[CentOS-promo] CentOS Dojo in Carrollton, GA

[Gene Liverman]

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?





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On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 1:42 PM, Jim Perrin <jperrin at gmail.com> wrote:

> Excellent! If you could reach out to them and line up a couple speakers,
> I'll get started on this end and also reach out to a few GA based folks
> I know.
>
> On 03/06/2014 12:55 PM, Gene Liverman wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> >
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> >
> >
> > On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 11:01 AM, Jim Perrin <jperrin at centos.org> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> On 03/06/2014 06:42 AM, Gene Liverman wrote:
> >>> We use CentOS quite a bit here and I know that it is also used
> >> extensively
> >>> throughout our university system so I thought it would be cool if we
> >> could
> >>> have a CentOS Dojo on our campus.  If that's doable my thought is that
> we
> >>> could promote it to our campus, to the local community, and also to
> other
> >>> universities in Georgia.  We have plenty of space on campus to host the
> >>> event plus we have a variety of food options on campus with many more a
> >>> short distance away.  I would be very open to topic suggestions but
> would
> >>> be particularly interested in the following:
> >>>
> >>>    - anything geared towards current Windows admins / users who what to
> >>>    know more about the world of Linux and CentOS in particular. This
> >> could be
> >>>    particularly timely since Windows XP is approching it end of
> support.
> >>>    - Puppet and other DevOps kind of things
> >>>    - how the CentOS project works at a technical level
> >>>    - anything geared towards current Computer Science or Management
> >>>    Information Systems students
> >>>    - anything about how public sector organizations such as
> universities
> >>>    can support and promote CentOS and Linux in general
> >>>
> >>> These are just some ideas that I hope will spark more interest.  I have
> >> no
> >>> idea if others in this area are on this mailing list or not so I am
> sort
> >> of
> >>> expecting that I will have to post this elsewhere for it to be seen by
> >> many
> >>> who would be interested in attending.  We have the most space available
> >>> during the summer but could most likely make this work any time of the
> >>> year.  It would just depend on the room requirements and what else was
> >>> already scheduled to be happening on campus.
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >> Sounds good so far! Are there some local folks who would be willing to
> >> present, or people that you (or we) could reach out to?
> >>
> >> I'm reasonably familiar with the GA area and would be happy to help
> >> facilitate/attend this one from a CentOS perspective.
> >>
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