Category Archives: Life

Babble about life

Things I learnt about managing people while being a Wikipedia admin

Posted on 2011-08-26 (Friday) by myrtti

Just over four years ago I gave up my volunteer, unpaid role as an administrator of the Finnish Wikipedia. Today, while discussing with a friend, I realised what has been one of the most valuable lessons in both my professional … Continue reading →

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And then, unexpectedly, life happens

Posted on 2011-08-21 (Sunday) by myrtti

I hope none of you have expected me to blog more often. It’s been over a year since I’ve last blogged, and so much has happened since I last did. I’ve travelled to Cornwall, started a Facebook page that got … Continue reading →

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California Dreamin’, release 1.2.1 (LCS2010, MeeGo workshop videos)

Posted on 2010-06-14 (Monday) by myrtti

As promised earlier, I’ve now published four of the sessions from Linux Collaboration Summit 2010 which was held in San Francisco in April. They’re viewable in blip.tv, and I’ve decided to follow the licensing Linux Foundation itself has for the … Continue reading →

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California Dreamin’, release 1.2 (Linux Collaboration Summit, day 2)

Posted on 2010-05-14 (Friday) by myrtti

The second day of the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit started with breakfast and scoping out the possible talks to attend to. Many of the talks looked interesting, but I wandered to the MeeGo workgroup room according to my original plan … Continue reading →

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California Dreamin’, release 1.1 (Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit, day 1)

Posted on 2010-05-14 (Friday) by myrtti

I’ve got plenty to tell about my experiences of our two month trip to Silicon Valley, but I’ll start with telling about the conferences and events I’ve attended. I’ll start the story with the most important and the biggest one, … Continue reading →

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So how do you pronounce that?

Posted on 2009-06-13 (Saturday) by myrtti

I’ve been around IRC since May 1995, using my current nickname from around early days of 1998 or so, and around Ubuntu community since February 2005, and the times I’ve been asked how I pronounce my nickname are so many … Continue reading →

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Music for the masses

Posted on 2009-05-21 (Thursday) by myrtti

I’ve been quite active lately in Qaiku, a Finnish microblogging site built on open source platform that tries to do microblogging better than Twitter and even the relative “Mother” of it, Jaiku. Lately there’s been lots of buzz about a … Continue reading →

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ALD09: Better late than never: thanks to @kathysierra

Posted on 2009-03-25 (Wednesday) by myrtti

Ada Lovelace Day of 2009 was yesterday and I scratched my head trying to figure out who of the female geeks I’d value in so much I’d mention them in my blogpost. Then today I shuffled through my old pictures … Continue reading →

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What is happiness / My latest visit to UK

Posted on 2009-03-12 (Thursday) by myrtti

I’ve been to UK before, last summer. That visit was quite short and was very tightly knit around LUGradio Live UK 2009, so I didn’t have that good chance of getting to know what life is like in the UK. … Continue reading →

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25 things

Posted on 2009-02-05 (Thursday) by myrtti

When I was a kid, I cheated my mum that I’d do my evening prayers if she’d subscribe the weekly Donald Duck cartoon magazine for me. I love to gnaw plastic things, bottle cap seals, zip ties, etc. I’m not … Continue reading →

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