{"id":5550,"date":"2011-12-31T08:18:05","date_gmt":"2011-12-31T16:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/?p=5550"},"modified":"2018-12-31T18:13:27","modified_gmt":"2019-01-01T02:13:27","slug":"engagement-travel-in-2011-and-looking-on-to-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/2011\/12\/engagement-travel-in-2011-and-looking-on-to-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Engagement, travel in 2011 and looking on to 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The biggest news of 2011 for me was MJ surprising me on July 1st with an absolutely amazing marriage proposal in Sonoma. I still grin ridiculously when I think about what a perfect night and weekend it was.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/images\/journalpics\/072011\/Joseph_Engagement_106_site.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/images\/journalpics\/072011\/Joseph_Engagement_106_site_sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Details and more photos are on our site here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mjandlyz.com\/engagement.shtml\">http:\/\/www.mjandlyz.com\/engagement.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But it wasn&#8217;t the only exciting thing I did in 2011. I logged almost 50,000 miles in the air, gave six talks, one of which was a keynote, participated in one panel and went to two Ubuntu Developer Summits.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/images\/journalpics\/072011\/fosscon_2011_keynote_intro.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/images\/journalpics\/072011\/fosscon_2011_keynote_intro_sm.jpg\"><\/a><\/center><br \/>\n<center><small>FOSSCON Keynote, Philadelphia, July 2011<\/small><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Travel:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>February: LAX for SCALE9x<\/li>\n<li>April: San Juan, Puerto Rico for vacation<\/li>\n<li>May: Budapest, Hungary for UDS<\/li>\n<li>May: Fort Lauderdale, FL for a family event<\/li>\n<li>May: Edmonton, Alberta to visit my sister<\/li>\n<li>July: Philadelphia, PA for FOSSCON<\/li>\n<li>September: Phoenix, AZ to visit family<\/li>\n<li>October: Philadelphia for work and fun<\/li>\n<li>October: Orlando, FL for UDS<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.princessleia.com\/images\/journalpics\/042011\/PR_beach_1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.princessleia.com\/images\/journalpics\/042011\/PR_beach_1_sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/center><br \/>\n<center><small>Beach in San Juan, April 2011<\/small><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/images\/journalpics\/052011\/uds-o_st_stephens_basilica.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/images\/journalpics\/052011\/uds-o_st_stephens_basilica_sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/center><br \/>\n<center><small>St. Stephen\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Basilica in Budapest, May 2011<\/small><\/center><\/p>\n<p>We also did a couple of mini-trips, heading up to Sonoma for our engagement over the 4th of July weekend and down to Monterey over Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n<p>Talks and panels:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>February 25, 2011: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.socallinuxexpo.org\/scale9x\/special-events\/ubucon\">Southern California Linux Expo Ubucon<\/a>: <a href=\"http:\/\/ubucon.org\/scale\/scale9x\/sessions.html#helpEK\">Finding Help in Ubuntu<\/a> presentation (<a href=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/presentations\/FindingHelpInUbuntuScale9x.pdf\">slides<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.socallinuxexpo.org\/scale9x\/presentations\/finding-help-ubuntu\">video on SCaLE9x website<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>March 31, 2011: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sdforum.org\/index.cfm?fuseaction=Page.viewPage&#038;pageId=898\">SDForum Tech Womens Program<\/a>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sdforum.org\/index.cfm?fuseaction=Calendar.eventDetail&#038;eventID=13871\">Women of Open Source<\/a> panel, <a href=\"http:\/\/google-opensource.blogspot.com\/2011\/04\/googlers-women-and-open-source-panel.html\">video on Google Open Source Blog<\/a><\/li>\n<li>July 23, 2011: <a href=\"http:\/\/fosscon.org\/\">Fosscon<\/a>: Keynote: Making a Difference for Millions: Getting Involved with FOSS (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CySZgPFmUZw\">video<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/presentations\/Getting_Involved_with_FOSS-fosscon.pdf\">slides<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>September 20 &amp; 21, 2011: &#8220;Introduction to Ubuntu&#8221; at ITT Tech in Oakland and Concord for Intro to Linux classes (<a href=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/presentations\/IntroToUbuntu-itttech.pdf\">slides<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>October 11, 2011: &#8220;Introducing Ubuntu &#8216;Oneiric Ocelot&#8217; 11.10&#8221; talk at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phillylinux.org\/\">Philadelphia Linux Users Group<\/a> North (slides: <a href=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/presentations\/ubuntu-11.10-plug.odp\">odp<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/presentations\/ubuntu-11.10-plug.pdf\">pdf<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>December 15, 2011: &#8220;Introduction to Ubuntu&#8221; at ITT Tech in Oakland for Intro to Linux classes (<a href=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/presentations\/IntroToUbuntuDecember2011.pdf\">slides<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It was an amazing year, just as 2010 was. I have thoroughly enjoyed the flexibility and opportunities we&#8217;ve had to travel these past couple years.<\/p>\n<p>2012 is shaping up to be a different kind of year. Work travel will be more limited for both of us, we&#8217;re saving up and planning for a wedding in 2013 and now with Simcoe&#8217;s health problems we&#8217;ll be tied a bit closer to home. This isn&#8217;t a difference that disappoints though, we live in a beautiful city that I love where there is never a shortage of things to do. I&#8217;m very much looking forward to time I spent traveling last year to be spent focused on projects, learning and spending more quality time exploring our city. Bring it on, 2012!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The biggest news of 2011 for me was MJ surprising me on July 1st with an absolutely amazing marriage proposal in Sonoma. I still grin ridiculously when I think about what a perfect night and weekend it was. Details and more photos are on our site here: http:\/\/www.mjandlyz.com\/engagement.shtml But it wasn&#8217;t the only exciting thing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,16,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eoy","category-life","category-reflection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5550"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14533,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5550\/revisions\/14533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}