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That's right, today is the one half decade mark since MangoLassi went live on March 4th, 2014. It has been a great five years, who knew that we would come so far! And it is almost time for our third annual conference, too.

After five years, and 1.25 million unique visitors, 452,000 posts, 18,700 topics, and millions upon millions of views, ML is still going strong and continues to grow and improve. This community has been so open, welcoming, friendly, professional. It is great to see the kind of cooperation and attitudes that we get here.

And here is to another five years!

Thank you to everyone who has joined and participated and been a part of this awesome family. And special thanks to the NodeBB team ( @julian @baris @psychobunny ) who have made this possible on the tech side.

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Here at MangoLassi we are striving to be the best, most open and friendliest IT Professional community around. We want a place for IT Pros to learn, connect, socialize, commiserate, assist and grow. This community is free for all IT Pros, IT students, IT vendors and Powers Users that we can't figure out are not working in IT;) We will formalizing our rules around vendor and service provider interactions shortly but to be sure we want this community to include people from all aspects of IT and our vendor friends are an important part of that. We are committed to keeping this community free for everyone to participate and feel that no one should have to pay to interact here.

Welcome to the new Social IT!

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Youtube Video

Jared Busch speaks on VoIP, FreePBX and Asterisk at MangoCon 2016.

@JaredBusch

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Finally, MangoLassi is happy to announce that MangoCon 2019 has been scheduled and will be...

May 8th - 10th, in Dallas, Texas

More details to come by the end of the week. Interested in speaking? Interesting in attending? Interesting in sponsoring? Let us know.

This is our third "annual" technology conference. Come and meet other IT pros, watch real technical presentations - not product sales pitches, get real life peer review, bring the community from online to IRL.

We've had a great time at our last two conferences, both previously in Rochester, New York. Now we are moving to Dallas for easier flights, drives, hotels, etc.

Hope to see everyone there!

Twitter...

https://twitter.com/MangoConit

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We've been working like crazy on this and.... here it is. The new MangoLassi.it, THE place to go for open, neutral SMB IT discussions. All IT Pros are welcome.

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Youtube Video

Scott Alan Miller, Technical Fellow from the NTG Lab, speaks on the Brave New World of the LANless Future. What does the future look like as businesses begin to consider leaving LAN focused thinking of the 1990s and stop seeing their local area network as a security domain.

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Scott Alan Miller, a Technical Fellow with the NTG Lab, introduces Storage 101 at MangoCon 2016. Scott delves into underlying components of storage to create a building block for discussing more advanced storage concepts.

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That's right, we are expanding into NYC and doing our second Mango Event in the area this June! The event is being hosted at the AetherStore offices which are right down the street from Grand Central Terminal so are exceptionally easy to get to from anywhere in the region. We want to do an event that can draw a lot of the crowd in from NJ as we have loads of people on the NJ side.

So the big questions are.... what do people want to see at the event? Who can make it out? How do we schedule so that people can get there?

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MangoLassi will have a small downtime on May 2, 2018 for a system reboot. We have a two hour window in which the datacenter will be restarting hardware for Spectre hardware updates.

Our window is at: 2018-05-02 4:00:00 AM UTC

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Welcome to 2019; MangoLassi is excited to announce @Skyetel as our newest platform partner. You may already notice their banner ads running in the community. Be sure to say hello and check out the ads and thank them for helping to make MangoLassi possible.

Thanks guys!!