reminder*: BALUG TOMORROW Tu 2013-04-16: Wikimedia Foundation; & other
BALUG News
*plus some updates/corrections
------------------------------
items, details further below:
2013-04-16: Wikimedia Foundation
2013-05-21: Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) - Seth David Schoen
2013-03-19: "slides" from: Stefano Maffulli (OpenStack)
CDs/DVDs, and other "door prizes", etc.
volunteering to help BALUG
Twitter https://twitter.com/#!/BALUG_org
------------------------------
Bay Area Linux User Group (BALUG) meeting
Tuesday 6:30 P.M. 2013-04-16
For our 2013-04-16 BALUG meeting, we're proud to present:
Wikimedia Foundation[1]
Come hear from Daniel Zahn[2] (DevOps) and Quim Gil[3] (Technical
Contributor Coordinator) of the Wikimedia Foundation on topics such as:
o how the Wikimedia infrastructure is run
o what technologies are Wikimedia relying on and contributing to
o how the Wikimedia sysadmin team and the community at large interact
o about other areas where Linux & free software lovers are welcome
The Wikimedia Foundation is the non-profit organization that operates
Wikipedia[4] and other free knowledge projects[5]. Together these
sites are the fifth most visited web property in the world. The
Wikimedia Foundation is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt non-profit organization.
The Wikimedia Foundation's mission is to empower a global volunteer
community to collect and develop the world's knowledge and to make it
available to everyone for free, for any purpose.
Wikipedia is the world's largest and most popular encyclopedia. It is
online, free to use for any purpose, and free of advertising. Wikipedia
contains more than 25 million volunteer-authored articles in over 285
languages, and is visited by more than 488 million people every month,
making it one of the most popular sites in the world.
1. http://wikimediafoundation.org/
2. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Mutante
3. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
4. http://www.wikipedia.org/
5. http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Our_projects
Please RSVP if you're planning to come (see further below).
So, if you'd like to join us please RSVP to:
rsvp(a)balug.org
**Why RSVP??**
Well, don't worry we won't turn you away, but the RSVPs really help
BALUG and the Four Seas Restaurant plan the meal and meeting, and with
sufficient attendance, they also help ensure that we'll be able to eat
upstairs in the private banquet room.
Meeting Details...
6:30pm
Tuesday, April 16th, 2012 2013-04-16
Four Seas Restaurant http://www.fourseasr.com/
731 Grant Ave.
San Francisco, CA 94108
Easy PARKING:
Portsmouth Square Garage at 733 Kearny:
http://www.sfpsg.com/
Cost: The meetings are always free, but for dinner, for your gift of
$13 cash or more, we give you a gift of dinner - joining us for a
yummy family-style Chinese dinner - tax and tip included (your gift
also helps in our patronizing the restaurant venue and helping to
defray BALUG costs such as treating our speakers to dinner).
------------------------------
For our 2013-05-21 BALUG meeting, we're proud to present:
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) - Seth David Schoen
------------------------------
2013-03-19: "slides" from: Stefano Maffulli (OpenStack)
Missed last month's talk/presentation at BALUG or want to have a look
over the "slides" from that presentation? Have a peek here:
http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-talk-balug.org/2013-March/005020.html
------------------------------
CDs/DVDs, and other "door prizes", etc.
Goodies we'll have at the BALUG meeting (at least the following):
CDs/DVDs, etc. - have a peek here:
http://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=balug:cds_and_images_etc
We may also be able to "burn" images per request or copy to USB flash,
etc. Donations of blank or +-RW media, USB flash, or funding thereof,
also appreciated. See the above URL for details.
We've also got at least a few other miscellaneous items up for grabs.
------------------------------
volunteering to help BALUG
Want to volunteer to help out BALUG? Quite a variety of opportunities*
Drop us a note at:
balug-contact(a)balug.org
Or come talk to us at a BALUG meeting.
*e.g.:
o assist on publicity
o assist on speaker coordination/procurement, etc.
o webmastering
o archivist/history/retrieval/etc.
o Linux Systems Administration (e.g. do/assist/learn, with/under some
quite experienced and skilled Linux systems administrators).
o chief/assistant cat herder
o and other various/miscellaneous tasks BALUG "ought" to be doing or
would be good to do (feel free to bring in ideas!)
------------------------------
Twitter - you can also follow BALUG on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/#!/BALUG_org
------------------------------
http://www.balug.org/
BALUG Tu 2013-04-16: Wikimedia Foundation; & other BALUG News
------------------------------
items, details further below:
2013-04-16: Wikimedia Foundation
2013-05-21: Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) - Seth David Schoen
2013-03-19: "slides" from: Stefano Maffulli (OpenStack)
CDs/DVDs, and other "door prizes", etc.
volunteering to help BALUG
Twitter https://twitter.com/#!/BALUG_org
------------------------------
Bay Area Linux User Group (BALUG) meeting
Tuesday 6:30 P.M. 2013-04-16
For our 2013-04-16 BALUG meeting, we're proud to present:
Wikimedia Foundation[1]
Come hear from Ryan Lane[2] (DevOps), Daniel Zahn[3] (DevOps) and
Quim Gil[4] (Technical Contributor Coordinator) of the Wikimedia
Foundation on topics such as:
o how the Wikimedia infrastructure is run
o what technologies are Wikimedia relying on and contributing to
o how the Wikimedia sysadmin team and the community at large interact
o about other areas where Linux & free software lovers are welcome
The Wikimedia Foundation is the non-profit organization that operates
Wikipedia[5] and other free knowledge projects[6]. Together these
sites are the fifth most visited web property in the world. The
Wikimedia Foundation is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt non-profit organization.
The Wikimedia Foundation's mission is to empower a global volunteer
community to collect and develop the world's knowledge and to make it
available to everyone for free, for any purpose.
Wikipedia is the world's largest and most popular encyclopedia. It is
online, free to use for any purpose, and free of advertising. Wikipedia
contains more than 25 million volunteer-authored articles in over 285
languages, and is visited by more than 488 million people every month,
making it one of the most popular sites in the world.
