[Gloucs] Bristol MegaITMeet and future talk

[Paul Broadhead]

Andrew Ford wrote:

> The Bristol Meta IT Meet (http://bristol.itmegameet.co.uk/) is being 
> held at UWE on Saturday 1 June - a technical meet of the various
> groups in and around Bristol, from Python and Perl to LUGs and Women
> in Computing.  I have volunteered to give a talk - a shortened
> version of the RPM Packaging talk I gave to the group a while back.
> Talks are given on behalf of a group, so I am giving the talk on
> behalf of GLUG and will give a 5-10 minute spiel about the group
> before the technical part of the talk.

I went to the Mega IT Meet last year and enjoyed it.  Lots
of good technically detailed and inspiring stuff. Unfortunately, I will
not be able to attend this year. Good luck with the talk Andrew. 

> Secondly, while I was at the Open Source Data Center conference in 
> Nuremberg I attended a talk on "Chef" - a configuration management 
> system, similar to puppet.  The speaker it turns out is a technical 
> director of the opscode, the company behind the technology, and is
> from Stroud, and I asked him whether he would be willing to give a
> talk to our group.  He said yes, in a couple of months time.  Would
> people be interested in this?

Sounds great, I'd be interested.

Regards,
Paul