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

[jeffrey.haemer at gmail.com]

No more than for any other Installfest.  Though I guess you could drop Clint
and Patrick a note, since they'll need a sense of how much pizza to order.

If it's a hit, we could put on a BLUG Installfest-in-the-Cloud #2. :-)

On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 9:47 AM, Will <will.sterling at gmail.com> wrote:

> Do we need to RSVP?
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> 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*
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>> 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>
>> 720-837-8908 [cell], http://seejeffrun.blogspot.com [blog],
>> http://www.youtube.com/user/goyishekop [vlog]
>> פרייהייט? דאס איז יאַנג דינען וואָרט.
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Jeffrey Haemer <jeffrey.haemer at gmail.com>
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http://www.youtube.com/user/goyishekop [vlog]
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