1. http://wikimediafoundation.org/
2. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Ryan_lane
3. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Mutante
4. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
5. http://www.wikipedia.org/
6. http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Our_projects
Please RSVP if you're planning to come (see further below).
So, if you'd like to join us please RSVP to:
rsvp(a)balug.org
**Why RSVP??**
Well, don't worry we won't turn you away, but the RSVPs really help
BALUG and the Four Seas Restaurant plan the meal and meeting, and with
sufficient attendance, they also help ensure that we'll be able to eat
upstairs in the private banquet room.
Meeting Details...
6:30pm
Tuesday, April 16th, 2012 2013-04-16
Four Seas Restaurant http://www.fourseasr.com/
731 Grant Ave.
San Francisco, CA 94108
Easy PARKING:
Portsmouth Square Garage at 733 Kearny:
http://www.sfpsg.com/
Cost: The meetings are always free, but for dinner, for your gift of
$13 cash or more, we give you a gift of dinner - joining us for a
yummy family-style Chinese dinner - tax and tip included (your gift
also helps in our patronizing the restaurant venue and helping to
defray BALUG costs such as treating our speakers to dinner).
------------------------------
For our 2013-04-16 BALUG meeting, we're proud to present:
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) - Seth David Schoen
------------------------------
2013-03-19: "slides" from: Stefano Maffulli (OpenStack)
Missed last month's talk/presentation at BALUG or want to have a look
over the "slides" from that presentation? Have a peek here:
http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-talk-balug.org/2013-March/005020.html
------------------------------
CDs/DVDs, and other "door prizes", etc.
Goodies we'll have at the BALUG meeting (at least the following):
CDs/DVDs, etc. - have a peek here:
http://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=balug:cds_and_images_etc
We may also be able to "burn" images per request or copy to USB flash,
etc. Donations of blank or +-RW media, USB flash, or funding thereof,
also appreciated. See the above URL for details.
We've also got at least a few other miscellaneous items up for grabs.
------------------------------
volunteering to help BALUG
Want to volunteer to help out BALUG? Quite a variety of opportunities*
Drop us a note at:
balug-contact(a)balug.org
Or come talk to us at a BALUG meeting.
*e.g.:
o assist on publicity
o assist on speaker coordination/procurement, etc.
o webmastering
o archivist/history/retrieval/etc.
o Linux Systems Administration (e.g. do/assist/learn, with/under some
quite experienced and skilled Linux systems administrators).
o chief/assistant cat herder
o and other various/miscellaneous tasks BALUG "ought" to be doing or
would be good to do (feel free to bring in ideas!)
------------------------------
Twitter - you can also follow BALUG on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/#!/BALUG_org
------------------------------
http://www.balug.org/
BALUG TOMORROW: Tu 2013-03-19: Stefano Maffulli on OpenStack;
2013-04-16: Wikimedia Foundation; & other BALUG News
REMINDER, or in case you didn't see it earlier:
BALUG TOMORROW Tu 2013-03-19: Stefano Maffulli on OpenStack
------------------------------
items, details further below:
BALUG TOMORROW Tu 2013-03-19: Stefano Maffulli on OpenStack
BALUG Tu 2013-04-16: Wikimedia Foundation
CDs/DVDs, and other "door prizes", etc.
volunteering to help BALUG
Twitter https://twitter.com/#!/BALUG_org
------------------------------
Bay Area Linux User Group (BALUG) meeting
Tuesday 6:30 P.M. 2013-03-19
For our 2013-03-19 BALUG meeting, we're proud to present:
Stefano Maffulli[1] on OpenStack[2] - Open source software for building
private and public clouds.
Stafano's talk/presentation to include at least:
An overview of OpenStack
The history of the project, how it started, what problems it tries to
solve, who's participating in the development of OpenStack and where
the OpenStack Foundation[3] wants to take it.
About OpenStack:
OpenStack is a global collaboration of developers and cloud computing
technologists producing the ubiquitous open source cloud computing
platform for public and private clouds. The project aims to deliver
solutions for all types of clouds by being simple to implement,
massively scalable, and feature rich. The technology consists of a
series of interrelated projects[4] delivering various components for a
cloud infrastructure solution.
About Stefano Maffulli:
As OpenStack community manager, Stefano built his career around Free
Software and open source: from pre-sales engineer and product manager
at Italian GNU/Linux distribution MadeInLinux[5] to Italian Chancellor
of the Free Software Foundation Europe[6], where he also created the
FSFE Fellowship participation program. Later as community manager of
leading mobile open source sync solution Funambol[7], his efforts
boosted downloads and bolstered enterprise contributions. For
Twitter[8], he led efforts to expand in the Italian market. In his
spare time, he builds furniture and is learning how to sail in the San
Francisco Bay.
If you have a specific request or question for Stefano to cover, mention
it on the BALUG-Talk List[9][10], or drop me a note at
<Michael.Paoli(a)cal.berkeley.edu> and I'll pass it along.
1. http://www.openstack.org/blog/author/stefano/
2. http://www.openstack.org/
3. http://www.openstack.org/foundation/
4. http://www.openstack.org/projects/
5. http://web.archive.org/web/20031014062555/http://www.madeinlinux.com/
6. http://fsfe.org/index.en.html
7. http://www.funambol.com/
8. https://twitter.com/
9. http://lists.balug.org/listinfo.cgi/balug-talk-balug.org
10.
http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-talk-balug.org/2013-March/005017.html
Please RSVP if you're planning to come (see further below).
So, if you'd like to join us please RSVP to:
rsvp(a)balug.org
**Why RSVP??**
Well, don't worry we won't turn you away, but the RSVPs really help
BALUG and the Four Seas Restaurant plan the meal and meeting, and with
sufficient attendance, they also help ensure that we'll be able to eat
upstairs in the private banquet room.
Meeting Details...
6:30pm
Tuesday, March 19th, 2012 2013-03-19
Four Seas Restaurant http://www.fourseasr.com/
731 Grant Ave.
San Francisco, CA 94108
Easy PARKING:
Portsmouth Square Garage at 733 Kearny:
http://www.sfpsg.com/
Cost: The meetings are always free, but for dinner, for your gift of
$13 cash or more, we give you a gift of dinner - joining us for a
yummy family-style Chinese dinner - tax and tip included (your gift
also helps in our patronizing the restaurant venue and helping to
defray BALUG costs such as treating our speakers to dinner).
