Bay Area Linux User Group (BALUG) meeting
TOMORROW Tuesday 6:30 P.M. 2012-08-21
Please RSVP if you're planning to come (see further below).
For our 2012-08-21 BALUG meeting, at least presently we don't have a
specific speaker/presentation lined up for this meeting, but that
doesn't prevent us from having interesting and exciting meetings.
Sometimes we also manage to secure/confirm a speaker too late for us to
announce or fully publicize the speaker (that's happened at least twice
in the past five or so years). Got questions, answers, and/or
opinions? We typically have some expert(s) and/or relative expert(s)
present to cover LINUX and related topic areas. Want to hear some
interesting discussions on LINUX and other topics? Show up at the
meeting, and feel free to bring an agenda if you wish. Want to help
ensure BALUG has speakers/presentations lined up for future meetings?
Help refer speakers to us and/or volunteer to be one of the speaker
coordinators. Good food, good people, and interesting conversations to
be had.
So, if you'd like to join us please RSVP to:
rsvp at 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, August 21st, 2012 2012-08-21
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, 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 treating our speakers to dinner).
------------------------------
Twitter - you can also follow BALUG on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/#!/BALUG_org
------------------------------
CDs, and other "door prizes", etc.
Goodies we'll have at the meeting (at least the following):
We've got some hardware goodies to give away, in addition to available
CDs noted below.
CDs, etc. - have a peek here:
http://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=balug:cds_and_images_etc
We do also have some additional give-away items, and may have
"door prizes".
------------------------------
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.
------------------------------
http://www.balug.org/
reminder TODAY!: BALUG: screen(1), presented by Michael Paoli; & other
BALUG news
------------------------------
items, details further below:
2012-07-17 at BALUG: presented by Michael Paoli
Twitter https://twitter.com/#!/BALUG_org
CDs, and other "door prizes", etc.
volunteering to help BALUG
------------------------------
For our 2012-07-17 meeting BALUG is proud to present:
screen(1), presented by Michael Paoli
screen(1) is a highly useful and quite versitile utility, considered
"essential" by many or most Linux systems administrators, and also
often heavily utilized by many other Linux users. Most notably,
screen(1) is a terminal session manager, allowing one to create,
manage, detatch from, and reattach to terminal sessions. But screen(1)
has a very rich feature set, allowing one to do numerous related useful
things, e.g. copy/paste from independent scrollback buffers, title and
retitle screen(1) sessions and terminal window sessions within
screen(1), monitor window sessions for (in)activity and report on
window activity, can be set to work with multiple users for read-only
or read-write sharing of terminal sessions, and is highly configurable,
to name but a few of its numerous features and capabilities.
Michael Paoli has been using screen(1) for about a dozen or more years.
He's been doing Linux systems administration for over 14 years, and
has professionally been working in Linux/Unix systems administration in
excess of two decades, and has worked with Unix since long before than
all that.
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, July 17th, 2012 2012-07-17
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, 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).
------------------------------
Twitter - you can also follow BALUG on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/#!/BALUG_org
------------------------------
CDs, and other "door prizes", etc.
Goodies we'll have at the meeting (at least the following):
CDs, etc. - have a peek here:
http://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=balug:cds_and_images_etc
We do also have some additional give-away items, and may have
"door prizes".
------------------------------
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.
------------------------------
http://www.balug.org/
BALUG: Tu 2012-07-17: screen(1), presented by Michael Paoli; & other
BALUG news
------------------------------
items, details further below:
2012-07-17 at BALUG: presented by Michael Paoli
Twitter https://twitter.com/#!/BALUG_org
CDs, and other "door prizes", etc.
volunteering to help BALUG
------------------------------
For our 2012-07-17 meeting BALUG is proud to present:
screen(1), presented by Michael Paoli
screen(1) is a highly useful and quite versitile utility, considered
"essential" by many or most Linux systems administrators, and also
often heavily utilized by many other Linux users. Most notably,
screen(1) is a terminal session manager, allowing one to create,
manage, detatch from, and reattach to terminal sessions. But screen(1)
has a very rich feature set, allowing one to do numerous related useful
things, e.g. copy/paste from independent scrollback buffers, title and
retitle screen(1) sessions and terminal window sessions within
screen(1), monitor window sessions for (in)activity and report on
window activity, can be set to work with multiple users for read-only
or read-write sharing of terminal sessions, and is highly configurable,
to name but a few of its numerous features and capabilities.
