I am a firm believer in “crap technology” as Thomas Hayden defines it in his post Ixnay on the iPod: In Praise of Crap Technology. It’s not some ideological thing, and in fact I never had a name for it until hearing a segment with him on Marketplace, “Crap technology, not crappy, where he says: […]
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UDS-Q in Oakland Day 5
May 13th, 2012 by pleia2
Last day of the Ubuntu Developer Summit for Quantal! It’s always a bittersweet day, we’re all so terribly exhausted from the week but it’s also the last day for many of us to see people we only see once or twice a year. Like other days, my day started off with the Community Roundtable. – […]
UDS-Q in Oakland Day 4 and Ubuntu Women dinner
May 11th, 2012 by pleia2
Phew, Thursday! I was moving a bit slower today due to not getting a whole lot of sleep last night, but it was quite the busy day for me. – Community Roundtable – We picked up discussion from the day before about announcements from Canonical, it was generally agreed that the community is less bothered […]
UDS-Q in Oakland Day 3 and SF Tourism!
May 10th, 2012 by pleia2
Day 3! The plenaries from Tuesday are up now, see here. The flavors talks start at about 30 minutes into it with Kubuntu, then my Xubuntu bit and on from there. – Community Roundtable – We talked some about Ubuntu Membership with regard to expectations, members not being siloed in their communities, and better documenting […]
UDS-Q in Oakland Day 2
May 8th, 2012 by pleia2
Day 2 of UDS! Mark’s keynote from yesterday is now up on youtube, you can view it here. – Community Roundtable – The session started off with some discussion around the use of Trello.com boards. Several teams have found them to be useful and we’ll likely continue use, we do want to be mindful that […]
UDS-Q in Oakland Day 1
May 7th, 2012 by pleia2
Being local to the Ubuntu Developer Summit this time I had the pleasure of meeting up with several friends prior to the summit. Enjoying dinner in Oakland on Saturday evening, picking up a first time UDS attendee at the airport Saturday night after BART stopped running. Then on Sunday a lovely brunch at EPIC Roadhouse […]
I’m an Ubuntu Developer Summit local!
April 28th, 2012 by pleia2
I have been to four Ubuntu Developer Summits (UDS), and at all of them I found the advice of local Ubuntu contributors to be very valuable to my visit, the shining example of which was the culmination of being downtown in a city and having the support of the Hungarian LoCo team while we were […]
12.04 Release Party: San Francisco Edition
April 28th, 2012 by pleia2
On Thursday night I hosted the typical Ubuntu California release party at Thirsty Bear Brewing Company in downtown San Francisco. We had… A thirsty pangolin! A hungry penguin! A guy in a Fedora shirt (hi Jeff!)! And lots of people having fun! All told we probably had 20 people who came and went throughout the […]
The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Needs You
April 21st, 2012 by pleia2
Back in August I wrote a post “News is hard, but we’re making it easier” regarding improvements to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. At the time I defined some todo list items, which I now have updates on: UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter wiki Make sure workflow is properly documented DONE Confirm team contact information has been updated DONE Review […]
12.04 Presentation for Bay Area Linux Users Group (BALUG) and upcoming SF Release Party
April 18th, 2012 by pleia2
Last night, as announced here and mentioned here, Grant Bowman and I did a presentation for the Bay Area Linux Users Group (BALUG) on Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin). When I arrived a gentleman I’d been corresponding with over email had his netbook set up for me to look at. He couldn’t remember his password and […]