple Mini, Papilio FPGA, etc.
• Note that I contributed a monthly article to Open Source Schools about 10 years ago
• Outreach including:
• The Fredericksburg Linux Users Group (FredLug)
• The Northern Virginia Astronomy Club (NOVAC).  
• All things Open Source including:
• Open source software
• Open standards 
• My thoughts and impressions on UNIX/Xenix circa 1985 and Linux circa 1993
• My early thoughts on open source and why it would be a game changer
• Technology and science:
• Hardware, software, networking, and all things Linux
• The Technological Singularity and how technological change is exponential
• Photography and photo editing
• Space science and astronomy (nope, no astrology)
• The future!

When I started this project, I posted to Facebook and asked for suggestions for naming this blog.  These are some of the comments I received:

• Wade's World -- taken, but not bad
• Wade's Wacky Worls -- not bad but I want to de-wackyify the blog
• Grey matter -- Grecian Formula will cure the gray (but not the hair loss)
• FRIED ANGRY CONGRESSMEN REVOLUTION NO SPIES PARTY BLOG -- ???

I've been mulling this over in my head for months but finally decided to take the plunge.  Join me on this venture and PLEASE provide feedback (positive and negative).