I’ve been thinking this for the past three months and every time I went into the hair salon, I would proclaim my desires, Monique would ignore me, give me a kickass haircut and I’d relent, but finally.
Finally.
WE DID THIS THING.
That Feeling When You Look Up The Temperature Of The Place Where You’re Headed
And it’s so much worse than the place where you are…
Snowing.
Below zero.
At least five degrees colder than Groningen.
Every day.
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The Thing About Last Minute Work Travels Is That
Nothing gets done except aforementioned last minute work travels.
Hence the flight is purchased and the Amsterdam and Salt Lake City hotels are booked and airbnb room requested and packing list finished.
BUT.
That TripleO cheat sheet?
The new TripleO GUI OverCloud Deployment Instructions?
Expense reports and debriefing reports from OpenStack Barcelona and Grace Hopper Celebration?
All those things I need to do for Toastmasters Groningen?
BWAHAHAHAHA nope.
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I Have Tried Writing This Post For Days And
It’s still not shaping up correctly, so I’m going to go old style which is to say that I’m going to write exactly what I’m thinking, or not exactly, but something close.
Something stream of consciousness ish.
ISH.
Don’t judge.
Remember that time when I said:
But then an invitation comes along and you get all giddy cause it comes along because of a year’s worth of work and I know, I’m being vague, and I promise to post details if it all works out…
Normally when I go speak at conferences it’s because I’ve applied months in advance and been accepted and sent the budget up the management chain and received approval and arranged travel and written an abstract and practiced the demo and tested and practiced and planned.
And.
THIS IS NOT HAPPENING.
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Tomorrow! Tomorrow! I LOVE YA! TOMORROW!
You’re only a day away.
Theoretically.
There are SO MANY THINGS to write about from the past FOUR WEEKS.
No, there is too much. Let me sum up.
I went to the Grace Hopper Celebration and OpenStack Summit and had the FLU FROM HELL and recovered on Lanzarote.
Time For Another Round Of Travel
The Partner and I decided the AI needed an especially stressful two year release party, so we planned #ALLTHETRAVEL for October.
Papa went to Abu Dubai for five days.
I’m flying to Texas NOW for the Grace Hopper Celebration.
Careful, Leander, You’re Posting Daily Again
The thing about travelling for work and going to conferences is that it puts me in a certain daily routine with a lot of quiet time in places and while I could ramble on and on about the whys and wherefores, the end result is that I’m able to write here more regularly.
Hi.
This week I’m in Buffalo New York for Code Daze, a conference with the kickass tagline, “Reviving The Art Of Code & Building Community”. I had no idea that I knew one of the organizers when I applied with The ABCs of Being a RDO OoO ATC talk, but it’s a small small world.
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And I’m Leaving On A Jet Plane
Don’t know when I’ll be back again.
In the interest of continuing the pattern of posting amazing music videos. Or videos with music. That present songs in a unique way, I hereby present Harry Potter [SPOILERS] edited to Beastie Boys’ Sabotage
This Is What’s On My Mind Lately. Cause REASONS.
I submitted TWO talks to OpenStack Summit Barcelona today.
Based on two talks that I’ve given in other places. The deadline is today and I’m still drowning from the last three months / FOUR conferences I attended / SPOKE AT, so I sent in:
The ABCs of Becoming an OpenStack ATC
What does it mean to be an OpenStack active technical contributor? It means that you are a developer or designer or support engineer or tester or project manager or writer or END USER and you’d like to become involved in an open source project.
It means that you want contribute to a specific project within OpenStack, like TripleO, which is a project within the umbrella space, and that you’ll join the RDO community for guidance, feedback, and support.
And, sure, while it’s actually more like ABCDEF, GEE, I’m hoping you’ll enjoy this overview of OpenStack and what it is to become an ATC.
AND
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And Then We All Held Hands And Sang Kumbaya
I might’ve bit off slightly more than I could chew yesterday because in addition to SPEAKING at Red Hat Summit, I decided to run the Red Hat Summit 5k BEFORE the talk and then attend the Women’s Leadership lunch AFTER the talk.
And while those three events were so kickass awesome and totally worth it and wonderful all in their own right, I am UTTERLY EXHAUSTED today.
I felt pretty damn good about yesterday’s talk (and since it wasn’t recorded, I can say without proof otherwise that it was ABSOLUTELY EPIC AND PERFECT AND WOAH, YOU MISSED SOME BRILLIANT WORDS, PEOPLE) but it is pretty affirming when you open up the floor to questions and people ask #ALLTHEQUESTIONS.
The dialogue was AWESOME and wonderful and the questions were thoughtful and, sure, I didn’t know all the answers, but invited people to email me directly cause I knew who to forward those questions to to get the answers they’re looking for, so I totally hope they take me up on that offer.
HINT HINT.
Taking lots of TripleO questions at #RHSummit with @rainleander @RDOcommunity pic.twitter.com/IsQSeoYCDd
— Joe Brockmeier ⚛ (@jzb) June 29, 2016
Super Q&A for the TripleO @RDOcommunity / OpenStack session with @rainleander here at #RHSummit. Lots of interest.
— Joe Brockmeier ⚛ (@jzb) June 29, 2016
The talk itself ended up being forty-five ish minutes and the questions took the rest of the one hour allotted session and people touched base after as well until I had to run to the lunch. Therefore it wasn’t until after the lunch that I saw all the KICKASS tweets.
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