On Thursday I’m presenting on Code Review for Systems Administrators at OSCON, but was delighted to be able to to come up to Portland a couple days early to join my peers and colleagues at the Community Leadership Summit. Back in 2011 I attended a Community Leadership Summit West, but this was my first time […]
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Midtown Manhattan
July 7th, 2013 by pleia2
Last Sunday my friend Danita and I walked a total of 10 miles around midtown Manhattan. It wasn’t exactly walking weather, very humid and temperatures topping out in the mid 80s, but it was worth it :) First up on our list was to grab some bagels for breakfast, and then to use our tickets […]
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Lower Manhattan
July 4th, 2013 by pleia2
I grew up in a small tourist town in Maine. By default, I was pretty much afraid and apprehensive about the noise and chaos of cities. That began to change in 2009 when I started making more frequent trips to downtown Philadelphia and has evolved into loving cities since moving to San Francisco. There is […]
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OpenStack Infrastructure Bootcamp in NYC
June 30th, 2013 by pleia2
On Wednesday of last week I hopped on a flight to New York City for a meeting with several of my OpenStack Infrastructure colleagues and potential contributors for the first “Infrastructure Bootcamp” ever held! Thursday morning the bootcamp began with a quick overview of expectations and topics we wished to cover and then we went […]
Honeymoon week 2
May 17th, 2013 by pleia2
The second half of our honeymoon was full of adventure (and ok, a bit more luxury). We decided to spend 5 days traveling through the Yucatan peninsula visiting Mayan ruins, cenotes and local cities. We wanted our visit to be stress-free so MJ did some research and found William Lawsons Personal Driving Service which would […]
Honeymoon week 1
May 16th, 2013 by pleia2
On Tuesday the 30th we flew from Philadelphia to Cancun, Mexico. From there we took a shuttle south for about 40 minutes until we got to the Riviera Maya district and Grand Velas, the all-inclusive resort we had reservations at for the first week of our honeymoon. We then spent a much-needed week relaxing. We […]
OpenStack Design Summit days 3-4
April 19th, 2013 by pleia2
Wednesday morning started off with a Women of OpenStack breakfast where I happened to sit down next to Leslie Hawthorn without realizing it until we introduced ourselves, so that was a pleasant surprise! We’d both been intending to meet for some time. The table we were at also had a couple engineers working on OpenStack […]
OpenStack Design Summit days 1-2
April 16th, 2013 by pleia2
Since my new job is working with the OpenStack infrastructure team, I am able to attend the OpenStack Design Summit this week in Portland, Oregon! I woke up just before 4AM on Monday to take a 6:15AM flight to Portland, putting me in Portland shortly after 8AM and to the conference center around 9AM, at […]
Ubuntu at SCaLE11x
March 1st, 2013 by pleia2
This year marked the 3rd Southern California Linux Expo I’ve attended, and once again it didn’t disappoint. The first year I gave a talk at the Ubucon and helped with the booth over the weekend, last year I gave a talk at Ubucon, one at the conference itself and then ran the Ubuntu booth, an […]
Weekend in the “Entertainment Capital of the World”
February 20th, 2013 by pleia2
This past weekend 3 friends and I spent a the three day weekend in Las Vegas! Picking the hotel was the easiest. Since this was a trip without MJ, I decided to go for one that I knew he wouldn’t be interested in going to, the Flamingo! It’s an older hotel, right in the middle […]
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