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Re: [BALUG-Admin] Andrew Morton Needs to Reschedule
by Andrew Fife 05 Jun '08

05 Jun '08

Jesse Zbikowski wrote: >2008/6/3 Andrew Fife <afife(a)untangle.com>: >> 1) push the BALUG meeting back one week > >Personally I would favor this; I think a fair number of folks are >looking forward to seeing Andrew, myself included. My vote is for pushing back 1 week as well. This is much easier to organize. However, I do want to mention that on the speaker coorninater list, Jim S. and Michael P. brought up the issue of keeping the 3rd Tuesday as the meeting date for fear of folks turning up on that date w/o checking the mailing list or website. This is a totally valid point, but I don't believe it applies to BALUG. We just don't have a regular membership who will turn up regardless of the speaker... maybe this applies to 3-5 people but their all on the mailing lists anyway. One could argue that we'll never have a regular membership if we keep swapping the date around. While I acknowledge that shifting the date so close on the heels of already having done that for Mark Shuttleworth is sub-optimal, throwing together a sub-optimal speaker at the last minute is worse. I'm confident that we'll draw 40+ for Andrew Morton if we shift the date back now and let folks know ASAP. If we have a knowledgeable but (relatively) anonymous speaker we'll probably dip back below 20 attendees. My personal goal is to build BALUG's regular membership and from that perspective its better to have 1 or 2 people show up on the original date and be confused with 40+ people having another really good BALUG experience the following week. Anyone who shows up on the original date will likely check the website, realize _THEIR_ mistake and likely decide to come the following week... 1002 reasons to subscribe to the announce list _AND_ read it. Bottom line: most folks know that famous people have lots of demands on their calendars and will likely be tolerant of the shift.

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Andrew Morton Needs to Reschedule
by Andrew Fife 03 Jun '08

03 Jun '08

Per the email string below, Andrew Morton needs to reschedule. We have 2 options: 1) push the BALUG meeting back one week 2) find another speaker and reschedule with Andrew Morton for later in the year Regarding #2, I sent an email to Jeremy Alison this morning to see if he could stand in on short notice. However, I have no idea if this is possible or not. A presentation by Untangle's CTO is always a possiblity, but I don't want to force that on the group. Please let me know what you think ASAP. -- Andrew Fife Untangle - The Open Source Network Gateway www.untangle.com/download 650.425.3327 desk 415.806.6028 cell -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Morton [mailto:akpm@linux-foundation.org] Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 11:29 AM To: Andrew Fife Subject: Re: Feedback on Topics for BALUG Talk (June 17th) Thanks, sorry about that. Either the preceding week or the following one would be fine. It's just the 14th to the 22nd which is the problem. On Tue, 3 Jun 2008 11:13:35 -0700 (PDT) "Andrew Fife" <afife(a)untangle.com> wrote: > Regarding moving the date, its not out of the question, but going > backwards would be easier than forwards. Let me know what would work > best for you. > > > -- > Andrew Fife > Untangle - The Open Source Network Gateway www.untangle.com/download > > 650.425.3327 desk > 415.806.6028 cell > -----Original Message----- > From: Andrew Morton [mailto:akpm@linux-foundation.org] > Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 11:10 AM > To: Andrew Fife > Subject: Re: Feedback on Topics for BALUG Talk (June 17th) > > > Oh shit, I've gone and double-booked myself that week - family vacation. > > Sorry, let me get back to you later today. > > Is there any chance of moving the date? I guess not... > > > On Tue, 3 Jun 2008 11:03:26 -0700 (PDT) "Andrew Fife" > <afife(a)untangle.com> wrote: > > > Hi Andrew: > > > > As promised, here are snippets of feedback on what folks would like > > to hear you speak about at BALUG on 6/17. I'm making the meeting > > announcements on various LUG lists today I'll forward more your way > > if anything else trickles in. We are really looking forward to > > hosting you at BALUG on 6/17. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Andrew > > > > -- > > > > Joe Royal wrote: > > > > >I would like to know about what is laking in things like > > >virtualization, solid state storage and what he thinks will be > > >happening with the kernel > > in > > >these areas." > > > > Ref: > > http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-talk-balug.org/2008-May/004185. > > html > > > > Jim Stockford wrote: > > > > >what are the three burningest needs that AM sees the community can > > >help with (probably number one is testing...)? > > >how can we users best help out (what's the contact path he prefers)? > > >what are the biggest problems the linux using community presents to > > >his development teams? > > >what are the three most-asked-for new features? > > >what are the three nearest-to-completion new features? > > >what forks in the road(s) ahead? > > >what's he got to say about embedded linux? > > >what's the future of threading? > > >what's the future approach to presenting management of multiple > > >CPUs (i.e. some kind of synchronous/concurrent API)?" -- Jim > > >Stockford > > > > Ref: > > http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-admin-balug.org/2008-May/0005 > > 49 > > .htm > > l > > > > Mike Higashi wrote: > > > > >How about a review of recent history, for example on why the > > >even/odd numbering for stable/development kernels has been dropped, > > >and an explanation of what the new process is. > > > > Ref: > > http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-admin-balug.org/2008-May/0005 > > 50 > > .htm > > l > > > > Jesse Zbikowski responded to Mike Higashi: > > > > >The even/odd numbering issue was pretty well resolved 3-4 years ago > > >with the conclusion that two wildly diverging development lines > > >(stable/development) is a Bad Idea. Hopefully nobody is still > > >wondering why there's no 2.7.x. > > > > > >http://kerneltrap.org/node/4100 > > > > > >I would be interested to hear Andrew talk about his own tree (-mm) > > >and possibly other important trees he pulls from. > > > > Ref: > > http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-admin-balug.org/2008-May/0005 > > 52 > > .htm > > l > > > > -- > > Andrew Fife > > Untangle - The Open Source Network Gateway www.untangle.com/download > > > > 650.425.3327 desk > > 415.806.6028 cell > > >

