Elizabeth K. Joseph

@pleia2.bsky.social

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I lead the Open Source Program Office for IBM Z (mainframes) at IBM. ❤️ Linux, open source, mainframes, typewriters, and trains. Wrote books on Ubuntu & OpenStack. KN6QGG. She/her. Opinions mine. San Francisco Bay Area ✈️ Philadelphia

Nintendo Game Boy on a granite countertop with Kirby's Pinball Land paused on the screen.
An upstairs home office with a total of 7 computers, two on shelves and the rest around a wooden desk with a pair of CRT monitors. All computers mentioned in the previous text.
Wooden desk with a pair of CRT monitors on it, of note: one has blue screen and a Sun keyboard and mouse in front of it.
Opening presentation slide on a large television that has a starfield background and says "The Source Awakens: Open Source on IBM Z in a Multi-Architecture World" followed by pleia2's contact information.
Gas station called "Freedom Fuel" with bald eagle and USA flag branding, and pricing at $3.57 per gallon.
A pile of Lego set boxes on a desk, from bottom to top: "Up" House, F1 Lewis Hamilton helmet, LOVE park art sign
Large glass of orange liquid that says "Sugar Factory" with dry ice bubbling out of it, and two straws
Close up of the IBM z17 rack-mount system with the Hardware Management Assembly & support devices (5U), the z17 Server Base (5U) and the PCIe+ IO Expansion Enclosure
IBM Z and team ringing the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange on July 7th 2026, background in blue and "IBM" logo.
Stuffed bear wearing a Brasil t-shirt and scarf, perched on the head of a child (face not shown)
Photocopied copies of panels removed at the slavery exhibit and hand written "They can't erase our history"
pleia2 taking a selfie in front of the Big Boy locomotive train
Inside a coal mine tunnel with rails on the floor and a light illuminating the tunnel
Top of a dirty grey and off-white Olympia SM9 case.
Photo of a postcard proped up on a keyboard with a silhouette of Bigfoot in the woods looking toward Seattle.
A collage of a dozen selfies that pleia2 took with folks at the Open Source Summit.
Front view of Zara the tortoiseshell tabby cat sitting on a table at a vet's office.
Plastic box with an empty spring box and spring types chart, and 100+ springs all mixed up under it.
Terminal window showing a QEMU command for launching his build for s390x
Pink cotton candy Tux penguin on a stick
Selfie of pleia2 and Steven Vaughan-Nichols
Photo of a slide with text "Supports x86, s390x, ARM64..." and a heart eyes emoji and hand pointing to s390x mention
Dawn presenting at the summit with a slide titled "Organization: Goal Alignment"
Sean Dague on stage with a slide of the IBM Quantum computer on the screen
Lit up Open Source Summit banner that says "Welcome Attendees!"
pleia2 wearing a Luke and Leia Twins shirt.
A bus stop at a zoo decorated with colorful animal silhouettes
A tiger in a zoo enclosure swimming in the water
Whale shark among a bunch of fish in a giant habitat at the Georgia Aquarium
pleia2, Catherine and Artem holding LinuxONE goodies at a booth with a LinuxONE on a monitor behind them and a laptop with a Red Hat OpenShift AI demo on the screen
Booth with a laptop, 3d printed mainframe, Lego Telum II chip and screen behind with an IBM LinuxONE image on the screen
Kid running around the bases in an A's uniform, number 32 and the name Joseph on the back
A hand with two things being held: A Lego build with a gold removable front with what resembles a dual-chip-module, representing an IBM Telum II processor. A 3D- printed, bright orange IBM LinuxONE 5.
Two marshmallows on sticks roasting over a propane fire pit with lava rocks and a stone border.
Lenovo Thinkpad laptop with an orange background showing a diagram labeled "Document Summarizer and RAG Pipeline on IBM LinuxONE.png"
Wedding party in a line surrounding pleia2 and MJ, with bridesmaids in pink dresses, standing outside on a path surrounded by trees.
Scotty from Star Trek trying to speak to a computer through a mouse.
Screenshot of a GitHub Actions test results screen with 4 passing tests
Walt in the front of a room with a slide that has a fancy silver sun dial on it
Erica on stage with her introduction slide that had the title of her talk.
Boys in Luigi and Mario hoodies playing on a Super Nintendo on a portable Panasonic TV
Stage with Stephanie Schwartz and slide that outlines that problem of compsci traditionally relying upon teaching code, but now AI does that, what to focus on teaching?
Room at a conference venue with an audience, speaker, and screen with the International Space Station and the words "Where AI Meets Hardware: Designing and Building a 3D Satellite Tracker"
A screenshot of the GitHub Actions screen for a specific job, with all passing tests for the following: Build on ubuntu-24.04 for x86_64 Build on ubuntu-24.04 for ARM64 Build on ubuntu-24.04 s390x (emulated) Build on ubuntu-24.04 for s390x
A tractor trailer on its side in a freeway on ramp with a few rescue workers on site
Envelope on a desk with several Xubuntu mouse and logo stickers, and some bubble-wrapped plastic gold coins with the Xubuntu mouse logo.
Red F1 Ferrari Lego (77242), assembled
Two baseball gloves baseballs, and A's hats on the ground
Baseplate and partial carriage of a 3d-printed index typewriter in purple and magenta.
Gold sparkly PLA "coin" with the Xubuntu mouse logo in blue.
Open Source in Closed Ecosystems 12:30 - Ballroom G In spite of Linux running on the platform for 25 years, the mainframe community is notoriously proprietary. Fortunately, in the past several years we've built a thriving open source community that subverts the status quo. Learn how we did it, and how you can too.
Dough with round cutouts and jam, along with pie filling, and three people working on making them into cookies
Bottom of an Oliver 9 typewriter with 4 new replacement rubber feet on the 4 corners
Left: Lego IBM z16 mainframe with a minifig of a woman standing in front Right: Lego Red Hat custom Lego set with a minifig of a man sitting at a desk with a Red Hat logo on his center monitor
A magenta and purple 3d printed index typewriter, partially built
A purple printed paper guide with a large base (brim) off to the side, a failed print.
Close up of a PLA printed Index Typewriter component with some pieces connected through holes.
A bobble head figure of Christopher Latham Sholes.
Purple and magenta 3d printed parts being put together by a small child's hand.