Okay, announcement is out ... er, uhm, ... any second now? Okay, I sent it, ... still haven't seen it come through quite yet (or get stuck in the queue for moderation). Anyway, hopefully it comes through *real soon now* ... I also include a copy further below.
Also, I tweaked a few things on the main web page that caught my eye and/or that of my spell checker: s/technolgy/technology/ s/August 18/August 15/ s/thaat/that/ s|>http://www.secondlife.com<|>http://www.secondlife.com/<| s/Pleae/Please/ s/chinese/Chinese/ s/conjuction/conjunction/
Quoting Michael Paoli:
Anyone want to add anything to announcement to go out *real soon now*?
Unless someone beats me to it I'll send out announcement regarding Tuesday's meeting and also mention of next month's meeting.
Anything else we should add?
I'll probably get it out within the next two hours.
And copy of what I sent to the announce list (should show up *any time now*!):
Message-ID: 1152989309.44b9387d2c4a9@webmail.rawbw.com Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2006 11:48:29 -0700 From: Michael Paoli Michael.Paoli@cal.berkeley.edu To: balug-announce@lists.balug.org Subject: BALUG 2006-07-18: Mark Ferlatte of Linden Lab on Second Life, etc.
BALUG 2006-07-18: Mark Ferlatte of Linden Lab on Second Life, etc.
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For our July 18th, 2006 BALUG meeting, we have: Mark Ferlatte of Linden Lab will talk to BALUG about the technology beneath Second Life and present techniques for managing large quantities of servers with only a few support staff. (Second Life is a 3-D virtual world entirely built and owned by its residents, population 200,000!) http://www.secondlife.com/
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Next month, for our August 15th, 2006 BALUG meeting, we have: Splunk, a company that claims to take the SH out of IT: TOPIC: Splunk: Illuminating the issues in your Data Center. SPEAKER: Patrick McGovern BACKGROUND: Splunk, based in San Francisco, makes a web-based AJAX-enhanced search engine that allows system administrators and programmers to search all their incoming log files in real time (any type of log files: Sendmail, Cisco, MySQL, syslog, etc.) with a browser. It's a powerful tool to allow people to 'see' inside their systems as they are running. ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Patrick is the Chief Community Splunker at Splunk, Inc. Prior to joining Splunk, Patrick McGovern managed SourceForge.net for five years for VA Software / OSTG.
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Meeting time, location, etc. (also on the BALUG web site): 2006-07-18* 7:00 P.M. US/Pacific $11.00 fee for dinner Four Seas Restaurant 731 Grant Ave., 3rd Floor Banquet Facility: "The China Room"** San Francisco, CA 94108-2113 Feel free to join us as early as 6:30 P.M. at the bar for social chat, etc. before the main meeting. *Almost always the third Tuesday of each month, 7:00 P.M. local time **Sometimes we eat and/or meet in the main dining facilities on the 2nd floor, just ask where the BALUG meeting is when you arrive and you'll be pointed to the appropriate place.