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Teresa Applies Her Training

October 30, 2009

The main reason I did videoblogging training at Sun’s Menlo Park offices a couple of weeks ago (rather than at some other time) was to get my colleague Teresa Giacomini ready to film the OpenSolaris User Group meeting she ran in Dresden this week. Looks as if she handled it just fine! photo by stiefkind

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How ZFS Really Gets Done

October 30, 2009

George Wilson and Jeff Bonwick Of the comestible items which fuel engineers, the only thing missing in this picture is caffeine.

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GHC09: Women in the Flat Connected World

October 25, 2009

“Globalization has forced companies to create new processes to empower distributed teams to collaborate. It could mean that individuals have to travel for longer periods of time across the globe, work at odd hours, and work from home or make other adjustments to accommodate a new working lifestyle. Panelists will discuss and give their perspective [...]

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Videoblogging Tips: Dressing for the Camera

October 23, 2009

Another snippet from the videoblogging training I did at Sun HQ.

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Videoblogging Tips: Filming Engineers

October 19, 2009

Yet another in the videoblogging tips series: how to get good footage of engineers who may not be accustomed to being filmed.

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The Twitter Diaries: 2009-10-18: San Francisco

October 18, 2009

alarm was set for 5, so of course I woke up at 4:30. And of course I got to the airport too early, and of course the flight is delayed. # Colleague on the same plane going to #oow09 to demo something that I know @reiger wants to see. I’ll get video for you ; [...]

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Videoblogging Tips: Camera Motion

October 18, 2009

I trained four of my Sun colleagues in videoblogging, and, for practice, they filmed me talking. Some of the resulting video seemed useful, so here it is (in bite-sized pieces).

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Videoblogging Tips: Getting Good Sound at a Conference

October 17, 2009

This week I trained four of my Sun colleagues in videoblogging. It was very hands-on training, with the intent that they actually produce a finished video by the end of the two-day course. We started with setting up the cameras and mics right away, and I had them practice following an active speaker (me, imitating [...]

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An OpenSolaris Shirt for Women!

October 15, 2009

Tired of those baggy, boy-cut t-shirts we all get at conferences, Teresa Giacomini decided to do a run of OpenSolaris shirts for women. Much more flattering to the female figure. Want one? Well, they were very popular and went fast (lots of women in OpenSolaris). Join your local OpenSolaris User Group – maybe they have [...]

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Gallery: Oracle Open World 2009

October 15, 2009
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Videoblogging for Sun: Numbers Update

October 11, 2009

Recently realized that a dumb spreadsheet error (mine) was causing a serious undercount in the total views of my videos. My video stats for 2009 now read: 100 hours of video shot to date (and more to come before the year ends) 35 hours of video edited (mostly by me) and available (some of it [...]

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Open Source Community Development Panel #ghc09

October 2, 2009

^ Valerie Fenwick, Sun, moderator. Panelists: Terri Oda, Linuxchix. Kathryn Vandiver, NetApp. Stormy Peters, GNOME, Sandy Payette, Fedora Commons. Teresa Giacomini, Sun. (These are just my rough notes.) ? to Sandy what activities and attitudes have helped your community flourish? Teresa on diff tactics to grow communities in different parts of the world: In our [...]

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Videoblogging for Sun: Numbers Update

September 18, 2009

25 months: how long I’ve been shooting video for Sun well over 200 hours: video in the can (mostly shot by me personally) – and more constantly on the way (the photo above doesn’t show quite all the tapes I’ve got – some were out for editing) 150 hours: video edited, compressed, and published online  [...]

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Interview at FISL

September 9, 2009

A conversation on Radio Software Livre (FISL) about using video to communicate about open software. Bruno Souza interviews (and translates for) me and Aaron Newcomb. We later gave a more formal talk on the topic, but I don’t have video of that (yet).

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Gallery: CommunityOne 2009

September 4, 2009
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Gallery: Chicago

September 3, 2009

These are from my trip back in May to speak at at Executing Social Media for Internal Communications. Had a little time before my retun flight to look around.

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“I’m Blogging This for Sun”

August 31, 2009

One of my tasks since I first began working for Sun in 2007 has been to help and encourage others (mostly engineers) to communicate in various ways, including blogs. There are many blogs at Sun (check the lower right corner of that link for today’s numbers), but, as I quickly discovered when I began analyzing [...]

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Reflections on My Career Strengths

August 5, 2009

As someone who may be seeking a new job soon [this was written in August, 2009], it behooves me to prepare myself for a possible job search. Which is something I’m really, really bad at. I’m very good at doing jobs once I get them, but clueless and inept when it comes to seeking them. [...]

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Community Leadership Summit

July 29, 2009

Several Sun folks attended the Community Leadership Summit in San Jose, just before OSCON. I didn’t get many photos or notes – was too busy listening, talking, and meeting people. I also led a session on videoblogging which 14 people attended.

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Kernel Conference Australia

July 28, 2009

Earlier this month, I attended Sun’s Kernel Conference Australia, where I did my usual social media production job, met a lot of interesting people, and introduced some of them to each other.

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