[CentOS-promo] CentOS Dojo in Carrollton, GA

Tue May 20 17:06:03 UTC 2014

On 03/08/2014 01:54 PM, Gene Liverman wrote:
> 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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Seems I've overlooked this thread for quite a while. I apologize. Given
that we're well into May now, perhaps we should look at targeting the
fall quarter/semester. Would mid-to-late September be acceptable?

Topics should be technical, and past examples of successful talks have
been along the lines of 'Getting started with Infiniband', various talks
on lifecycle and deployment strategies, performance tuning, and various
'cloud' bits such as openstack, IAAS, PAAS, etc.

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> On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 1:42 PM, Jim Perrin <jperrin at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> 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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>>> On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 11:01 AM, Jim Perrin <jperrin at centos.org> wrote:
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>>>> 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.
>>>>>
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>>>> 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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