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 […]
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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 […]
LoCo Team Portal Improvements Released
March 14th, 2013 by pleia2
Several weeks ago, Adnane Belmadiaf (daker) found me on IRC and gave me this exciting link: https://launchpad.net/loco-team-portal/+milestone/0.3.11 47 LoCo Team Portal bugs with fixes committed. He let me know that the new version would be coming out soon and gave me a sneak peek at the new layout. Soon came on March 11th when 0.4.0 […]
On the Ubuntu Community
March 6th, 2013 by pleia2
Charles Profitt, in his recent post Ubuntu: Time to Take the Shot, talks about a meeting that the Community Council had with Mark on Tuesday. This followed a weekend of me doing everything in my power to step back from the recent announcements and discussions from Canonical that made my Thursday and Friday very difficult. […]
Ubuntu at SCaLE11x
March 1st, 2013 by pleia2
This year marked the 3rd Southern California Linux Expo I’ve attended, and once again it didn’t disappoint. The first year I gave a talk at the Ubucon and helped with the booth over the weekend, last year I gave a talk at Ubucon, one at the conference itself and then ran the Ubuntu booth, an […]
Ghana presentation at BALUG, DVLUG interview, Mini 9 and off to SCaLE11x!
February 21st, 2013 by pleia2
On Tuesday I had the pleasure of heading out to Chinatown for a Bay Area Linux Users Group to give a presentation on the work I did in Ghana with Computer Reach and Africa ICT Right. This was the first formal presentation I’ve done on the adventure, my previous two talks being a lightning talk […]
All 100 Edubuntu computers in Ghana have been deployed!
January 20th, 2013 by pleia2
Back in October I spent 2 weeks in Ghana helping a team begin a deployment of 100 desktops shipped to Africa ICT Right in Ghana by Computer Reach based out of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Unfortunately due to a series of unforeseen events, we weren’t able to see the deployment of all 100 systems to completion. While […]
From colo to clusters, 6 years with LinuxForce
December 30th, 2012 by pleia2
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 […]
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 […]