Hello and Happy New Year to all Acadiana Open Source Group members! It's hard to believe that we're only a few meetings short of the first full year of AOS.
When the group first started, I had some time to devote to promotion and evangelism for it. Since then, however, that time has dwindled and these days I'm only able to do what it takes to continue having meetings: ensuring we have a facility and a speaker as well as announcements of meetings and other relevant information via the web site, Facebook, and Google.
I still want to see the group continue to grow and expands its membership, however, so I'm putting out this message in hopes that someone might be willing to step up and take on this position. It's a volunteer position and would only require as much time as you're willing to put into it. Here are potential duties involved:
- Maintaining a membership database, tracking attendance, and keeping in contact with members to increase awareness of interests related to group topics and activities
- Communicating with localized media sources such as (but not limited to) newspapers, TV stations, and online interest groups to raise awareness of the group
- Communicating with other user groups in the area for cross-group promotion and helping to organize combined group social events
- Locating and communicating with local businesses that use open source software to encourage their presence at group meetings and participation in other group activities
If you're interested or know of someone that might be (a marketing major at the university perhaps), please contact me. Thanks in advance for your help and I look forward to seeing you at the first meeting of the new year!
Brian Jones has created a Google Calendar with corresponding XML and iCal feeds that includes conferences and similar events dealing with open source technology around the United States. If you're looking to attend a conference, this is a great resource to find out what's out there.
Comit Technologies and iMed EMR Software are both in need of local PHP developers. Follow the link for either company to obtain contact information.
New editions of Ubuntu Desktop and Ubuntu Server saw release today. Desktop now supports 3G, running the OS from a USB drive, guest sessions, BBC content via its media players, and a GNOME update to 2.24. Server touts added virtualization support using JeOS, a full Java stack including Apache Tomcat 6.0 and OpenJDK, improved RAID support, encrypted private user directories, and simplified firewall configuration. Both are immediately available as free downloads.