Beannachtaí Lá Fhéile Pádraigh oraibh – Happy Saint Patrick’s Day to you all
With so many people taking part in tomorrows celebrations and everyone feeling a little more Irish than usual I thought I’d wish you all a great day and Happy St. Patrick’s Day from us all over here in Ireland!
Beannachtaí Lá Fhéile Pádraigh oraibh
I had a very boring lunch hour today, made yummy scrambled eggs with ham on toast and a large mug of tea. Now what, not in the mood to go out side as I may not come back in it’s so sunny out there.
I was curious on the Yahoo V Google search so decided to have some fun at lunch, though as one of the charming folks in the #ubuntu-uk channel “If that’s what you call fun … sheesh”. Anyway I chose 4 things very simply Laura Czajkowski, Ossbarcamp and something not related to me but I enjoy Ubuntu UK Podcast and finally I asked in channel for a topic any topic, “Pubs” was the final one. The reason behind the first two topics was I was curious what the results would be and had an idea already what Google would return. The final two were just random ones that I could compare the results from.
I’m a little shocked over the disparaging results returned. At present I run Karmic, and once I get a chance will upgrade my laptop run lucid and then switch to Yahoo for a while as long as results improve as at present the results aren’t great for yahoo compared to Google.
Laura Czajkowski Google Results
Laura Czajkowski Yahoo Results
Ossbarcamp Google Results
Ossbarcamp Yahoo Results
UUPC Google Results
UUPC Yahoo Results
Pubs Google Results
Pubs Yahoo Results
All of the results in a larger form are HERE
I blogged a while ago about the Ubuntu LoCo Re Approval process and how we the Ubuntu LoCo Council were going to be contacting people regarding their Teams Re Approval. We’ll the process is under way.
The first team to be re approved was the Belgian LoCo so congrats to them! Having a re approval wiki page set up for this made it simple to see and easy to navigate the review which was great. Listing past events they’ve taken part in, organised and the day to day stuff the do laid out easily for us to see was great. Photos make things very clear, and a great way to track events that have happened.
I’ve mailed more teams now and we’re hoping to step up the process by perhaps adding another meeting to get through the list. If you do receive mails from us, it’s natural don’t panic you can find all of us on IRC or drop us an email asking for help or if you want to check things out. Each team is assigned a LoCo Council member, and they are there to help and answer any questions you have. Mail them or poke them on IRC.
The more you ask and are prepared means we can go through the process easily. Please, Do reply and acknowledge you have received the mail, we will attempt three times in one month to contact a team after that they will be unapproved if they have not answered us.
We chose a random amount of teams for the Lucid Cycle for the LoCo Council to re-approve, don’t worry if we’ve not gotten around to you we’ll be continuing this process from now on choosing a number of teams for each cycle.
I had a pretty amazing weekend down home last weekend. I was asked back to give a talk as part of a weekend of talks that took place at my old University. It was a great honour and rather amusing at the same time. Years ago I had set up the Skynet talks, where you’d invite a Skynet member back and members of the Industry.
Friday night kicked off in the stables, a flash back from my college days. We have two pubs on campus and a small bar. Walking into the Stables bar it was a flash back to the 90’s music. All of the cheesy head wrecking songs that you know once your heard them the lyrics were going to be in your head for the night.
Clearly my age showed as I couldn’t hear myself and moved out to the courtyard to have conversations, albeit it was a bit chilly I could hear the music and have a conversations so worked out better.
Saturday morning, I was up in time to go into the Market for breakfast and collected Matt Zimmerman who kindly agreed to come over and take part in the days talks. After a cup of tea in the what looked to be someones kitchen and listening to a Trad Session at 11am we were fed and set up for the day headed to UL for the talks.
This time I was a little less nervous talking, but not by much! I gave a similar talk to the one last month but this time was a bit slower and updated slides as I knew the target audience had a clue about Ubuntu and Open Source.
Matt gave his talk with such ease and clarity and it was very enjoyable. All of the talks during the day were interesting and nice to bring people together. they covered a range of topics so there was something there for most people. Students came from Cork, Dublin and Galway so that was great that it wasn’t just one college having these talks. It was a nice way to spend an afternoon. David and his entertaining ways gave his talk on CouchDB, and very nicely obliged to get us to the pub for the last half of the Ireland V England Rugby game.
It was great to be back again and I had a lovely weekend. glad I gave the talk, and I believe it was recorded and will be up at some point. Here are the slides at least.
Who knew it’d be next to impossible to find a free evening to meet some friends, finally we found a Sunday to meet up and have some brunch.
Most folks know I’m not from Dublin, and while it’s great here, I have a job and live in a nice place and a lot of the Ubuntu folks are here I miss hanging out with mates and just going for a chin wag over a cup of tea. When I first moved up I was invited to a Girl Geek Dinner. Not sure what it was or where it would lead to, but I’m damn glad I went as I’ve met some great friends there and I look forward to the discussions we have.
I have to first say there are not that many Ubuntu women over here, but that’s fine I don’t mind. It’s nice just to meet other women in technology and we discuss random bits of stuff happening in Ireland. Events, conferences, new technologies, showing off the new phone we’ve brought to lunch and just general hanging out.
I finally got to catch up with Martha, Ana and Andrea for brunch two weeks ago after not getting a chance to meet up since November before Jaime went back down under to Oz and left Ireland. I thought I’d introduce you to folks over here that I interact with in the women in technology area who like me embrace technology, go to conferences and get our Geek fixes by talking about gadgets and new technologies.
Martha Rotter – Is a technology evangelist, and has been her whole life. There’s very little she find boring. She’s that kinda geek who can’t wait to try out everything new and shiny. And when she find things she loves, she can’t help but share her enthusiasm with others who might benefit from new technology. Lucky enough that this is now her full time job, she spends time with developers in Ireland and Northern Ireland working on brand new tech in areas like web applications, video games, robotics, 3D, touch interfaces and more. When not in front of a computer or a crowd, you can probably find her at community events like OpenCoffee, BarCamp, Age Action or Girl Geek Dinners.
Ana Nelson – Having fallen in love with programming while studying for her Ph.D. in economics, she now develop open source software and write web applications. Currently she works as an investment analyst based in Dublin, Ireland and loves to build tools to analyze and visualize data, run simulations and automate anything boring. She spoke at OSSBarcamp and hopefully she will do again.
Andrea Magnorsky – Andrea is a professional software developer and has accrued many years of experience building solid applications. Looking for ways to improve code she came across Rails and the Castle stack, which includes Monorail. Andrea is heavily involved in the organisation of Alt Net in Dublin. She is also involved in Ruby Ireland as she has a growing interest in Ruby. Andrea liked the Castle stack so much that she co-developed an eCommerce solution using Monorail in her spare time.
These are just some of the cool women I get to meet in Ireland working in technology, it’s fascinating the diverse topics that come up and the lengthy and interesting conversation we have. I don’t necessarily get to meet women in Open Source, but that’s fine. Meeting others from different groups and areas leads to more discussions and learning from one another.
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