Michael Paoli has been using screen(1) for about a dozen or more years.
He's been doing Linux systems administration for over 14 years, and
has professionally been working in Linux/Unix systems administration in
excess of two decades, and has worked with Unix since long before than
all that.
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, July 17th, 2012 2012-07-17
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, 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).
------------------------------
Twitter - you can also follow BALUG on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/#!/BALUG_org
------------------------------
CDs, and other "door prizes", etc.
Goodies we'll have at the meeting (at least the following):
CDs, etc. - have a peek here:
http://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=balug:cds_and_images_etc
We do also have some additional give-away items, and may have
"door prizes".
------------------------------
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.
------------------------------
http://www.balug.org/
Reminder, TOMORROW: Tu 2012-06-19:
For our 2012-06-19 meeting BALUG is proud to present:
Raspberry Pi[1], presented by Allan Cecil
A Raspberry Pi[1] is a low power $35 Linux PC the size of a deck of
cards with powerful features including hardware-accelerated h.264 video
playback at 1080p. In this talk, Allan will present an overview of the
educational mission of the Raspberry Pi Foundation[2], available
hardware variants and accessories, precompiled Linux distributions, and
a live demo including a demonstration of XBMC playing back HD video.
Allan Cecil is the Vice President of the North Bay Linux Users Group[3]
and a Test Engineer for Cyan, Inc.[4] in Petaluma[5].
1. http://www.raspberrypi.org/faqs
2. http://www.raspberrypi.org/about
3. http://www.nblug.org/
4. http://cyaninc.com/
5. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petaluma,_California
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, June 19th, 2012 2012-06-19
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, 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).
------------------------------
other bits for tomorrow and other BALUG news:
http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-announce-balug.org/2012-June/000190.…
------------------------------
http://www.balug.org/
BALUG: Tu 2012-06-19: Rasperry Pi presented by Allan Cecil; & other BALUG news
------------------------------
items, details further below:
2012-06-19 at BALUG: Raspberry Pi, presented by Allan Cecil
Twitter https://twitter.com/#!/BALUG_org
CDs, and other "door prizes", etc.
volunteering to help BALUG
------------------------------
For our 2012-06-19 meeting BALUG is proud to present:
Raspberry Pi[1], presented by Allan Cecil
A Raspberry Pi[1] is a low power $35 Linux PC the size of a deck of
cards with powerful features including hardware-accelerated h.264 video
playback at 1080p. In this talk, Allan will present an overview of the
educational mission of the Raspberry Pi Foundation[2], available
hardware variants and accessories, precompiled Linux distributions, and
a live demo including a demonstration of XBMC playing back HD video.
Allan Cecil is the Vice President of the North Bay Linux Users Group[3]
and a Test Engineer for Cyan, Inc.[4] in Petaluma[5].
1. http://www.raspberrypi.org/faqs
2. http://www.raspberrypi.org/about
3. http://www.nblug.org/
4. http://cyaninc.com/
5. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petaluma,_California
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, June 19th, 2012 2012-06-19
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, 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).
------------------------------
Twitter - you can also follow BALUG on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/#!/BALUG_org
------------------------------
CDs, and other "door prizes", etc.
Goodies we'll have at the meeting (at least the following):
CDs, etc. - have a peek here:
http://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=balug:cds_and_images_etc
We do also have some additional give-away items, and may have
"door prizes".
------------------------------
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.
------------------------------
http://www.balug.org/
REMINDER: BALUG: Tu 2012-05-15: Salt (Configuration Management and
Remote Execution at Scale) by Corey Quinn; & other BALUG news
------------------------------
items, details further below:
2012-05-15 Salt. Configuration Management and Remote Execution at Scale,
by Corey Quinn
Twitter https://twitter.com/#!/BALUG_org
CDs, and other "door prizes", etc.
speakers/presenters?
------------------------------
For our 2012-05-15 meeting BALUG is proud to present:
Corey Quinn: Salt[1]. Configuration Management and Remote
Execution at Scale
Corey Quinn has been finding new and better ways to be lazy via
configuration management since discovering that "ssh in a for loop"
didn't scale. He's a volunteer for the freenode[2] IRC[3]
network, and splits his time between Los Angeles and San Francisco,
where he's the director of systems operations at Expensify.com[4],
helping make expense reports not suck.
