[lug] Announcing BLUG's first "Installfest-in-the-Cloud"

[Will]

Do we need to RSVP?

On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 9:21 AM, jeffrey.haemer at gmail.com <
jeffrey.haemer at gmail.com> wrote:

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> *BLUG Installfest-in-the-Cloud #1*
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> *Saturday, February 5, 10am-2pm, Aztek Networks, 2477 55th Street, Suite
> 202, Boulder, CO 80301*
>
> Walk in with a laptop/netbook/tablet. Walk out with a free Linux server,
> installed, running, and on the internet.
>
> You keep hearing about Cloud Computing. Come do it, hands-on. If you've
> already done it, come help.
>
> This will *not* be a talk. Nope. This is your chance to come in and fumble
> through setting up your Amazon Web Services (AWS) account and then launching
> your server in a room with a whole bunch of other folks who're doing the
> same thing. Wander in when you want, wander out when you're done. Or stick
> around to help someone else.
>
> TekSystems -- specifically, Patrick Homans and Clint Rubottom -- stepped up
> and volunteered to get us pizza. There really is such a thing as a free
> lunch.
>
> Aztek Networks is donating space. (Thanks, Daryl!) Dean Johnson, Aztek's
> SysAdmin, says he'll make sure we have a big enough pipe out to the
> internet. I believe him.
>
> The "Aha!" that what we really need is an Installfest comes from Rob
> Nagler, of bivio Software.
>
> Ben Whaley, of Unix and Linux System Administration Handbook fame, jumped
> in and says he'll supply the expertise.
>
> It's so easy your mom can do it; if she wants her own free, Cloud, Linux
> server, bring her along.
>
> Prerequisites:
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>    - a regular Amazon account (You must have bought *something* from
>    Amazon in your life, right?)
>    - a box you can bring up a browser on
>    - a way to run ssh on the same box
>
> If you need help with these, too, come anyway. Surely someone will be able
> to help you.
>
>
> --
> Jeffrey Haemer <jeffrey.haemer at gmail.com>
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