I had a great year in 2012, but 2013 was really exceptional.
Biggest news, on Sunday April 28th MJ and I were married in a ceremony just outside of Philadelphia!
We also hosted a California reception in August.
Second biggest news, in January I started my job with HP where I now get to work on the OpenStack Infrastructure with a team of amazing colleagues.
I also managed to log about 65k miles in flights this year, getting on a plane at least once a month for every month except for March, the rundown:
- January: Philadelphia, pre-wedding prep
- January: Seattle, work on-boarding
- February: Los Angeles Ubucon and SCaLE11x
- April: Portland, OR post 1, post 2, OpenStack Summit
- April: Philadelphia, wedding!
- April-May: Mexico post 1, post 2, honeymoon
- June: New York City, OpenStack Infrastructure Bootcamp and some touristing
- July: Portland, OR post 1, post 2, post 3, post 4, Community Leadership Summit and OSCON
- July: Boston, Matti’s wedding
- August: Philadelphia, Fosscon
- September: Seattle, OpenStack TripleO Sprint
- October: Urbana-Champaign, ACM Reflections | Projections conference
- November: Hong Kong post 1, post 2, post 3, post 4 OpenStack Summit and some touristing
- December: Miami, vacation
I also bumped the number of speaking engagements from 7 in 2012 to 10 in 2013, in spite of taking a few months off for wedding prep.
- January 2, 2013: “Deploying Edubuntu in Ghana” presentation and Q&A at the Philadelphia Linux Users Group (slides)
- February 19, 2013: “Lessons learned from our deployment of Edubuntu in Ghana” presentation at the Bay Area Linux Users Group (BALUG) (slides)
- February 22, 2013: “Ubuntu in the Cloud” Ubucon at Southern California Linux Expo (slides)
- July 11, 2013: “Introduction to Ubuntu” at ITT Tech in Concord for Intro to Linux class
- July 25, 2013: “Code Review for Systems Administrators” at OSCON (slides, notes)
- August 10, 2013: “Open Source Systems Administration” at Fosscon (slides)
- September 22, 2013: CodeChix OpenStack Workshop
- October 12, 2013: A Career in Free and Open Source Software at Reflections | Projections Conference (slides)
- October 15, 2013: Code Review for Systems Administrators at Bay Area Linux Users Group (slides)
- December 12, 2013: “Open Source for love, money and fame” at San Francisco State University for Managing Open Source class (slides)
It was also a good year for interviews and publications:
While 2014 won’t feature a wedding (of my own!) and a job change seems unlikely, it’s already shaping up to be a great year. It’ll kick off with a trip to Australia for my first linux.conf.au (plus my first time in Australia!) and I learned this morning that I’ll be speaking at SCaLE12x Los Angeles in February. I’ve submitted talks for and been invited to a few other conferences and I’m also scheming to go on a trip somewhere interesting with MJ this year, we shall see!