Re: [hobbit] Hobbit being taught in college syadmin courses!

[Rich Smrcina <rsmrcina (at) wi.rr.com>]

I've been thumping Hobbit at System z (Mainframe, Big Iron) conferences 
for at least 4 years now.  The next one is in Orlando in three weeks.

Charles Jones wrote:
> I'm happy to report that last week I was a guest speaker at MCC (Mesa 
> Community College), located in Mesa, Arizona.  The class was CIS240DL - 
> Linux Network Administration. During the 4 hour class, I gave a complete 
> presentation on Hobbit, and the instructor and I helped the students 
> install their own Hobbit servers and configure them to monitor services 
> both on the server and some remote clients.  We had a couple of snags as 
> all the workstations were CentOS, so we had to perform a few extra steps 
> to get the prereqs, and battle SELinux :-)
>
> It seemed to go very well, and the students seemed impressed and pleased 
> with Hobbit.  I think I may have even converted one experienced student 
> who seemed to prefer Zabbix :)
>
> The instructor seemed to enjoy the presentation as well, and it looks 
> like I will also be invited to a repeat performance for the CIS238DL 
> Linux System Administration class.  He has also invited me to speak 
> about Hobbit at the local LUG.
>
> So, just reporting that Hobbit is getting lots of exposure here in 
> Arizona!  _Henrik, I hope you don't mind, but for my presentation I used 
> the slides you have up on your site as a framework_. I made sure to 
> credit you as not only the main author of Hobbit but as the source of 
> the slides :)
>
> I encourage others to evangelize Hobbit wherever they can. In my 
> experience a lot of people have not heard of it, and once they see it 
> they are like "wow" and want to start using it.  The more the community 
> grows, the better our chance of getting acceptance to the various 
> distros, and more volunteers to help contribute code and ideas to help 
> Henrik out.
>
> -Charles

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