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Hello everyone<br>
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The first of a few official posts for 2015.<br>
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Updates:<br>
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We have an even more improved relationship with the IBM GPFS team in
2015 than 2014.<br>
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IBM have directly engaged with us at the highest level and we're
working together to be able to bring you better news, features and
technical insight to GPFS - in addition to organising the next User
Group.<br>
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With that in mind, here's a few things that will be occurring this
year:<br>
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<b>User Group Meeting</b><br>
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The date for this is in the process of being finalised right now.<br>
It is likely to be April / May.<br>
We will update you as soon as we have a definitive.<br>
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'Meet the Devs Coffee Shop'<br>
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</b>The IBM devs would love to speak face to face with you all.<br>
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So we thought, what better way to do that than in small groups over
coffee and pizza?<br>
The aim will be to have small meetings with bunches of
geographically similar users on a regular basis.<br>
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The first ('tester') will be <u>Wednesday 18th Feb</u> in London
and I'll send out a formal invite email shortly.<br>
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For those of you further afield, we intend to come to you (yes!
Orlando in Edinburgh) and hopefully even EMEA / Worldwide if
possible.<br>
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These small groups will be ideal situations for IBM devs to show you
new features, what they're working on and solicit feedback from
experienced GPFS users/admins.<br>
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Oh and the Pizza.<br>
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<b>Website revamp</b> (yes, another..)<br>
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I'm in the process of moving all the content over to Ghost.
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://ghost.org/">https://ghost.org/</a>)<br>
We'll flip the site over at some point this week.<br>
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Shortly you'll see our first blog contribution from IBM dev.<br>
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<i>What would topics would you like covered? </i> Let the group
know.<br>
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Also if anyone (member, dev, tech, etc.) would like to contribute
technical blog posts regarding GPFS or related
softwares/technologies, then let me know and we'll set you up an
account.<br>
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All the best,<br>
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Jez (Chair) and Claire (Secretary)<br>
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