BALUG: 2012-02-21: OpenPhoto Project - Jaisen Mathai; & other BALUG news
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items, details further below:
2012-02-21: OpenPhoto Project - Jaisen Mathai
2012-03-20: Double-Take Availability for Linux by Vision Solutions
book(s), CDs, and other "door prizes", etc.
BALUG system upgrades & volunteering to help BALUG
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BALUG is proud to announce, for our 2012-02-21 meeting we have:
Data portability, the next frontier, and The OpenPhoto Project[1], by
Jaisen Mathai[2]
Putting users in control of their data means separating data storage
from application logic. Doing so opens up possibilities which were
previously impossible. Open data will do for the Internet what open
source did for computing.
Jaisen Mathai[2] is the founder of The OpenPhoto Project[1]: an
open source, decentralized and federated photo platform. Prior to
starting the project Jaisen was an engineer at [3]Yahoo! and
before that he co-founded a photo startup.
The OpenPhoto Project was accepted into Mozilla[4]'s WebFWD[8] program.
Prior to joining WebFWD the project raised $25,000 on Kickstarter[9].
All of the source code is available on Github[10].
You can find more information about:
The OpenPhoto Project at:
http://theopenphotoproject.org/
and Jaisen Mathai at:
http://www.jaisenmathai.com/
1. http://theopenphotoproject.org/
2. http://www.jaisenmathai.com/
3. http://www.yahoo.com/
4. http://www.mozilla.org/
8. https://webfwd.org/
9. http://www.kickstarter.com/
10. https://github.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, February 21st, 2012 2012-02-21
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).
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BALUG is proud to announce, for our 2012-03-20 meeting we have:
A technical presentation by Vision Solutions[1] on Double-Take
Availability for Linux[2].
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:
http://pdf.visionsolutions.com/pdfs/us-double-take-availability-for-linux.p…
and website has several white papers also:
http://www.visionsolutions.com/Popular-Resources/Whitepapers.aspx
1. http://www.visionsolutions.com/
2. http://www.visionsolutions.com/Products/DT-Avail-Lin.aspx
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book(s), CDs, and other "door prizes", etc.
Book(s) - from No Starch Press, we received for review:
_The Linux Command Line_
A Complete Introduction
by William E. Shotts, Jr.
January 2012, 480 pp.
ISBN: 978-1-59327-389-7
http://www.nostarch.com/tlcl.htm
Additional 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".
------------------------------
BALUG system upgrades & volunteering to help BALUG
BALUG has some system upgrades (mostly operating system upgrades) coming
in its future.
For most of the information on that, have a look at posts on or after
2012-01-22 on the SF-LUG[1] list[2]
with the string:
SF-LUG & BALUG: System OS upgrades
in the Subject: header
Want to volunteer to help out BALUG? (quite a variety of opportunities
exist, including the above) Drop us a note at:
balug-contact(a)balug.org
Or come talk to us at a BALUG meeting.
1. http://www.sf-lug.com/http://www.sf-lug.org/
2. http://linuxmafia.com/mailman/listinfo/sf-lug
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http://www.balug.org/
BALUG TOMORROW! Tu 17th: Grant Bowman on Spreading Open Source in
Nairobi, Kenya
Reminder - BALUG tomorrow! Tu 2012-01-17 Don't forget, and don't miss out!
Bay Area Linux User Group (BALUG) meeting
Tuesday 6:30 P.M. 2012-01-17
Please RSVP if you're planning to come (see further below).
For our 2012-01-17 BALUG meeting, we're pleased to present:
Grant Bowman[1] on Spreading Open Source in Nairobi, Kenya
Mr. Bowman spent September, October and November 2011 working with
young adult graduates of a technology school (Nairobits)[2] hosted
by Dreamfish[3] CEO Dr. Tiffany von Emmel in Nairobi, Kenya thanks
to the generous support of Dreamfish members and donors. Nairobi is
one degree below the equator eleven time zones away just inland
from the Eastern coast of Africa. Dreamfish is a global peer
development network connecting entrepreneurs and individuals
working together to realize their dreams. Dreamfish is co-owned by
hundreds of women entrepreneurs, youth entrepreneurs and
professionals in 26 countries. The Community Tech project's goal is
to use open source to connect people working all over the world,
from the Rift Valley to the Silicon Valley using web and mobile
technologies. Primary PHP software packages being customized are
status.net[4], wordpress.org[5] and more.
