Reach out to guest speakers for special topics about tasks

[mattBernius]

Hey, I'm happy to help.

Currently there are three official local Mozillians (I'm unofficial). I can connect you with John Karahalis who is an RIT grad and was part of some of the early Open Source activities on campus along side Remy.

[Nolski]

@jflory7 lonnen was my manager at mozilla. He's been around for quite a while and im sure has at least a few open source stories to tell. Even just hearing about the lesser known stories about mozilla would be cool. His email is [email protected] I think. Github is https://github.com/lonnen/

[mattBernius]

Let me know if you decide to pursue lonnen. Between Justin and I I think we could definitely nicely ask Mozilla for some assistance with that.

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[jwflory]

@thenaterhood Feel free to let us know which dates work for you here on the neutrality talk!

[axk4545]

Also Carmen Andoh of Travis CI

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On Aug 17, 2017 2:09 AM, "Justin W. Flory" ***@***.***> wrote: Summary There's a lot of great speakers in the Rochester area or people who might be willing to travel to come out and speak. Let's try to have some interesting guest speakers this semester! Explanation I have a better understanding than before on how expansive the network of talented tech people around Rochester is. While I don't think we're at a place where we could try to attract speakers by covering travel costs, I think there's a small radius of people that we could reach out to for various topics, and if they do need to travel, it would hopefully be a drivable distance or line up with a pre-planned trip to Rochester. Current candidates There's a few people I had lined up for inviting as guest speakers depending on their availability. Some I have pinned for special topics, others it depends on what they would want to talk about. - Charles Profitt (*Linux / Ubuntu / Fedora / general sysadmin*) - Remy DeCausemaker (*Open source at Twitter*) - Ryan S. Brown (*Ansible*) - InfluxData <https://influxdata.com/> (have some leads I want to follow up there) - Local Mozillians (maybe @Nolski <https://github.com/nolski> or @mattBernius <https://github.com/mattbernius> could help with this) - Nextcloud (remote speakers?) - Arch Women (possible speakers in the area) For the people I have names for, I want to send invites out after the first week of the semester, when we have time to figure things out a bit on the ground. For now, this is a low priority ticket, but later, it will become high priority so we can try to figure out peoples' schedules. — You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#6>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ADUyLKBA3C5S3io3AY7kl7Qg5CmLZ3C0ks5sY-dEgaJpZM4O53Mv> .

[jwflory]

@RITlug/eboard: I just got word that @bacharakis from Mozilla is going to be swinging by Rochester on Sept. 22nd! Ideally, we could have him do a guest session once I hear more about ideas he would like to present on.

[jwflory]

@cprofitt was interested in speaking at RITlug this semester. More information to come.

[Nolski]

Wonder if lonnen would ever be around? He's a pretty cool dude and at mozilla iirc

[jwflory]

@Nolski That would be cool. What kind of subject areas would he be a good fit for? Do you have any contact info you could give us? If you do, feel free to zap it at [email protected]!

[jwflory]

@Nolski Amazing, thanks! I'll try reaching out to see if he's interested in giving a talk here.

[jwflory]

As an update: I've reached out to Charles Profitt and Ryan S. Brown (Ansible) for guest speaking. Charles will be present in December and will also return in spring for another talk. I haven't heard back from Ryan yet, but he acknowledged the email in IRC and said he'd get back with me.

Nobody has reached out to lonnen yet. It's on my list.

[jwflory]

I'm going to close this ticket with the end of the semester. While it's not technically "done", it also is a type of task that can never truly be done either. We'll focus on guest speaker outreach as we build our itinerary for next semester!