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The 2014 VM Workshop, June 26-28 2014 will be conducted at North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro NC The "Early Registration" deadline for guaranteed delivery of a free 2014 VM Workshop polo shirt (for regular attendees), T-shirt (for student attendees), and to order dorm room lodging, passed at 23:59 Friday May 30. You have one more chance to register before the final deadline for FREE STUFF passes at 23:59 PM this Wednesday, June 11. The remaining FREE STUFF is limited to two items: 1) admittance to the Thursday Evening Gala Reception and Banquet Dinner, and 2) an 'Aggie' debit card pre-loaded with $65 for food purchases in the campus cafeteria. Due to university ordering deadlines, any attendee registering after that time will probably not be able to receive either of these at the workshop. WHO: z/VM, and Linux on System z Friends WHAT: Location, travel, nearby hotels, travel hints, sponsor information, and registration details for the 2014 VM Workshop have all been posted to: http://www.vmworkshop.org/2014 Session agenda information will be available later this week. WHERE: North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro NC WHEN: SESSION DATES: From Thursday morning JUNE 26 until about 1PM EDT, Saturday JUNE 28. Choose from multiple concurrent presentations packed full of up-to-the-minute technical sessions for all expertise levels of z/VM, and Linux on System z, and from Hands-On Labs including: - z/VM 6.3.0 Installation or Migration (your choice), -'Linux on System z' Installation (SLES or Redhat, your choice), - Intro to REXX Wednesday June 25 is reserved for VM Workshop Volunteer Committee site preparation and lab setup, if you are interested in joining just send me an e-mail off-list asking to join. WHY: Previous VM Workshops have been referred to by the small-minded as: 'a large number of system programmers with some limited adult supervision' (do you really want to miss this!??). Expect another wonderful "up close and personal" workshop with great content and terrific camaraderie. Come to meet VM old-timers... and *future* z/VM old-timers while learning the latest technical z/VM and 'Linux on System z' details. Don't know where to start with Linux on System z? This is a great place to start! PRICE: STILL UNCHANGED from the previous three years, ** ONLY $100 per attendee**. This is the best bargain out there for z/VM and 'Linux on System z' education, and is quite reasonable for anyone paying their own way. Parking is available on-site for $6 per day. Regular attendees and sponsor attendees: The $100 registration fee for regular attendees includes: access to all sessions and hands-on labs, if registration is completed before 23:59 PM Wednesday June 11: a Gala Reception and Banquet Dinner on Thursday evening, and... an NC A&T "Aggie" debit card loaded with $65 to purchase other meals and snacks on campus. Full-time Students: A $10 registration fee includes: access to all sessions and hands-on labs, and optional, same deadline attendance at the Gala Dinner Reception on Thursday evening. Spouse attendees: A $0 registration fee provides: an optional means to purchase attendance at the Gala Reception and Banquet Dinner on Thursday evening ($20). HOW: Registration is now LIVE, please check it out soon! (Live servers are standing by to take your registration!) Advice: onsite registration is not likely, and will involve additional fees to the university and thus... to you, so register now! PARTICIPATE: Compete in the historical (occasionally hysterical) VM Workshop "Ugly Hawaiian Shirt" contest for a chance to win a treasured, but ugly prize! (B.Y.O.U.H.S.) Place this event on your calendars and please join us at North Carolina A&T State University. Don't miss this incredibly inexpensive, educational, and fun event! ________________________________ The VM Workshop is sponsoring a 12 question survey to help us all better understand the current state of our platform within the organizations we support. The results will help us highlight successes and focus our conversations and collective resources to address the major challenges the community faces. This is a survey of the community, for the community. Those who respond will receive a summary of the results via email. The more responses, the better the data! Please take a few minutes to respond at: https://www.research.net/s/vmcommunity ________________________________ This e-mail was sent on behalf of the 2014 VM Workshop Volunteer Committee. Mike Walter Mike <dot> Walter (at) Aon {dot} com Work: 847.883.7822 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
