This is the home page of Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph.
A little page devoted to Princess Leia can be found here: Tribute to Princess Leia.
Looking for the website of the actress who played Princess/General Leia? Go to Carrie Fisher's website.
Profiles on: Faces of Open Source, Speakerinnen, & SheSource profile
Email me at lyz@princessleia.com
@pleia2@floss.social on Mastodon
pleia2 on Twitter & Instagram
Call sign: KN6QGG
"Governor Thomas was so pleased with the construction of this stove, as described in it, that he offered to give me a patent for the sole vending of them for a term of years; but I declined it from a principle which has ever weighed with me on such occasions, viz., That, as we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours; and this we should do freely and generously." -- Benjamin Franklin, Autobiography published 1790 (emphasis mine)
Speaking engagements, 2021 - 2024
2024- November 9, 2024: SeaGL: Will your open source project run on a mainframe? Or on a smartwatch?" (slides)
- October 21, 2024: Open Mainframe Project at TechXchange: "Is that Available on the Mainframe? An Open Source Software Journey" (slides)
- October 21, 2024: Open Mainframe Project at TechXchange: "Crowdsourcing Mainframe Education" (panel)
- October 1, 2024: IBM Z Day Academic Symposium: "Open by Design - the Critical Role of Open Source"
- April 17, 2024: Open Source Summit North America: How Our Mainframe-Focused Working Group Solved Our Linux Distribution Maintainer Isolation Problem (slides, video)
- April 13, 2024: Texas Linux Festival: Why (and how) would you run Linux on the Mainframe? (slides)
- April 6, 2024: Central Pennsylvania Open Source Conference (CPOSC): Will your open source project run on a mainframe? Or on a smartwatch? (slides, video)
- March 19, 2024: New to IBM Z Technical Session: From Ansible to Zowe: Opening the mainframe for a modern, scalable, inclusive and secure enterprise panel
- March 16, 2024: Southern California Linux Expo: Will your open source project run on a mainframe? And beyond! (slides, video)
- January 17, 2024: ISV Knowledge Exchange Webinar: Open Source on IBM Z Today (video and slides)
- November 14, 2023: Philadelphia area Linux Users Group: "The Open Source Renaissance in Mainframe Technology" (slides)
- October 16, 2023: All Things Open: Linux Distribution Collaboration …on a Mainframe! (slides)
- September 12, 2023: IBM TechXchange Conference 2023: "From Ansible to Zowe: Opening the mainframe for a modern, scalable, inclusive & secure enterprise" panelist
- September 11, 2023: Open Mainframe Summit: Togetherness of Linux Distributions on the Whole Open Source Software Development Life Cycle (slides)
- September 11, 2023: Open Mainframe Summit: Keynote: Illuminating Pathways for Our Future Innovators (slides, video)
- April 17, 2023: IBM LinuxONE 4: Sustainability without compromise virtual event, panelist
- April 1, 2023: "Hello, I Give Away Mainframes (kind of)" lightning talk at the CPOSC (slides)
- March 21, 2023: IBM Telum Processor - More Than Meets the AI at Albany State University, panelist, presenting remotely
- December 12, 2022: COBOL Programming Course - Meet the Community of Learners
- November 29, 2022: #zxpTipTuesday: The IBM LinuxONE Community Cloud
