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 […]
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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 […]
Unity
March 29th, 2012 by pleia2
Happy Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) Beta 2 everyone! I’ve been an Xfce user since 2004, this post from last year documents my UI adventures. It’s been my Desktop Environment of choice for my whole professional career as a systems administrator and I’m very set in my ways configuration-wise at work. These days I help […]
Lenovo G575
March 12th, 2012 by pleia2
Back in 2008, on the tail end of a particularly rough year, a few of my friends got together and bought me the pink mini9. It was the first new portable computer I’d ever owned. That little mini9 is still chugging along and the only thing that doesn’t work anymore is the speakers (the wires […]
Linaro Dinner, Ubuntu and Debian Evening and Saving Pangolins
February 17th, 2012 by pleia2
On February 5th several people from the Ubuntu California team headed over to Redwood City for dinner with Ubuntu-loving attendees from the Linaro Connect conference. It was Super Bowl Sunday so we lucked out at a pizzeria that lacks a television – they seemed to be doing a brisk delivery service but the restaurant was […]
The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Needs You!
January 31st, 2012 by pleia2
Today commemorates the release of Issue 250 of the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter (UWN). So first off, congratulations to everyone who has worked on UWN since the first issue in 2006! Secondly, we need help. The current bus factor of UWN is 2. Both of us have full time jobs, travel a lot and have a […]
SCALE 10x
January 29th, 2012 by pleia2
I spent last weekend at the the Southern California Linux Expo. I flew down to Los Angeles Thursday evening. Friday morning I gave my Ubucon talk on Getting Involved with Ubuntu. To accompany this talk I had handouts that gave a bunch of URLs to resources within the project that I covered in the talk. […]
Ubuntu Hour, SCALE 10x and Ubuntu User Days
January 12th, 2012 by pleia2
Last night I hosted the monthly San Francisco Ubuntu Hour. We had a last minute change of venue due to the coffee shop we meet in deciding to close early without warning (ah, the joys of local small businesses), but fortunately we were able to use the lobby one door over and people managed to […]