small is beautiful / stallman's birthday

EDIT: This will also be our belated celebration of Pi Day. Consider enhancing your day with elements of Pi and RMS.

This will be an all day'ish thing, but you may come and go as you please.

This event will be entirely PWYW with no lead. Gifts at every level, from coffee ($4) to car ($16K) will be received gratefully.

I'm planning to run "small is beautiful" quarterly, primarily as an accelerator for new teachers.

Saturday 3/16 happens to coincide with Stallman's birthday, and it seems perfectly appropriate for SFS to honor him.

The rest of the day will be learning units of up to an hour following the SFS Method: Talk, Demo, Pair and Share, and at least one other pure talk of no more than 22 minutes.

Here's the rough plan:

I'll kick off the day by reading something at 8:30am: the GNU Manifesto, selections from the GPL, or something like that. I will not go longer than 22 minutes, so help me God.

At 9AM, Dr. Jeff Haemer will teach us why and how to use git branches and tags.

At 10AM, Rich will teach us how to get just we want out of a JSON blob with JQ.

Silvia will lead us through a quick and dirty wireshark unit.

Alex will give us a 15-22 minute talk on the CNCF's Kubernetes certifications: CKA and CKAD.

Derek will teach us how to build containers from scratch with Golang.

Shawn, a.k.a. RedMop, will give us a gentle, hands-on introduction to ZFS, which is supposed by its adherents to be even better than BTRFS.

Finally, we will adjourn to a nearby brewery and have the cake Heather said she'll make, in celebration of the birthday of Richard Matthew Stallman.