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Re: [BALUG-Admin] Bay Area LUGs @ LinuxWorld
by jim 25 May '08

25 May '08

Brianna told me she or someone would be getting back to me wrt a LUG booth similar to last year. This is the first i've heard. I just got back from santa fe. Let's do act quickly. i sent a separate email to alison. i'm all for the list you've got, to include LUGOD and hopefully NBLUG. jim On Wed, 2008-05-21 at 14:20 -0700, Andrew Fife wrote: > Does BALUG booth at LinuxWorld in the .org pavillion? If so we need > to act quickly by 5/26. > > Maybe something in conjunction with SF-LUG, SVLUG, CABAL & PenLUG? > > -- > Andrew Fife > Untangle - The Open Source Network Gateway > www.untangle.com/download > > 650.425.3327 desk > 415.806.6028 cell > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > From: alison_dwelley(a)idg.com [mailto:alison_dwelley@idg.com] > Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 2:17 PM > To: afife(a)untangle.com > Subject: Fw: Your Invitation to LinuxWorld ’s .Org Pavilion - deadline > May 26th > > > > > > Hi Andrew, > > I am following up with the projects who have been invited to > participate in the .org Pavilion at LinuxWorld this year. The deadline > for responses is Monday, May 26th. At that time we will need to offer > your place to another project. Please let me know if the Bay Area > Linux Users Group is interested in participating at LinuxWorld in > August. > > I have attached a contract below. Please return a signed copy if you > will be able to attend and I will assign a booth to you. > > Regards, > Alison > > > ----- Forwarded by Alison Dwelley/World Expo/WEC on 05/21/2008 05:11 > PM ----- > Alison Dwelley/World Expo/WEC > > 05/05/2008 04:07 PM > > > To > afife(a)untangle.com > cc > > Subject > Your Invitation > to > LinuxWorld’s .Org > Pavilion > > > > > > > > Dear Andrew, > > It is my pleasure to inform you that Bay Area Linux Users Group has > been chosen for this year’s .org Pavilion at the LinuxWorld Conference > & Expo being held in San Francisco August 5-7, 2008. I hope that you > will be able to participate. Projects accepting our offer of free > exhibit space in the pavilion must be willing to assist us in > promoting LinuxWorld with a banner ad on their home page. Please RSVP > by May 26, 2008 via email to alison_dwelley(a)idg.com. If you are not > able to participate in the event this year, please let me know so that > we can make arrangements for another organization to take that place. > > The .org Pavilion is an exciting opportunity for .orgs to reach out to > the free software and open source communities during LinuxWorld > Conference & Expo. We are happy to provide this opportunity for you to > be recognized for all of your hard work in support of these > communities. > > We are very excited to have you be a part of our 2008 .org Pavilion > and look forward to seeing you at the San Francisco LinuxWorld event. > We will send you additional information about the show as soon as we > receive a faxed or emailed copy of the attached contract, your project > description for the website and show guide, and specs for the banner > ad to fax # 508-370-4325. If you have any questions please do not > hesitate to contact me at 508-424-4834 or via email at > Alison_dwelley(a)idg.com. > > Kind Regards, > > Alison Dwelley > Please consider the environment before printing this email > > > > Alison Dwelley > Sales Operations Coordinator > IDG World Expo > 3 Speen St. Suite 320 > Framingham, MA 01701 > P. 508.424.4834 > F. 508.620.6690 > E. alison_dwelley(a)idg.com >

