USENIX Blog

Yesterday I saw a tongue-in-cheek petition asking for the White House to intervene in a debate over a proposed new University of Kansas men's basketball team uniform. The petition called the uniforms “stylistically heinous” and said they “tarnish a venerated institution.” The petition asked the White House to “Stand up for our university, for coherent color schemes, and for the spirit of Wilt Chamberlain.”

Are you attending SCALE11x in Los Angeles this weekend? I look forward to SCALE every year and was excited to have a USENIX booth in the expo again. I think my first SCALE was five years ago when I was working at Linux Pro Magazine, and I immediately fell in love with the great community event and made a ton of friends while I was there. This year, Mother Nature called and dumped a foot of snow on lovely, Lawrence, Kansas.

In a new Women in Advanced Computing (WiAC) interview series, we focus on sysadmins. This week we hear from Amy Rich. I first met Rich when she was the Q&A columnist for Sys Admin magazine. Now she works at Mozilla, in addition to wearing a few other hats.

RE: Tell us about yourself and what you currently do.

In a new Women in Advanced Computing (WiAC) interview series, we focus on sysadmins. Recently Dawn Foster, Puppet's community lead, emailed me to ask for help recruiting speakers for Puppet Camps and conferences. So naturally, I recruited her to be my first interviewee.

RE: Tell us about yourself and what you currently do.