{"id":9235,"date":"2014-02-23T10:54:17","date_gmt":"2014-02-23T18:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/?p=9235"},"modified":"2016-11-03T10:24:19","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T17:24:19","slug":"5-ways-to-get-involved-today-wrap-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/2014\/02\/5-ways-to-get-involved-today-wrap-up\/","title":{"rendered":"5 ways to get involved today: Wrap up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, February 21st I gave my talk on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.socallinuxexpo.org\/scale12x\/presentations\/5-ways-get-involved-ubuntu-today\">5 ways to get involved with Ubuntu today<\/a> at the Southern California Linux Expo&#8217;s Ubucon.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/images\/journalpics\/022014\/scale12x_ubucon_sign.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/images\/journalpics\/022014\/scale12x_ubucon_sign_sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>I had a great audience who I was able to have some wonderful and inspiring chats with following my talk. There&#8217;s clearly a lot of interest in further involvement by user-level contributors, so I&#8217;m happy that the work I&#8217;ve been doing to improve on-boarding for projects I participate in will be valuable.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/images\/journalpics\/022014\/scale12x_lyz_5waysubuntu.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/images\/journalpics\/022014\/scale12x_lyz_5waysubuntu_sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;ve uploaded slides from the talk here: <a href=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/presentations\/5WaysToGetInvolvedWithUbuntuToday.pdf\">5WaysToGetInvolvedWithUbuntuToday.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can also browse the companion blog posts I&#8217;ve been writing these past couple weeks leading up to the conference:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/?p=9068\">Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/?p=9070\">Ubuntu Documentation<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/?p=9074\">Ubuntu User Support<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/?p=9077\">Ubuntu Testing<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/?p=9072\">Ubuntu Advocacy<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I really enjoyed the experience, huge thanks to Richard Gaskin for delivering another great Ubucon.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, the Ubuntu booth put on by members of Ubuntu California has really been doing well this weekend, so thanks and congratulations to everyone who has been participating.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/images\/journalpics\/022014\/scale12x_ubuntu_booth.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/images\/journalpics\/022014\/scale12x_ubuntu_booth_sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, February 21st I gave my talk on 5 ways to get involved with Ubuntu today at the Southern California Linux Expo&#8217;s Ubucon. I had a great audience who I was able to have some wonderful and inspiring chats with following my talk. There&#8217;s clearly a lot of interest in further involvement by user-level [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,28,37,8,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-loco","category-tech","category-travel","category-planet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9235","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=9235"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9246,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9235\/revisions\/9246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}