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Bay Area LUGs @ LinuxWorld
by Andrew Fife 23 May '08

23 May '08

Does BALUG booth at LinuxWorld in the .org pavillion? If so we need to act quickly by 5/26. Maybe something in conjunction with SF-LUG, SVLUG, CABAL & PenLUG? -- Andrew Fife Untangle - The Open Source Network Gateway www.untangle.com/download 650.425.3327 desk 415.806.6028 cell _____ From: alison_dwelley(a)idg.com [mailto:alison_dwelley@idg.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 2:17 PM To: afife(a)untangle.com Subject: Fw: Your Invitation to LinuxWorld 's .Org Pavilion - deadline May 26th Hi Andrew, I am following up with the projects who have been invited to participate in the .org Pavilion at LinuxWorld this year. The deadline for responses is Monday, May 26th. At that time we will need to offer your place to another project. Please let me know if the Bay Area Linux Users Group is interested in participating at LinuxWorld in August. I have attached a contract below. Please return a signed copy if you will be able to attend and I will assign a booth to you. Regards, Alison ----- Forwarded by Alison Dwelley/World Expo/WEC on 05/21/2008 05:11 PM ----- Alison Dwelley/World Expo/WEC 05/05/2008 04:07 PM To afife(a)untangle.com cc Subject Your Invitation to LinuxWorld's .Org Pavilion Dear Andrew, It is my pleasure to inform you that Bay Area Linux Users Group has been chosen for this year's .org Pavilion at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo being held in San Francisco August 5-7, 2008. I hope that you will be able to participate. Projects accepting our offer of free exhibit space in the pavilion must be willing to assist us in promoting LinuxWorld with a banner ad on their home page. Please RSVP by May 26, 2008 via email to alison_dwelley(a)idg.com. If you are not able to participate in the event this year, please let me know so that we can make arrangements for another organization to take that place. The .org Pavilion is an exciting opportunity for .orgs to reach out to the free software and open source communities during LinuxWorld Conference & Expo. We are happy to provide this opportunity for you to be recognized for all of your hard work in support of these communities. We are very excited to have you be a part of our 2008 .org Pavilion and look forward to seeing you at the San Francisco LinuxWorld event. We will send you additional information about the show as soon as we receive a faxed or emailed copy of the attached contract, your project description for the website and show guide, and specs for the banner ad to fax # 508-370-4325. If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact me at 508-424-4834 or via email at Alison_dwelley(a)idg.com. Kind Regards, Alison Dwelley Please consider the environment before printing this email Alison Dwelley Sales Operations Coordinator IDG World Expo 3 Speen St. Suite 320 Framingham, MA 01701 P. 508.424.4834 F. 508.620.6690 E. <mailto:alison_dwelley@idg.com> alison_dwelley(a)idg.com