Working five days a week the graduates were exposed to many ideas
and topics including ica.coop[6], English language classes,
revolution-os.com[7], laptop.org[8] (OLPC) / olpcsf.org[9] /
give one get one, toms.com shoes one for one[10], ARRL[11], Wi-Fi
and Ubuntu[12], Fedora Project[13], Android. Mr. Bowman used the
ground breaking Safaricom M-PESA branchless banking system popular
in Kenya, Tanzania & Afghanistan - M stands for mobile and pesa is
Swahili for money. During his stay he, Tiffany and the graduates
presented at Nairobits, introducing 47 students to open source
software, user focused design (UX), web development infrastructure
and the command line. Ubuntu Hour[14]s were held every other week
at *iHub_Nairobi[15] helping the Ubuntu Kenya Local Community Team[16]
become more active again with the support of Ubuntu California[17].
Mr. Bowman has been a consultant and Internet professional for over
twenty years including a former Director of Silicon Valley
Public Access Link (SV-PAL)[18] ISP serving Santa Clara County and a
present Director of Partimus[19] serving San Francisco and Alameda
County middle schools with recycled computers, open source
software, training and support. He is an OLPC Developer, Ubuntu
Member, Fedora Ambassador, Debian Developer and former employee of
SUSE[20]. Active Habits[21] is a forthcoming Android app. He is
also active with Berkely Linux Users Group[22], Berkeley Unix
User Group (BUUG)[23], Noisebridge[24], San Francisco Linux Users'
Group (SF-LUG)[25] and also Diablo Valley Linux Users Group (DVLUG)[26]
(every Friday in Walnut Creek). His website is:
http://www.grantbow.com/[27]
1. http://www.grantbow.com/
2. http://nairobits.com/
3. http://dreamfish.com/
4. http://status.net/
5. http://wordpress.org/
6. http://www.ica.coop/
7. http://www.revolution-os.com/
8. http://one.laptop.org/
9. http://olpcsf.org/
10. http://www.toms.com/our-movement/movement-one-for-one
11. http://www.arrl.org/
12. http://www.ubuntu.com/
13. http://fedoraproject.org/
14. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Hour
15. http://ihub.co.ke/
16. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KenyanTeam
17. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam
18. http://www.svpal.org/
19. http://partimus.org/
20. http://www.suse.com/
21. http://www.activehabits.com/
22. http://www.berkeleylug.com/
23. http://www.buug.org/
24. http://www.noisebridge.net/
25. http://www.sf-lug.com/
26. http://www.dvlug.org/
27. http://www.grantbow.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, January 17th, 2012 2012-01-17
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 and helping
to defray BALUG costs such treating our speakers to dinner).
------------------------------
CDs, etc.:
Additional 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".
------------------------------
Want to volunteer to help out BALUG? (quite a variety of opportunities
exist) 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 2012-01-17: Grant Bowman[1] on Spreading Open Source in
Nairobi, Kenya
Bay Area Linux User Group (BALUG) meeting
Tuesday 6:30 P.M. 2012-01-17
Please RSVP if you're planning to come (see further below).
For our 2012-01-17 BALUG meeting, we're pleased to present:
Grant Bowman[1] on Spreading Open Source in Nairobi, Kenya
Mr. Bowman spent September, October and November 2011 working with
young adult graduates of a technology school (Nairobits)[2] hosted
by Dreamfish[3] CEO Dr. Tiffany von Emmel in Nairobi, Kenya thanks
to the generous support of Dreamfish members and donors. Nairobi is
one degree below the equator eleven time zones away just inland
from the Eastern coast of Africa. Dreamfish is a global peer
development network connecting entrepreneurs and individuals
working together to realize their dreams. Dreamfish is co-owned by
hundreds of women entrepreneurs, youth entrepreneurs and
professionals in 26 countries. The Community Tech project's goal is
to use open source to connect people working all over the world,
from the Rift Valley to the Silicon Valley using web and mobile
technologies. Primary PHP software packages being customized are
status.net[4], wordpress.org[5] and more.
Working five days a week the graduates were exposed to many ideas
and topics including ica.coop[6], English language classes,
revolution-os.com[7], laptop.org[8] (OLPC) / olpcsf.org[9] /
give one get one, toms.com shoes one for one[10], ARRL[11], Wi-Fi
and Ubuntu[12], Fedora Project[13], Android. Mr. Bowman used the
ground breaking Safaricom M-PESA branchless banking system popular
in Kenya, Tanzania & Afghanistan - M stands for mobile and pesa is
Swahili for money. During his stay he, Tiffany and the graduates
presented at Nairobits, introducing 47 students to open source
software, user focused design (UX), web development infrastructure
and the command line. Ubuntu Hour[14]s were held every other week
at *iHub_Nairobi[15] helping the Ubuntu Kenya Local Community Team[16]
become more active again with the support of Ubuntu California[17].
