Ubuntu-related events have been chugging along here in California. On Wednesday evening here in San Francisco I had the pleasure of hosting an Ubuntu Hour and Bay Area Debian Dinner. Both events attracted new attendees, which was great to see during December, a month that’s historically pretty quiet for us. On Thursday night I joined […]
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OpenStack Infrastructure December Bug Day
December 10th, 2013 by pleia2
When I joined the OpenStack Infrastructure team this year one of my first challenges was going through the list of bugs, during which time I discovered that some of the bugs were out-dated. Enter Bug Days! The process for our bug days has evolved over time, starting quite manual but I’ve since automated as much […]
Quotes for community.ubuntu.com
November 27th, 2013 by pleia2
Earlier this year I worked with the team that launched our shiny new community.ubuntu.com site. Hooray! I had a couple of tasks aside from general review. The first was getting more images on the site prior to launch to make it more engaging to people. I reached out to LoCo teams and got a lot […]
Virtual Ubuntu Developer Summit 1311
November 22nd, 2013 by pleia2
As is tradition, this virtual Ubuntu Developer Summit kicked off with an introduction by Jono Bacon and keynote from Mark Shuttleworth. It was at 6AM my time, I shut off my 5:45AM alarm and proceeded to sleep until the first session I had to be at 8:05AM. Hah! Fortunately it was available on youtube immediately […]
Taming Lubuntu on my PowerBook G4
November 22nd, 2013 by pleia2
About a year ago I adopted a MacBook Pro and a PowerBook G4. The MacBook Pro now happily runs OSX, when we turn it on (mostly MJ uses it for photo processing). In spite of being quite the nice machine for 2004, the poor PowerBook G4 had been long abandoned by Apple due to it’s […]
Trusty attends first Ubuntu Hour
November 13th, 2013 by pleia2
For each Ubuntu release I spend a little time finding a toy or other representation of the codename animal to use at booths, Ubuntu Hours and other events. See my previous posts about critters for K, L, M, N and O, Quetzals and Pangolins, Raring and Saucy Salamander. Trusty Tahr was tricky and took some […]
OpenStack Design Summit Day 4
November 8th, 2013 by pleia2
First off this morning had an enjoyable “Monty’s team” HP breakfast at the Marriott. Then there was a bit less fog today than previous days, so throughout the day we were able to head into the dev lounge and enjoy a lovely view! – Python3 and Pypy support – The first session I attended of […]
OpenStack Design Summit Day 3
November 7th, 2013 by pleia2
Thursday morning! No keynotes today so we went directly into design sessions. – Integration Testing for Horizon – Currently the Horizon team depends on manual testing of its integration with the APIs, this session sought to address this and other tests. A lot of great notes were taken during this session, available here: icehouse-summit-Integration-Testing-for-Horizon.txt – […]
OpenStack Design Summit Day 2
November 6th, 2013 by pleia2
Day 2 of the OpenStack summit here in Hong Kong began with a series of really great keynotes. First up were three major Chinese companies, iQIYI (online video), Qihoo 360 (Internet platform company) and Ctrip (travel services) about how they all use OpenStack in their companies (video here). We also learned several OpenStack statistics, including […]
OpenStack Design Summit Day 1
November 5th, 2013 by pleia2
Today, Tuesday here in Hong Kong, the OpenStack Summit began! It kicked off with a beautiful and colorful performance of the Lion dance, followed by some words of welcome from Daniel Lai, CIO of the Hong Kong Office of the Government (video of both here). Then we had the keynotes. Jonathan Bryce, Executive Director of […]