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 […]
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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 […]
Fosscon 2013 Wrap-up
August 15th, 2013 by pleia2
This past weekend MJ and I traveled to our old home city of Philadelphia to attend Fosscon. It was great to see that this year attendance doubled over the previous year and topped out over 300. The keynote was given by Jordan Miller who works on bioengineering at Rice University. He spoke on how he […]
Fosscon on August 10th
August 2nd, 2013 by pleia2
Next week we’ll be heading back east to Philadelphia for the 4th annual Fosscon on Saturday, August 10th. I gave the keynote at this conference in 2011 and this year that honor goes to Jordan Miller of UPenn who will be talking about AMRI: Building Open Source Infrastructures for Science. I’m coming back to give […]
Xubuntu featured in Linux Identity magazine
August 1st, 2013 by pleia2
Several months ago Xubuntu project lead Pasi Lallinaho (knome) was contacted by the editor of Linux Identity Magazine about doing a flavors section of their magazine for release in June. Together Pasi and I worked last cycle to recruit authors, meet deadlines, gather pictures and screenshots and do editorial review and final article length extensions. […]