For anyone who is interested, LOPSA is almost at their recruiting target. We have three LOPSA members that I am aware of, so if we could manage 2 more, ovsage would have a whopping 1% of the target membership :) Sign up at http://www.lopsa.org The following is a letter sent to the existing community. Dear LOPSA members, May has 41 days this year! Response to May Membership Month has been active.

I had promised to post the link to cisco’s free training. You can find it at: http://www.cisco.com/web/learning/le31/le46/learning_customer_e-learning_connection_tool_launch.html This is a complement to the official training

May Meeting, Tim hortons on Carling and March next to the Lone Star Topics: BSD Canada 2006 OSW (Open Source Weekend) Sorry for the late posting, I forgot I hadn’t taken care of it before the conference last week.

This is posted from the OSW mailing list, with a few edits for readability. Yes, I’m confirming that Free Culture Carleton will be involved in the May 14th [OSW event. I’ll give details about our presentation(s) on the wiki. I’m interested in doing a talk about Creative Commons, self-publishing media, and the iCommons summit. Someone I know may do a presentation on Linux audio software. Please pass the wiki password to me and I will put the details up there.

Time for another meeting. This will probably be our last meeting at Altera, as Kelly will be finishing up there in mid May. I’ll have to look for a new location, so it may be a Tim Hortons for a while and then possibly a community center or some such ilk. As for topics, how about data center practices? I’ve been attempting to trace cabling on and off for the past couple of weeks and it drove home how much better BNR had managed their data centers.