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<div>Anyone interested in occasionally serving as a guest speaker to current/future entry-level computing/networking students enrolled at ITT Technical Institute? You would help provide direction and motivation on technical and/or other skills to concentrate on (things you look for in entry level IT workers and in employees generally, certifications you value, types of jobs you have a shortage of qualified applicants for, etc.). These forums typically take place around 6-8 PM and would probably have (combining different classes) 40-100 students attending each forum. This could also be an opportunity for you to solicit free and paid interns, get recognition for community support/involvement, etc. Let me know, and I will be glad to work with your schedule. Thanks in advance--please respond to me off-list directly at tgreid at <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://gmail.com/" target="_blank">gmail.com</a> .</div>
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<div>FYI for those interested in participating (supporting or learning), we have a couple of faculty who are starting up a "networking" club to meet every 2nd Sat at 1 PM (starting on Feb. 9) and want to concentrate on some basic IT certifications and related areas (ITT already has a substantial ongoing A+ certification program through the Electronics program). At the same dates/times, our current IT program chair already separately runs an open computer install/upgrade clinic (hardware, OSs, software, etc.). As you probably know from when NFLUG met at ITT (Mark, Rich, and others gave some great presentations here), the campus is pretty much open to the public while the doors are unlocked.<span></span> </div>
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<div>Alternatively, has anyone done any open source videoconferencing? What are you using? I have an adequate MacBook that I could use to try things out (whatever OS/distro/software, in a virtual machine if not within MacOS). Alternatively or in addition, if I were to come up with the hardware and whatever else, would anyone want to volunteer (for fun and/or recognition/thanks from the school) to set up a dedicate videoconferencing system for the school? (Looking for volunteer(s) because myself am overloaded!! ;-) ).</div>
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<div>Thanks,</div>
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<div>Tom</div>
<div>tgreid at <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://gmail.com/" target="_blank">gmail.com</a></div>