[TriLUG] Attention!! All TriLUGers and Call to all past TriLUG Steering Committee Members and Volunteers

[Jeremy Davis via TriLUG]

TriLUG,

It is time for elections!

Past leaders let's get a good conversation going for all to read.

If you have ever served on the TriLUG Steering Committee or volunteered in
a similar capacity for TriLUG or a similar organization, I am asking a
favor of you. Please take a moment to reply and share your experience with
the group. Just a short blurb of positive highlights that may help inspire
future potential candidates to step up. Elections are soon so please do
this as soon you possibly can.

I encourage EVERYONE to follow this conversation until the TriLUG Steering
Committee elections Thursday 12 June 2025. If you know someone who may be a
great candidate, please reach out to them and let them know about this
opportunity.

The positions of the Triangle Linux User Group Steering Committee are:
Chair, Vice Chair, Treasurer, Webmaster, and PR Officer.

Note: To nominate a candidate please send an email to the general list with
"TriLUG Nomination" in the subject line.

Ok past leaders of TriLUG, let's hear your stories. What did you learn? How
did you grow? How did you benefit from volunteering your time? How could a
leadership position with TriLUG positively impact the future of anyone
willing to serve?

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I will lead by example.

This affiliation blurb lives proudly on my resume: Public Relations Officer
- Triangle Linux User Group Steering Committee - 2012, 2013, 2016, 2017,
2024, 2025

Thanks to TriLUG, these other experiences happened:
Attendee/Volunteer - All Things Open Artificial Intelligence Conference 2025
Publisher - IEEE Triangle Area Career Development Weekly Newsletter 2013,
2014
Webmaster - Public Relations Society of America North Carolina Chapter -
2013, 2014
PR Volunteer - All Things Open Tech Conference - Raleigh Convention Center
- 2013
Lead Organizer - BarCampRDU Tech Conference at NCSU - 2013
Volunteer - Palmetto Open Source Software Conference - Columbia SC - 2012
Volunteer - BarCampRDU Tech Conference at RedHat Headquarters Raleigh NC -
2011
Volunteer -South East Linux Tech Conference - Charlotte NC - 2012
Attendee - South East Linux Tech Conference - Greenville SC - 2011

TriLUG led me to Maker Faire RDU, NC Nearspace, Splatspace, RARSfest,
Cryptolina Bitcoin conference, Carolina Con (Cackalackycon), WordCampRDU,
and a DARPA event and I met and worked with the organizers of these events.

As a leader for TriLUG I met and worked with the leaders/organizers of many
other prominent local RTP tech groups mostly because I had a good reason
to. I was invited to at least 13 tech conferences and given free admission.
The act of finding expert speakers for TriLUG puts you in direct contact
with amazing people. I usually approached potential speakers at tech
conferences. Speakers at tech events are the easiest people to approach
after they talk and I would invite them to TriLUG.

I have met so many interesting people. I have met many great founders of
open source technology. Lol.. I once asked Richard Stallman to be a guest
speaker at TriLUG and he declined because we refused to rename our group
"GNU TriLUG".

I have had job offers from people who saw me engaging the audience at
TriLUG meetings (one from General Dynamics to build drones). At one point I
was awarding presenters with 3d printed TriTux that blinked T-R-I-L-U-G in
morse code (Thanks again for making those Brian!). College professors have
attended TriLUG meetings to see presentations by the speakers I have found.
I was often requested to attend software acquisition meetings at work even
though my job was a personnel admin in the military and I have no college
degrees.

TriLUG cracked open a whole new world for me and opened so many doors even
though I have never worked in the tech industry. I made a lot of awesome
friends along the way. Too many great things to list.

Potential candidates: We need passionate and ambitious talent to carry the
TriLUG torch and run with it. It could very well lead to some of the most
memorable experiences of your life. Software freedom is a cause worth
fighting for. So step up and do something with this opportunity for
yourself and for others!

Jeremy Davis
TriLUG PR