------------------------------
For our 2013-04-16 BALUG meeting, we're proud to present:
The Wikimedia Foundation[1]
The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. is a nonprofit charitable organization
dedicated to encouraging the growth, development and distribution of
free, multilingual content, and to providing the full content of these
wiki-based projects to the public free of charge. The Wikimedia
Foundation operates some of the largest collaboratively edited
reference projects in the world, including Wikipedia[2], a top-ten
internet property.
1. http://wikimediafoundation.org/
2. http://www.wikipedia.org/
------------------------------
CDs/DVDs, and other "door prizes", etc.
Goodies we'll have at the BALUG meeting (at least the following):
CDs/DVDs, etc. - have a peek here:
http://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=balug:cds_and_images_etc
We may also be able to "burn" images per request or copy to USB flash,
etc. Donations of blank or +-RW media, USB flash, or funding thereof,
also appreciated. See the above URL for details.
We've also got at least a few other miscellaneous items up for grabs.
------------------------------
volunteering to help BALUG
Want to volunteer to help out BALUG? Quite a variety of opportunities*
Drop us a note at:
balug-contact(a)balug.org
Or come talk to us at a BALUG meeting.
*e.g.:
o assist on publicity
o assist on speaker coordination/procurement, etc.
o webmastering
o archivist/history/retrieval/etc.
o Linux Systems Administration (e.g. do/assist/learn, with/under some
quite experienced and skilled Linux systems administrators).
o chief/assistant cat herder
o and other various/miscellaneous tasks BALUG "ought" to be doing or
would be good to do (feel free to bring in ideas!)
------------------------------
Twitter - you can also follow BALUG on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/#!/BALUG_org
------------------------------
http://www.balug.org/
BALUG Tu 2013-03-19: Stefano Maffulli on OpenStack, 2013-04-16:
Wikimedia Foundation; & other BALUG News
------------------------------
items, details further below:
BALUG Tu 2013-03-19: Stefano Maffulli on OpenStack
BALUG Tu 2013-04-16: Wikimedia Foundation
Saltstack BOF TODAY 5pm at PyCon (Santa Clara), etc.
CDs/DVDs, and other "door prizes", etc.
volunteering to help BALUG
Twitter https://twitter.com/#!/BALUG_org
------------------------------
Bay Area Linux User Group (BALUG) meeting
Tuesday 6:30 P.M. 2013-03-19
For our 2013-03-19 BALUG meeting, we're proud to present:
Stefano Maffulli[1] on OpenStack[2] - Open source software for building
private and public clouds.
Stafano's talk/presentation to include at least:
An overview of OpenStack
The history of the project, how it started, what problems it tries to
solve, who's participating in the development of OpenStack and where
the OpenStack Foundation[3] wants to take it.
About OpenStack:
OpenStack is a global collaboration of developers and cloud computing
technologists producing the ubiquitous open source cloud computing
platform for public and private clouds. The project aims to deliver
solutions for all types of clouds by being simple to implement,
massively scalable, and feature rich. The technology consists of a
series of interrelated projects[4] delivering various components for a
cloud infrastructure solution.
About Stefano Maffulli:
As OpenStack community manager, Stefano built his career around Free
Software and open source: from pre-sales engineer and product manager
at Italian GNU/Linux distribution MadeInLinux[5] to Italian Chancellor
of the Free Software Foundation Europe[6], where he also created the
FSFE Fellowship participation program. Later as community manager of
leading mobile open source sync solution Funambol[7], his efforts
boosted downloads and bolstered enterprise contributions. For
Twitter[8], he led efforts to expand in the Italian market. In his
spare time, he builds furniture and is learning how to sail in the San
Francisco Bay.
If you have a specific request or question for Stefano to cover, mention
it on the BALUG-Talk List[9][10], or drop me a note at
<Michael.Paoli(a)cal.berkeley.edu> and I'll pass it along.
1. http://www.openstack.org/blog/author/stefano/
2. http://www.openstack.org/
3. http://www.openstack.org/foundation/
4. http://www.openstack.org/projects/
5. http://web.archive.org/web/20031014062555/http://www.madeinlinux.com/
6. http://fsfe.org/index.en.html
7. http://www.funambol.com/
8. https://twitter.com/
9. http://lists.balug.org/listinfo.cgi/balug-talk-balug.org
10.
http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-talk-balug.org/2013-March/005017.html
Please RSVP if you're planning to come (see further below).
So, if you'd like to join us please RSVP to:
rsvp(a)balug.org
**Why RSVP??**
Well, don't worry we won't turn you away, but the RSVPs really help
BALUG and the Four Seas Restaurant plan the meal and meeting, and with
sufficient attendance, they also help ensure that we'll be able to eat
upstairs in the private banquet room.
Meeting Details...
6:30pm
Tuesday, March 19th, 2012 2013-03-19
Four Seas Restaurant http://www.fourseasr.com/
731 Grant Ave.
San Francisco, CA 94108
Easy PARKING:
Portsmouth Square Garage at 733 Kearny:
http://www.sfpsg.com/
Cost: The meetings are always free, but for dinner, for your gift of
$13 cash or more, we give you a gift of dinner - joining us for a
yummy family-style Chinese dinner - tax and tip included (your gift
also helps in our patronizing the restaurant venue and helping to
defray BALUG costs such as treating our speakers to dinner).
------------------------------
For our 2013-04-16 BALUG meeting, we're proud to present:
The Wikimedia Foundation[1]
The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. is a nonprofit charitable organization
dedicated to encouraging the growth, development and distribution of
free, multilingual content, and to providing the full content of these
wiki-based projects to the public free of charge. The Wikimedia
Foundation operates some of the largest collaboratively edited
reference projects in the world, including Wikipedia[2], a top-ten
internet property.
1. http://wikimediafoundation.org/
2. http://www.wikipedia.org/
------------------------------
Saltstack BOF TODAY 5pm at PyCon (Santa Clara), etc.
