Thanks for the information. Unfortunately I didn't get to this e-mail before this month's BALUG meeting. In the meantime, I can pass it along to the BALUG "talk" list, and Cc: the "admin" list, and when we send out our next e-mailing to the "announce" list (probably about a week before the next BALUG meeting - that meeting being the day before the BoF session you mention), I/we can probably also include a brief metion (and relevant link(s)) to information about the BoF session. That will probably also reach more folks than verbal announcement alone at the meeting would have covered anyway. FYI, you can also post directly to the "talk" list yourself if you're subscribed to it. I didn't, at least easily, spot link(s) on the LinuxWorld site covering listing of specific BoFs for LinuxWorld - at least yet - but if those are available when we cover a later announcement, we could probably also include those links too. I also noticed that for this year's LinuxWorld in San Francisco, it looks like free Expo passes can be signed up for through 2006-08-13 - quite close to the start of LinuxWorld itself (not sure about the cut-off, but certainly after some date the registration probably becomes will-call pickup rather than being mailed out). http://www.balug.org/ Quoting Peter Mui <pmui@groundworkopensource.com>:

Hi Michael:

I hope this gets to you in time for tonight's meeting.

I saw your posting about upcoming BALUG meetings. We have an upcoming event that BALUG members are invited to and might be interested in:

At LinuxWorld: BoF: Network, Device, and Environment Monitoring BoF Wednesday, 08/16/2006, 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Speakers: Ian Berry, Project Lead, Cacti Kees Cook, Project Lead, Sendpage Matt Massie, Project Lead, Ganglia Tobi Oetiker, Project Lead, RRDtool, MRTG, Smokeping Remo Rickli, Project Lead, NeDi

We'll open with the evolution of open source tools for network and server monitoring and management, and briefly discuss the the state of the IT management tools industry -- both commercial and Open Source. We will then describe individual components for Open Source IT management: many project leads for tools such as ganglia, Cacti, rrdtool, MRTG, NeDi (and others) will present briefly on their tools and answer questions. Finally, we'll describe an approach that integrates multiple open source tools to create a comprehensive Network Monitoring solution.

Can you please mention these at tonight's meeting? People should sign up for (free) LinuxWorld exhibits passes so they can attend the BoF.

We also have a regular conference session earlier in the day, but people will have to get a full conference pass to attend that ($$$).

Thanks, and feel free to contact me anytime with questions.

Cheers, -Peter

Peter Mui, Open Source Community Advocate GROUNDWORK Open Source, Inc. 139 Townsend Street, Suite 100 San Francisco, CA 94107-1946 +1 415 992 4573 (direct) +1 415 947 0684 (fax) pmui@groundworkopensource.com