<div dir="ltr">Can do! Any suggestions on what I should mention as far as topic requests or should I go with the stuff I mentioned (not sure what's fitting or a good idea)? Also, should we aim for a particular date range?</div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 1:42 PM, Jim Perrin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jperrin@gmail.com" target="_blank">jperrin@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Excellent! If you could reach out to them and line up a couple speakers,<br>
I'll get started on this end and also reach out to a few GA based folks<br>
I know.<br>
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On 03/06/2014 12:55 PM, Gene Liverman wrote:<br>
> Awesome! Depending on what kind of presentations we want I think we might<br>
> be able to find some inside the university system. Most of the people<br>
> (myself included) I know here locally would be most interested in the<br>
> learning from others aspect of this but I am happy to put it out there once<br>
> it has gotten a little farther along in the process. The Atlanta area has<br>
> several user groups that we might be able to pull talent from. Google also<br>
> has a decent size presence around here so we could try to see if someone<br>
> from there wanted to talk if that sounds interesting.<br>
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</div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">> On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 11:01 AM, Jim Perrin <<a href="mailto:jperrin@centos.org">jperrin@centos.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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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<br>
>> extensively<br>
>>> throughout our university system so I thought it would be cool if we<br>
>> 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>
>>><br>
>>> - anything geared towards current Windows admins / users who what to<br>
>>> know more about the world of Linux and CentOS in particular. This<br>
>> could be<br>
>>> particularly timely since Windows XP is approching it end of support.<br>
>>> - 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>
>>> can support and promote CentOS and Linux in general<br>
>>><br>
>>> These are just some ideas that I hope will spark more interest. I have<br>
>> no<br>
>>> idea if others in this area are on this mailing list or not so I am sort<br>
>> of<br>
>>> expecting that I will have to post this elsewhere for it to be seen by<br>
>> 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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>> 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>
>><br>
>> I'm reasonably familiar with the GA area and would be happy to help<br>
>> facilitate/attend this one from a CentOS perspective.<br>
>><br>
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