And in follow-up from Corey Quinn's Salt talk/presentation at the
2012-05-15 BALUG meeting[2], one of our attendees is now also part of
the core team of developers and also passes along notice[3] of a
Saltstack BOF happening TODAY at 5pm[1] at PyCon in Santa Clara.
1. http://lanyrd.com/2013/saltpy/
2.
http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-announce-balug.org/2012-May/000189.h…
3.
http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-talk-balug.org/2013-March/005019.html
------------------------------
CDs/DVDs, and other "door prizes", etc.
Goodies we'll have at the BALUG meeting (at least the following):
CDs/DVDs, etc. - have a peek here:
http://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=balug:cds_and_images_etc
We may also be able to "burn" images per request or copy to USB flash,
etc. Donations of blank or +-RW media, USB flash, or funding thereof,
also appreciated. See the above URL for details.
We've also got at least a few other miscellaneous items up for grabs.
------------------------------
volunteering to help BALUG
Want to volunteer to help out BALUG? Quite a variety of opportunities*
Drop us a note at:
balug-contact(a)balug.org
Or come talk to us at a BALUG meeting.
*e.g.:
o assist on publicity
o assist on speaker coordination/procurement, etc.
o webmastering
o archivist/history/retrieval/etc.
o Linux Systems Administration (e.g. do/assist/learn, with/under some
quite experienced and skilled Linux systems administrators).
o chief/assistant cat herder
o and other various/miscellaneous tasks BALUG "ought" to be doing or
would be good to do (feel free to bring in ideas!)
------------------------------
Twitter - you can also follow BALUG on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/#!/BALUG_org
------------------------------
http://www.balug.org/
BALUG Tu 2013-03-19: Stefano Maffulli on OpenStack, 2013-04-16:
Wikimedia Foundation; & other BALUG News
------------------------------
items, details further below:
BALUG Tu 2013-03-19: Stefano Maffulli on OpenStack
BALUG Tu 2013-04-16: Wikimedia Foundation
CDs/DVDs, and other "door prizes", etc.
volunteering to help BALUG
Twitter https://twitter.com/#!/BALUG_org
------------------------------
Bay Area Linux User Group (BALUG) meeting
Tuesday 6:30 P.M. 2013-03-19
For our 2013-03-19 BALUG meeting, we're proud to present:
Stefano Maffulli[1] on OpenStack[2]
Open source software for building private and public clouds. OpenStack
is a global collaboration of developers and cloud computing
technologists producing the ubiquitous open source cloud computing
platform for public and private clouds. The project aims to deliver
solutions for all types of clouds by being simple to implement,
massively scalable, and feature rich. The technology consists of a
series of interrelated projects[3] delivering various components for a
cloud infrastructure solution.
1. http://www.openstack.org/blog/author/stefano/
2. http://www.openstack.org/
3. http://www.openstack.org/projects/
Please RSVP if you're planning to come (see further below).
So, if you'd like to join us please RSVP to:
rsvp(a)balug.org
**Why RSVP??**
Well, don't worry we won't turn you away, but the RSVPs really help
BALUG and the Four Seas Restaurant plan the meal and meeting, and with
sufficient attendance, they also help ensure that we'll be able to eat
upstairs in the private banquet room.
Meeting Details...
6:30pm
Tuesday, March 19th, 2012 2013-03-19
Four Seas Restaurant http://www.fourseasr.com/
731 Grant Ave.
San Francisco, CA 94108
Easy PARKING:
Portsmouth Square Garage at 733 Kearny:
http://www.sfpsg.com/
Cost: The meetings are always free, but for dinner, for your gift of
$13 cash or more, we give you a gift of dinner - joining us for a
yummy family-style Chinese dinner - tax and tip included (your gift
also helps in our patronizing the restaurant venue and helping to
defray BALUG costs such as treating our speakers to dinner).
------------------------------
For our 2013-04-16 BALUG meeting, we're proud to present:
The Wikimedia Foundation[1]
The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. is a nonprofit charitable organization
dedicated to encouraging the growth, development and distribution of
free, multilingual content, and to providing the full content of these
wiki-based projects to the public free of charge. The Wikimedia
Foundation operates some of the largest collaboratively edited
reference projects in the world, including Wikipedia[2], a top-ten
internet property.
1. http://wikimediafoundation.org/
2. http://www.wikipedia.org/
------------------------------
CDs/DVDs, and other "door prizes", etc.
Goodies we'll have at the BALUG meeting (at least the following):
CDs/DVDs, etc. - have a peek here:
http://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=balug:cds_and_images_etc
We may also be able to "burn" images per request or copy to USB flash,
etc. Donations of blank or +-RW media, USB flash, or funding thereof,
also appreciated. See the above URL for details.
We've also got at least a few other miscellaneous items to be given
away.
------------------------------
volunteering to help BALUG
Want to volunteer to help out BALUG? Quite a variety of opportunities*
Drop us a note at:
balug-contact(a)balug.org
Or come talk to us at a BALUG meeting.
*e.g.:
o assist on publicity
o assist on speaker coordination/procurement, etc.
o webmastering
o archivist/history/retrieval/etc.
o Linux Systems Administration (e.g. do/assist/learn, with/under some
quite experienced and skilled Linux systems administrators).
o chief/assistant cat herder
o and other various/miscellaneous tasks BALUG "ought" to be doing or
would be good to do (feel free to bring in ideas!)
------------------------------
Twitter - you can also follow BALUG on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/#!/BALUG_org
------------------------------
http://www.balug.org/
BALUG Tu 2013-02-19: Elizabeth Krumbach on Linux deployments in Ghana;
& other BALUG News
BALUG meeting Tu 2013-02-19:
Elizabeth Krumbach on Linux deployments in Ghana
And don't forget, that's the day after President's Day, for those
enjoying President's Day off.
