<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;"><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div><a title="Issues" class="dashboard-shortcuts-issues" href="https://gitlab.com/dashboard/issues?assignee_username=hlwillson" target="_blank"><span class="badge badge-pill issues-count"></span></a><div class="layout-page page-with-contextual-sidebar page-with-icon-sidebar"><div class="content-wrapper"><div class=" "><div class="content" id="content-body"><div class="container-fluid container-limited"><div class="tree-holder" id="tree-holder"><div class="blob-content-holder" id="blob-content-holder"><div class="blob-viewer"><div class="blob-viewer"><div class="file-content md wiki"><h1 dir="auto">Upcoming Events</h1><p dir="auto" style="margin: 0px;">Would you rather view the Upcoming Events in your browser? <a href="https://gitlab.com/sofreeus/sofreeus/blob/master/upcoming-events.md" target="_blank">Click here</a>!</p><h2 dir="auto">Highlights</h2><ul dir="auto"><li>What an AMAZING class Intro to DevOps was! We were given obstacles to overcome and were blessed to be able to overcome them all! A SHOUT OUT to our students, teachers, and board members that stepped up!</li><li>Thanks to our Community Scholarship Partners, ASG and Apex Systems, 7 students got scholarships for Intro to DevOps this Saturday! Cool!</li><li>We do on-site, custom classes. Just ask <a href="mailto:Captains@SoFree.Us" target="_blank">Captains@SoFree.Us</a>.</li><li>Got a passion for something free-libre and want to share it? <a href="https://gitlab.com/sofreeus/sofreeus/master/lists.sofree.us/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sfs-teachers" target="_blank">Join the Teachers ML</a><br></li></ul><h2 dir="auto"><span style="font-size: medium;">Special Discount to SFS Members for the Open Infrastructure Summit</span></h2><p dir="auto" style="margin: 0px;">OpenStack Foundation is offering a 15% off special discount to SFS Members for their Open Infrastructure Summit!</p><p dir="auto" style="margin: 0px;"><br></p><p dir="auto" style="margin: 0px;">The Open Infrastructure Summit will take place on April 29-May 1 in Denver, Colorado. The Summit schedule should be posted TODAY! There will be over 300 sessions and workshops on Container Infrastructure, CI/CD, Telecom + NFV, Public Cloud, Private & Hybrid Cloud, Security and members of open source communities like Airship, Ansible, Ceph, Docker, Kata Containers, Kubernetes, ONAP, OpenStack, Open vSwitch, OPNFV, StarlingX, Zuul and more.</p><p dir="auto" style="margin: 0px;"><br></p><p dir="auto" style="margin: 0px;">The discounted registration code: USERGROUP_15. Please note that this 15% off discount code is available until April 27. </p><p dir="auto" style="margin: 0px;">Meetup group members can apply that discount here: <a href="https://openinfrasummitandptgdenver.eventbrite.com/?aff=DenverSummit%20/?aff=Denver-h&_ga=2.107529666.1385338873.1549896703-61533541.1515512744" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">https://openinfrasummitandptgdenver.eventbrite.com/?aff=DenverSummit%20/?aff=Denver-h&_ga=2.107529666.1385338873.1549896703-61533541.1515512744</a><br></p><h2 dir="auto"><span style="font-size: medium;">Learn more about the Open Infrastructure Summit Denver here: <a href="https://www.openstack.org/summit/denver-2019" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">https://www.openstack.org/summit/denver-2019</a></span><br></h2><h2 dir="auto">AGHI2 Docker with Duncan</h2><p dir="auto" style="margin: 0px;">There is still room in this class! Duncan is one of our very best teachers. His well-paced, methodical delivery of Docker fundamentals will have you and your partner learning more and stressing less.</p><p dir="auto" style="margin: 0px;">This is part 1 of a 3-part series. Duncan will continue with Kubernetes on 4/20 and Helm sometime in June.</p><p dir="auto" style="margin: 0px;">Saturday, March 2nd 8:30am - 1PM MST at Code</p><p dir="auto" style="margin: 0px;"><a href="https://www.meetup.com/sofreeus/events/258870303" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">RSVP Here</a><br></p><h2 dir="auto">AGHI2 GitLab and GitLab.com</h2><p dir="auto" style="margin: 0px;">During this gentle, hands-on introduction to GitLab We'll create pretend products (probably cheese sandwiches or pies). We'll create product teams. We'll iterate on our pretend products so quickly that our BitBucket/GitHub using competition will be driven into financial distress and then we will poach their developers. Muhhahah! And a whole lot more....</p><p dir="auto" style="margin: 0px;">Saturday, May 4th 9AM - 1PM MST at Code Talent</p><p dir="auto" style="margin: 0px;"><a href="https://www.meetup.com/sofreeus/events/257902517/" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">RSVP Here</a><br></p><h2 dir="auto">Events In-planning</h2><p dir="auto" style="margin: 0px;">You can't RSVP to these yet.</p><ul dir="auto"><li>3/14 Pipelines for Pi Day with David L. Willson - DevOps, CI/CD, GitLab</li><li>3/16 Small is Beautiful - a buffet of brilliant little sessions in celebration of Stallman's birthday<ul><li>Sed or Awk is a programming language! with Rich</li><li>Containers from scratch with Go! with Derek</li><li>ZFS with Shawn, a.k.a. RedMop</li></ul></li><li>4/6 Python 201 WE NEED A TEACHER!</li><li>4/20 AGHI2 Kubernetes with Duncan</li></ul><p dir="auto" style="margin: 0px;">If you don't see what you want, make a wish! The <a href="mailto:captains@sofree.us" target="_blank">captains@sofree.us</a> love requests!</p><h2 dir="auto">Reminders</h2><ul dir="auto"><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.</li><li>Come hang out with us in <a href="https://mm.sofree.us/sfs-team/channels/town-square" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Mattermost</a>!</li></ul></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><input type="file" class="dz-hidden-input" style="visibility: hidden; position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; height: 0px; width: 0px;"></div><div><br></div><div><span></span><div>Heather L. 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