It’s hard to believe that January is already over. It was quite the full month with my trip to Perth and then a lot of work and project stuff happening. Looking at my calendar for the year I seem to have a pretty full schedule, during which I’m also dying to squeeze in a visit to my youngest sister and my nephew in Maine (aiming for March).
Last month I was happy to see my Code Review for System Administrators article come out in the January issue of USENIX ;login: logout. It’s an online-only publication but it was great to be able to transform the talk I’ve given on the subject to text, and working with Rikki Endsley is always a pleasure. I was also interviewed several months back my comments made their way into Issue 180 of Linux Format in Jono Bacon’s Equality and open source article.
Apologies for the pay wall for both of these articles, if you’re a USENIX member you can grab the ;login: logout article, and the Linux Format one should be available for general consumption in the next few months.
In conference news, I’m officially one of the TAs for the Build your own PiDoorbell! Learn Home Automation with Python workshop at PyCon 2014 in Montreal in April. I’ve never attended a PyCon and I’m super excited about meeting up with Akk, Rupa and the other TAs to start learning what we’ll be teaching others. I’m thinking I’ll set up my motion sensor next to Simcoe’s food bowl so I can make sure Caligula doesn’t eat her food. I’ll also be pitching in at the HP booth during the conference days.
I also learned on Sunday that not only is HP going to be a sponsor of DORS CLUC 2014, a Linux User Group Convention in Zagreb, Croatia in June but will be giving a keynote! I’ll be there to talk about the fully open source Continuous Integration system that we use for the OpenStack project. Bonus, this will be my opportunity to finally meet Jasna BenÄić, a rising tech star who I met through work on several Ubuntu projects a couple years back, including her tireless work on the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter and Ubuntu Learning.
I’ve put in a few more talk submissions to other conferences, so it’s shaping up to be a really exciting year.