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<\/a><\/div>\nI traveled to Portland, Oregon to attend OSCON and accept an O’Reilly Open Source Award for my work on the Ubuntu project.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/div>\nI went to Africa the first time, in a blending of my passion for travel and open source we were able to deploy Edubuntu desktops to schools in Ghana.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/div>\nAnd I wrote my first paid, published article. It covered our trip to Ghana and appeared in issue 15 of Ubuntu User Magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n Travel:<\/p>\n And right now, straddling 2012 and 2013 we’re in Philadelphia again to do more wedding preparation. Venue visit, food tastings, floral shop visits, meeting with the DJ.<\/p>\n Presentations:<\/p>\n Interviews:<\/p>\n Looking onward to 2013 I have a lot in store for me. In just the first couple months I’ve got a couple presentations lined up at LUGs and have volunteered to give one again at Ubucon at the Southern California Linux Expo (SCaLE11x) I’ll be starting a new job in January and flying to Seattle to meet some of my new co-workers in a couple weeks. At the end of April we’re getting married and then going off on our honeymoon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 2012 was quite the adventure! Among other things, I became an aunt for the first time with the birth of my nephew Xavier and was able to go to Maine just after his birth to meet him. I traveled to Portland, Oregon to attend OSCON and accept an O’Reilly Open Source Award for my work […]<\/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-7460","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\/7460","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=7460"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14532,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7460\/revisions\/14532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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\nSeeing the Grand Canyon for the first time<\/small><\/div>\n<\/a>
\nVisiting the Little Mermaid statue in Copenhagen<\/small><\/div>\n\n
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\nPhoto by Benjamin Kerensa, Quantal Ubuntu Developer Summit<\/small><\/div>\n<\/a>
\nPhoto by Ben Cotton, LISA ’12 Advancing Women in Computing panel<\/small><\/div>\n\n