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 […]
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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 […]
Community Council Begins Ubuntu Mailing Lists Review
January 5th, 2012 by pleia2
At the last Ubuntu Developer Summit it was brought to the attention of the Ubuntu Community Council that lists.ubuntu.com had become quite crowded. There was concern that it was overwhelming for new contributors looking for a mailing lists to join and they may find it confusing or discouraging if they join lists which are inactive. […]
Ubuntu at ITT Tech, Linux Format and SCALE
December 16th, 2011 by pleia2
Wednesday night I held a well-attended Ubuntu Hour and Debian dinner here in San Francisco. Lots of great discussion at both meetups, huge thanks to everyone who came out! Last night I gave another (first was in September) “Introduction to Ubuntu” talk for a Linux class at ITT Tech in Oakland. After my short talk […]
Xubuntu Stickers, Twitter and Site Update
December 7th, 2011 by pleia2
Last month I took over as the Marketing and Website Lead for Xubuntu. Thanks to the rest of the team for supporting me! There have been several ideas floating around the Marketing wiki page so I decided to start here and make some laptop-worthy Xubuntu stickers. I went with Moo.com because I really liked the […]
Ubuntu Community Appreciation Day: Thank you LoCo Teams
November 20th, 2011 by pleia2
I’ve put a lot of thought into what I’d write about today, but my ideas didn’t really come together until I read Daniel Holbach’s It’s human beings who make Ubuntu! that it became clear to me what I should write about: the way LoCo teams make Ubuntu human. Prior to my involvement with Ubuntu my […]
Xubuntu Website Sprint on Saturday November 19th at 22:00 UTC
November 17th, 2011 by pleia2
Several months ago I tossed up a devel site on one of my servers so Pasi Lallinaho and I could get to work on the newly planned Xubuntu website. He blogged about it with a teaser here back in August. It’s taken some time, but we now have a formal staging server on one of […]
UDS-P Orlando: Day 5
November 5th, 2011 by pleia2
The last day of the Ubuntu Developer Summit! This was a very good UDS for me, an excellent mix of work, socialization and rest, the last of which means that, while tired, I am not ready to go into a coma like I usually am afterwards! Plus we get an extra hour of sleep tonight, […]