[BLU/Officers] [Discuss] potential presentation at BLU by Adam Monsen: Steadfast Self-Hosting

[John Abreau]

Great! Thanks, Adam. I'll add you to the BLU calendar.

We meet online using Jitsi Meet. URI for the meeting space is
https://meet.jit.si/blu.org

Can you send me a couple of short paragraphs describing your talk that I
can include in the calendar entry?



On Wed, Aug 14, 2024 at 10:26 PM Adam Monsen <info at selfhostbook.com> wrote:

> Yep! I can do Sep 18 at 6:30pm Eastern.
> On 8/14/24 17:00, Brendan Kidwell wrote:
>
> Hi Adam,
>
> As we discussed privately, I asked BLU about having you do a presentation
> and there is interest. Are you available on September 18? (6:30pm Boston
> time) If not, perhaps some time later this year.
>
> Brendan Kidwell
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 14, 2024, at 19:11, John Abreau wrote:
>
> Hi, Brendan.
>
> Yes, that would be an excellent topic for an upcoming meeting.
>
> We're currently looking for a speaker for our September 18 meeting. If
> Adam is available that day, that would be great. If he cannot do September
> 18, then November 20 and December 18 are available.
>
> Can you send me his contact info?
>
> The list for discussing upcoming meetings is "officers at blu.org". I've
> deleted discuss at blu.org from my reply and added officers at blu.org to the
> cc list.
>
> On Wed, Aug 14, 2024 at 5:02 PM Brendan Kidwell <brendan at glump.net> wrote:
>
> I don't see a lot of discussion on this list about future BLU meeting
> presentations, so I apologize if this isn't the right forum; please let me
> know if I should be discussing this privately with the club officers
> instead.
>
> ----
>
> A couple of months ago after seeing Adam Monsen present his
> work-in-progress at LibrePlanet, I contributed some effort to the final QA
> process for instructions in his book "Steadfast Self-Hosting" <
> https://selfhostbook.com >. The book is licensed under the Creative
> Commons License. In the text he lays out an argument that you should be
> hosting your software services at home instead of using Silicon Valley's
> free cloud services, and then he lays out his procedure for bootstrapping
> yourself with Ubuntu, Ansible, Docker, and his (freely-licensed) management
> scripts that he wrote for the book.
>
> Now he's doing a "book tour" of computer clubs, spreading the word about
> his book. Would BLU be interested in this presentation in the next few
> months?
>
> Brendan Kidwell
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