------------------------------
items, details further below:
BALUG Tu 2013-02-19: Elizabeth Krumbach on Linux deployments in Ghana
BALUG Tu 2013-03-19: Stefano Maffulli on OpenStack
Book(s), CDs/DVDs, and other "door prizes", etc.
volunteering to help BALUG
Twitter https://twitter.com/#!/BALUG_org
------------------------------
Bay Area Linux User Group (BALUG) meeting
Tuesday 6:30 P.M. 2013-02-19
For our 2013-02-19 BALUG meeting, we're proud to present:
Elizabeth Krumbach on Linux deployments in Ghana
In October of 2012 Elizabeth Krumbach accompanied other volunteers from
Computer Reach[1], a non-profit based out of Pittsburgh, PA, on a trip
to Ghana in western Africa to assist with the deployment of 100
Edubuntu[2]-based desktop computers. In this talk she will share
photos and details of the trip, along with some of the lessons they
learned about doing such a deployment in a developing country, covering
hardware, software and training requirements. For a bit more
background, one can also have a look at her earlier Ubuntu User[3]
article: Road Trip: Delivering Edbuntu systems to Ghana[4].
Elizabeth Krumbach works as a Linux Systems Administrator focused on
continuous integration, holds a position on the Ubuntu Community
Council[5] and is the Treasurer and a Director at the non-profit
Partimus[6]. She has held a leadership position in the Ubuntu
Women[7], Ubuntu Classroom[8] and Ubuntu News[9] projects for several
years and recently took over as Marketing and Website lead for the
Xubuntu[10] Linux distribution. Former coordinator for the
Philadelphia area Linux Users Group[11], she is now living in San
Francisco and is one of the leaders of the Ubuntu California[12] team
where she coordinates Bay Area Ubuntu events and meetings, install
fests, booths and hosts Debian dinners every couple months for Bay Area
Debian[13].
1. http://computereach.com/
2. http://edubuntu.org/
3. http://www.ubuntu-user.com/
4.
http://www.ubuntu-user.com/content/download/3340/22578/file/070-073_edubunt…
5. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CommunityCouncil
6. http://www.partimus.org/
7. http://women.ubuntu.com/
8. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Classroom
9. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NewsTeam
10. http://www.xubuntu.org/
11. http://www.phillylinux.org/
12. http://ubuntu-california.org/
13. http://bad.debian.net/
Please RSVP if you're planning to come (see further below).
So, if you'd like to join us please RSVP to:
rsvp(a)balug.org
**Why RSVP??**
Well, don't worry we won't turn you away, but the RSVPs really help
BALUG and the Four Seas Restaurant plan the meal and meeting, and with
sufficient attendance, they also help ensure that we'll be able to eat
upstairs in the private banquet room.
Meeting Details...
6:30pm
Tuesday, February 19th, 2012 2013-02-19
Four Seas Restaurant http://www.fourseasr.com/
731 Grant Ave.
San Francisco, CA 94108
Easy PARKING:
Portsmouth Square Garage at 733 Kearny:
http://www.sfpsg.com/
Cost: The meetings are always free, but for dinner, for your gift of
$13 cash or more, we give you a gift of dinner - joining us for a
yummy family-style Chinese dinner - tax and tip included (your gift
also helps in our patronizing the restaurant venue and helping to
defray BALUG costs such as treating our speakers to dinner).
------------------------------
For our 2013-03-19 BALUG meeting, we're proud to present:
Stefano Maffulli[1] on OpenStack[2]
Open source software for building private and public clouds. OpenStack
is a global collaboration of developers and cloud computing
technologists producing the ubiquitous open source cloud computing
platform for public and private clouds. The project aims to deliver
solutions for all types of clouds by being simple to implement,
massively scalable, and feature rich. The technology consists of a
series of interrelated projects[3] delivering various components for a
cloud infrastructure solution.
1. http://www.openstack.org/blog/author/stefano/
2. http://www.openstack.org/
3. http://www.openstack.org/projects/
------------------------------
Book(s), CDs/DVDs, and other "door prizes", etc.
Goodies we'll have at the meeting (at least the following):
Book review copies
For Tuesday's meeting, we should have (selection of)
at least one of these books to give away:
Ubuntu Unleashed 2013 Edition: Covering 12.10 and 13.04, 8th Edition
DevOps Troubleshooting: Linux Server Best Practices
details:
http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-talk-balug.org/2013-February/005012.…
CDs/DVDs, etc. - have a peek here:
http://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=balug:cds_and_images_etc
We may also be able to "burn" images per request or copy to USB flash,
etc. Donations of blank or +-RW media, USB flash, or funding thereof,
also appreciated. See the above URL for details.
We've also got a few other miscellaneous items to be given away (e.g.
got (more) cowbell?).
------------------------------
volunteering to help BALUG
Want to volunteer to help out BALUG? Quite a variety of opportunities*
Drop us a note at:
balug-contact(a)balug.org
Or come talk to us at a BALUG meeting.
*e.g.:
o assist on publicity
o assist on speaker coordination/procurement, etc.
o webmastering
o archivist/history/retrieval/etc.
o Linux Systems Administration (e.g. do/assist/learn, with/under some
quite experienced and skilled Linux systems administrators).
o chief/assistant cat herder
o and other various/miscellaneous tasks BALUG "ought" to be doing or
would be good to do (feel free to bring in ideas!)
------------------------------
Twitter - you can also follow BALUG on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/#!/BALUG_org
------------------------------
http://www.balug.org/
Reminder, BALUG meeting Tomorrow Tu 2013-01-15:
Grant Bowman: ubuntu-california.org Q&A
details for that event can be seen on our web site:
http://www.balug.org/#Meetings-upcoming
or in the earlier announcement included below:
BALUG Tu 2013-01-15: Grant Bowman: ubuntu-california.org Q&A; & other
BALUG news
------------------------------
items, details further below:
BALUG Tu 2013-01-15: Grant Bowman: ubuntu-california.org Q&A
BALUG Tu 2013-02-19: Elizabeth Krumbach on Linux deployments in Ghana
Petition US Government - free / open source software in schools
Book(s), CDs/DVDs, and other "door prizes", etc.