Mr. Bowman has been a consultant and Internet professional for over
twenty years including a former Director of Silicon Valley
Public Access Link (SV-PAL)[18] ISP serving Santa Clara County and a
present Director of Partimus[19] serving San Francisco and Alameda
County middle schools with recycled computers, open source
software, training and support. He is an OLPC Developer, Ubuntu
Member, Fedora Ambassador, Debian Developer and former employee of
SUSE[20]. Active Habits[21] is a forthcoming Android app. He is
also active with Berkely Linux Users Group[22], Berkeley Unix
User Group (BUUG)[23], Noisebridge[24], San Francisco Linux Users'
Group (SF-LUG)[25] and also Diablo Valley Linux Users Group (DVLUG)[26]
(every Friday in Walnut Creek). His website is:
http://www.grantbow.com/[27]
1. http://www.grantbow.com/
2. http://nairobits.com/
3. http://dreamfish.com/
4. http://status.net/
5. http://wordpress.org/
6. http://www.ica.coop/
7. http://www.revolution-os.com/
8. http://one.laptop.org/
9. http://olpcsf.org/
10. http://www.toms.com/our-movement/movement-one-for-one
11. http://www.arrl.org/
12. http://www.ubuntu.com/
13. http://fedoraproject.org/
14. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Hour
15. http://ihub.co.ke/
16. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KenyanTeam
17. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam
18. http://www.svpal.org/
19. http://partimus.org/
20. http://www.suse.com/
21. http://www.activehabits.com/
22. http://www.berkeleylug.com/
23. http://www.buug.org/
24. http://www.noisebridge.net/
25. http://www.sf-lug.com/
26. http://www.dvlug.org/
27. http://www.grantbow.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, January 17th, 2012 2012-01-17
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 and helping
to defray BALUG costs such treating our speakers to dinner).
------------------------------
CDs, etc.:
Additional 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".
------------------------------
Want to volunteer to help out BALUG? (quite a variety of opportunities
exist) Drop us a note at:
balug-contact(a)balug.org
Or come talk to us at a BALUG meeting.
------------------------------
http://www.balug.org/
There is no BALUG meeting this December (we usually skip December).
Next BALUG meeting:
2012-01-17 Grant Bowman on spreading Linux, Ubuntu, and Open Source
around the world - his recent adventures in Narobi, Kenya
Watch this announce list and/or our main web site page[1] for further
updates and details, etc.
1. http://www.balug.org/
BALUG TOMORROW! Tu 2011-11-15 BALUG meeting - Regular Expressions; &
other BALUG "news"
Bay Area Linux User Group (BALUG) meeting
Tuesday 6:30 P.M. 2011-11-15
Please RSVP if you're planning to come (see further below).
For our 2011-11-15 BALUG meeting, we'll have a bit of a "workshop" on
Regular Expressions[1], by Michael Paoli.
Zero to quite a bit of regular expression familiarity?
Been to BALUG presentation or the like on Regular Expressions before[2]?
(maybe, maybe not)
In any case, a session on Regular Expressions - but a different
approach. This session will be on finding Regular Expression solutions
to solve problems - so bring your problems, examples, etc., and we'll
work on them, and/or come for the entertainment/education value of
seeing some of the more interesting and complex problems and solutions
- and simple fun ones too.
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expressions
2. http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-talk-balug.org/2009-July/004456.html
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, November 15th, 2011 2011-11-15
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 and helping
to defray BALUG costs such treating our speakers to dinner).
------------------------------
CDs, etc.:
Additional 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".
------------------------------
Want to volunteer to help out BALUG? (quite a variety of opportunities
exist) Drop us a note at:
balug-contact(a)balug.org
Or come talk to us at a BALUG meeting.
------------------------------
http://www.balug.org/
BALUG TOMORROW! Tu 2011-10-18 BALUG meeting; & other BALUG "news"
Bay Area Linux User Group (BALUG) meeting
Tuesday 6:30 P.M. 2011-10-18
Please RSVP if you're planning to come (see further below).
For our 2011-10-18 BALUG meeting, at least presently we don't have a
specific speaker/presentation lined up and confirmed for this meeting
(but watch for potentially late-breaking updates here[1], or on our
"announce" list:
http://lists.balug.org/listinfo.cgi/balug-announce-balug.org
) In any case, speaker/presentation or not, 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 on at least a couple occasions).
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.
1. http://www.balug.org/#Meetings-upcoming
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, October 18th, 2011 2011-10-18
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).
------------------------------
CDs, etc.:
Additional 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".
------------------------------
Want to volunteer to help out BALUG? (quite a variety of opportunities
exist) 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: BALUG Tu 2011-09-20: Travis H on Encrypted Storage
REMINDER: TOMORROW:
Bay Area Linux User Group (BALUG) meeting
Tuesday 6:30 P.M. 2011-09-20
Please RSVP if you're planning to come (see further below).
