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 […]
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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 […]
UDS-O Budapest: Day 5
May 16th, 2011 by pleia2
Friday was the last day of UDS (sad!) and it once again started off with some tasty breakfast and by me attending the Community Roundtable. One of the things that was discussed at length is making attending UDS for the first time easier for people. I really liked the suggestion of hosting an Ubuntu Classroom […]
UDS-O in Budapest: Day 4
May 13th, 2011 by pleia2
Thursday was the busiest day of the summit for me. It started with the Community Roundtable where we discussed some of the webapp development community members are doing for Ubuntu resources and how Canonical can make it easier for them (setting up staging sites, expanding access without compromising security). There was also some talk of […]
UDS-O in Budapest: Day 3
May 12th, 2011 by pleia2
I woke up at 5:30AM on Wednesday morning and couldn’t fall back to sleep, once again not enough sleep! After breakfast it was off to the Community Roundtable where we talked about what the 200 million users goal means for the community, nurturing leaders and talked a bit about UDS Sponsorship criteria. – LoCo and […]
UDS-O in Budapest: Day 2
May 10th, 2011 by pleia2
I woke up far too early again on Tuesday morning, jet lag fun! The first session I attended was the Community Roundtable again where Jono talked about some of the plans for the emerging QA infrastructure, and we discussed the need for quickstart getting involved pages and general wiki pruning for a lot of teams, […]
UDS-O in Budapest: Travel and Day 1
May 10th, 2011 by pleia2
My weekend began with a quick ride down to the San Francisco airport for a noon flight to Los Angeles. I dashed across LAX only to arrive at my gate to a flight that was delayed by over an hour. At the gate I met Clint Byrum who was on the same fight. The long […]
Keynoting at Fosscon in July
May 2nd, 2011 by pleia2
Last month I was approached by the organizers of Fosscon, taking place in Philadelphia this year, and asked if I would be interested in doing the keynote. It requires a flight across the country, but Philadelphia is my old home and I was delighted by the opportunity! So on Saturday July 23rd I’ll be giving […]