1. http://saltstack.org/
2. http://freenode.net/
3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Relay_Chat
4. https://www.expensify.com/
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, May 15th, 2012 2012-05-15
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, 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).
------------------------------
Twitter - you can also follow BALUG on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/#!/BALUG_org
------------------------------
CDs, and other "door prizes", etc.
Goodies we'll have at the meeting (at least the following):
CDs, etc. - have a peek here:
http://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=balug:cds_and_images_etc
We do also have some additional give-away items, and may have
"door prizes".
------------------------------
speakers/presenters?
Some suitable talk/presentation for BALUG - are you willing and able to
do such, or know someone who is? Can you talk someone into it? :-)
Can you help BALUG line up speakers/presenters for BALUG meetings?
Any or all of the preceding, let us know, or if you wish to join the
BALUG speaker coordinators, just let us know:
balug-speaker-coordinators(a)balug.org
------------------------------
http://www.balug.org/
BALUG: Tu 2012-05-15: Salt (Configuration Management and Remote
Execution at Scale) by Corey Quinn; & other BALUG news
------------------------------
items, details further below:
2012-05-15 Salt. Configuration Management and Remote Execution at Scale,
by Corey Quinn
2012-04-17 materials from meeting (Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin
presented by: Grant Bowman & Elizabeth Krumbach)
Twitter https://twitter.com/#!/BALUG_org
CDs, and other "door prizes", etc.
volunteering to help BALUG
------------------------------
For our 2012-05-15 meeting BALUG is proud to present:
Corey Quinn: Salt[1]. Configuration Management and Remote
Execution at Scale
Corey Quinn has been finding new and better ways to be lazy via
configuration management since discovering that "ssh in a for loop"
didn't scale. He's a volunteer for the freenode[2] IRC[3]
network, and splits his time between Los Angeles and San Francisco,
where he's the director of systems operations at Expensify.com[4],
helping make expense reports not suck.
1. http://saltstack.org/
2. http://freenode.net/
3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Relay_Chat
4. https://www.expensify.com/
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, May 15th, 2012 2012-05-15
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, 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).
------------------------------
2012-04-17 materials from meeting: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin
presented by: Grant Bowman & Elizabeth Krumbach
Missed the meeting or not, looking for materials from that meeting?
Have a peek here:
http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-talk-balug.org/2012-April/004834.html
------------------------------
Twitter - you can also follow BALUG on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/#!/BALUG_org
------------------------------
CDs, and other "door prizes", etc.
Goodies we'll have at the meeting (at least the following):
CDs, etc. - have a peek here:
http://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=balug:cds_and_images_etc
We do also have some additional give-away items, and may have
"door prizes".
------------------------------
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.
------------------------------
http://www.balug.org/
BALUG: REMINDER: TODAY Tu 2012-04-17 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise
Pangolin, by Grant Bowman & Elizabeth Krumbach; & other BALUG news
------------------------------
items, details further below:
TODAY 2012-04-17 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin, by Grant Bowman &
Elizabeth Krumbach
2012-05-15 Salt. Configuration Management and Remote Execution at Scale,
by Corey Quinn
Twitter https://twitter.com/#!/BALUG_org
CDs, and other "door prizes", etc.
volunteering to help BALUG
------------------------------
For our 2012-04-17 meeting TODAY BALUG is proud to present:
Ubuntu[1] 12.04[2] LTS[3] Precise Pangolin[2]
presented by: Grant Bowman[4] & Elizabeth Krumbach[5]
Ubuntu's newest Long Term Support (LTS) release, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Precise Pangolin, is scheduled to be released 2012-04-26. At this
meeting, we'll have co-presented from two wonderful local Ubuntu
experts, information on Ubuntu, and what to find and expect in this
latest Ubuntu LTS release. Topics covered will include major
improvements to the Unity[6] desktop environment and new features
you can expect related to the Ubuntu Server[7] and the new
Ubuntu Cloud[8] images.
Grant Bowman has been a consultant and Internet professional for
over twenty years including a former Director of Silicon Valley
Public Access Link (SV-PAL)[9] ISP serving Santa Clara County and a
present Director of Partimus[10] serving San Francisco and Alameda
County middle schools with recycled computers, open source
software, training and support. He is an OLPC Developer, Ubuntu
Member[11], Fedora[12] Ambassador, Debian[13] Developer and former
employee of SUSE[14]. Active Habits[15] is a forthcoming Android
app. He is also active with Berkeley Linux Users Group[16],
Berkeley Unix User Group (BUUG)[17], Noisebridge[18], San
Francisco Linux Users' Group (SF-LUG)[19] and also Diablo Valley
Linux Users Group (DVLUG)[20] (every Friday in Walnut Creek).
