[HLUG] Software Freedom Day

[Matthew Macdonald-Wallace]

On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 20:26 +0100, Julian Robbins wrote:
> Hi everyone
> 
> Just an update on SFD. Haven't heard back about our space at All Saints but
> will (gently) ask them about it tomorrow.
> 
> I did however get my 25 Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Cd's today which look very smart
> indeed. These are actually for the LUG, and there should be more (about 50)
> for SFD itself.
> 
> But its another bit marked off now which is good.
> 
> How's it going for everyone else for SFD ?

I've been thinking about how I can best contribute to this and - if
others think it is worth it and can drum up the publicity (marketing is
not one of my strong points!) - I'd be more than happy to deliver a
seminar on large-scale (50 nodes or more) deployment of Linux Systems
using Puppet, Cobbler and Cucumber.

The ideal target audience for this would be schools, FE/HE Institutes,
councils and any organisation that deploys and manages over 50 servers
in a single datacentre.

Does anyone have any thoughts about whether this would be worth
presenting or not?

I'm planning to be at SFD all day anyway to man stalls/hand out CDs etc,
I just thought that it might be of interest to some local organisations
to see the power of Open Source (and the fact that you can easily deploy
an entire cluster of servers within an hour if you configure the systems
correctly!).

Kind regards,

Matt