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. […]
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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 […]
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 […]