<div dir="ltr"><div>Great! Thanks, Adam. I'll add you to the BLU calendar. <br></div><div><br></div><div>We meet online using Jitsi Meet. URI for the meeting space is <a href="https://meet.jit.si/blu.org">https://meet.jit.si/blu.org</a> <br></div><div><br></div><div>Can you send me a couple of short paragraphs describing your talk that I can include in the calendar entry? <br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Aug 14, 2024 at 10:26 PM Adam Monsen <<a href="mailto:info@selfhostbook.com">info@selfhostbook.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><u></u>
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<p>Yep! I can do Sep 18 at 6:30pm Eastern.<br>
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<div>On 8/14/24 17:00, Brendan Kidwell
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<div>Hi Adam,<br>
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<div>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.<br>
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<div>Brendan Kidwell<br>
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<div>On Wed, Aug 14, 2024, at 19:11, John Abreau wrote:<br>
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<div>Yes, that would be an excellent topic for an upcoming
meeting.<br>
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<div>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.<br>
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<div>Can you send me his contact info?<br>
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<div>The list for discussing upcoming meetings is "<a href="mailto:officers@blu.org" target="_blank">officers@blu.org</a>". I've
deleted <a href="mailto:discuss@blu.org" target="_blank">discuss@blu.org</a>
from my reply and added <a href="mailto:officers@blu.org" target="_blank">officers@blu.org</a>
to the cc list.<br>
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<div dir="ltr">On Wed, Aug 14, 2024 at
5:02 PM Brendan Kidwell <<a href="mailto:brendan@glump.net" target="_blank">brendan@glump.net</a>>
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<div>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.<br>
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<div> 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" < <a href="https://selfhostbook.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://selfhostbook.com</a>
>. 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.<br>
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<div> 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?<br>
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<div> Brendan Kidwell<br>
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