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.

Resume & LinkedIn

My work on GitHub and GitLab

Ubuntu work

Profiles on: Faces of Open Source, Speakerinnen, & SheSource profile

Email me at lyz@princessleia.com

@pleia2@floss.social on Mastodon

pleia2 on Bluesky & Instagram

Typewriter database: Hunter: Elizabeth K. Joseph

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 - 2025

2025

July 8, 2025: Philadelphia area Linux Users Group
June 25, 2025: "Linux Fundamentals, Topped with a Touch of AI" at the AI and Automation Unpacked IBM TechXchange Virtual Dev Days
May 14, 2025: Making our Strong Community Stronger webinar: "LOL or BRB: Decoding Millennial and Gen Z Workplace Communication"

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)

2023

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

2022

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)

2021

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!