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. > > > > > > -- > *Gene Liverman* > Systems Administrator > Information Technology Services > University of West Georgia > gliverma at westga.edu > 678.839.5492 > > ITS: Making Technology Work for You! > > > > > > 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. >> >> -- >> Jim Perrin >> The CentOS Project | http://www.centos.org >> twitter: @BitIntegrity | GPG Key: FA09AD77 >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS-promo mailing list >> CentOS-promo at centos.org >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-promo >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-promo mailing list > CentOS-promo at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-promo >