"slides" from: BALUG 2012-07-17 screen(1) presented by Michael Paoli
volunteering to help BALUG
Twitter https://twitter.com/#!/BALUG_org
------------------------------
Bay Area Linux User Group (BALUG) meeting
Tuesday 6:30 P.M. 2013-01-15
For our 2013-01-15 BALUG meeting, we're proud to present:
Grant Bowman - ubuntu-california.org[1] Q&A
Everything you ever wanted to know about the California Team and the
Ubuntu community. How to represent Ubuntu[2] in local Linux User Groups
and participate online and around the world in the semi-annual Ubuntu
community events scheduled around the six month Ubuntu release cadence
in April and October.
Mr. Bowman has been a consultant and Internet professional for over
twenty years and is presently a Director of Partimus[3]. He is one of
three elected ubuntu-california.org[1] leaders, an Ubuntu Member,
Fedora[4] Ambassador[5] and former employee of suse.com[6]. He is
active with berkeleylug.com[7], noisebridge.net[8], SF-LUG[9] and
DVLUG[10] and his website is at grantbow.com[11].
1. http://ubuntu-california.org/
2. http://www.ubuntu.com/
3. http://partimus.org/
4. http://fedoraproject.org/
5. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors
6. https://www.suse.com/
7. http://berkeleylug.com/
8. https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Noisebridge
9. http://sf-lug.com/
10. http://dvlug.org/
11. http://www.grantbow.com/
Please RSVP if you're planning to come (see further below).
For our 2013-01-15 BALUG meeting, we're proud to present:
So, if you'd like to join us please RSVP to:
rsvp(a)balug.org
**Why RSVP??**
Well, don't worry we won't turn you away, but the RSVPs really help
BALUG and the Four Seas Restaurant plan the meal and meeting, and with
sufficient attendance, they also help ensure that we'll be able to eat
upstairs in the private banquet room.
Meeting Details...
6:30pm
Tuesday, January 15th, 2012 2013-01-15
Four Seas Restaurant http://www.fourseasr.com/
731 Grant Ave.
San Francisco, CA 94108
Easy PARKING:
Portsmouth Square Garage at 733 Kearny:
http://www.sfpsg.com/
Cost: The meetings are always free, but for dinner, for your gift of
$13 cash or more, we give you a gift of dinner - joining us for a
yummy family-style Chinese dinner - tax and tip included (your gift
also helps in our patronizing the restaurant venue and helping to
defray BALUG costs such as treating our speakers to dinner).
------------------------------
For our 2013-01-15 BALUG meeting, we're proud to present:
Elizabeth Krumbach on Linux deployments in Ghana
In October of 2012 Elizabeth Krumbach accompanied other volunteers from
Computer Reach[1], a non-profit based out of Pittsburgh, PA, on a trip
to Ghana in western Africa to assist with the deployment of 100
Edubuntu[2]-based desktop computers. In this talk she will share
photos and details of the trip, along with some of the lessons they
learned about doing such a deployment in a developing country, covering
hardware, software and training requirements. For a bit more
background, one can also have a look at her earlier Ubuntu User[3]
article: Road Trip: Delivering Edbuntu systems to Ghana[4].
Elizabeth Krumbach works as a Linux Systems Administrator focused on
continuous integration, holds a position on the Ubuntu Community
Council[5] and is the Treasurer and a Director at the non-profit
Partimus[6]. She has held a leadership position in the Ubuntu
Women[7], Ubuntu Classroom[8] and Ubuntu News[9] projects for several
years and recently took over as Marketing and Website lead for the
Xubuntu[10] Linux distribution. Former coordinator for the
Philadelphia area Linux Users Group[11], she is now living in San
Francisco and is one of the leaders of the Ubuntu California[12] team
where she coordinates Bay Area Ubuntu events and meetings, install
fests, booths and hosts Debian dinners every couple months for Bay Area
Debian[13].
1. http://computereach.com/
2. http://edubuntu.org/
3. http://www.ubuntu-user.com/
4.
http://www.ubuntu-user.com/content/download/3340/22578/file/070-073_edubunt…
5. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CommunityCouncil
6. http://www.partimus.org/
7. http://women.ubuntu.com/
8. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Classroom
9. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NewsTeam
10. http://www.xubuntu.org/
11. http://www.phillylinux.org/
12. http://ubuntu-california.org/
13. http://bad.debian.net/
------------------------------
Petition US Government - free / open source software in schools
If you've not seen it[1], there's an on-line petition[2] to urge the US
Government to favor and encourage free Open Source software use in and
by schools.
1.
http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-talk-balug.org/2013-January/004925.h…
2. http://wh.gov/Rz6C
------------------------------
Book(s), CDs/DVDs, and other "door prizes", etc.
Goodies we'll have at the meeting (at least the following):
eBook review copy (only one copy remains):
A Practical Guide to Linux Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming,
3rd Edition, Mark G. Sobell
http://www.informit.com/title/013308504Xhttp://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-talk-balug.org/2012-November/004885.…
CDs/DVDs, etc. - have a peek here:
http://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=balug:cds_and_images_etc
We may also be able to "burn" images per request or copy to USB flash,
etc. Donations of blank or +-RW media, USB flash, or funding thereof,
also appreciated. See the above URL for details.
------------------------------
"slides" from: BALUG 2012-07-17 screen(1) presented by Michael Paoli
Missed that meeting, or want to review the materials? Have a peek here:
http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-talk-balug.org/2013-January/004926.h…
------------------------------
volunteering to help BALUG
Want to volunteer to help out BALUG? Quite a variety of opportunities*
Drop us a note at:
balug-contact(a)balug.org
Or come talk to us at a BALUG meeting.
*e.g.:
o assist on publicity
o assist on speaker coordination/procurement, etc.
o webmastering
o archivist/history/retrieval/etc.
o Linux Systems Administration (e.g. do/assist/learn, with/under some
quite experienced and skilled Linux systems administrators).
o and other various/miscellaneous tasks BALUG "ought" to be doing or
would be good to do (feel free to bring in ideas!)
------------------------------
Twitter - you can also follow BALUG on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/#!/BALUG_org
------------------------------
http://www.balug.org/
BALUG Tu 2013-01-15: Grant Bowman: ubuntu-california.org Q&A; & other
BALUG news
------------------------------
items, details further below:
BALUG Tu 2013-01-15: Grant Bowman: ubuntu-california.org Q&A
BALUG Tu 2013-02-19: Elizabeth Krumbach on Linux deployments in Ghana
Petition US Government - free / open source software in schools
Book(s), CDs/DVDs, and other "door prizes", etc.