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Questions for Andrew Morton (Linux Kernel Maintainer)
by Andrew Fife 05 May '08

05 May '08

Hi BALUG Volunteers: In the process of confirming Andrew Morton as BALUG's speaker for June, Mr. Morton is curious to know what topics we would like him to cover and or any questions we may have for him. I'm not really the best person to give him guidance here so any help you guys can offer will be appreciated. More on Andrew Morton here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Morton_(computer_programmer) Thanks, Andrew -- Andrew Fife Untangle - The Open Source Network Gateway www.untangle.com/download 650.425.3327 desk 415.806.6028 cell

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Re: [BALUG-Admin] Would like to attend your next meeting...
by Andrew Fife 04 May '08

04 May '08

Hi Danny: Balug events are open to the public and you are of course welcome to attend. I'd be happy to talk with you about sponsorship, but this idea gets brought up from time to time and there generally hasn't been a lot of interest in the past. Also, for future reference, rsvp(a)balug.org does not go to Jim Stockford, but balug-admin(a)lists.balug.org does reach BALUG's volunteers, which does include the honorable Mr. Stockford. -Andrew -- Andrew Fife Untangle - The Open Source Network Gateway www.untangle.com/download 650.425.3327 desk 415.806.6028 cell -----Original Message----- From: jim [mailto:jim@well.com] Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2008 10:15 AM To: Daniel Parrillo Cc: rsvp(a)balug.org Subject: Re: Would like to attend your next meeting... your email did indeed end up going to jim stockford. BALUG meetings are generally held on the third Tuesday of each month at the Four Seas restaurant on Grant Avenue near Sacramento in Chinatown, starting at 6:30, dinner at 7:00, speakers at 8:00. The best time to meet people is from 6:30 to 7:00, when we all mill about in the bar area before dinner. For the May 20 meeting, Jeremy Allison will speak (probably about Samba, for which he's a primary developer). http://www.balug.org/ On Sun, 2008-05-04 at 09:54 -0700, Daniel Parrillo wrote: > Believe this email note will end up going to Jim Stockford... > > I'd like to attend your next meeting. > Would also like to chat about possibly sponsoring an event in the > future. > > Look forward to meeting some interesting people at the next meeting. > Danny! > > Daniel Parrillo > Sr. Technical Recruiter / Staffing Manager Replay Solutions San > Francisco Office #: 415-695-1600 Redwood City #: 1-877-400-7444 or > 650-472-2208 > E-mail: dparrillo(a)replaysolutions.com > > Website: www.replaysolutions.com > LinkedIn Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/thehonestrecruiter > > Electronic Privacy Notice. The information contained in this email > message may be privileged, confidential, and protected from > disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, > distribution, or copying is strictly prohibited. If you think that > you have received this email message in error, please email the sender > at: dparrillo(a)replaysolutions.com > > Daniel Parrillo > President / Sr. Technical Recruiter / Staffing Manager Strategi LLC > Phone #: 415-695-1600 > E-mail: dparrillo(a)strategi.biz > > LinkedIn Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/thehonestrecruiter > > Electronic Privacy Notice. The information contained in this email > message may be privileged, confidential, and protected from > disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, > distribution, or copying is strictly prohibited. If you think that > you have received this email message in error, please email the sender > at: dparrillo(a)strategi.biz > >

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Fwd: No Cost to Attend - Register Today for CommunityOne 2008!
by Andrew Fife 15 Apr '08

