Marketing Your Open Source Project

In March of this year, I spoke at the Southern California Area Linux Expo (SCaLE), a conference I’ve been attending for years and highly recommend for its kind community, and great people and content. Here’s the video of my talk: Here are the slides. I’m submitting this talk to other conferences, and it will evolve… Continue reading Marketing Your Open Source Project

Marketing Your Tech Talent (at OSCON)

In early 2013, I submitted a talk to OSCON entitled “Marketing Your Tech Talent.” It was turned down, but soon after I was honored to have it accepted for Monktoberfest, where it was well received. I was amused and flattered that, as soon as I finished the talk, Laurel Ruma jumped up to congratulate me –… Continue reading Marketing Your Tech Talent (at OSCON)

Metrics Workshop at LISA13

At USENIX LISA`13, Brendan Gregg led a Metrics Workshop, along with Narayan Desai, Kent Skaar, Theo Schlossnagle, and Caskey Dickson. “This was an opportunity for many industry professionals to discuss problems with performance metrics and monitoring, and to propose and discuss solutions.” More details from Brendan here. I filmed the day, above is a playlist of… Continue reading Metrics Workshop at LISA13

What I Did at Joyent

I started working at Joyent on December 1st, 2010, as the Director of Training. My task was to lead the creation of three levels of training materials: for end users of the Joyent public cloud for customers who were buying SmartDataCenter and using it to run their own clouds for systems integrators and others who… Continue reading What I Did at Joyent