<html><body><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;" data-mce-style="color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000" data-mce-style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;"><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;" data-mce-style="color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000" data-mce-style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;"><div>Hi Friends!</div><div><br>I hope you've had a great week! Last week was wonderful for SFS - we got a LOT done! Silvia Briscoe and Anthony Sayre gave an amazing talk on "What is DevOps and Why Does it Matter?" </div><div>Here's the link if you'd like to see pictures ... <span class="Object-hover" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT1276_com_zimbra_url"><a target="_blank" href="https://nextcloud.sofree.us/index.php/s/Sdk1UCr1CBHfYek" data-mce-href="https://nextcloud.sofree.us/index.php/s/Sdk1UCr1CBHfYek">https://nextcloud.sofree.us/index.php/s/Sdk1UCr1CBHfYek</a></span><br><div><br></div></div><div>Thank you to <em>Women Who Code</em> for their hospitality! They are hosting us again on May 2nd (see below) to talk about Ansible! <strong></strong><br></div><div><br></div><div>Mike Shoup gave a ROCKIN' Ansible class in the Comfy Room on Saturday to an almost sold out room! We had 15 students and I'd like to thank you ALL for providing feedback (either written or electronic). It made my heart sing!<br></div><div><br></div><div>We had our monthly Board Meeting and are continuing to move our efforts to the community. We would really like YOUR help to get into companies to provide classes! Please reach out to me for any ideas, leads, etc.<br></div><div><br>Enjoy your week and we'll talk soon!<br></div><div><br></div><div><u><strong>Upcoming Events</strong></u><br><div><br></div>Would you rather view the Upcoming Events in your browser? <a href="https://gitlab.com/sofreeus/sofreeus/blob/master/upcoming-events.md" target="_blank" data-mce-href="https://gitlab.com/sofreeus/sofreeus/blob/master/upcoming-events.md">Click here</a>!<br><div><br></div><br><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Highlights</span><br></strong><ul><li>DevOps Camp has 4 days (8/25 - 8/28), 4 students, 8 open bunks, 2 teachers, 1 world-class chef, 6 objectives, and 1 flier!</li><li>Bash Programming class is FULL!How about an full day or multi-day SFS class, at your corporate location? We would love to deliver a class specifically for you and your co-workers. Reach out to Heather to put together a proposal! hlwillson@sofree.us or 303-229-3633</li></ul></div><div><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>DevOps Days</strong></span><br><div><br></div>Tons of DevOps techniques and tools talks<br>Not an SFS event, but lots of us will be attending it.<br>7:30am - 5:30pm Tuesday, Apr 17th - Wednesday, Apr 18<br><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/devopsdays-denver-2018-tickets-41297850984?aff=dodorg" target="_blank" data-mce-href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/devopsdays-denver-2018-tickets-41297850984?aff=dodorg">EventBrite Tickets</a><br><div><br></div><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>IT-NTL - Microservices and Container Management w/ Red Hat and Moonsault</strong></span><br><div><br></div>Thursday, April 19, 2018<br>3:00 PM to 5:00 PM<br>at The Alliance Center (a big name for what's actually a nice little spot on Wynkoop)<br><div><br></div>We'll have David and Silvia from SFS, folks from Denver Microservices Meetup, and Red Hat Users Group.<br>And we'll probably have a few folks from Women Who Code Meetup, as well as Elaine Moreno from Equili organizer of Lady Coders Conference.<br><div><br></div>The keynote speaker will be Travis Nelson of Moonsault Consulting who will cover the basics of microservices and demo aspects of front-end management. He's a friend of Aaron Brown's of SFS (thanks for introducing us Aaron).2nd speaker will be Jim Garrett of Red Hat who will talk about how Openshift container platform supports microservices infrastructure.<br><div><a href="https://www.meetup.com/it-ntl/events/249136724/" target="_blank" data-mce-href="https://www.meetup.com/it-ntl/events/249136724/">IT-NTL meetup <br></a><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Bash Programming - this class is FULL</strong></span><br><div><br></div>Learn Bash programming by solving small, realistic problems that are well-suited to bash. An Example Session ran on Wednesday, March 14th, Pi Day 2018<br>Starts Wednesday, April 18th at 7PM, and runs once a week, for 4 weeks<br>online (BigBlueButton or Zoom)<br>by David L. Willson<br><a href="https://www.meetup.com/sofreeus/events/gqdnmpyxgbxb" target="_blank" data-mce-href="https://www.meetup.com/sofreeus/events/gqdnmpyxgbxb">SFS Meetup</a><br><div><br></div><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>WWC: Ansible Workshop</strong></span><br><div><br></div>Silvia Briscoe and Anthony will be speaking at Women Who Code<br>Ansible Workshop - May 2nd at 6:00P @ Sendgrid in Denver<br><a href="https://www.meetup.com/Women-Who-Code-Boulder-Denver/events/qxbfkpyxhbdb/" target="_blank" data-mce-href="https://www.meetup.com/Women-Who-Code-Boulder-Denver/events/qxbfkpyxhbdb/">WWC Meetup</a><br><div><br></div><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Piper Computer Kit</strong></span><br><div><br></div>Let's build. No admission without a kid. Being childish is not enough.<br>9AM Saturday, May 5th<br>at SFS HQ (The Comfy Room)<br>by David L. Willson<br><a href="https://www.meetup.com/sofreeus/events/247992528/" target="_blank" data-mce-href="https://www.meetup.com/sofreeus/events/247992528/">SFS Meetup</a><br><div><br></div><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>DevOps Camp</strong></span><br><div><br></div>You could be a Dev Ops Hero (with stars in your eyes)<br>9AM Saturday, August 25th - 6PM Tuesday, August 28th<br>at Snow Mountain Ranch<br>by Aaron Brown and David L. Willson<br><a href="https://www.meetup.com/sofreeus/events/248266974" target="_blank" data-mce-href="https://www.meetup.com/sofreeus/events/248266974">SFS Meetup</a><br><div><br></div><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Reminders</strong></span><ul style="list-style-type: disc;" data-mce-style="list-style-type: disc;"><li>We are lifelong learners. Please share learning opportunities, even if they're not produced by SFS.</li><li>We are friends. You can post just about anything, but if it doesn't have to do with learning free-libre software, stick an "OT:" in front of it.</li><li>We are professionals (when we must be). Please post your help wanted and job wanted here, on the SFS distribution list.</li><li>We hang out in <a href="https://mattermost.sofree.us/signup_user_complete/?id=yxm5sbjra7gsmkaj19ut3w6qgr" target="_blank" data-mce-href="https://mattermost.sofree.us/signup_user_complete/?id=yxm5sbjra7gsmkaj19ut3w6qgr">Mattermost</a>.</li></ul></div></div></div><div><br></div></div></div><div><br></div></div></body></html>