I’m gonna keep this 100% real with y’all. I created these Maestro shirts for one reason only — to help fund our community. Skool isn’t cheap… It’s $1,000 for the year to unlock the pro features that would take everything we’re building to the next level — better structure, automations, more security, and a smoother experience for everybody here. I was under the impression it was 100$ per year when I started. I’m not asking anyone to “buy merch” just to support me. This is for the ones who believe in what we’re building. The ones who want to see this community grow, get stronger, and actually become something powerful. If you grab a shirt, just know every dollar is going right back into this space — nothing extra, nothing hidden. And if you don’t, that’s completely fine too. You being here, learning, contributing, and showing up already means a lot. We’re building something real… and this is just one way to help push it forward. Also taking ideas for shirts! You guys will see me rocking mine on one of these live sessions soon 😎 I don't want you guys to feel like I am trying to sell you something or make you pay for something, I just have 2 children and a family to support, and am getting this degree for a better future. Appreciate you all regardless 💯 https://digitaldashers2.myshopify.com/products/the-ai-university

So, I saw on Maestro that the student ambassadors started creating some live, in person events - none of which are in my area so far (or even in my state). First question - how many of you signed up to be an ambassador and second question - is there anyone else currently from Upstate/Central New York (I am talking like Syracuse, NY and surrounding areas)?

I think I'm happy with the progress... installed minimal Ubuntu on Thursday, worked on it for way too many hours via SSH after manually configuring the NIC that wasn't detected during install, stayed mostly off screens on Friday, put in a couple hours chasing a connection issue that ended up being a Firefox on both a MacBook AND an Ubuntu Laptop. Did a couple tear it down and relaunch it agains to make sure it was right from the start... Now in the hours taking Saturday into Sunday, I'm on my MacBook listening to my music library from my fully automated Kubernetes lab. My experiences have been AWS, ECS, Cloudformation, CodeDeploy (I did use GitHub Actions a couple times previously), so there was a bit of a learning curve. What I've done is put together an old tower (8 year old workstation that half of the gear was originally built 12 years back) as a Kubernetes lab, used Terraform and GitHub actions to provision and deploy it this weekend. All the automation scripting was written in YAML which is used within a lot of other languages, so good to check out. what is in the screenshot, 2 terminal windows, top one an SSH session into the Lab running the 'top' command to watch resources and the bottom is on the Mac running k9s viewing live Kubernetes logs from the music Navidrome pod... then the feishin media player playing from my 800GB audio library (been ripping CDs and Cassettes to MP3 since 2001 then 15 years or so everything is FLAC files... it took nearly 5 hours to transfer over to the server drive).

Is there anyone out there who is like me and is just stepping into this field for the every first time, and is perhaps a little older than your average college student? I keep reading all these posts about projects and side stuff that people are working on and, I have to admit... I don't know what any of it is... But I want to! I have your basic knowledge, but, I want to know more! I want to learn! Are there any students with much more experience working on a side project outside of school that could let me join in on? Maybe just to be a silent observer? I just want to peek into the world I'm trying to jump into and expose myself to as many things as I can 😁

Recently came to the realization I do not have a space for all the cohorts present in this community, I need every cohort to check in here and please give me the full date including year of your cohort! I may have to add the year to tabs so that we can all have a place to connect with our fellow classmates, Goodmorning guys ! ☀️😎