<html><body><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div><h1 data-sourcepos="1:1-1:17" dir="auto">Upcoming Events </h1><p data-sourcepos="3:1-3:141" dir="auto" style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-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" data-mce-href="https://gitlab.com/sofreeus/sofreeus/blob/master/upcoming-events.md">Click here</a>!</p><h2 data-sourcepos="6:1-6:13" dir="auto"><a id="user-content-highlights" class="anchor" href="#highlights" aria-hidden="true" data-mce-href="#highlights"></a>Highlights</h2><ul data-sourcepos="8:1-11:0" dir="auto"><li data-sourcepos="8:1-8:127">Thanks to Duncan Fedde for putting on a great Docker class. We rolled through his material at a good clip and finished early!</li><li data-sourcepos="9:1-9:61">We do on-site, custom classes. Just ask <a href="mailto:Captains@SoFree.Us" data-mce-href="mailto:Captains@SoFree.Us">Captains@SoFree.Us</a>.</li><li data-sourcepos="10:1-11:0">Got a passion for something free-libre and want to share it? <a href="/sofreeus/sofreeus/master/lists.sofree.us/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sfs-teachers" data-mce-href="/sofreeus/sofreeus/master/lists.sofree.us/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sfs-teachers">Join the Teachers ML</a></li></ul><h2 data-sourcepos="12:1-12:69" dir="auto"><a id="user-content-special-discount-to-sfs-members-for-the-open-infrastructure-summit" class="anchor" href="#special-discount-to-sfs-members-for-the-open-infrastructure-summit" aria-hidden="true" data-mce-href="#special-discount-to-sfs-members-for-the-open-infrastructure-summit"></a>Special Discount to SFS Members for the Open Infrastructure Summit</h2><p data-sourcepos="13:1-13:114" dir="auto" style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;">OpenStack Foundation is offering a 15% off special discount to SFS Members for their Open Infrastructure Summit!</p><p data-sourcepos="15:1-15:442" dir="auto" style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-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 data-sourcepos="17:1-17:315" dir="auto" style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;">The discounted registration code: USERGROUP_15. Please note that this 15% off discount code is available until April 27. 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" data-mce-href="https://openinfrasummitandptgdenver.eventbrite.com/?aff=DenverSummit%20/?aff=Denver-h&_ga=2.107529666.1385338873.1549896703-61533541.1515512744">https://openinfrasummitandptgdenver.eventbrite.com/?aff=DenverSummit%20/?aff=Denver-h&_ga=2.107529666.1385338873.1549896703-61533541.1515512744</a></p><h2 data-sourcepos="19:1-21:0" dir="auto"><a id="user-content-learn-more-about-the-open-infrastructure-summit-denver-here-httpswwwopenstackorgsummitdenver-2019" class="anchor" href="#learn-more-about-the-open-infrastructure-summit-denver-here-httpswwwopenstackorgsummitdenver-2019" aria-hidden="true" data-mce-href="#learn-more-about-the-open-infrastructure-summit-denver-here-httpswwwopenstackorgsummitdenver-2019"></a>Learn more about the Open Infrastructure Summit Denver here: <a href="https://www.openstack.org/summit/denver-2019" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" data-mce-href="https://www.openstack.org/summit/denver-2019">https://www.openstack.org/summit/denver-2019</a></h2><h2 data-sourcepos="22:1-22:23" dir="auto"><a id="user-content-small-is-beautiful-" class="anchor" href="#small-is-beautiful-" aria-hidden="true" data-mce-href="#small-is-beautiful-"></a>Small is Beautiful -</h2><h3 data-sourcepos="23:1-23:79" dir="auto"><a id="user-content-a-buffet-of-brilliant-little-sessions-in-celebration-of-stallmans-birthday" class="anchor" href="#a-buffet-of-brilliant-little-sessions-in-celebration-of-stallmans-birthday" aria-hidden="true" data-mce-href="#a-buffet-of-brilliant-little-sessions-in-celebration-of-stallmans-birthday"></a>A buffet of brilliant little sessions in celebration of Stallman's birthday</h3><p data-sourcepos="25:1-25:275" dir="auto" style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;">We're hosting a full day of short (up to an hour) lessons on a variety of free, open-source software in honor of the legendary Richard Stallman. This is the first of what we hope to be a quarterly event, to introduce new teachers and provide shorter SFS Method-style content.