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 […]
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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 […]
AdaCamp take-aways
June 11th, 2013 by pleia2
This past weekend I attended AdaCamp, put on by The Ada Initiative. Attending this conference was an interesting move for me. I have a lot of respect for The Ada Initiative, but that’s mostly because they’re doing the offense and defense work that I no longer have the energy or interest to do. I’ve personally […]
Open Source Sysadmin: Reorganization of the OpenStack Infrastructure Docs
June 4th, 2013 by pleia2
In January I joined the OpenStack Infrastructure team, which manages the continuous integration system for the project, as well as several other applications and sites that the project uses on a day to day basis. My favorite part about all of this is while I’ve spent several years using open source software in my sysadmin […]
Virtual Ubuntu Developer Summit 1305
May 17th, 2013 by pleia2
Since I left for my wedding and honeymoon a bunch of things happened! Ubuntu 13.04 was released, 13.10 was given the code name “Saucy Salamander” and Debian 7.0 Wheezy came out. Plus lots of exciting OpenStack development discussion that came out following the Summit (I left right after it). When I got back into the […]
OpenStack Design Summit days 3-4
April 19th, 2013 by pleia2
Wednesday morning started off with a Women of OpenStack breakfast where I happened to sit down next to Leslie Hawthorn without realizing it until we introduced ourselves, so that was a pleasant surprise! We’d both been intending to meet for some time. The table we were at also had a couple engineers working on OpenStack […]
OpenStack Design Summit days 1-2
April 16th, 2013 by pleia2
Since my new job is working with the OpenStack infrastructure team, I am able to attend the OpenStack Design Summit this week in Portland, Oregon! I woke up just before 4AM on Monday to take a 6:15AM flight to Portland, putting me in Portland shortly after 8AM and to the conference center around 9AM, at […]
OpenStack Grizzly Stats
April 4th, 2013 by pleia2
I went to the San Francisco Zoo a couple weeks ago, among the critters I saw was their grizzly bears. But this post is about a different kind of grizzly. OpenStack’s 7th release, Grizzly, was released today. It was the first release I was involved with and with my increased work lately with testing around […]
On the Ubuntu Community (reprise)
March 19th, 2013 by pleia2
A couple weeks ago I wrote my blog post On the Ubuntu Community. It was an unusual move for me, as I’ve tended to steer clear of making public comments in major community discussions like this in the past. This time felt different to me. I think it was the timing and speed of surprising […]
You can help the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter!
March 15th, 2013 by pleia2
Back in January, the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter celebrated the 300th Issue! While an exceptional milestone for the team, we’re forever conscious that we have a very small volunteer staff to keep it running, and we always need more volunteers to help us out. What do we need help with? Summary writers. Summary writers receive an […]