Kevin Sonney

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Pittsboro, NC

Kevin Sonney is a technology professional, media producer, and podcaster.

A Linux Sysadmin and Open Source advocate, Kevin has over 25 years in the IT industry, with over 15 years in Open Source. He currently works as an SRE at elastic.

Kevin hosts the weekly Productivity Alchemy Podcast. He and his wife, author and illustrator Ursula Vernon, co-host the weekly podcast Kevin and Ursula Eat Cheap (NSFW) and routinely attend sci-fi and comic conventions. Kevin also voiced Rev. Mord on The Hidden Almanac.

Kevin and Ursula live in Pittsboro, NC with a variety of dogs, cats, and chickens.

Open Source Sensei People's Choice Award Creative Commons Developer Fedora Geek Ubuntu Contributor Club Author Automation Apache DevOps Cloud Gamer Linux SysAdmin Wordpress Android CentOS

Authored Content

3 open source tools to manage your contacts

Access your contacts more quickly by syncing them locally. Learn how in the sixth in our series on 20 ways to be more productive with open source in 2020.

Organize and sync your calendar with khal and vdirsyncer

Keeping and sharing a calendar can be a pain. Learn how to make it easier in the fifth article in our series on 20 ways to be more productive with open source in 2020.

Organize your email with Notmuch

Notmuch indexes, tags, and sorts your email. Learn how to use it in the fourth article in our series on 20 ways to be more productive with open source in 2020.

Keep your email in sync with OfflineIMAP

Mirroring your email to a local folder is the first step in taming your message pileup. Learn how in the third article in our series on 20 ways to be more productive with open…

Jump-start your career with open source skills

Use Stow for configuration management of multiple machines

Learn how to use Stow to manage configurations across machines in the second article in our series on 20 ways to be more productive with open source in 2020.

Sync files across multiple devices with Syncthing

Learn how to sync files between devices with Syncthing in the first article in our series on 20 ways to be more productive with open source in 2020.