</p><p data-sourcepos="27:1-27:99" dir="auto" style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;">The lineup is packed with expert teachers and fantastic topics. Come for part, or stay for the day.</p><ul data-sourcepos="29:3-36:0" dir="auto"><li data-sourcepos="29:3-29:75">David L. Willson: Passages from the GNU Manifesto (22-minute talk only)</li><li data-sourcepos="30:3-30:48">Dr. Jeffrey S. Haemer: Git Branches and Tags</li><li data-sourcepos="31:3-31:39">Silvia: "Quick and Dirty Wireshark"</li><li data-sourcepos="32:3-32:67">Alex: "Kubernetes Certifications and You" (22-minute talk only)</li><li data-sourcepos="33:3-33:52">Rich: "JQ: Getting just what you want from JSON"</li><li data-sourcepos="34:3-34:48">Derek: "Containers from scratch with Golang"</li><li data-sourcepos="35:3-36:0">Shawn, a.k.a. RedMop: ZFS</li></ul><p data-sourcepos="37:1-39:7" dir="auto" style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;">Saturday, March 16th 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM MST (Come and go as you wish!) at Code</p><p data-sourcepos="41:1-41:62" dir="auto" style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;"><a href="https://www.meetup.com/sofreeus/events/259297394/" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" data-mce-href="https://www.meetup.com/sofreeus/events/259297394/">RSVP HERE</a></p><h2 data-sourcepos="43:1-43:30" dir="auto"><a id="user-content-aghi2-gitlab-and-gitlabcom" class="anchor" href="#aghi2-gitlab-and-gitlabcom" aria-hidden="true" data-mce-href="#aghi2-gitlab-and-gitlabcom"></a>AGHI2 GitLab and GitLab.com</h2><p data-sourcepos="45:1-49:24" dir="auto" style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-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 data-sourcepos="51:1-53:14" dir="auto" style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;">Saturday, May 4th 9AM - 1PM MST at Code Talent</p><p data-sourcepos="55:1-55:62" dir="auto" style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;"><a href="https://www.meetup.com/sofreeus/events/257902517/" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" data-mce-href="https://www.meetup.com/sofreeus/events/257902517/">RSVP Here</a></p><h2 data-sourcepos="59:1-59:21" dir="auto"><a id="user-content-events-in-planning" class="anchor" href="#events-in-planning" aria-hidden="true" data-mce-href="#events-in-planning"></a>Events In-planning</h2><p data-sourcepos="61:1-61:28" dir="auto" style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;">You can't RSVP to these yet.</p><ul data-sourcepos="63:1-68:0" dir="auto"><li data-sourcepos="63:1-63:73">3/14 Pipelines for Pi Day with David L. Willson - DevOps, CI/CD, GitLab</li><li data-sourcepos="64:1-64:44">4/6 Python 201 Python 201 with Aaron Brown</li><li data-sourcepos="65:1-65:35">4/20 AGHI2 Kubernetes with Duncan</li><li data-sourcepos="66:1-66:28">Intro To DevOps again! TBD</li><li data-sourcepos="67:1-68:0">Ansible by Alex Wise! TBD</li></ul><p data-sourcepos="69:1-69:82" dir="auto" style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;">If you don't see what you want, make a wish! The <a href="mailto:captains@sofree.us" data-mce-href="mailto:captains@sofree.us">captains@sofree.us</a> love requests!</p><h2 data-sourcepos="72:1-72:12" dir="auto"><a id="user-content-reminders" class="anchor" href="#reminders" aria-hidden="true" data-mce-href="#reminders"></a>Reminders</h2><ul data-sourcepos="74:1-77:92" dir="auto"><li data-sourcepos="74:1-74:101">We are lifelong learners. Please share learning opportunities, even if they're not produced by SFS.</li><li data-sourcepos="75:1-75:146">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 data-sourcepos="76:1-76:91">We are professionals (when we must be). Please post your help wanted and job wanted here.</li><li data-sourcepos="77:1-77:92">Come hang out with us in <a href="https://mm.sofree.us/sfs-team/channels/town-square" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" data-mce-href="https://mm.sofree.us/sfs-team/channels/town-square">Mattermost</a>!</li></ul></div></div></body></html>