[SGVLUG] Meeting Recap 01/08: Red Hat and Open Shift

[juanslayton @dslextreme.com]

 "Turnout was 30-odd people"

I saw a few normal ones, too.
: > )

On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 8:40 AM, Lan Dang <l.dang at ymail.com> wrote:

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> tl;dr Turnout was 30-odd people.  Very cool Red Hat and Open Shift talk by
> Albert Wong.  It was recorded and will be up on Youtube once edited.  Red
> Hat picked up dinner tab.
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>
> SCALE is coming up in February; discount code is SGVLG.  SCALE volunteers
> wanted; contact me (Lan).  SGVLUG and SGVHAK will have a booth at SCALE.
> We want to make cheatsheet mugs ala Mug of Vi, to be made by LUG/HAK
> members at Tux-Lab. SCALE discussion to be continued at next week's SGVHAK
> meeting, which is a joint meetup with Hackaday Projects at the
> still-unfinished Hackaday Space.
>
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> DINNER
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> We were very surprised to get to Burger Continental and hear that someone
> had already  called in an order for 15 people.  It turned out that Red Hat
> was generously footing our dinner tab.
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> I counted a little over 30 people at dinner last night, including several
> new faces.  Another Red Hat employee, Michael Rice, was there and offered
> to help line up speakers.
>
> NOTE: We still don't get wifi in that room at Burger Continental.  Some
> people were hitching off the Winchell wifi.   I guess others were just
> using mobile tethering.
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> Red Hat and Open Shift
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> Wow.  Red Hat rep Albert Wong blew me away both with his talk and Red
> Hat's generosity in picking up the dinner bill.  I am sure that Burger
> Continental was -very- happy on Thursday night.
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> Albert took the time to survey the entire crowd to see what people would
> be interested in hearing about, and I think he did an excellent job of
> speaking at a high enough level and entertainingly enough for most people
> to follow along.  There is a real danger of people tuning out when a talk
> gets too technical when they are not using that particular technology. One
> of my favorite analogies was when he talked about switching from treating
> servers as pets to treating them as cows on a farm.
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> If you missed it, we did record the talk, and it's in the process of being
> edited.  We'll post to the mailing list and Meetup once the video is
> available, or you can subscribe to our Youtube channel.
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> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8aQduFy7VNKpu9u2qrBdUA/feed
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