Vincent mentioned the VMUG Virtualization Event in an email earlier today
(posted @ 15:37, to be precise). The event is this Thursday, April 13th,
09:00-17:00, plus a post-event reception. Free food/booze. Long
registration link is in Vincent's email.
Still waiting for confirmation on our community table at BSides Nashville
(April 22nd @ David Lipscomb); I emailed them again yesterday requesting a
yea/nay. If yea, we'll probably need at least two people (John O. and
myself), possibly four, to work the table in shifts - hand out NLUG promo
cards & fliers (which someone tonight mentioned we should have onhand at
all times anyway - good point), sign people up for the mailing lists, do
general Linux/FOSS Q&A, recruit speakers & demos, etc. I'll ask for
additional volunteers in a follow-up message if we need 'em. Even if we get
nayed, let's start thinking of what info we want to put on general purpose
NLUG fliers, cards (think cheap box of 500 from VistaPrint), etc. 'Cause if
we can't use 'em for BSides, we can use them at the next installfest.
We're working on locking down the date and location for our next
installfest. We're looking (very tentatively) at May 20th, 21st, 27th or
28th (those are all Saturdays and Sundays). Since May 14th is Mother's Day
and May 29th (Monday) is Memorial Day (and probably a three-day holiday
weekend for many folks), Saturday, May 20th or Sunday, May 21st, would
probably be preferred. We've asked former NLUG bigwig Sean Jewett (aka
"Sean the RIMBoy") if the East Nashville Beer Works would be willing to put
up with us, locationwise. If we can't make that work, Watkins is our
current backup when their students are away between spring & summer
semesters (early June? need to confirm).
My meeting with the Nashville Technology Council went well. Looks like we
have access to their facilities, particularly their shiny new
meeting/classroom space. So NLUG "pending training director" John O. and I
are sketching out a June-August twice/month syllabus for a
Linux+/LPIC-1/CentOS certification class (that's right, pass one test & get
three certs for your resume). Free/donate-what-you-think-it's-worth, the
hope is to get sponsorship(s) of some sort so we can actually pay the
trainers/teachers/presenters a little bit for their time & work. Who's
interested? This is a new thing for us, so Mistakes Will Be Made ("Who
Wants to Be a Guinea Pig?"). If moderately successful/not a disaster, we'll
do three more over the next year - fall 2017 (ie - when all the college
kids are back in town) = Linux+/LPIC-1/CentOS (the hopefully less
error-prone edition, once we have the initial kinks worked out), spring
2018 = Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA), summer 2018 = Red
Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE). Lather, rinse, repeat as long as there's
interest, a place to host it, and people to teach it. Why those three?
Because {see last month's meeting topic}(yes, I need to post the notes &
slides). In addition to helping people prep for tests, we want to (if
possible) provide *CEUs/*CECs for instructors who need them for work or to
maintain certs of their own, provide speaking experience for people who
might wish to present talks at conferences, and train anyone interested
(including/especially the students) how to go out and teach these classes &
test prep themselves, and to others. The more who can teach & train, the
more we spread Linux/FOSS. We want everyone involved to get something
useful out of this.
Those are the high points. I'll post more detailed followups throughout the
day tomorrow on the following (and please harass me if I don't):
NLUG officer nominations were this month, vote at the May meeting.
SELinuxFest talk submission deadline is this Friday @ 23:59 Eastern.
Linux Presentation Day (if not at BSides, we need to pick another time/day
for Nashville participation)
Network King of the Hill - FOSS version presented at DerbyCon & currently
used by GA Tech, DC404, DC770, and ???; introduced to Nashville @ PhreakNIC
18.
DevOps Meetup group - Linux friendly/centric?
Does NTC have space for a rack? If so, would they let us put one in (and
fill it with fun for all)?
VMUG training & classes in conjunction with our proposed stuff?
Request skill survey from NLUG members - google group & Meetup; put
together a list of people who feel comfortable & confident with
_insert_topic_ (wrt Linux/FOSS), to the point that they could teach it, do
a presentation, do a screencast for an NLUG "library", do a radio
interview/podcast to help promote NLUG/Linux/FOSS, etc.
Clarify *which* stairwell in the Meetup directions.
Recruit vendors as well as speakers & sponsors; suggestions? Local
preferred, willing non-locals as well?
Forgot to mention that my neighbor has a used-but-working 24" iMac for
sale; specs in a followup [For sale] message.
Thank Andrew for handling Meetup fees 'til we can figure out the
recent/unexpected changes to their donation system, which is why we haven't
hit you up yet.
Still need to post March meeting and post-meeting notes (one of you @#$*s
inflicted me with three weeks worth of death flu from hell & my fever
didn't break 'til *April 4th*, so I'm not going to apologize for dropping
the ball on that one). Note to self - Don't forget New Horizons meeting.
Still my favorite March post-meeting discussion topic & URL-for-more-info:
The Secret History of Project Orion: To Mars by A-Bomb
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znmZeEycRwE
Uploaded by producer/director Christopher Sykes
Those of you who did Pizza Perfect tonight (sorry I couldn't make it),
please summarize any useful/relevant/interesting post-meeting notes &
comments.
Thanks!
~~Dru/jonnyX (current VP and acting President)
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