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[jonnyX]

Source: https://www.meetup.com/Nashville-Linux-Users-Group/events/235276159/

It's time for NLUG elections! Only one candidate for each office was nominated last month, so unless something interesting/unexpected/weird happens your officers for the next year will probably be:

President: Dru Myers

Vice President: Vincent Brown

Secretary: Howard White

Treasurer: John Eldredge

Training Director: John O'Malley

As membership continues to slowly increase, we might want to look into adding a Social Media Director and an Infrastructure Director (ahem, "website," cough), possibly even subgroups under these directors so no one person is tasked with all things training related, or social media related, or infrastructure related, etc.

Installfest - We're meeting brewmaster and former NLUG president Sean Jewett at the East Nashville Brew Works a couple of hours before the NLUG meeting. If all goes well at ENBW, we'll announce our next installfest at the NLUG meeting & online (Saturday, May 27th, hours TBD). Focus will be on installing & configuring CentOS7 ahead of the planned June-August Linux+/LPIC-1/CentOS7 certification study sessions.

Study Sessions for the Linux+/LPIC-1/CentOS7 Certification - Still tentatively planned for the 1st and 3rd Saturday of each month, June - August. Details here:

https://www.meetup.com/Nashville-Linux-Users-Group/messages/80025762/

Please let us know (via email, private message, carrier pigeon, etc.) if you would attend so I can get a rough headcount to the Nashville Technology Center by Wednesday afternoon.

Other tenuous projects:

Skillset documentation, ie - "screencasts tutorials of Linux/FOSS stuff you're good at so we'll have content we can share with other NLUG members and the world at large via our currently empty YouTube channel."

Trying to get clarification on SB1215, which passed both houses of the state legislature on April 12th & was signed into law by the Governor on April 24th. Are we still giving $45 million state taxpayer dollars to AT&T and Comcast, so they can continue to *not* provide the rest of Tennessee what residents of Chattanooga enjoy, ie - the fastest and cheapest gigabit internet access in the US? Has the statewide ban on electric coops providing net access (like Chattanooga's EPB) finally been lifted? Fast, cheap, good - do we finally get all three, or will two of the most hated corporations in the US (AT&T and Comcast)  manage to maintain their monopolies and keep sticking us with overpriced craptacular service? Inquiring minds want to know! More info:

http://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/BillInfo/Default.aspx?BillNumber=SB1215&ga=110

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/chattanooga-gigabit-fiber-network

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/tennessee-could-give-taxpayers-americas-fastest-internet-for-free-but-it-will-give-comcast-and-atandt-dollar45-million-instead

2018 is an election year...

~~D/jX

[Howard White]

Uhhhhh,

President: Dru Myers
Vice President: Vincent Brown

Secretary: John Eldredge
Treasurer: Howard White

Training Director: John O'Malley

Howard

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[John F. Eldredge]

Yes, Howard has it correct. I am continuing as Secretary.

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[jonnyX]

> Secretary: John Eldredge 

> Treasurer: Howard White 

Caffeine deprivation is an ugly thing.

~~D/jX

[John F. Eldredge]

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