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

[Adam Monsen]

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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