{"id":8915,"date":"2013-12-31T07:20:08","date_gmt":"2013-12-31T15:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/?p=8915"},"modified":"2018-12-31T18:12:07","modified_gmt":"2019-01-01T02:12:07","slug":"the-adventures-of-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/2013\/12\/the-adventures-of-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"The adventures of 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had a great year <a href=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/?p=7460\">in 2012<\/a>, but 2013 was really exceptional.<\/p>\n<p>Biggest news, on Sunday April 28th MJ and I <a href=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/?p=7982\">were married<\/a> in a ceremony just outside of Philadelphia!<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/images\/journalpics\/052013\/ceremony.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/images\/journalpics\/052013\/ceremony_sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>We also hosted a <a href=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/?p=8421\">California reception<\/a> in August.<\/p>\n<p>Second biggest news, in January I started my job with HP where I now get to work on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openstack.org\">OpenStack<\/a> Infrastructure with a team of amazing colleagues.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/images\/journalpics\/122013\/hp_sunnyvale.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/images\/journalpics\/122013\/hp_sunnyvale_sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>I also managed to log about 65k miles in flights this year, getting on a plane at least once a month for every month except for March, the rundown:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>January: <a href=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/?p=7514\">Philadelphia<\/a>, pre-wedding prep<\/li>\n<li>January: <a href=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/?p=7545\">Seattle<\/a>, work on-boarding<\/li>\n<li>February: <a href=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/?p=7650\">Los Angeles<\/a> Ubucon and SCaLE11x<\/li>\n<li>April: Portland, OR <a href=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/?p=7930\">post 1<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/?p=7943\">post 2<\/a>, OpenStack Summit<\/li>\n<li>April: <a href=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/?p=7971\">Philadelphia<\/a>, wedding!<\/li>\n<li>April-May: Mexico <a href=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/?p=8014\">post 1<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/?p=8035\">post 2<\/a>, honeymoon<\/li>\n<li>June: <a href=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/?p=8229\">New York City<\/a>, OpenStack Infrastructure Bootcamp<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/?p=8255\">some<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/?p=8259\">touristing<\/a><\/li>\n<li>July: Portland, OR <a href=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/?p=8318\">post 1<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/?p=8326\">post 2<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/?p=8336\">post 3<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/?p=8344\">post 4<\/a>, Community Leadership Summit and OSCON<\/li>\n<li>July: <a href=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/?p=8353\">Boston<\/a>, Matti&#8217;s wedding<\/li>\n<li>August: <a href=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/?p=8389\">Philadelphia<\/a>, Fosscon<\/li>\n<li>September: <a href=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/?p=8500\">Seattle<\/a>, OpenStack TripleO Sprint<\/a>\n<li>October: <a href=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/?p=8580\">Urbana-Champaign<\/a>, ACM Reflections | Projections conference<\/li>\n<li>November: Hong Kong <a href=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/?p=8644\">post 1<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/?p=8664\">post 2<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/?p=8675\">post 3<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/?p=8692\">post 4<\/a> OpenStack Summit and <a href=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/?p=8642\">some<\/a> <a href\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/?p=8707\">touristing<\/a><\/li>\n<li>December: <a href=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/?p=8933\">Miami<\/a>, vacation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/images\/journalpics\/052013\/honeymoon2_ek_balam.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/images\/journalpics\/052013\/honeymoon2_ek_balam_sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><br \/>\n<small>MJ and me at Ek Balam Mayan Ruins, Mexico<\/small><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/images\/journalpics\/112013\/zaro_clarkb_pleia2_icehouse_street.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/images\/journalpics\/112013\/zaro_clarkb_pleia2_icehouse_street_sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><br \/>\n<small>Khai, Clark and me at Ice House Street, Hong Kong<\/small><\/div>\n<p>I also bumped the number of speaking engagements from 7 in 2012 to 10 in 2013, in spite of taking a few months off for wedding prep.