15 Apr '08

I don't intend to post this to balug-talk but wanted to put it out there in case anyone else on balug-admin feels differently. I do wonder if this is spam because it was sent to rsvp(a)balug.org, which seems like a weird place for a human to send this kind of announcement. Also, its from a yahoo.com address rather than a sun.com address, which could also be fishy. ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: "Laura Lindstrom" <laura_lindstrom(a)yahoo.com> To: rsvp(a)balug.org Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2008 7:29:03 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific Subject: No Cost to Attend - Register Today for CommunityOne 2008! Attention Bay Area Linux Users Group (BALUG) : Reward Your Members With a Night Out at Thirsty Bear Brewing Company in San Francisco! The association or user group with the most members who register for and attend CommunityOne on May 5 will win a $500 gift certificate for food and beverage at Thirsty Bear. Just send your group’s exclusive registration link (below), to all of your members and urge them to use it when registering for CommunityOne. Registered members MUST attend in order to count towards your group’s total number. The winning group will be notified at the end of CommunityOne after all registrations and attendance has been tallied. Feel free to use the following email copy to communicate with your members about the Conference and the contest. Please direct any questions to: Laura Lindstrom, laura_lindstrom(a)yahoo.com Good luck! CommunityOne A free and open developer conference May 5, 2008 | The Moscone Center | San Francisco, CA While the admission is FREE, space is limited! Register today with your group’s exclusive priority link: https://www28.cplan.com/pgr/gr_form_builder.reg_login?icode=10178/1/96/en&i… Advance your skills in 70+ sessions led by experts and contributors from more than 30 projects spanning the open source stack and powering the Internet: • Scripting and RIAs: PHP, AJAX, Python, Ruby, JavaScript, JavaFX, and jMaki • Tools: NetBeans, Eclipse, Subversion, and Others • Web 2.0 Applications: Social Networks, Mashups, and Web Services • Chip Design: OpenSPARC • Web-Scale Computing: HPC, SaaS, Utility/Cloud, OpenSSO, and Project Darkstar • Operating Systems: OpenSolaris and Linux Distributions • Web and Application Servers: GlassFish, Apache, and JBoss • Databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Java DB • And more: Music, Robotics, ODF, OpenDS, OpenJDK, OpenOffice.org, Mobile and Embedded, and Strategy PLAN TO STICK AROUND You’ll also have complimentary access to the 2008 JavaOneSM conference general sessions and Pavilion on Tuesday, May 6. Register Today – It’s FREE! developers.sun.com/events/communityone __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Geek Speak Women | find technical women to speak: http://geekspeakr.com/
by Michael Paoli 14 Apr '08

14 Apr '08

And from* LugRadio Live USA 2008, this could be a useful resource: Geek Speak Women | find technical women to speak http://geekspeakr.com/ *URL from resources from Emma Jane Hogbin's "Women in Open Source" talk on Saturday at LugRadio Live USA 2008.

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stuff for "announce", "blurbs", etc.
by Michael Paoli 11 Apr '08

11 Apr '08

I/we are running a bit behind. Anyone have (mini-)bio and/or text blurbs for our upcoming speaker? For "announce" - I plan to put that out *soon* - like not later than tomorrow A.M. Anything else to include in the next "announce"? I'll probably also include a reminder about LugRadio Live USA 2008, and additional upcoming speakers. Anything else to add? Yes, you too can help BALUG! :-) How about (mini-)bio writeups for additional upcoming speakers (for use on web page(s), in announcement(s), etc.), and if/when available, synopsis/brief/outline of what their talk/presentation will cover. If those materials are gotten to balug-webmaster(a)balug.org (and balug-speaker-coordinators(a)balug.org) sooner, we can get them up, and out, publicized, etc., sooner.

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Need Some Event Help w/ Shuttleworth
by Andrew Fife 25 Mar '08

25 Mar '08

Hi Folks: can anyone get to BALUG tomorrow night by 6:15pm to help out? Specifically, I could use some help at the door collecting cash and handing out name tags. We are officially at 92 RSVPs, which is nearly double the normal attendance so I'd like to setup two cash & name tag stations so that we don't create a huge logjam to get in. Also, if you're handy with a camera, come and snap some pics... it would be great to document Shuttleworth at BALUG. -Andrew

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