- September 22, 2022: Keynote: Mentorships: Allyship at It's Best at the Open Mainframe Summit (video)
- September 21, 2022: Introducing the Linux Distributions Working Group at the Open Mainframe Summit (slides, video)
- September 15, 2022: "Mentorship: The Intergenerational Power of Giving Back" at IBM zDay 2022
- September 14, 2022: "Test Drive Enterprise Grade LinuxONE – Free and Easy Access!" at IBM zDay 2022
- July 20, 2022: Mom Relaunch: Launch to Enterprise Computing, hands-on lab
- May 30 - June 3, 2022: Total Mom Inc: Business Summit: IBM Panel
- May 27, 2022: In the Open with Luke and Joe: IBM z16 with Lyz Joseph and PJ Catalano
- May 19, 2022: Inside The New IBM z16
- May 10, 2022: IBM Community Think Digital Watch Party, panelist
- April 20, 2022: A Legacy of Humanities in IBM Platforms Part 4, host
- April 12, 2022: "Modern COBOL" at Philadelphia Area Linux Users Group (virtual)
- March 16, 2022: A Legacy of Humanities in IBM Platforms Part 3, host
- January 13, 2022: z/Now! for January: Resources for Developing Open Source Software for Linux on IBM Z and LinuxONE (slides, video)
- December 7, 2021: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform web server workshop at the Launch to IBM Z event
- November 18, 2021: Introduction to Enterprise Computing & Open Mainframe Project Mentorship Program (slides)
- November 17, 2021: "How and Why to Modernize in Place with IBM Z" at the IBM Community Festival 2021 (slides)
- October 28, 2021: "Ignite your Technical Rock Stars" panel at IBM TechU virtual edition 2021
- October 14, 2021: "Developing open source software for various hardware architectures" at Hashnode Open Source Symposium (slides)
- September 30, 2021: "Contributing to open-source & how to get involved in the community panel" at Canonical booth at virtual Grace Hopper Celebration 2021
- September 23, 2021: "General Mentorship Session" at the Open Mainframe Summit
- September 15, 2021: "Looking for Open Source Software on Z? Meet the Software Discovery Tool!" at IBM Z Day (slides, video)
- September 15, 2021: "Web Server: Hands-on Lab with Friends of Z" at IBM Z Day (slides)
- August 24, 2021: "Introduction to Enterprise Computing" on the IBM Z Apprenticeships for Veterans Webinar (slides)
- June 11, 2021: "You're Running That on WHAT? Developing Software for Non-x86 Platforms" at Women Who Code CONNECT REIMAGINE 2021 (slides)
- May 26, 2021: Hands on Linux Lab at Launch to IBM Z with Mom Relaunch (slides)
- January-April, 2021: Taking a break for a few months to welcome our second child!
For earlier speaking engagements, see: speaking engagements prior to 2021
Books
- Common OpenStack Deployments, released September 2016
- The Official Ubuntu Book (9th Edition), released July 2016
Previous edition: The Official Ubuntu Book (8th Edition), released July 2014
Publications
- March 26, 2024: IBM Community: Get your choice of Linux distribution on IBM LinuxONE
- March 26, 2024: IBM Community: Linux in the IBM Z ecosystem
- June 7, 2023: IBM Community: All about the life-size IBM z16 LEGO® brick model!
- April 17, 2023: IBM Community: Inside the new IBM LinuxONE Rockhopper 4 rack-mount
- April 13, 2023: OpenSource.com: Run Git on a mainframe
- February 2, 2023: IBM Developer: COBOL for the site reliability engineer
- September 19, 2022: IBM Community: Print your own IBM z16 and LinuxONE Emperor 4 models!