"slides" from: BALUG 2012-07-17 screen(1) presented by Michael Paoli
volunteering to help BALUG
Twitter https://twitter.com/#!/BALUG_org
------------------------------
Bay Area Linux User Group (BALUG) meeting
Tuesday 6:30 P.M. 2013-01-15
For our 2013-01-15 BALUG meeting, we're proud to present:
Grant Bowman - ubuntu-california.org[1] Q&A
Everything you ever wanted to know about the California Team and the
Ubuntu community. How to represent Ubuntu[2] in local Linux User Groups
and participate online and around the world in the semi-annual Ubuntu
community events scheduled around the six month Ubuntu release cadence
in April and October.
Mr. Bowman has been a consultant and Internet professional for over
twenty years and is presently a Director of Partimus[3]. He is one of
three elected ubuntu-california.org[1] leaders, an Ubuntu Member,
Fedora[4] Ambassador[5] and former employee of suse.com[6]. He is
active with berkeleylug.com[7], noisebridge.net[8], SF-LUG[9] and
DVLUG[10] and his website is at grantbow.com[11].
1. http://ubuntu-california.org/
2. http://www.ubuntu.com/
3. http://partimus.org/
4. http://fedoraproject.org/
5. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors
6. https://www.suse.com/
7. http://berkeleylug.com/
8. https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Noisebridge
9. http://sf-lug.com/
10. http://dvlug.org/
11. http://www.grantbow.com/
Please RSVP if you're planning to come (see further below).
For our 2013-01-15 BALUG meeting, we're proud to present:
So, if you'd like to join us please RSVP to:
rsvp(a)balug.org
**Why RSVP??**
Well, don't worry we won't turn you away, but the RSVPs really help
BALUG and the Four Seas Restaurant plan the meal and meeting, and with
sufficient attendance, they also help ensure that we'll be able to eat
upstairs in the private banquet room.
Meeting Details...
6:30pm
Tuesday, January 15th, 2012 2013-01-15
Four Seas Restaurant http://www.fourseasr.com/
731 Grant Ave.
San Francisco, CA 94108
Easy PARKING:
Portsmouth Square Garage at 733 Kearny:
http://www.sfpsg.com/
Cost: The meetings are always free, but for dinner, for your gift of
$13 cash or more, we give you a gift of dinner - joining us for a
yummy family-style Chinese dinner - tax and tip included (your gift
also helps in our patronizing the restaurant venue and helping to
defray BALUG costs such as treating our speakers to dinner).
------------------------------
For our 2013-01-15 BALUG meeting, we're proud to present:
Elizabeth Krumbach on Linux deployments in Ghana
In October of 2012 Elizabeth Krumbach accompanied other volunteers from
Computer Reach[1], a non-profit based out of Pittsburgh, PA, on a trip
to Ghana in western Africa to assist with the deployment of 100
Edubuntu[2]-based desktop computers. In this talk she will share
photos and details of the trip, along with some of the lessons they
learned about doing such a deployment in a developing country, covering
hardware, software and training requirements. For a bit more
background, one can also have a look at her earlier Ubuntu User[3]
article: Road Trip: Delivering Edbuntu systems to Ghana[4].
Elizabeth Krumbach works as a Linux Systems Administrator focused on
continuous integration, holds a position on the Ubuntu Community
Council[5] and is the Treasurer and a Director at the non-profit
Partimus[6]. She has held a leadership position in the Ubuntu
Women[7], Ubuntu Classroom[8] and Ubuntu News[9] projects for several
years and recently took over as Marketing and Website lead for the
Xubuntu[10] Linux distribution. Former coordinator for the
Philadelphia area Linux Users Group[11], she is now living in San
Francisco and is one of the leaders of the Ubuntu California[12] team
where she coordinates Bay Area Ubuntu events and meetings, install
fests, booths and hosts Debian dinners every couple months for Bay Area
Debian[13].
1. http://computereach.com/
2. http://edubuntu.org/
3. http://www.ubuntu-user.com/
4.
http://www.ubuntu-user.com/content/download/3340/22578/file/070-073_edubunt…
5. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CommunityCouncil
6. http://www.partimus.org/
7. http://women.ubuntu.com/
8. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Classroom
9. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NewsTeam
10. http://www.xubuntu.org/
11. http://www.phillylinux.org/
12. http://ubuntu-california.org/
13. http://bad.debian.net/
------------------------------
Petition US Government - free / open source software in schools
If you've not seen it[1], there's an on-line petition[2] to urge the US
Government to favor and encourage free Open Source software use in and
by schools.
1.
http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-talk-balug.org/2013-January/004925.h…
2. http://wh.gov/Rz6C
------------------------------
Book(s), CDs/DVDs, and other "door prizes", etc.
Goodies we'll have at the meeting (at least the following):
eBook review copy (only one copy remains):
A Practical Guide to Linux Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming,
3rd Edition, Mark G. Sobell
http://www.informit.com/title/013308504Xhttp://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-talk-balug.org/2012-November/004885.…
CDs/DVDs, etc. - have a peek here:
http://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=balug:cds_and_images_etc
We may also be able to "burn" images per request or copy to USB flash,
etc. Donations of blank or +-RW media, USB flash, or funding thereof,
also appreciated. See the above URL for details.
------------------------------
"slides" from: BALUG 2012-07-17 screen(1) presented by Michael Paoli
Missed that meeting, or want to review the materials? Have a peek here:
http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-talk-balug.org/2013-January/004926.h…
------------------------------
volunteering to help BALUG
Want to volunteer to help out BALUG? Quite a variety of opportunities*
Drop us a note at:
balug-contact(a)balug.org
Or come talk to us at a BALUG meeting.
*e.g.:
o assist on publicity
o assist on speaker coordination/procurement, etc.
o webmastering
o archivist/history/retrieval/etc.
o Linux Systems Administration (e.g. do/assist/learn, with/under some
quite experienced and skilled Linux systems administrators).
o and other various/miscellaneous tasks BALUG "ought" to be doing or
would be good to do (feel free to bring in ideas!)
