On Wednesday for Ubuntu Community Week, a week long series of sessions in IRC (Internet Relay Chat), I did a presentation titled “Working With Other Groups In Your Community” where I explored some of the projects that LoCo (Local Community) teams I’m involved with have worked on over the years. I was inspired to do […]
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Custom stickers!
July 17th, 2011 by pleia2
I love stickers. My sticker books made out of construction paper from childhood have been lost to time and moves, but I still have my giant Lisa Frank sticker holder. It took me a long time to put a sticker on a laptop, but it finally happened with my beloved pink mini9 when my abuse […]
Fosscon is approaching!
July 11th, 2011 by pleia2
Fosscon on July 23rd in downtown Philadelphia is quickly approaching! I mentioned back in May that I’d be flying out to Philly to do the keynote for Fosscon and now the speaker line-up also includes: Deb Nicholson – Community Organizing for Free Software Activists Mark Jason Dominus – Join my army of git zombies Walt […]
Can you write article summaries for Ubuntu Weekly News?
July 10th, 2011 by pleia2
Now that Ubuntu Weekly News is getting back on track we’ve identified some needs volunteer-wise. Back in January I posted Looking for a quick way to help Ubuntu Weekly News? Where I expressed our need to collect news and non-planet.ubuntu.com blog links about Ubuntu from the past week. We still need these, so thanks for […]
LoCo Directory: Now with default team time zones!
June 30th, 2011 by pleia2
While we were all at UDS in Budapest last month there was a great session about the LoCo Directory. Toward the end of the session I piped up to ask about time zones. Time zones have always been a tricky problem for the directory, since some teams cover multiple time zones the first solution to […]
Here we go! wiki.ubuntu.com upgrade at 23:00 UTC
June 16th, 2011 by pleia2
Over the past few months I’ve written a couple of posts regarding the status of the review and testing process to finally upgrade the contributing and team coordination resource wiki.ubuntu.com. Today Canonical Sysadmin Brad Marshall sent out this update: At 16th June 2011, at 2300 UTC for an estimated 1 hour wiki.ubuntu.com will be in […]
Buy Ubuntu earrings and help schools using Ubuntu!
June 12th, 2011 by pleia2
Maile Urbancic is the co-founder and former CTO of the non-profit Partimus.org and founder of Boutique Academia, a business she founded to sell math, science, and technology themed accessories for women. Back in March she contacted the current Partimus crew to let us know that she had received permission from Canonical to begin producing Ubuntu […]
San Francisco Ubuntu Hour and Bay Area Debian Dinner
June 11th, 2011 by pleia2
Back in November we started having bi(mostly)-monthly meetings where we synced up the San Francisco Ubuntu Hour with the Bay Area Debian dinners, and June was no exception! It landed on this past Wednesday, which was also World IPv6 Day, and led to quite the conundrum as to what shirt to wear (Ubuntu? Debian? IPv6? […]
Happy World IPv6 Day!
June 7th, 2011 by pleia2
I work as a sysadmin and my boyfriend works as a network engineer, you’d better believe we’ve been prepping for IPv6! As of Friday two of the four VPSes I maintain outside of work were running IPv6. As of yesterday? All of them. Thanks to Hurricane Electric, Linode and RAM Host for their IPv6 awesomeness. […]
New GPG Key
May 17th, 2011 by pleia2
I stopped dragging my feet and finally created a shiny new 4096-bit RSA GPG key. (Too bad I did this after printing up all my new business cards with the old fingerprint. D’oh!) NEW KEY pub 4096R/BC2349FC 2011-05-17 Key fingerprint = F1A1 2FEF 82A5 666C F9A4 A748 2FC7 6319 BC23 49FC This means my old […]