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Resume here
Ubuntu work: here
OpenStack statistics: here
Contact me via email: lyz@princessleia.com
Speaking: Speakerinnen profile
Press: SheSource profile
"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, 2017 - 2018
- August 25, 2018: "Continuous Delivery With Containers" at FOSSCON
- June 4, 2018: "Debian to DC/OS: factors that shape open source communities" at DevXCon
- May 22, 2018: Keynote: "CI/CD of Microservices with Containers" at OpenDevConf CI/CD
- April 20, 2018: "The fine art of negotiating your pay" panelist at DevPulseCon 2018
- April 20, 2018: "Open Source: Tools, Techniques, Best Practices" at DevPulseCon 2018 (slides)
- March 9, 2018: Advanced Continuous Delivery Strategies for Containerized Applications Using DC/OS at the Southern California Linux Expo 16x (slides)
- March 8, 2018: Keeping Your Ubuntu Systems Secure at UbuCon at the Southern California Linux Expo 16x (slides)
- January 24, 2018: The Open Sourcing of Infrastructure at linux.conf.au (slides, video)
- January 23, 2018: Day 2 Operations with Containers: Myth vs. Reality at the linux.conf.au Systems Administration Miniconf (slides, video)
- November 7, 2017: "Open Sourcing of Infrastructure" at CubaConf (slides)
- November 2, 2017: MesosCon Recap at the Hamburg Mesos User Group
- November 1, 2017: MesosCon Recap at the Berlin Mesos User Group
- October 26, 2017: Keynote Panel: SMACK in the Enterprise, Moderator, MesosCon EU 2017
- October 23-24, 2017: "Open Sourcing of Infrastructure" at All Things Open (slides)
- September 27, 2017: "Day 2 Operations with Containers: Myth vs. Reality" at Sysdig CCWFS (slides)
- September 15, 2017: Keynote Panel: Future of Cluster Management, Moderator, MesosCon NA 2017
- September 12, 2017: "Advanced Continuous Delivery Strategies for Containerised Applications Using DC/OS" at Open Source Summit - North America, ContainerCon (slides)
- September 11, 2017: "Building Open Source Project Infrastructures" at Open Source Summit - North America, Open Community Conference (slides)
- August 30, 2017: The SMACK Stack at the Dublin Apache Kafka Meetup by Confluent (slides)
- August 26, 2017: "The Open Sourcing of Infrastructure" at Fosscon (slides)
- August 21, 2017: "Introduction to DC/OS" at the Philadelphia Area Linux Users Group, West (slides)
- July 19, 2017: Containerized, Cloud-Native Operations for Big Data Analytics at the SoCal DevOps Meetup (slides)
- July 16, 2017: "Day 2 Operations of Cloud Native Systems" at Cloud+Data Next Silicon Valley (slides)
- July 11, 2017: Service Discovery on DC/OS at Bay Area Mesos User Group with Redis Labs (slides, video)
- June 28, 2017: Microservices and SMACK Stack on Azure at Bay Area Mesos User Group with the Azure team (video)
- June 7, 2017: "DC/OS and Fast Data (The SMACK Stack)" with Ben Hindman at the Philadelphia Area Linux Users Group (slides)
- June 6, 2017: "Managing Microservices & Fast Data w/ Apache Mesos & DC/OS" with Ben Hindman at WeWork NYC (slides)
- May 25, 2017: Continuous Deployment at Enterprise Scale with Artifactory and DC/OS at swampUP (slides)
- May 17, 2017: Keynote: "The Open Sourcing of Infrastructure" at Salt Lake City DevOps Days (slides)
- April 26, 2017: "Day 2 Operations of cloud-native systems" at DevOps Days Seattle (slides)
- April 20, 2017: "Panel I: Getting Your Next Job: Groundwork Requirements Before You Start Interviewing" at DevPulseCon 2017
- April 20, 2017: "Using DC/OS for Continuous Delivery" at DevPulseCon 2017 (slides)
- April 11, 2017: Flink meet DC/OS – Deploying Flink at Scale at Flink Forward (slides, video)
- March 4, 2017: Listening to the Needs of Your Global Open Source Community at the Southern California Linux Expo 15x (slides)
- March 2, 2017: 10 Years of Xubuntu at the UbuCon Summit 2017 (slides)
- February 23, 2017: Panel Discussion: DC/OS, K8s, OpenStack at the DC/OS Meetup
- January 18, 2017: Listening to the Needs of Your Global Open Source Community at linux.conf.au (slides, video)
For earlier speaking engagements, see: speaking engagements prior to 2017
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
- September 2017: Mesosphere.com: Improving your deployments
- August 2017: Why open source should be the first choice for cloud-native environments
- March 2017: Mesosphere.com: Exploring Pods in DC/OS 1.9
- March 2017: OpenSource.com: How to grow healthy open source project infrastructures
- August 2016: APNIC blog: 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: 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: 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
- 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
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