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We had a small group tonight. When I say small I mean really small. All of three people.

We had the normal trivia exchange and then got to a more serious topic - what kind of skill set do you need to be a sysadmin? This could be a topic for a future meeting. Perhaps some kind of skills assessment from everyone? I think I’ll wait and see who comments/brings it up again.

It’s been a little hectic around here lately, new organizations to join, conferences to attend, lawns to mow and course material to prepare. That’s in addition to my day job. As a result (and due to running out of disc space), it’s taken some time to get at the audio from the conference.

This is the first one I have converted - the keynote address. Others will follow this week. I’m also working on the videos, but that takes a lot longer.

Well, it can be. Everyone knows the love affair I’ve been having with my macbook, so it’s no surprise that I used it to create a podcast of the keynote from BSDCan 2007. If anyone wants to listen, it’s at my other blog site. Since it’s a streamable/downloadable item, the bandwidth usage may get high and since they provide free bandwidth, why not use theirs?

I have a lot more to produce, so I think I’ll be automating the production a bit and see what happens. At worst, I have to do it manually but if it works, they could conceivably all be created over night. That’s a task for a different day though.

We have a change of venue this month. Brenda is off to Scotland for a vacation, so we don’t have a sponsor at Fidus. I’ll see what I can come up with, but we can always go to a Tim Horton location - there will be coffee :)

Topics:

• Bruce may want to talk about his Postfix adventures.
• I’ll have a podcast or two from BSDCan 2007 available.
• I’ll probably want to talk about the LPI course Andrea and I are giving at the OTI.
• I’ve joined the Ottawa chapter of the Disaster Recovery Information Exchange and that’s given me some serious food for thought. I’ll see if I can dig up some of the info from the annual conference that was held May 31.
• We can talk about a group education effort - we’ll start borrowing the format from other groups and give a short talk and discussion. Everyone should pick a topic that they want to learn about or want to present on. I know we have a lot of expertise in may areas in the group and we should start using it.