Comments on: New Job, New Blog

By: Sarah Novotny joins OSCON for 2011 - O'Reilly Radar

Sarah Novotny joins OSCON for 2011 - O'Reilly Radar — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 23:58:31 +0000

[...] chair Allison Randal has now taken up a role as the technical architect for Ubuntu. We owe her a great debt of thanks for all her work, and will miss her insight, warmth and wisdom. [...]

By: J.C. Denton

J.C. Denton — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 21:38:49 +0000

Congratulations! When I started to use Octopussy first thing I had to do was to figure out Perl (partially). From Perl to A.R it’s obviously just a small step. I start to like that language more than Python, but I also start to like FreeBSD more than GNU/Linux. Ooops! Maybe I shouldn’t have said that…

By: allison

allison — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 16:02:02 +0000

I follow agile development practices, but tend to take a pragmatic approach, mixing the best from various methodologies rather than strictly following any one. If you'd like a little more detail on my philosophy, I recommend reading the work of a friend of mine, James Shore.

By: Devon Hubner

Devon Hubner — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 07:16:25 +0000

Allison, do you follow any specific process as a Technical Architect? Do you use a methodology like SCRUM, Lean, or RUP (Rational Unified Process)?

By: Graham Stoe

Graham Stoe — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 16:47:20 +0000

Congrats. I haven’t heard of Lucid before so I’ll check it out. I used Ubuntu last year for more than 6 months and it was better as an OS in almost every way. The reason why I never stayed with it was having to use a command line in Gimp to batch process images, and trying to run Steam in Wine was pretty buggy, can’t resist the odd video game or two still!

Let’s hope Ubuntu carry on the momentum and push the envelope even further to make it accessible and more appropriate for the general user.

By: allison

allison — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 03:19:45 +0000

Looks like a fascinating talk, thanks!

By: Cooper Stevenson

Cooper Stevenson — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 20:48:14 +0000

Hi Allison,

You and I met at the AT meeting where you presented your architectural work with Ubuntu last month. If it helps, recall that I said to you, “okay, you’ve set a pretty high bar with your presentation–I hope to challenge it.”

While I didn’t get the opportunity to present as they couldn’t seem to get the key. Still I thought you might like to see what I was talking about…you can peruse my presentation slides here:

http://cooper.stevenson.name/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/ann.pdf

Very Best,

-Cooper

By: Who are your mentors? | Daniel Holbach’s blog

Who are your mentors? | Daniel Holbach’s blog — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 08:04:15 +0000

[...] and Allison blogged about their mentors and start into the Open Source world and I thought it would be a great [...]

By: gabrielle

gabrielle — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 18:04:19 +0000

Congrats, Allison!

By: Zac

Zac — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 11:37:23 +0000

This is fantastic, great news! Made me happy to read your story. Well done.

This is my 4 year of Ubuntu and it’s people like yourself that make the difference.