------------------------------
Twitter - you can also follow BALUG on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/#!/BALUG_org
------------------------------
http://www.balug.org/
BALUG: no Dec. meeting & other BALUG news
------------------------------
items, details further below:
2012-12 no BALUG meeting; next BALUG meetings 2013-01-15, ...
BALUG "announce" list
past meeting materials (Raspberry Pi, Ubuntu, OpenPhoto, ...)
Twitter https://twitter.com/#!/BALUG_org
volunteering to help BALUG
------------------------------
2012-12 no BALUG meeting in December. We typically skip December.
Happy Holidays! We generally meet 3rd Tuesdays, mark your calendars!:
2013-01-15 2013-02-19 2013-03-19 2013-04-16 2013-05-21 2013-06-18
2013-07-16 2013-08-20 2013-09-17 2013-10-15 2013-11-19 ...
http://www.balug.org/#Meetings-upcoming
------------------------------
BALUG "announce" list
Want to be sure and catch important BALUG news/announcements? It is
also a "low volume" list (generally maximum of 3 emails per month, and
sometimes as few as only one). Consider subscribing directly so you
receive them in a timely manner and don't miss any such announcements.
http://lists.balug.org/listinfo.cgi/balug-announce-balug.org
------------------------------
past meeting material (Raspberry Pi, Ubuntu, OpenPhoto, ...)
Missed one of our past meetings, or want to see/review the materials
from the meeting? In some cases presenters provide us with copies of
materials, or we may record a talk/presentation.
These are some of the more recent materials we have:
2012-06-19: Raspberry Pi - Allan Cecil
http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-talk-balug.org/2012-December/004921.…
2012-02-21: OpenPhoto Project - Jaisen Mathai
http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-talk-balug.org/2012-February/004794.…
2012-04-17: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin - Grant Bowman &
Elizabeth Krumbach
http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-talk-balug.org/2012-April/004834.html
Sometimes speakers/presenters also have materials elsewhere - e.g. their
own web sites. See also the "announce" archives for many of those links.
http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-announce-balug.org/
------------------------------
Twitter - you can also follow BALUG on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/#!/BALUG_org
------------------------------
volunteering to help BALUG
Want to volunteer to help out BALUG? Quite a variety of opportunities*
Drop us a note at:
balug-contact(a)balug.org
Or come talk to us at a BALUG meeting.
*e.g.:
o assist on publicity
o assist on speaker coordination/procurement, etc.
o webmastering
o archivist/history/retrieval/etc.
o Linux Systems Administration (e.g. do/assist/learn, with/under some
quite experienced and skilled Linux systems administrators).
o and other various/miscellaneous tasks BALUG "ought" to be doing or
would be good to do (feel free to bring ideas!)
------------------------------
http://www.balug.org/
BALUG: no Dec. meeting, next meeting 2013-01-15 & other news
------------------------------
items, details further below:
2012-12 no BALUG meeting
BALUG "announce" list
next BALUG meetings 2013-01-15, ...
2012-12 other Linux stuff
Twitter https://twitter.com/#!/BALUG_org
volunteering to help BALUG
------------------------------
2012-12 no BALUG meeting in December. We typically skip December.
Happy Holidays! And as for next BALUG meetings and other Linux things
to do in December, read further below.
------------------------------
BALUG "announce" list
Want to be sure and catch important BALUG news/announcements? It is
also a "low volume" list (generally maximum of 3 emails per month, and
sometimes as few as only one). Consider subscribing directly so you
don't miss any such announcements and they're emailed to you in a timely
manner.
http://lists.balug.org/listinfo.cgi/balug-announce-balug.org
------------------------------
next BALUG meeting is 2013-01-15. We generally meet 3rd Tuesdays.
So, why not go ahead and note the dates on your 2013 calendar now? :-)
2013-01-15
2013-02-19*
2013-03-19
2013-04-16
2013-05-21
2013-06-18
2013-07-16
2013-08-20
2013-09-17
2013-10-15
2013-11-19
...
*we sometimes need to adjust our February date - watch our "announce"
list for details/updates and/or check our web site
http://www.balug.org/#Meetings-upcoming
------------------------------
2012-12 other Linux stuff
Missing and wanting to have more Linux in December? Maybe even in San
Francisco with Chinese food?
You may want to check out some of these items:
Bay Area Debian (BAD) (unofficial) meetup Wed. Dec. 5th at Henry's Hunan
(Natoma) SF 7pm
http://bad.debian.net/list/2012-November/003522.htmlhttp://bad.debian.net/
And immediately preceding the above and highly conveniently close by:
Ubuntu Hour 6-7pm
http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/ubuntu-california/2121/detail/
San Francisco Linux Users' Group (SF-LUG)
http://www.sf-lug.com/
first Sundays 11a-1p & third Mondays 6p-8p
Noisebridge - among other things, has many Linux, Open Source,
computer/digital/electronics/hardware and related events/activities,
many of them weekly.
http://www.noisebridge.net/
new group/meeting: Ubuntu Hour Berkeley - first meeting Dec. 1 3-4pm
http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/ubuntu-california/2125/detail/
And probably some other events/meetings I've forgotten to include or
don't have details on quite at my fingertips.
And, as soon as you start missing "Hey, those other groups and meetups
generally don't have a speaker/presentation!" - we generally *do* have
that at BALUG - along with Chinese food, etc.
------------------------------
Twitter - you can also follow BALUG on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/#!/BALUG_org
------------------------------
volunteering to help BALUG
Want to volunteer to help out BALUG? Quite a variety of opportunities*
Drop us a note at:
balug-contact(a)balug.org
Or come talk to us at a BALUG meeting.
*e.g.:
o assist on publicity
o assist on speaker coordination/procurement, etc.
o webmastering
o archivist/history/retrieval/etc.
o Linux Systems Administration (e.g. do/assist/learn, with/under some
quite experienced and skilled Linux systems administrators).
o and other various/miscellaneous tasks BALUG "ought" to be doing or
would be good to do (feel free to bring in ideas!)
------------------------------
http://www.balug.org/