This is the home page of Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph.

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Resume here

My work on GitHub and GitLab

Ubuntu work: here

OpenStack statistics: here

Faces of Open Source profile

Speakerinnen profile

SheSource profile

Contact me via email: lyz@princessleia.com

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"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, 2019 - 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)
• 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!

• November 14, 2020: "Open Source on the Mainframe in 1960, 1999, and Today" at SeaGL (slides)
• November 13, 2020: "Can your app run on a mainframe?" at the Linux Application Summit (slides, video)
• November 6, 2020: Mainframe a La Mode: "Developer resources for porting your Linux app to IBM Z" (slides)
• October 30, 2020: "Software Discovery Tool" lightning talk at the Open Mainframe Mini-Summit (slides)
• October 20, 2020: "A Tour of Open Source on the Mainframe" at All Things Open 2020 (slides)
• October 16, 2020: Awesome Free Stuff for Your Mainframe: Lightning talk on the IBM LinuxONE Community Cloud
• October 6, 2020: "Open source on the Modern Mainframe" at DevPulseCon 2020 (slides, video)
• September 22, 2020: "Kubernetes and OpenShift...and COBOL too?" on DevNation Federal: Deconstructed
• September 15, 2020: "Tips and tools for porting your open source application to IBM LinuxONE" at IBM Z Day (slides)
• August 6, 2020: "zStudents: A Student's Guide to Open Source" (video)
• July 13-16, 2020: "Open Source on the Mainframe" at OSCON Event canceled (COVID-19)
• July 8, 2020: "Learn how COBOL and open source are used in modern mainframe ecosystem" at IBM Developer SF Bay Area Meetup (slides, video)
• July 1, 2020: "Exploring 20 Years of Linux and Open Source on the Mainframe" at Open Source Summit NA
• May 6, 2020: "Modernizing Your Infrastructure with Kubernetes on IBM Z" at IBM Think
• May 5, 2020: "Modernizing Your Infrastructure with Kubernetes and ICPA on IBM Z" at IBM Think (slides, video)
• May 1-2, 2020: "Why Linux Systems Administrators Should Care About the Mainframe" at Texas Linux Fest Event canceled (COVID-19)
• March 19-21, 2020: "Open Source on the Mainframe" at FOSSASIA Summit Travel cancelled (COVID-19)
• March 6, 2020: "We put Kubernetes on a Mainframe!" at Southern California Linux Expo 18x (slides, video)
• January 15, 2020: "Linux in the Cloud, on Prem, or... on a Mainframe?" at linux.conf.au (slides, video)
• January 13, 2020: "Why Linux Systems Administrators Should Care About the Mainframe" at the Sysadmin Miniconf at linux.conf.au (slides, video)

• December 9, 2019: "Modernizing Workloads with Linux on Your Mainframe" at Open FinTech Forum (slides)
• November 20, 2019: "Wait, People Run Kubernetes on Mainframes?" at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2019 (slides, video)
• November 8, 2019: "Discussion about IBM Z" panelist at Datathon for Social Good: IBM Z & UC Berkeley
• October 29, 2019: "20 Years of Linux on the Mainframe" during LISA'19 Lightning Talks (slides)
• October 19, 2019: "Developing for the Modern Mainframe" at Silicon Valley Code Camp (slides)
• July 3, 2019: "Linux on Mainframes: Past, present, and future" at Philadelphia Area Linux Users Group (slides)
• January-June, 2019: Taking a break for a few months to welcome our first child!

For earlier speaking engagements, see: speaking engagements prior to 2018

Books

• Common OpenStack Deployments, released September 2016

• The Official Ubuntu Book (9th Edition), released July 2016

Publications

• 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
• September 2017: Mesosphere.com: Improving your deployments
• August 2017: OpenSource.com: 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: 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

• 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