- April 27, 2022: IBM Developer: A tour inside the IBM z16
- December 18, 2021: OpenSource.com: How I play Tetris on the mainframe
- June 9, 2021: Open Mainframe Project blog: So many software options – what is available and how do I get it? Software Discovery Tool Answers These Questions and More
- September 10, 2020: IBM Developer: Developer resources for building your open source app for Linux on IBM Z and LinuxONE
- August 17, 2020: IBM Developer: Use the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform on the IBM LinuxONE Community Cloud to launch a web server
- July 30, 2020: OpenSource.com: 4 ways I contribute to open source as a Linux systems administrator
- April 14, 2020: IBM Developer: Inside the new IBM z15 T02 and LinuxONE III LT2
- September 26, 2019: Open Mainframe Project blog: A Newcomer’s Perspective: Open Source on the Mainframe Mini-Summit
- September 23, 2019: IBM Developer: Take a look inside the new IBM z15
- September 19, 2019: OpenSource.com: Linux on the mainframe: Then and now
- September 11, 2019: OpenSource.com: How Linux came to the mainframe
- May 18, 2018: OpenSource.com: Mastering CI/CD at OpenDev
- May 17, 2018: Mesosphere: Exploring Prometheus at KubeCon: Not Just Metrics
- May 16, 2018 USENIX: LISA18 Wishlist: Talks and tutorials we’d like to see
- May 9, 2018: Mesosphere: A Growing CI/CD Ecosystem Showcased at KubeCon
- August 2017: OpenSource.com: Why open source should be the first choice for cloud-native environments
- March 2017: OpenSource.com: How to grow healthy open source project infrastructures
- August 2016: APNIC: A view of SANOG from an Open Source specialist
- July 2016: OpenSource.com: 5 tools to support distributed sysadmin teams
- July 2016: OpenSource.com: 5 reasons system administrators should use revision control
- May 2015: OpenSource.com: The benefits of building an open infrastructure
- March 2015: Tech Talk Live: Five Ways to Get Involved with Ubuntu as an Educator
- January 2015: OpenSource.com: 10 entry points to tech (for girls, women, and everyone)
- September 2014: The New Stack: A Linux Hobbyis's Path to a Career in Tech with 7 Recommendations for Women and Minorities
- May 2014: Elasticsearch: OpenStack elastic-recheck: Powered by the ELK Stack
- Februrary 2014: Linux Format issue 180: Interviewed and quoted for Equality and open source by Jono Bacon
- January 2014: USENIX: ;login: logout Code Review for System Administrators
- June 2013: Linux Identity Starter -- Ubuntu Family 13.04 Raring Ringtail: Controlling your Xubuntu System
- November 2012: Ubuntu User Issue 15: Trip to Ghana (download)
- September 2012: Ubuntu User Issue 14: Interview with Elizabeth Krumbach (download)
- July 2012: Ubuntu User Issue 13: Photo in "Ubuntu Developer Summit: Quantal Quetzal" by Benjamin Kerensa (download)
- December 2011: Linux Format Issue 152: Profiled in "Women, know your Linux!" article by Paula Graham
- January 2010: Ubuntu User Issue 4: "Ubuntu-Women Project" by Amber Graner
- May 2009: Linux Format Issue 118: Interviewed for "Debian people" article by Juliet Kemp
Interviews
- June 17, 2024: TFiR: Linux Distributions Working Group fosters collaboration between Linux distribution maintainers
- March 29, 2024: Ship It! – Episode #97: SoCal Linux Expo: with SCaLE attendees
- November 10, 2023: Stray Pointers Podcast: Chatting with Linux on the Mainframe Specialist Elizabeth K. Joseph
- June 26, 2023: TFiR: Open Mainframe Project Partners With IBM & FINOS For Its 4th Annual Summit
- June 20, 2023: Meet Us in Las Vegas or New York for the Open Mainframe Summit – The Open Mainframe EP 22
- November 29, 2022: The Open Mainframe EP 16: Do Linux Distributions Work Together? They Do Now!
