While Matti was in town we ended up at brunch one morning talking some about Tom Limoncelli’s excellent Time Management for System Administrators book, so I ended up rereading it last week. I’ve actually adopted a lot of the things discussed in the book, but I still have work to do when it comes to […]
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Outside Lands Festival 2012
August 16th, 2012 by pleia2
This past weekend I took Friday off from work and MJ, his friend Matti who is in town visiting and I headed over to Outside Lands 2012 for the 3 day music festival. We took public transit most of the weekend, piling on to the overflowing MUNI Metro to get across town each day, so […]
San Francisco Ubuntu Hour and Debian Dinner Wrap-up
August 10th, 2012 by pleia2
On Wednesday night I hosted an Ubuntu Hour and Debian Dinner in downtown San Francisco. We have our Ubuntu Hours here in San Francisco once a month, and it was November of 2010 that I decided to start tacking on a Bay Area Debian Dinner every other month at a restaurant across the street. Over […]
Thursday and Friday at OSCON 2012
July 23rd, 2012 by pleia2
Although I’ve always wanted to go, I hadn’t actually planned on attending OSCON this year due to several factors (work, budget, etc). That changed when I received the email about winning the Open Source Award on July 9th, I was able to quickly schedule a couple days off of work to attend the last two […]
O’Reilly Open Source Award
July 20th, 2012 by pleia2
This afternoon I had the incredible honor of accepting an O’Reilly Open Source Award at OSCON for my work in the Ubuntu community. It’s been an exciting day and thanks to all my supportive friends at OSCON who were there with hugs and handshakes, it was an unforgettable experience. Now I would like to extend […]
Xubuntu Presentation at FeltonLUG
July 15th, 2012 by pleia2
Yesterday afternoon MJ and I headed south to Felton LUG so I could give a presentation with the ambitious title of “Everything you ever wanted to know about Xubuntu” for the group. The group was incredibly welcoming and engaged during my presentation, asking interesting questions throughout. At the end I was able to give a […]
My friends at FOSSCON 2012
July 10th, 2012 by pleia2
Last summer MJ and I flew to Philadelphia in the middle of the biggest heat wave of the year so I could give the keynote at FOSSCON, I wrote about it here. Unfortunately the timing didn’t sync up well for us this year and I won’t be able to make the trip back to attend. […]
ACM Turing Centenary Celebration
June 17th, 2012 by pleia2
On Friday and Saturday I had the exceptional opportunity to attend the ACM Turing Centenary Celebration. I’ll start right off by saying it was an exciting and deeply intimidating event to attend. The ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) is actually quite an academic-focused organization in general, and while I read their Communications of the ACM […]
UDS-Q in Oakland Day 5
May 13th, 2012 by pleia2
Last day of the Ubuntu Developer Summit for Quantal! It’s always a bittersweet day, we’re all so terribly exhausted from the week but it’s also the last day for many of us to see people we only see once or twice a year. Like other days, my day started off with the Community Roundtable. – […]
UDS-Q in Oakland Day 4 and Ubuntu Women dinner
May 11th, 2012 by pleia2
Phew, Thursday! I was moving a bit slower today due to not getting a whole lot of sleep last night, but it was quite the busy day for me. – Community Roundtable – We picked up discussion from the day before about announcements from Canonical, it was generally agreed that the community is less bothered […]