Last week I was approached by the author of the ZHackers series, David Jordan, to see if I wanted to review volumes 1 and 2 in preparation for the release of volume 2 in the Ubuntu Software Center. With his promise of “It’s got awesome geeks of both genders as well as downloading the linux […]
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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 […]
Who is the Ubuntu Community Council?
October 4th, 2013 by pleia2
As we come up on just a few more days left to submit nominations for the Ubuntu Community Council, I thought I’d take a few minutes to write about my experiences on the council for the past 4 years (and 2 more if you’ll have me!) and why I highly encourage others to nominate themselves […]
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 […]
Help out with the Saucy Ubuntu Docs!
September 1st, 2013 by pleia2
Throughout this cycle I have been working with the Ubuntu Doc team in my capacity as a Community Council member to assist in building up the number of team administrators and work to improve the Getting Started documentation to get new contributors involved with the documentation that ships with Ubuntu. I’m happy to say that […]
Launched git.openstack.org
August 23rd, 2013 by pleia2
On of my projects these past couple months has been reviewing, testing and finally implementing an in-house git repository for the OpenStack project to satisfy the bug Create a git.openstack.org mirror system. Full rationale, from the bug report by Jeremy Stanley: Right now our Gerrit server (review.openstack.org) replicates its Git repositories into /var/lib/git/ and serves […]