Last week I attended my first Ubuntu Developer Summit! It was a pleasure to be sponsored for this trip, so thanks again to Canonical for handling travel expenses, and to LinuxForce and my boss for allowing me to take the time off to attend. My flight came in Monday evening, grabbed a taxi and checked […]
Archive for November, 2009
Ubuntu Developer Summit for Lucid Lynx – Dallas, Texas: Tuesday and Wednesday
November 25th, 2009 by pleia2
Blogs on a Plane
November 16th, 2009 by pleia2
This American Airlines flight offers wifi, so I paid $12.95 to get it. Wince, I know, but the novelty! And really not so bad to keep me entertained during the flight. IRC on a plane, w00t! It’s actually pretty decent, my ssh sessions have been quite zippy. It’ll be nice when wifi on flights becomes […]
Holiday Card Call!
November 15th, 2009 by pleia2
Every year I try to send out a big ole batch of wintertime holiday cards to friends and acquaintances online. Reading this? That means you! Even if you’re outside the United States, I always end up sending at least a half dozen overseas, and that’s always fun :) Drop me an email with your address […]
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“Issues of Women in Open Source” for Ubuntu Open Week, and “Why?”
November 12th, 2009 by pleia2
Last week I did a presentation for Ubuntu Open Week on the Ubuntu Women Project covering some of the “Issues” that are involved in why many women feel discouraged within the community. Full logs of the session can be found here. Mackenzie Morgan followed up my session with one describing what the Ubuntu Women project […]
Trip to New York for Ubuntu Release Event in Waterloo
November 12th, 2009 by pleia2
This past weekend I drove up to Waterloo, New York with my friend Crissi to attend the New York Team‘s Ubuntu Release Event. We left Pennsylvania around 10AM on Saturday and headed out to NY, stopped at Friendly’s in Scraton for lunch and arrived in Seneca Falls, NY around 4PM. The weather driving up was […]
Ubuntu Pennsylvania – Philly Ubuntu Karmic Koala (9.10) Release Party
November 1st, 2009 by pleia2
Yesterday we held the Philadelphia Karmic Koala 9.10 Release/Halloween Party over at Manayunk Diner in Manayunk. We used this place for the Jaunty release party and once again it turned out to be a great venue, thanks again to Jim Fisher for securing it for us, even if he couldn’t make it out to the […]