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>January 2, 2013: &#8220;Deploying Edubuntu in Ghana&#8221; presentation and Q&amp;A at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phillylinux.org\/\">Philadelphia Linux Users Group<\/a> (<a href=\"\/presentations\/plug\/ghana\/\">slides<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>February 19, 2013: &#8220;Lessons learned from our deployment of Edubuntu in Ghana&#8221; presentation at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.balug.org\/\">Bay Area Linux Users Group (BALUG)<\/a> (<a href=\"\/presentations\/Deploying_100_Ubuntu_Desktops_in_Ghana.pdf\">slides<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>February 22, 2013: &#8220;Ubuntu in the Cloud&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.socallinuxexpo.org\/scale11x\/ubucon\">Ubucon<\/a> at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.socallinux\nexpo.org\/\">Southern California Linux Expo<\/a> (<a href=\"\/presentations\/Ubuntu_in_the_Cloud-ubucon_at_scale11x.pdf\">slides<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>July 11, 2013: &#8220;Introduction to Ubuntu&#8221; at ITT Tech in Concord for Intro to Linux class<\/li>\n<li>July 25, 2013: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.oscon.com\/oscon2013\/public\/schedule\/detail\/31442\">Code Review for Systems Administrators<\/a>&#8221; at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oscon.com\/\">OSCON<\/a> (<a href=\"\/presentations\/openstack\/oscon-code-review-for-sysadmins\/\">slides<\/a>, <a href=\"\/presentations\/openstack\/oscon-code-review-for-sysadmins\/notes\">notes<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>August 10, 2013: &#8220;Open Source Systems Administration&#8221; at <a href=\"http:\/\/fosscon.org\/\">Fosscon<\/a> (<a href=\"\/presentations\/openstack\/fosscon-\nopen-source-sysadmin\/\">slides<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>September 22, 2013: <a href=\"http:\/\/codechix-openstack1-rss.eventbrite.com\/\">CodeChix OpenStack Workshop<\/a><\/li>\n<li>October 12, 2013: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.acm.uiuc.edu\/conference\/2013\/speakers\/2013\/09\/02\/elizabeth-krumbach.html\">A Career in Free and Open Source Software<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.acm.uiuc.edu\/conference\/2013\/\">Reflections | Projections Conference<\/a> (<a href=\"\/presentations\/ACM-Career_in_FOSS.pdf\">slides<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>October 15, 2013: Code Review for Systems Administrators at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.balug.org\/\">Bay Area Linux Users Group<\/a> (<a href=\"\/presentations\/openstack\/balug-code-review-for-sysadmins\/\">slides<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>December 12, 2013: &#8220;Open Source for love, money and fame&#8221; at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfsu.edu\/\">San Francisco State University<\/a> for Managing Open Source class (<a href=\"\/presentations\/SFSU-2013-open-source-love-money-fame.pdf\">slides<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/images\/journalpics\/102013\/rp_lyz_foss.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/images\/journalpics\/102013\/rp_lyz_foss_sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><br \/>\n<small>Presenting at Reflections | Projections conference<\/small><\/div>\n<p>It was also a good year for interviews and publications:<\/p>\n<li>January 1, 2013: <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ubuntu-women.org\/2013\/01\/ubuntu-women-where-are-they-now-follow-up-with-elizabeth-krumbach\/\">Ubuntu Women- Where are they now? Follow up with Elizabeth Krumbach<\/a><\/li>\n<li>February 20, 2013: <a href=\"http:\/\/sharethebytes.com\/shows\/episode10-women-of-ubuntu\/\">Share The Bytes: Episode 10 &#8211; Women of Ubuntu<\/a><\/li>\n<li>March 7, 2013: <a href=\"http:\/\/podcast.ubuntu-uk.org\/2013\/03\/07\/s06e02-crouching-tiger-hidden-ubuntu\/\">Ubuntu UK Podcast: S06E02<\/a>, interviewed about Xubuntu<\/li>\n<li>June 2013: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linuxidentity.com\/us\/index.php?name=News&#038;file=article&#038;sid=5067\">Linux Identity Starter &#8212; Ubuntu Family 13.04 Raring Ringtail<\/a>: Controlling your Xubuntu System<\/li>\n<li>July 19, 2013: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/2013\/07\/open-mic-spotlight-elizabeth-krumbach-joseph\/\">OpenStack Blog: Open Mic Spotlight: Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph<\/a><\/li>\n<li>August 27, 2013: <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.hpcloud.com\/meet-hp-cloud-team-elizabeth-krumbach-openstack-infrastructure\">Meet the HP Cloud Team: Elizabeth Krumbach, OpenStack Infrastructure<\/a><\/li>\n<li>October 4, 2013: <a href=\"http:\/\/frostbitemedia.org\/node\/279\">Frostcast Episode 084 Xubuntu<\/a><\/li>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/images\/journalpics\/122013\/hollywood_fl_2013.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/images\/journalpics\/122013\/hollywood_fl_2013_sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><br \/>\n<small>Wrapping up the year in southern Florida with family<\/small><\/div>\n<p>While 2014 won&#8217;t feature a wedding (of my own!) and a job change seems unlikely, it&#8217;s already shaping up to be a great year. It&#8217;ll kick off with a trip to Australia for my first <a href=\"http:\/\/linux.conf.au\/\">linux.conf.au<\/a> (plus my first time in Australia!) and I learned this morning that I&#8217;ll be speaking at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.socallinuxexpo.org\/scale12x\">SCaLE12x<\/a> Los Angeles in February. I&#8217;ve submitted talks for and been invited to a few other conferences and I&#8217;m also scheming to go on a trip somewhere interesting with MJ this year, we shall see!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a great year in 2012, but 2013 was really exceptional. Biggest news, on Sunday April 28th MJ and I were married in a ceremony just outside of Philadelphia! We also hosted a California reception in August. 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