It’s been a busy month. Fortunately in that time my ankle has pretty much healed from the sprain I got last month and I plan on heading back to the gym full force soon. I realized that I never mentioned it here, but I was interviewed on a podcast earlier in the month about Xubuntu, […]
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A Little San Francisco 13.10 Release Party
October 18th, 2013 by pleia2
I was finally in my home city of San Francisco for an Ubuntu release (why are Octobers so crazy?) so I was able to put together a small event for the release of Ubuntu 13.10 (Saucy Salamander). The night before I pulled out the nail polish and nail decals from System76 to get into the […]
Code Review for Sysadmins talk at BALUG
October 18th, 2013 by pleia2
On the heels of my trip to Illinois to speak at ACM Reflections | Projections on building a career in open source, I had the opportunity on Tuesday to speak at the Bay Area Linux Users Group (BALUG) on the system the OpenStack Infrastructure team uses to do systems administration. It was a happy coincidence […]
ACM Reflections | Projections Conference 2013 wrap-up
October 16th, 2013 by pleia2
Last Thursday I flew out to Urbana-Champaign to speak at a conference put on by the ACM at the University of Illinois, Reflections | Projections. On Thursday evening and Friday I was able to spend time catching up with my Ubuntu colleagues Nathan Handler, who was staff at the conference, and Paul Tagliamonte who was […]
32nd Birthday in Squaw Valley
October 3rd, 2013 by pleia2
On Friday MJ and I left to head toward Tahoe to spend the weekend at The Resort at Squaw Creek to celebrate my 32nd birthday on Sunday. With my still recovering sprained ankle I wasn’t as mobile as I generally like to be for a mountain adventure, but the weather was cooperating for some nice […]
CodeChix OpenStack workshop wrap-up and materials
September 25th, 2013 by pleia2
As I announced in a previous post on September 22nd I ran a CodeChix workshop in Palo Alto on OpenStack. In the weeks leading up to it I worked with my session assistants Ryan Lane and Anita Kuno to hash out our plans for the workshop. Ryan was able to put together an image for […]
OpenStack TripleO Sprint
September 24th, 2013 by pleia2
Last week I headed to the HP office in Seattle to meet up with my colleagues from HP, Red Hat and others for a TripleO Sprint which was proposed in July and fleshed out last month. We started off on Monday by attempting to get everyone set up with a TripleO environment by walking through […]
Hosting a CodeChix OpenStack Workshop in Palo Alto
September 8th, 2013 by pleia2
Several months ago I met Rupa Dachere, founder of CodeChix, “a CA non-profit public benefit organization dedicated to the Education, Promotion and Mentorship of female engineers and students.” Given my work with OpenStack, we chatted about the possibility of doing a workshop on OpenStack for CodeChix. This has now come together! Ryan Lane of Wikimedia […]
California Wedding Reception
August 24th, 2013 by pleia2
Since we had our wedding on the east coast we decided to also host an event on the west coast for friends here, many of whom couldn’t make it across the country for the wedding itself. It took some time to plan, but last Saturday we finally had our event! We ended up going with […]
Breakfast with the Penguins at the San Francisco Zoo
August 22nd, 2013 by pleia2
This past weekend our friend Danita was in town visiting. To kick things off I dragged her and MJ out of bed at 7AM to head to the San Francisco Zoo! This year we missed the annual March of the Penguins where the new baby penguins of the year are introduced to the colony on […]