June 2009

The Twitter Diaries: 2009-06-28: Brazil

June 28, 2009

Lynn & I are in Montevideo, transiting to Porto Alegre. Guy took our passports to print boarding passes, hopefully will return with them! # in Montevideo airport, soon to board for Porto Alegre. We already know that our luggage is not with us. Slim chance it got there before us. # @debworks yup, had a [...]

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Best Souvenir EVAH

June 27, 2009

I’m very proud of this: palestrante means speaker. FISL (this is the 10th edition) is one of the world’s largest open source conferences. The little orange button is important: PR stands for PRESIDENT. Which means I got to be one of the 300 people on the show floor when Brazil’s President Lula came to call, [...]

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Brazilian Condom Brands

June 26, 2009

The one on the right is grape flavored. The middle one is tutti-frutti flavored.

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Hurry Up!

June 23, 2009

Yesterday we were in Santa Cruz do Sul, RS, Brazil, for a student conference on OpenSolaris. We had some time in the afternoon to sight-see (then were working again from 6-10 pm), including a walk to the cathedral. Along the way we were highly amused by this animated crossing signal, which Jogo told us was [...]

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The Twitter Diaries: 2009-06-21: Chicago, CO

June 21, 2009

@AmberCadabra I’m guessing you’re getting a lot of ROI questions. What’s your answer? in reply to AmberCadabra # @travelocity bait and switch? Twice started looking at flights MIL-AUS at $1217, twice arrived at “We’re sorry, price changed” – by $300! in reply to travelocity # @EnricCirne wd be interesting to know: had you heard of [...]

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The Twitter Diaries: 2009-06-14: CO

June 14, 2009

^ Colorado wildflower Eating at panera before dropping E at sfo and going on to sjc. Won’t see him til august # Now to prepare for speaking in Chicago and Porto Alegre # @lskrocki WTF? I didn’t know we got tornadoes in Colorado! in reply to lskrocki # made it to SJC in plenty of [...]

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Producing Social Media

June 14, 2009

^ me and Alan, hard at work (photo by Lynn) Last week was a big one for Sun conferences, with CommunityOne on June 1st and 2nd, JavaOne starting on the 2nd. Like many other Sun folks, I was very busy with preparations in the weeks leading up to these, and played several different roles throughout [...]

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Gallery: New Delhi, December 2007

June 13, 2009
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Gallery: OpenSolaris User Group Bootcamp

June 8, 2009

Also see Jim Grisanzio’s much better photos from CommunityOne.

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The Twitter Diaries: 2009-06-07: San Francisco

June 7, 2009

^ Sunday morning coming down: Lynn spotted this sad little scene on 4th street in San Francisco as we made our way to the first of several conferences this week @MissExpatria wow, you auditioned? for what role? phenomenal show. in reply to MissExpatria # @pamt456 re. Wicked, you should read the book(s). Very meaty. in [...]

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Calistoga: Neck Deep in the Big Muddy

June 7, 2009

Had a very busy week with Sun events in San Francisco, for which my husband joined me on the tail end of his two-and-a-half month research trip to Columbia, MO. I was thoroughly flattened by the time my conference responsibilities ended on Thursday (with a tour of the show floor and several long conversations), and [...]

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Upcoming Speaking Engagements

June 6, 2009

Somewhat surprised to find myself with such a list: June 17, Chicago: at Executing Social Media for Internal Communications I will be part of a panel (of three) on UTILIZING SOCIAL MEDIA TOOLS TO BUILD ENGAGEMENT AND COMMUNITY June 25, Porto Alegre, Brazil: at FISL Aaron Newcomb and I will be speaking on Using Video [...]

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Sysadmin to Go

June 5, 2009

^ Clay Baenziger of the Front Range OpenSolaris User Group poses as a “sysadmin to go”. In conjunction with CommunityOne, we held a boot camp for OpenSolaris User Group leaders, bringing representatives in from around the world to share knowledge on how to create, grow, and support their groups. We started off the morning with [...]

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Unkind Cuts

June 5, 2009

A prominent part of the CommunityOne/JavaOne decor was large photos like this, including a painted mural featuring James Gosling at a diner. I didn’t recognize most of the people, but was amused to see a familiar face at the registration booths. Didn’t realize til I looked at the photo today that they’d placed Simon Phipps [...]

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