On Friday I spent my last day working for LinuxForce, a technology services provider just outside of Philadelphia. I started working at LinuxForce on a contract basis in 2006, working on security advisory analysis, Debian packaging and on-site server installs. I was hired full time in February of 2007 as a junior systems administrator. Prior […]
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Restarting the Ubuntu Learning project
December 16th, 2012 by pleia2
For the past several months I’ve been quietly working with a few folks to get things going again with the Ubuntu Learning project. This morning I sent a version of the following to the ubuntu-learning mailing list: The Ubuntu Learning project has been quiet for some time, but we’re hopeful that there are a lot […]
LISA ’12 in San Diego
December 14th, 2012 by pleia2
This week I attended my first Large Installation Systems Administration conference, LISA ’12 in San Diego. I worked Monday and Tuesday this week and took a 7AM flight to San Diego on Wednesday morning. I made it to the conference center just in time to see the beginning of Vint Cerf’s keynote where he talked […]
Updates from the deployments in Ghana
November 12th, 2012 by pleia2
I mentioned in my Ghana trip summary blog post that the deployment of and training for the 100 Edubuntu computers shipped over would be continued by volunteers from Africa ICT Right. I’m happy to report that Daniel Kwaku Ganyoame has been keeping us updated with progress and has been sending photos! On Tuesday, 30th Oct. […]
UDS-R in Copenhagen Day 4
November 1st, 2012 by pleia2
Today was the last day of UDS. Ending a day sooner has been strange, but I’m spending my bonus day playing tourist tomorrow in Copenhagen. – Community Roundtable – We were able to have some web design folks from Canonical in the session so we could discuss the community page on Ubuntu.com. They were able […]
UDS-R in Copenhagen Day 3
October 31st, 2012 by pleia2
– Community Roundtable – First up for the Community Roundtable today was a discussion about the /community page on ubuntu.com and possible redirect of /contribute to it see bug here. Tomorrow one of the website design folks from Canonical to talk with us about what we can do proposal-wise for improving it as we don’t […]
UDS-R in Copenhagen Day 2
October 30th, 2012 by pleia2
– Community Roundtable – My day started off with the Community Roundtable where we first discussed the Code of Conduct draft and then scheduled time during Wednesday’s roundtable to invite discussion about it (here). The next topic was the Google Summer of Code, which a couple community members volunteered to lead up and work with […]
UDS-R in Copenhagen Day 1
October 29th, 2012 by pleia2
My first day of UDS this time started off with remarkably little jet lag. I’m pretty sure I didn’t adjust to California time so I’m still on UTC (Ghana) time, that’s fine for here! There was lots of fruit on my plate at breakfast, and then it was off to registration and then the opening […]
Ghana trip summary and thank you
October 26th, 2012 by pleia2
My trip to Ghana this month was an adventure. It was the first time I’d traveled to a developing country, one of the most ambitious projects I’ve had the pleasure of joining and quite the cultural experience. I’m also happy to say that “Plan B” was a resounding success. Plan B? Our intention for traveling […]
Visit to the port in Tema and journey home
October 26th, 2012 by pleia2
Wednesday was my last day in Ghana! My flight wasn’t until the evening, but wanted to stay near Accra just in case there were transportation or other problems which may prevent me getting to the airport on time. Beth Lynn and Nancy got up bright and early to meet up with professor Ayorkor Korsah at […]