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CentOS has started a new series of one day conferences. The second CentOS Dojo is taking place in Scottsdale this Friday. Karanbir Singh is in town to lead the conference.

Scheduled talks cover topics such as Logstash ( scalable log management and searching ), Sensu ( scalable monitoring framework ), CentOS Linux kernel tuning, high volume metrics collection, CentOS and Xen virtualization, ARM architecture servers and SSH.

As has been announced at the last couple of meetings and refernced in posts to PLUG-discuss, we are restarting the planning committee. If you are interested in helping drive PLUG, please join the mailing list. It would be helpful if you can also join the meetings, but that is not required.

PLUG exists only because volunteers work to get things done. This is an open invitation to participate.

As before, the PLUG planning committee is open to anyone who wants to help PLUG. Be prepared to volunteer as it is a working committee.

PLUG-planning mailing list:

On any given weekend, the best pub in the Phoenix metro area is whereever the Keltic Cowboys are playing. This weekend the lucky pub is Fibber Magees, a fine pub even when the Keltic Cowboys aren't playing. Last week it was the Tempe Oktoberfest, as funny as that sounds :). The week before it was Rosie's, also a nice pub for any occassion.

ANNOUNCEMENT: Job Night @ Stammtisch! The Free Software Stammtisch is hosting a job night at this coming east valley event on Tuesday, 2012Oct16. The goal is to bring in engineers and managers from groups that are hiring in addition to job seekers and recruiters. For technical positions it's much better to talk directly to the team that is hiring.

Added several modules to my shell scripting class tonight. Added a couple that had been recently been created. Also added a couple I created tonight. Good work on a couple others as well, but they're not yet going online. Working on a lab exercise now. It should be available for tomorrow.

Happy, happy Pi Day. Maybe a Raspberry Pi Day.

ABLEconf has added half-price registration for students. Students will need to show a current, valid student ID at checkin at the Saturday, March 24th, technology and business conference.

SCaLE 10x was a grand time. Thanks to all of the volunteers that make it happen every year for us! SCaLE adds new things and puts on a very organized, successful experience every year. The volunteers who make it happen are amazing.

Actually, it's not so much that the Wikipedia blackout is easily circumvented as that it can take effort to see it. To see the blackout required allowing 3 ( maybe 4 ) domains to provide javascript. No javascript gives a message about the blackout and about SOPA/PIPA and the normal english site full of functional articles and links.

SCaLE has once again accepted one of my talk proposals. This year they've tagged me to talk about Nginx.