- November 22, 2022: TFiR: Meet The New Linux Distributions Working Group For Mainframe
- December 27, 2021: TFiR: Meet Open Mainframe Project Mentor & Mentee
- September 1, 2021: Elizabeth K. Joseph on Being a Developer Advocate and the Future of Mainframe Technology
- September 28, 2020: 10 Years of OpenStack – Elizabeth K. Joseph at IBM
- September 1, 2020: What Works for the Latest Mainframe Generation at IBM
- July 2, 2020: The Polyglot Developer Podcast: E38: COBOL Development on the Mainframe
- April 28, 2020: Podcast 230: Mastering the Mainframe
- March 13, 2020: Jupiter Broadcasting: Brunch with Brent: Elizabeth K. Joseph
- March 7, 2020: Elizabeth K. Joseph: entrevista exclusiva para AT (Spanish, English)
- November 20, 2019: I am a Mainframer: Elizabeth Joseph
- October 10, 2019: Linux.com: Why Linux Developers Should Reconsider IBM Mainframes
- August 26, 2019: IBM Mainframe Is A Great Platform For Linux Developers | Elizabeth K Joseph
- July 29, 2019: Terminal Talk: Elizabeth Joseph - Hyper Protect
- July 17, 2019: Linux Spotlight EP06 - Elizabeth K. Joseph
- January, 17, 2019: CodeChix Member of the Month: Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph
- March 21, 2018: Containers and open source, a conversation with Elizabeth Joseph
- November 14, 2016: Linux Luddites Episode #91, interviewed about OpenStack
- October 26, 2016: OpenStack Podcast: Elizabeth Joseph at the OpenStack Summit Barcelona
- July 26, 2016: OpenStack SuperUser: Why infrastructure is the key to OpenStack's Big Tent
- April 20, 2015: Sultan Qaboos University Horizon magazine #313, interviewed about why companies and individuals contribute to open source software
- April 8, 2015: Ubuntu Fridge: Interview with Elizabeth K. Joseph of the Ubuntu Community Council
- April 3, 2015: Sysadministrivia Podcast: S0E4: Parental Advisory: ExpLYZit Content
- October 2, 2014: OpenSource.com: This is what system administration in the open looks like
- September 2, 2014: Linux.com: How Elizabeth Joseph Became a SysAdmin on HP's OpenStack Infrastructure Team
- May 26, 2014: Linux Luddites Episode #16, interviewed about Xubuntu
- February 23, 2014: SCaLE12x Speaker Interview: Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph
- October 4, 2013: Frostcast Episode 084 Xubuntu
- August 27, 2013: Meet the HP Cloud Team: Elizabeth Krumbach, OpenStack Infrastructure
- July 19, 2013: OpenStack Blog: Open Mic Spotlight: Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph
- March 7, 2013: Ubuntu UK Podcast: S06E02, interviewed about Xubuntu
- February 20, 2013: Share The Bytes: Episode 10 - Women of Ubuntu
- January 1, 2013: Ubuntu Women- Where are they now? Follow up with Elizabeth Krumbach
- September 28, 2012: ReadWriteWeb: Meet The Ubuntu Women - They're More Involved Than You Think
- July 26, 2012: Muktware: Interview With O'Reilly Open Source Award Winner Elizabeth Krumbach
- June 6, 2012: Ubuntu UK Podcast: S05E08, interviewed about California LoCo team, Ubuntu Women, and the Community Council
- September 24, 2011: The Linux Setup - Elizabeth Krumbach, Ubuntu Women Project
- May 14, 2010: UDS-M Interview Elizabeth Krumbach Community
- April 20, 2010: OMG Interviews Elizabeth Krumbach, Ubuntu women, learning team, beginners team all star
- April 4, 2010: KPFA 94.1 Berkeley Radio interview: Digital Chronicles, April 4, 2010
- October 20, 2009: Interview in e-zine: Pardus-Linux.Org eDergi 13. Say\C4
- April 2009: Full Circle Magazine: Issue 24
- June 12, 2008: Follow-up interview with Alex Launi about Ubuntu on WCOJ 1420AM's "Computer Corner"
- July 14, 2007: Interviewed with Alex Launi about Ubuntu on WCOJ 1420AM's "Computer Corner"
- September 22, 2006: Interview: Elizabeth Krumbach of LinuxChix
GPG Fingerprint: F1A1 2FEF 82A5 666C F9A4 A748 2FC7 6319 BC23 49FC
(Old GPG Fingerprint: C058 1828 40C6 1A14 C641 70EC A353 ABF3 BC9A C50C, see transition statement)