Last week I had the pleasure of attending my second linux.conf.au. This year it took place in Geelong, a port city about an hour train ride southwest of Melbourne. After my Melbourne-area adventures earlier in the week, I made my way to Geelong via train on Sunday afternoon. That evening I met up with a […]
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SCALE14x
January 31st, 2016 by pleia2
I have already written about the UbuCon Summit and Ubuntu booth at SCALE14x (14th annual Southern California Linux Expo), but the conference went far beyond Ubuntu for me! First of all, I love this new venue. SCALE had previously been held at hotels near LAX, with all the ones I’d attended being at the Hilton […]
Ubuntu at SCALE14x
January 30th, 2016 by pleia2
I spent a long weekend in Pasadena from January 21-24th to participate in the 14th Annual Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE14x). As I mentioned previously, a major part of my attendance was focused on the Ubuntu-related activities. Wednesday evening I joined a whole crowd of my Ubuntu friends at a pre-UbuCon meet-and-greet at a wine […]
Color me Ubuntu at UbuCon Summit & SCALE14x
January 17th, 2016 by pleia2
This week I’ll be flying down to Pasadena, California to attend the first UbuCon Summit, which is taking place at the the Fourteenth Annual Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE14x). The UbuCon Summit was the brain child of meetings we had over the summer that expressed concern over the lack of in person collaboration and connection […]
Giving Tuesday (and every day) to support Linux in schools
November 30th, 2015 by pleia2
The Tuesday following Cyber Monday has been designated Giving Tuesday. Whether you observe charitable giving on that day or any other day of the year, the following are organizations I’ve worked with and/or given to that promote one of my own passions: putting Free/Open Source Software into schools and others in need. I’ve been on […]
LISA15 wrap-up
November 22nd, 2015 by pleia2
From November 11th through 13th I attended and spoke at Usenix’s LISA15 (Large Installation Systems Administration) conference. I participated in a women in tech panel back in 2012, so I’d been to the conference once before, but this was the first time I submitted a talk. A huge thanks goes to Tom Limoncelli for reaching […]
Ubuntu Community Appreciation Day
November 20th, 2015 by pleia2
Often times, Ubuntu Community Appreciation Day sneaks up on me and I don’t have an opportunity to do a full blog post. This time I was able to spend several days reflecting on who has had an impact on my experience this year, and while the list is longer than I can include here (thanks […]
Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing 2015
November 10th, 2015 by pleia2
After a quick trip to Las Vegas in October, I was off to Houston for my first Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing! I sometimes struggle some with women in computing events, and as a preamble to this post I wrote about it here. But I was excited to finally attend a Grace Hopper […]
Preamble to Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing 2015
November 7th, 2015 by pleia2
Prior to the OpenStack Summit last week, I attended the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing in Houston. But it’s important to recognize a few things before I write about my experience at the conference in subsequent post. I have experienced sexism and even serious threats throughout my work in open source software. This […]
A werewolf SVG and a xerus
November 6th, 2015 by pleia2
The release of Ubuntu 15.10, code name Wily Werewolf, came out last month. With this release have been requests for the SVG file used in all the release information. Thanks to a ping from +HEXcube on G+ I was reminded to reach out to Tom Macfarlane of the Canonical Design Team and he quickly sent […]