Elizabeth Krumbach works as a Debian[21] Systems Administrator,
holds a position on the Ubuntu Community Council[22] and the
Treasurer and a Director at the non-profit Partimus[23]. She has
held a leadership position in the Ubuntu Women[24] and Ubuntu
Classroom[25] projects for several years and recently took over as
Marketing and Website lead for the Xubuntu[26] Linux distribution.
Former coordinator for the Philadelphia area Linux Users Group[27],
she is now living in San Francisco and is one of the leaders of the
Ubuntu California[28] team where she coordinates Bay Area Ubuntu
events and meetings, install fests, booths and hosts Debian dinners
every couple months for Bay Area Debian[29].
1. http://www.ubuntu.com/
2. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PrecisePangolin
3. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LTS
4. http://www.grantbow.com/
5. http://princessleia.com/
6. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unity_(user_interface)
7. http://www.ubuntu.com/business/server/overview
8. http://www.ubuntu.com/cloud
9. http://www.svpal.org/
10. http://partimus.org/
11. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Membership
12. http://fedoraproject.org/
13. http://www.debian.org/
14. http://www.suse.com/
15. http://www.activehabits.com/
16. http://www.berkeleylug.com/
17. http://www.buug.org/
18. http://www.noisebridge.net/
19. http://www.sf-lug.com/
20. http://www.dvlug.org/
21. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CommunityCouncil
21. http://www.debian.org/
22. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CommunityCouncil
23. http://www.partimus.org/
24. http://women.ubuntu.com/
25. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Classroom
26. http://www.xubuntu.org/
27. http://www.phillylinux.org/
28. http://ubuntu-california.org/
29. http://bad.debian.net/
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 17th, 2012 2012-04-17
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, 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).
------------------------------
For our 2012-05-15 meeting BALUG is proud to present:
Corey Quinn: Salt[1]. Configuration Management and Remote
Execution at Scale
Corey Quinn has been finding new and better ways to be lazy via
configuration management since discovering that "ssh in a for loop"
didn't scale. He's a volunteer for the freenode[2] IRC[3]
network, and splits his time between Los Angeles and San Francisco,
where he's the director of systems operations at Expensify.com[4],
helping make expense reports not suck.
1. http://saltstack.org/
2. http://freenode.net/
3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Relay_Chat
4. https://www.expensify.com/
------------------------------
Twitter - you can also follow BALUG on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/#!/BALUG_org
------------------------------
CDs, and other "door prizes", etc.
Goodies we'll have at the meeting (at least the following):
CDs, etc. - have a peek here:
http://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=balug:cds_and_images_etc
We do also have some additional give-away items, and may have
"door prizes".
------------------------------
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.
------------------------------
http://www.balug.org/
BALUG: Tu 2012-04-17 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin, by Grant
Bowman & Elizabeth Krumbach; & other BALUG news
------------------------------
items, details further below:
2012-04-17 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin, by Grant Bowman &
Elizabeth Krumbach
2012-05-15 Salt. Configuration Management and Remote Execution at Scale,
by Corey Quinn
Twitter https://twitter.com/#!/BALUG_org
CDs, and other "door prizes", etc.
volunteering to help BALUG
------------------------------
For our 2012-04-17 meeting BALUG is proud to present:
Ubuntu[1] 12.04[2] LTS[3] Precise Pangolin[2]
presented by: Grant Bowman[4] & Elizabeth Krumbach[5]
Ubuntu's newest Long Term Support (LTS) release, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Precise Pangolin, is scheduled to be released 2012-04-26. At this
meeting, we'll have co-presented from two wonderful local Ubuntu
experts, information on Ubuntu, and what to find and expect in this
latest Ubuntu LTS release. Topics covered will include major
improvements to the Unity[6] desktop environment and new features
you can expect related to the Ubuntu Server[7] and the new
Ubuntu Cloud[8] images.
