[Gloucs] [OT (kind of)] ...but I'm not in London...

[Andrew Ford]

I would be interested in this too.  I could even host it occasionally - 
being 5 miles from junction 2 of the M50/ 10 miles north of Gloucester, 
i.e. right out in the sticks!

Andrew

CHANDRA FERNANDO wrote:
> Matthew!
>
>         Count me in: am a recent addition to Gloucester with an interest
> in protecting large systems so, the location is a essentially unimportant
> for my banger
>
> best wishes
>
> Chandra  BSc(Eng), PhD
>
> On 17/11/2010, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace <matthew at truthisfreedom.org.uk> wrote:
>   
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Firstly, please forgive the cross-posting, however I thought I'd try and
>> get this email out to as many people as possible.  On the other hand, if
>> you like this idea, please pass this email on to anyone else that you
>> feel might be interested!
>>
>> I'm currently having great fun exploring DevOps and other Systems
>> Administration methodologies and I'd love to be able to meet up with
>> other like-minded individuals (is this starting to feel a bit like a
>> personal ad??) to discuss best practice etc.  There are a huge number of
>> meetings like this in the major cities in the UK (esp. London), however
>> out here "in the sticks" there is very little!
>>
>> I was wondering if anyone that is interested would consider meeting on
>> an infrequent basis (perhaps once a quarter?) in a reasonably central
>> location between Hereford, Worcester, Gloucester, Malvern and South
>> Wales (I'm thinking that either Ross-on-Wye or Tewkesbury might be
>> suitable at the moment) to discuss how to install and run large-scale
>> Linux Systems.
>>
>> The meetings wouldn't be exclusive to SysAd's and our ilk, if people who
>> only really use Linux at home wanted to come along and learn a bit more,
>> I'd like to make them feel more than welcome.
>>
>> Let me know your thoughts, either on or off-list.
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> Matt
>> --
>> Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
>> matthew at truthisfreedom.org.uk
>> http://www.threedrunkensysadsonthe.net/
>>
>>
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