Elizabeth Bevilacqua

Elizabeth has been dabbling in Ubuntu since Warty, but has used and worked with Debian since 2002.

She works full time as a Debian Systems Administrator at [http://linuxforce.net LinuxForce], which now supports several Kubuntu desktops.

Elizabeth became an Ubuntu Member on May 29, 2007.

Contact

IRC: pleia2 on irc.freenode.net & irc.oftc.net

Email: lyz@ubuntu.com

Launchpad: [https://launchpad.net/people/lyz]

[http://ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=10746 elizabeth] on ubuntuforums.org

Homepage: [http://www.princessleia.com] & Blog: [http://www.princessleia.com/journal/]

Ubuntu Americas Membership Board

Member of the [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Membership/RegionalBoards/Americas Ubuntu Americas Membership Board]

Ubuntu-Women

Contact for official #Ubuntu-Women channel on irc.freenode.net

Administrator on Ubuntu-Women Website

Administrator in launchpad team

Contact for U-W Planet additions

Organization and [http://wiki.ubuntu-women.org/RecentChanges development] of [http://wiki.ubuntu-women.org/ Ubuntu-Women Wiki] (also a [http://wiki.ubuntu-women.org/AdminGroup Wiki Admin])

Developed parntership with [wiki:Classroom Classroom] project to replace our [http://wiki.ubuntu-women.org/Courses Courses]

Worked with [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Svaksha Vidya Ayer] to launch [http://ubuntu-women.org/mentoring.html Mentoring Project]

Actively working on organization and summarization of regular meetings

Ubuntu Classroom

One of the administrators of the project

Worked closely with RyanKavanagh to revitalize the project in 2007

• Developed a partnership with [http://ubuntu-women.org/ Ubuntu Women]

• Many wiki page edits to help with reorganization
• Defined volunteer roles for project so people know how to help
• Other general organization tasks

Ubuntu Pennsylvania LoCo Team

Designed and worked with [https://launchpad.net/~socialrevolutionary Alex Launi] to develop team website: [http://meetlinux.com MeetLinux.com], remains an admin of the site.

Spearheaded creation of team [http://planet.meetlinux.com/ Planet] and worked with [https://launchpad.net/~socialrevolutionary Alex Launi] to launch, remains person to contact for additions

Op in #ubuntu-us-pa channel

Administrator in launchpad team

Provided fliers and (and now name tags) for events

Volunteered at several events, including multiple events at [http://pacsnet.org/ PACS] where I handed out CDs and other freebies and fielded questions from folks browsing our materials, being a guest on WCOJ's AM Radio Computer Corner show to introduce Ubuntu [http://geekosophical.net/misc/pleia_on_the_radio.ogg podcast here] and working as the primary organizer of [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PennsylvaniaTeam/Philly/PhillyBBQ our summer 2007 Ubuntu BBQ]

Ubuntu US

[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/USTeams/ Mentor on the team]

• Help out folks who come into #ubuntu-us looking for LoCo resources

• Worked with Ubuntu-US-ME to secure ubuntuforums space for the team
• Worked with Ubuntu-US-TN to handle missing leader

Other F/OSS Contributions

Maintainer for [http://packages.debian.org/dglog dglog] and part of two person maintenance team for [http://packages.debian.org/webcalendar webcalendar] in Debian

Primary package maintainer on [http://pkg-sql-ledger.alioth.debian.org/ledgersmb/ Debian LedgerSMB Team]

Written documentation for [http://bitlbee.org Bitlbee Project]

Helped with early days of [http://women.debian.org/ Debian Women]

Active member of [http://linuxchix.org LinuxChix]

IRC support for Ubuntu, Bitlbee and irssi

Published [http://princessleia.com/menu/computer.php several popular How-To documents on PrincessLeia.com]. As well as articles on [http://www.debian-administration.org/users/ElizabethBevilacqua Debian-Administration.org] and the [http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/2657 O'Reilly Linux DevCenter Blog]

Local Involvement

Coordinator for [http://phillychix.org/ Philadelphia Area LinuxChix Chapter]

Coordinator, Primary Contact and Website Admin for [http://phillylinux.org Philadelphia area Linux Users Group (PLUG)]

Administrator of the [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PennsylvaniaTeam Pennsylvania Ubuntu LoCo Team]