Grant Bowman has been a consultant and Internet professional for
over twenty years including a former Director of Silicon Valley
Public Access Link (SV-PAL)[9] ISP serving Santa Clara County and a
present Director of Partimus[10] serving San Francisco and Alameda
County middle schools with recycled computers, open source
software, training and support. He is an OLPC Developer, Ubuntu
Member[11], Fedora[12] Ambassador, Debian[13] Developer and former
employee of SUSE[14]. Active Habits[15] is a forthcoming Android
app. He is also active with Berkeley Linux Users Group[16],
Berkeley Unix User Group (BUUG)[17], Noisebridge[18], San
Francisco Linux Users' Group (SF-LUG)[19] and also Diablo Valley
Linux Users Group (DVLUG)[20] (every Friday in Walnut Creek).
Elizabeth Krumbach works as a Debian[21] Systems Administrator,
holds a position on the Ubuntu Community Council[22] and the
Treasurer and a Director at the non-profit Partimus[23]. She has
held a leadership position in the Ubuntu Women[24] and Ubuntu
Classroom[25] projects for several years and recently took over as
Marketing and Website lead for the Xubuntu[26] Linux distribution.
Former coordinator for the Philadelphia area Linux Users Group[27],
she is now living in San Francisco and is one of the leaders of the
Ubuntu California[28] team where she coordinates Bay Area Ubuntu
events and meetings, install fests, booths and hosts Debian dinners
every couple months for Bay Area Debian[29].
1. http://www.ubuntu.com/
2. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PrecisePangolin
3. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LTS
4. http://www.grantbow.com/
5. http://princessleia.com/
6. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unity_(user_interface)
7. http://www.ubuntu.com/business/server/overview
8. http://www.ubuntu.com/cloud
9. http://www.svpal.org/
10. http://partimus.org/
11. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Membership
12. http://fedoraproject.org/
13. http://www.debian.org/
14. http://www.suse.com/
15. http://www.activehabits.com/
16. http://www.berkeleylug.com/
17. http://www.buug.org/
18. http://www.noisebridge.net/
19. http://www.sf-lug.com/
20. http://www.dvlug.org/
21. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CommunityCouncil
21. http://www.debian.org/
22. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CommunityCouncil
23. http://www.partimus.org/
24. http://women.ubuntu.com/
25. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Classroom
26. http://www.xubuntu.org/
27. http://www.phillylinux.org/
28. http://ubuntu-california.org/
29. http://bad.debian.net/
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 17th, 2012 2012-04-17
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, 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).
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For our 2012-05-15 meeting BALUG is proud to announce:
Corey Quinn: Salt[1]. Configuration Management and Remote
Execution at Scale
Corey Quinn has been finding new and better ways to be lazy via
configuration management since discovering that "ssh in a for loop"
didn't scale. He's a volunteer for the freenode[2] IRC[3]
network, and splits his time between Los Angeles and San Francisco,
where he's the director of systems operations at Expensify.com[4],
helping make expense reports not suck.
1. http://saltstack.org/
2. http://freenode.net/
3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Relay_Chat
4. https://www.expensify.com/
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Twitter - you can also follow BALUG on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/#!/BALUG_org
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CDs, and other "door prizes", etc.
Goodies we'll have at the meeting (at least the following):
CDs, etc. - have a peek here:
http://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=balug:cds_and_images_etc
We do also have some additional give-away items, and may have
"door prizes".
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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.
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http://www.balug.org/
BALUG: REMINDER TOMORROW Tu 2012-03-20: Vision Solutions: Double-Take
Availability for Linux; & other BALUG news
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items, details further below:
2012-03-20 Tu: Double-Take Availability for Linux, by Vision Solutions
2012-04-17 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin, by Grant Bowman &
Elizabeth Krumbach
2012-05-15 Salt. Configuration Management and Remote Execution at Scale,
by Corey Quinn
2012-02-21 OpenPhoto Project - Jaisen Mathai (slides,etc.)
CDs, and other "door prizes", etc.
volunteering to help BALUG
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For our 2012-03-20 meeting BALUG is proud to present:
Vision Solutions[1] technical presentation on: Double-Take Availability for
Linux[2]
presented by:
Shaun Sellers, Linux Product Manager
and also on-hand will be:
Greg Ross, Solutions Architect for Double-Take software, Western region
Brion Donlon, Regional Sales Manager
Double-Take Availability for Linux is a continuous, byte-level
replication and failover software product. As it can monitor changes to
any data files, it can protect any application - DB or others.