For our Tuesday 6:30 P.M. 2011-09-20 meeting, we're proud to present:
Travis H on Encrypted Storage
This is a talk covering the three types of encrypted storage
technologies (application-level, filesystem, block device) in Linux
(and BSD, unless we want to skip those slides). We will start off a
little abstract, and end up very practical, with LUKS/dm-crypt and
TrueCrypt, and end up with some important discussion about thumb drives
and the limits of what we can achieve.
Travis H is the founder of Bay Area Hacker's Association (BAHA)[1], a
former member of Austin Hacker's Association (AHA), and has been
employed doing security or cryptography for financial institutions, web
client software, top 50 web sites, e-commerce hosting companies, and
other organizations. He has been part of the largest security
monitoring operation in the world, security consulting startups, helped
design an intrusion detection system, and has taught code-making and
breaking at Stanford. He also has written a book on security which is
free online. He is a fan of the Ghost in the Shell franchise, and
collects Matrix-inspired fashion accessories.
1. http://baha.bitrot.info/
See also a bit further below for some additional goodies we'll have at
this meeting (CDs, etc.)
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 the
Four Seas Restaurant plan the meal and dining arrangements and such.
We've also tweaked our "door prize" / giveaway practices a bit - so
RSVPing and arriving sufficiently on time increases one's odds of
winning door prize(s) and/or getting first or earlier pick of giveaway
items.
Meeting Details...
6:30pm
Tuesday, September 20th, 2011 2011-09-20
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 and helping
to defray BALUG costs such treating our speakers to dinner).
Additional goodies we'll have at this 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".
------------------------------
http://www.balug.org/
BALUG Tu 2011-09-20: Travis H on Encrypted Storage
Bay Area Linux User Group (BALUG) meeting
Tuesday 6:30 P.M. 2011-09-20
Please RSVP if you're planning to come (see further below).
For our Tuesday 6:30 P.M. 2011-09-20 meeting, we're proud to present:
Travis H on Encrypted Storage
This is a talk covering the three types of encrypted storage
technologies (application-level, filesystem, block device) in Linux
(and BSD, unless we want to skip those slides). We will start off a
little abstract, and end up very practical, with LUKS/dm-crypt and
TrueCrypt, and end up with some important discussion about thumb drives
and the limits of what we can achieve.
Travis H is the founder of Bay Area Hacker's Association (BAHA)[1], a
former member of Austin Hacker's Association (AHA), and has been
employed doing security or cryptography for financial institutions, web
client software, top 50 web sites, e-commerce hosting companies, and
other organizations. He has been part of the largest security
monitoring operation in the world, security consulting startups, helped
design an intrusion detection system, and has taught code-making and
breaking at Stanford. He also has written a book on security which is
free online. He is a fan of the Ghost in the Shell franchise, and
collects Matrix-inspired fashion accessories.
1. http://baha.bitrot.info/
See also a bit further below for some additional goodies we'll have at
this meeting (CDs, etc.)
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 the
Four Seas Restaurant plan the meal and dining arrangements and such.
We've also tweaked our "door prize" / giveaway practices a bit - so
RSVPing and arriving sufficiently on time increases one's odds of
winning door prize(s) and/or getting first or earlier pick of giveaway
items.
Meeting Details...
6:30pm
Tuesday, September 20th, 2011 2011-09-20
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 and helping
to defray BALUG costs such treating our speakers to dinner).
Additional goodies we'll have at this 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".
http://www.balug.org/
BALUG TOMORROW! Tu 2011-08-16 BALUG meeting; & other BALUG "news"
Bay Area Linux User Group (BALUG) meeting
Tuesday 6:30 P.M. 2011-08-16
Please RSVP if you're planning to come (see further below).
For our 2011-08-16 BALUG meeting, at least presently we don't have a
specific speaker/presentation lined up and confirmed for this meeting
(but we may have one on a security topic, or possibly something else -
if you're directly subscribed to our "announce" list:
http://lists.balug.org/listinfo.cgi/balug-announce-balug.org
watch it and/or:
http://www.balug.org/#Meetings-upcoming
for announcements and potentially late-breaking updates.
).
In any case, speaker/presentation or not, 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(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, August 16th, 2011 2011-08-16
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, 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).
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CDs, etc.:
Additional 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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Picn*x 20 - The Linux 20th Anniversary Picnic 2011-08-27, Sunnyvale
http://www.linuxpicnic.org/
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Want to volunteer to help out BALUG? (quite a variety of opportunities
exist) 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 TOMRROW! Tu 2011-07-19 BALUG meeting
Bay Area Linux User Group (BALUG) meeting
Tuesday 6:30 P.M. 2011-07-19
Please RSVP if you're planning to come (see further below).
For our 2011-07-19 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 publicise 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(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 19th, 2011 2011-07-19
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 and helping
to defray BALUG costs such treating our speakers to dinner).
------------------------------
CDs, etc.:
Additional 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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http://www.balug.org/