Today, Tuesday here in Hong Kong, the OpenStack Summit began! It kicked off with a beautiful and colorful performance of the Lion dance, followed by some words of welcome from Daniel Lai, CIO of the Hong Kong Office of the Government (video of both here). Then we had the keynotes. Jonathan Bryce, Executive Director of […]
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Tourist in Hong Kong
November 5th, 2013 by pleia2
This week I’m in Hong Kong! It’s my first time in Asia so I wanted to make sure I got some tourist time in. I arrived via a Singapore airline flight on Sunday and spent the day catching up on some things and attempting to stay awake so I could adjust to the time zone. […]
ACM Reflections | Projections Conference 2013 wrap-up
October 16th, 2013 by pleia2
Last Thursday I flew out to Urbana-Champaign to speak at a conference put on by the ACM at the University of Illinois, Reflections | Projections. On Thursday evening and Friday I was able to spend time catching up with my Ubuntu colleagues Nathan Handler, who was staff at the conference, and Paul Tagliamonte who was […]
32nd Birthday in Squaw Valley
October 3rd, 2013 by pleia2
On Friday MJ and I left to head toward Tahoe to spend the weekend at The Resort at Squaw Creek to celebrate my 32nd birthday on Sunday. With my still recovering sprained ankle I wasn’t as mobile as I generally like to be for a mountain adventure, but the weather was cooperating for some nice […]
OpenStack TripleO Sprint
September 24th, 2013 by pleia2
Last week I headed to the HP office in Seattle to meet up with my colleagues from HP, Red Hat and others for a TripleO Sprint which was proposed in July and fleshed out last month. We started off on Monday by attempting to get everyone set up with a TripleO environment by walking through […]
Fosscon 2013 Wrap-up
August 15th, 2013 by pleia2
This past weekend MJ and I traveled to our old home city of Philadelphia to attend Fosscon. It was great to see that this year attendance doubled over the previous year and topped out over 300. The keynote was given by Jordan Miller who works on bioengineering at Rice University. He spoke on how he […]
Fosscon on August 10th
August 2nd, 2013 by pleia2
Next week we’ll be heading back east to Philadelphia for the 4th annual Fosscon on Saturday, August 10th. I gave the keynote at this conference in 2011 and this year that honor goes to Jordan Miller of UPenn who will be talking about AMRI: Building Open Source Infrastructures for Science. I’m coming back to give […]
Matti’s Wedding in Boston
July 31st, 2013 by pleia2
MJ and I spent this past weekend in Boston, Massachusetts to attend the wedding of MJ’s friend Matti, who was his Best Women at our wedding back in April. Since I was tied up with OSCON, MJ flew in a day earlier than me to settle in and meet up with Matti and some other […]
OSCON Day 4
July 28th, 2013 by pleia2
The 4th day of OSCON was the last one for me this year, with a redeye flight on my horizon so I could be in Boston for a friend’s pre-wedding festivities on Friday night. The day began with a series of keynotes. The first that really stood out for me was one about CODE2040 by […]
OSCON Day 3
July 28th, 2013 by pleia2
Day three of OSCON kicked off with several keynotes. Highlights for me included Jay Parikh of Facebook presenting on the growth of the Open Compute Project. I learned about this project when it was much younger and fully populated by Facebook engineers, so it’s was great to learn that they’ve since grown considerably and now […]