The replication is from source to target server. Each server is
licensed and has the software installed. Configuration of what data to
replicate and what failover parameters are to be used is accomplished
by a universal console that can run on any Windows platform - PC,
laptop, server, etc. The console doesn't need to run on the servers
being protected. Source and target servers can be in the same room or
across any geographic distance - over any TCP/IP network.
As Availability is considered a high availability product, RPOs are
typically in the near-zero range because the data changes are captured
and transmitted continuously. RTO (or failover) is typically in the
seconds to minutes range.
Vision Solutions currently supports most releases of RHEL, Oracle
Linux, CentOS, SUSE with the Ext and XFS file systems. These
distributions are supported on physical and virtual environments.
Here is a short data sheet on the product[3], and website has several
white papers[4] also.
1. http://www.visionsolutions.com/
2. http://www.visionsolutions.com/Products/DT-Avail-Lin.aspx
3.
http://pdf.visionsolutions.com/pdfs/us-double-take-availability-for-linux.p….
http://www.visionsolutions.com/Popular-Resources/Whitepapers.aspx
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 20th, 2012 2012-03-20
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, 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).
------------------------------
For our 2012-04-17 meeting BALUG is proud to present:
Ubuntu[1] 12.04[2] LTS[3] Precise Pangolin[2]
presented by: Grant Bowman[4] & Elizabeth Krumbach[5]
Ubuntu's newest Long Term Support (LTS) release, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Precise Pangolin, is scheduled to be released 2012-04-26. At this
meeting, we'll have co-presented from two wonderful local Ubuntu
experts, information on Ubuntu, and what to find and expect in this
latest Ubuntu LTS release. Topics covered will include major
improvements to the Unity[6] desktop environment and new features
you can expect related to the Ubuntu Server[7] and the new
Ubuntu Cloud[8] images.
Grant Bowman has been a consultant and Internet professional for
over twenty years including a former Director of Silicon Valley
Public Access Link (SV-PAL)[9] ISP serving Santa Clara County and a
present Director of Partimus[10] serving San Francisco and Alameda
County middle schools with recycled computers, open source
software, training and support. He is an OLPC Developer, Ubuntu
Member[11], Fedora[12] Ambassador, Debian[13] Developer and former
employee of SUSE[14]. Active Habits[15] is a forthcoming Android
app. He is also active with Berkeley Linux Users Group[16],
Berkeley Unix User Group (BUUG)[17], Noisebridge[18], San
Francisco Linux Users' Group (SF-LUG)[19] and also Diablo Valley
Linux Users Group (DVLUG)[20] (every Friday in Walnut Creek).
Elizabeth Krumbach works as a Debian[13] Systems Administrator and
currently holds a position on the Ubuntu Community Council[21].
1. http://www.ubuntu.com/
2. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PrecisePangolin
3. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LTS
4. http://www.grantbow.com/
5. http://princessleia.com/
6. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unity_(user_interface)
7. http://www.ubuntu.com/business/server/overview
8. http://www.ubuntu.com/cloud
9. http://www.svpal.org/
10. http://partimus.org/
11. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Membership
12. http://fedoraproject.org/
13. http://www.debian.org/
14. http://www.suse.com/
15. http://www.activehabits.com/
16. http://www.berkeleylug.com/
17. http://www.buug.org/
18. http://www.noisebridge.net/
19. http://www.sf-lug.com/
20. http://www.dvlug.org/
21. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CommunityCouncil
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For our 2012-05-15 meeting BALUG is proud to present:
Corey Quinn: Salt[1]. Configuration Management and Remote
Execution at Scale
Corey Quinn has been finding new and better ways to be lazy via
configuration management since discovering that "ssh in a for loop"
didn't scale. He's a volunteer for the freenode[2] IRC[3]
network, and splits his time between Los Angeles and San Francisco,
where he's the director of systems operations at Expensify.com[4],
helping make expense reports not suck.
1. http://saltstack.org/
2. http://freenode.net/
3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Relay_Chat
4. https://www.expensify.com/
------------------------------
2012-02-21 OpenPhoto Project - Jaisen Mathai
Missed last month's meeting, or want to review the "slides"?
have a peek here:
http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-talk-balug.org/2012-February/004794.…
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CDs, and other "door prizes", etc.
Goodies we'll have at the meeting (at least the following):
CDs, etc. - have a peek here:
http://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=balug:cds_and_images_etc
We do also have some additional give-away items, and may have
"door prizes".
------------------------------
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.
------------------------------
http://www.balug.org/