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

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