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["p.daniels" <teeahr1@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday September 16 2008 15:25:18 Justin Knotzke wrote:
>    Hi,
>
>    I thought I'd introduce myself and maybe point you all to what I have
> found in regards to OSS and Cycling.
>
>    First, I am a contributing programmer to the Golden Cheetah project:
> http://www.goldencheetah.org This is a piece of OSS software, based off QT
> and QWT, that allows cyclists with various power meters to view their rides
> and analyze their data.

This looks cool. I've been thinking about getting an inexpensive bike 
computer; anyone have any recommendations?

>
>    Secondly, something I am really excited about, a US company called
> Quarq: http://www.quarq.us is coming out with a OSS computer that will
> display watts, speed, etc on your handlebars. It's called the Qranium and
> it runs off Linux, and GTK+ and various other OSS based modules.
>
>    So you'll be able to hack it yourself to display whatever you like.
> Pretty cool.
>
>    I am based in Montreal, Canada and I've been using Linux since kernel
> 1.2.8 and have been racing road and track for 10+ years..
>
>    I hope to hear what the rest of you are up to in terms of cycling and
> OSS..

My intro...

I'm Pete, from Minneapolis MN. I ride a Marin Larkspur street/road hybrid[1] 
named Gullinbursti, after the boar ridden by the Norse god Freyr[2]. It's my 
grocery getter/work wagon/road warrior and general all-purpose hell-raiser. 
It's a great bike.

On the tech side, I've been a Linux user since 2003, presently using Kubuntu 
8.04/KDE 4.1 on my HP Pentium D desktop, Ubuntu 8.04 with Gnome and Fluxbox on 
my Lenovo Core Duo laptop, and Ubuntu Server 7.10 on my NFS file server 
(although next time you ask, that might be running Slackware 12). I make a 
living selling and supporting Ubuntu desktops and laptops in the Minneapolis 
area.

Back to biking, I'm looking forward to a trip to Michigan this fall, and 
possibly a longer trip next spring. I've never toured before, and if anyone 
had any resources they could point me at, I'd be most grateful.

ride on-
pete

[1] http://www.marinbikes.com/2008/us/bikes/specs_larkspur.php
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gullinbursti