<div dir="ltr">Awesome! Depending on what kind of presentations we want I think we might be able to find some inside the university system. Most of the people (myself included) I know here locally would be most interested in the learning from others aspect of this but I am happy to put it out there once it has gotten a little farther along in the process. The Atlanta area has several user groups that we might be able to pull talent from. Google also has a decent size presence around here so we could try to see if someone from there wanted to talk if that sounds interesting.<div class="gmail_extra">
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 11:01 AM, Jim Perrin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jperrin@centos.org" target="_blank">jperrin@centos.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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On 03/06/2014 06:42 AM, Gene Liverman wrote:<br>
> We use CentOS quite a bit here and I know that it is also used extensively<br>
> throughout our university system so I thought it would be cool if we could<br>
> have a CentOS Dojo on our campus. If that's doable my thought is that we<br>
> could promote it to our campus, to the local community, and also to other<br>
> universities in Georgia. We have plenty of space on campus to host the<br>
> event plus we have a variety of food options on campus with many more a<br>
> short distance away. I would be very open to topic suggestions but would<br>
> be particularly interested in the following:<br>
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</div>> - anything geared towards current Windows admins / users who what to<br>
<div class="">> know more about the world of Linux and CentOS in particular. This could be<br>
> particularly timely since Windows XP is approching it end of support.<br>
</div>> - Puppet and other DevOps kind of things<br>
> - how the CentOS project works at a technical level<br>
> - anything geared towards current Computer Science or Management<br>
> Information Systems students<br>
> - anything about how public sector organizations such as universities<br>
<div class="">> can support and promote CentOS and Linux in general<br>
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> These are just some ideas that I hope will spark more interest. I have no<br>
> idea if others in this area are on this mailing list or not so I am sort of<br>
> expecting that I will have to post this elsewhere for it to be seen by many<br>
> who would be interested in attending. We have the most space available<br>
> during the summer but could most likely make this work any time of the<br>
> year. It would just depend on the room requirements and what else was<br>
> already scheduled to be happening on campus.<br>
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</div>Sounds good so far! Are there some local folks who would be willing to<br>
present, or people that you (or we) could reach out to?<br>
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I'm reasonably familiar with the GA area and would be happy to help<br>
facilitate/attend this one from a CentOS perspective.<br>
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