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		<title>LinuxFest Northwest 2026: Worth the Trip</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 18:14:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[LinuxFest Northwest 2026: Worth the Trip I made it to Bellingham this spring for LinuxFest Northwest, and I get why this event has been earning its reputation for 27 years. This is not a conference where corporations show up to scan badges and hand out tote bags. No lead capture, no forced networking. Just a [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>From Fresh Install to AI Inference in Under 4 Minutes</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 15:17:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[From Fresh Install to AI Inference in Under 4 Minutes Getting a GPU box ready for AI workloads is way harder than it should be, and we proved that live on the CIQ Webinar Series on April 2nd. I brought in Brian Dawson from CIQ product management, Damon Knight (CIQ&#8217;s resident AI nerd and automation [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>From Bash to Burnout &#124; My SCaLE 23 Talk</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Tech Burnout Recovery: What I Shared at SCaLE 23 This one was personal. I gave this talk at SCaLE 23 in Pasadena as part of Open Source Career Day, and I will be honest, I almost did not write it because it meant putting some very uncomfortable things on a slide. In 2025 I lost [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>From Bash to Burnout: My SCaLE 23x Talk</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2026 18:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[From Bash to Burnout: My SCaLE 23x Talk I gave this talk at SCaLE 23x in Pasadena as part of Open Source Career Day, and it is probably the most personal thing I have ever put on a stage. 2025 was a hard year. I lost a job I had tied my entire identity to, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Ending the Linux Tradeoff: Enterprise Features on Community Linux</title>
		<link>https://itguyeric.com/community-linux-enterprise-support-webinar/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[ITGuyEric]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2025 15:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I hosted this solo webinar for TuxCare making the case that you do not actually have to choose between community Linux and enterprise-grade support. The whole pick-a-camp framing is a false choice, and that is what the session is built around. The first half covers why community distributions like AlmaLinux and Rocky Linux are increasingly [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>AlmaLinux Enterprise Webinar: TuxCare and Benny Vasquez</title>
		<link>https://itguyeric.com/almalinux-enterprise-support-tuxcare-webinar/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[ITGuyEric]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2025 16:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[AlmaLinux Enterprise Support: TuxCare Webinar with Benny Vasquez I hosted this webinar for TuxCare with Benny Vasquez, chair of the AlmaLinux OS Foundation. We covered a lot of ground in about an hour, and honestly the pre-show conversation was just as good. I hosted this webinar for TuxCare with Benny Vasquez, chair of the AlmaLinux [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>DevOps KC: Communication in an Open Company</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2019 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I had the pleasure of speaking at the Kansas City DevOps Meetup in downtown Kansas City! It was kind of like a coming home party. KC DevOps Days is where I got my start at GitLab and set me on a path towards a career I never imagined possible. This event, in the vault of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>SELF2019: Busting Open Source Security Myths</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[ITGuyEric]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2019 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I gave my Busting Open Source Security Myths talk at DevSecOps Days Denver to a packed out auditorium. If was so well received, I decided to bring it back for Day 2 of SELF 2019! Developers are constantly being asked to make more and more powerful applications. The more feature-rich the application, though, the more [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>SELF2019: Getting Started with Open Source</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2019 11:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This talk defined the voice of the IT Guy for me. This was the moment when the Sudo Show got its wings, when I realized that I was on the right track towards re-inventing my career. I had people in the room I respected a great deal nodding along in agreement. This was where it [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>SELF2019: GitLab Takes you from Idea to Production</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[ITGuyEric]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2019 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[South East Linux Fest 2019 was an amazing test of the IT Guy&#8230;not as a brand but as the person I wanted to be in my career. I gave 3 talks in 3 days and spent a lot of time chatting with different folks, sharing stories, answering questions. It challenged my introverted nature and my [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>DevOps Days Des Moines: Communication in an Open Company</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[ITGuyEric]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2019 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Getting started in my career, I never imagined I would work in sales or go speak at conferences! I was very nervous and I think that showed. What was worse is I had the first breakout after lunch and the next room was a dive into chaos engineering! I learned a LOT from this event [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>LAS2018: Day 4</title>
		<link>https://itguyeric.com/las2018-day-4/</link>
		
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2018 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The conference now seems like SO long ago! It was 4 crazy-packed days (plus 2 on the road) but it would not be overstating anything to say it has forever changed the course of my career. The morning was meetings surrounding GNOME Engagement and getting thoughts and lessons learned ready for LAS2019! Being someone who [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>LAS2018: Day 3</title>
		<link>https://itguyeric.com/las2018-day-3/</link>
		
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2018 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Oops! The downside to staying up pretty much all night talking about FOSS, life, and everything else under the sun is that the next morning comes WAY to quickly! So, after going to one of the local malls to buy a long sleeve shirt and picking up some food, I finally managed to get to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>LAS2018: Day 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2018 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I know, I know this is a lot later than I promised. That is what happens when you go to a conference then come back to the real world&#8230;It seems to take a week of preparation before you leave and a week of preparation after you get back from any break to really get back [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>LAS2018: Day 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2018 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[IT IS HERE! Libre Application Summit 2018. This is the first IT conference I have attended since a VMware Summit in 2012. Not only do I get to listen to some really cool talks&#8230;okay, let&#8217;s be real. A lot of this is at the edge of my understanding. After all, I am in a room [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>LAS2018: Travel Day</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[ITGuyEric]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2018 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Kansas City, Missouri to Denver Colorado, 1 Interstate, 609 miles, 8 hours of podcasts&#8230; Nothing but rain! However, the nice thing about this road trip was it gave me time to consider a few things about my home lab, my career, you know big things. I have spent the majority of my career deep in [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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