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 […]
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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. […]
OSCON Day 4
July 28th, 2013 by pleia2
The 4th day of OSCON was the last one for me this year, with a redeye flight on my horizon so I could be in Boston for a friend’s pre-wedding festivities on Friday night. The day began with a series of keynotes. The first that really stood out for me was one about CODE2040 by […]
OSCON Day 3
July 28th, 2013 by pleia2
Day three of OSCON kicked off with several keynotes. Highlights for me included Jay Parikh of Facebook presenting on the growth of the Open Compute Project. I learned about this project when it was much younger and fully populated by Facebook engineers, so it’s was great to learn that they’ve since grown considerably and now […]
OSCON Tutorial Days
July 23rd, 2013 by pleia2
This is my second time attending OSCON, last year I was here for the last 2 days and this time I’m attending for the first 4. As such, this is the first time I’ve had the opportunity to attend the tutorial days. The first day I ended up in Jono Bacon’s Community Management Training. I […]
Community Leadership Summit 2013
July 21st, 2013 by pleia2
On Thursday I’m presenting on Code Review for Systems Administrators at OSCON, but was delighted to be able to to come up to Portland a couple days early to join my peers and colleagues at the Community Leadership Summit. Back in 2011 I attended a Community Leadership Summit West, but this was my first time […]
Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter reaches issue 325!
July 15th, 2013 by pleia2
Today the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter released issue 325! Over these past couple of months I’m happy to say we’ve gained the help of Paul White who has not only been doing a great job helping collect links throughout the week for the newsletter, but has also come through for us each week to write summaries […]
OpenStack Infrastructure Bootcamp in NYC
June 30th, 2013 by pleia2
On Wednesday of last week I hopped on a flight to New York City for a meeting with several of my OpenStack Infrastructure colleagues and potential contributors for the first “Infrastructure Bootcamp” ever held! Thursday morning the bootcamp began with a quick overview of expectations and topics we wished to cover and then we went […]
Ubuntu tie clips or tie pins?
June 26th, 2013 by pleia2
Over the past couple of years Boutique Academia has made a name for themselves in the Ubuntu community by selling Ubuntu Earrings and Ubuntu Necklaces. I recently received an email from the company founder, Maile Urbancic, about the possibility of adding more to their lineup in the form of tie clips and during the discussion […]