Joe Terranova

This Friday, I’ll be giving a presentation on Ubuntu, the Ubuntu community, and LoCo teams to the Cherry Hill Linux User Group. According to their contact, after a Ubuntu install they did at last month’s meeting, they’re hyped and ready to hear more about it. Hopefully I’ll walk away with a few more Ubuntu users and the start of a real LoCo team. This is very exciting for me, as I’ve emailed basically every LUG in the state, so a response from CHLUG is a good sign. Hopefully news will spread to the other LUGs after the meeting.

If anyone wants to attend, the meeting is this Friday (March 2nd), from 7pm-9pm, at the Cherry Hill Public Library (about 2 miles from my house).

On another note, I’ve moved all my hosting to Dreamhost, and I’m fairly satisfied with the result. I’m also quite happy to see that the system for getting LoCo team hosting / dns changes has changed since last time.

When I originally got the domain, the system consisted of “email Matthias”. Unfortunately for me, Matthias happened to be sick and bedridden for around 2 weeks when I wanted it done, so I ended up spending quite a while playing whack-a-mole with the LoCo team project.

While Matthias is, as I’m told, a great guy, the old system failed to follow the golden “bus rule,” as developed by Google: the organization should be set up such that, if any one person were to be hit by a bus, things would continue to run. To my pleasant surprise, the new method is to submit a support request through Launchpad, which means there’s now redundancy, overhead, and quite frankly, people know if I made a request 2 weeks ago and got no response.

Overall, cheers to progress.

Let’s see:

• Ubucon kicked ass. Met a lot of great people, and I’m motivated for the LoCo team again.
• Moved all my stuff to a new host, Dreamhost. It’s cheaper, more reliable, and has more stuff.
• Moved my blog to a wordpress on my site. I’m tired of my livejournal, and I now have things set up so I can post here and automatically post there
• Sent out an email to the LoCo team, telling them I want to meet. In person. Because we’re all real people, I hope.
• Moved Philly By Night to the new version of Mediawiki, and added more content. You know you want to work on it, so just do it.
• I’m juggling 3 million things, but I’m still sane, some how. Let’s keep it that way if we can.