<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'><span>April 7th, dammit. APRIL. Not 3/7. April 7th. Jeesh, me.<br><br><span name="x"></span>--<br>David L. Willson<br>Trainer, Engineer, Enthusiast<br>RHCE Network+ A+ Linux+ LPIC-1 Ubuntu<br>Mobile 720-333-LANS(5267)<br><br>This is a good time for a r3volution.<span name="x"></span><br></span><br><hr id="zwchr"><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255);margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><style>p { margin: 0; }</style><div style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><span>Somebody, please forward this to the Pythoneers.<br>Kevin, please distribute in your Meetup group, if appropriate.<br>All, please forward anywhere as you see fit.<br><br>I'm creating a new group. Chris Brunning is helping, for starts. Presently, the name of the group is the "Software Freedom Society".<br><br>This group will be about hanging out, teaching other free software, and giving to worthy works. Oh, and energetically resisting and correcting the erosion of our freedom, especially with regard to software. Gotta fight the powah.<br><br>The first offering will be a Python class on Saturday, 3/7, from 10AM to 5PM.<br><br></span><span id="1db0e1d5-cb88-49a4-8e2f-e90f3b6109a8">Tentatively, the 2nd offering will be a Blender class on Saturday, 3/21, also from 10AM to 5PM.<br>
</span><br><span id="1db0e1d5-cb88-49a4-8e2f-e90f3b6109a8">I hope both classes will be at DenHac, but I'm not sure yet.<br><br>Both classes will be "free as in speech" but please give a gift of treasure, talent, and/or time. Leeches OFF.<br><br>Beginners and Helpers wanted:<br></span><ul><li><span id="1db0e1d5-cb88-49a4-8e2f-e90f3b6109a8">Hands-on-learning-lab leaders for perl, c#/mono, puppet, nagios, libreoffice macros, postgresql, bash, zsh, html5, apache, php, clustery, bind...</span></li><li><span id="1db0e1d5-cb88-49a4-8e2f-e90f3b6109a8">Passionate ragers for a good-old-fashioned fistfi-- er, panel discussion of BSD vs GPL.</span></li><li><span id="1db0e1d5-cb88-49a4-8e2f-e90f3b6109a8">And last, I'd like to throw a Hugh Jass party in September for Software Freedom Day 2012. I need help with planning and creating.</span></li></ul><p>I'm paying the bills, so for now, I make the rules. And for now, there really aren't any.</p><p><br></p><span id="1db0e1d5-cb88-49a4-8e2f-e90f3b6109a8"><span></span>--<br>David L. Willson<br>Trainer, Engineer, Enthusiast<br>RHCE Network+ A+ Linux+ LPIC-1 Ubuntu<br>Mobile 720-333-LANS(5267)<br><br>This is a good time for a r3volution.<span></span><br></span><br></div></blockquote><br></div></body></html>