BALUG REMINDER: TOMORROW Tu 2011-06-21: Stefano Maffulli: Get to know
the FreedomBox project
Bay Area Linux User Group (BALUG) meeting
Tuesday 6:30 P.M. 2011-06-21
Please RSVP if you're planning to come (see further below).
For our Tuesday 6:30 P.M. 2011-06-21 meeting, we're proud to present:
2011-06-21 Stefano Maffulli on FreedomBox[1]
Title: Get to know the FreedomBox project
Abstract:
The FreedomBox is a generation of smart devices whose engineered
purpose is to work together to facilitate free communication among
people, safely and securely, beyond the ambition of the strongest power
to penetrate, they can make freedom of thought and information a
permanent, ineradicable feature of the net that holds our souls.
The project started because social networking and digital
communications technologies are now critical to people fighting to make
freedom in their societies. Think of the revolutions in the Egypt and
Lybia.
Stefano Maffulli will give an overview of the aim of the project, give
an update on its status and provide information to start hacking on it.
Stefano Maffulli, long time free/libre software advocate, former
Italian Chancellor of Free Software Foundation Europe, helped Europe
reject the directive on software patents and in the European antitrust
trial against Microsoft. Worked as community manager for open source
company Funambol and later at Twitter, taking care of user growth in
Italy. Currently helping the FreedomBox Foundation reach its goal.
1. http://freedomboxfoundation.org/
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, June 21st, 2011 2011-06-21
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).
------------------------------
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".
------------------------------
earlier additional details:
http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-announce-balug.org/2011-June/000171.…http://www.balug.org/
BALUG Tu 2011-06-21: Stefano Maffulli: Get to know the FreedomBox
project; & other BALUG news
In this issue (details further below):
2011-06-21: Stefano Maffulli: Get to know the FreedomBox project
CDs, etc.
"Slides" from 2011-05-17 BALUG meeting
------------------------------
Bay Area Linux User Group (BALUG) meeting
Tuesday 6:30 P.M. 2011-06-21
Please RSVP if you're planning to come (see further below).
For our Tuesday 6:30 P.M. 2011-06-21 meeting, we're proud to present:
2011-06-21 Stefano Maffulli on FreedomBox[1]
Title: Get to know the FreedomBox project
Abstract:
The FreedomBox is a generation of smart devices whose engineered
purpose is to work together to facilitate free communication among
people, safely and securely, beyond the ambition of the strongest power
to penetrate, they can make freedom of thought and information a
permanent, ineradicable feature of the net that holds our souls.
The project started because social networking and digital
communications technologies are now critical to people fighting to make
freedom in their societies. Think of the revolutions in the Egypt and
Lybia.
Stefano Maffulli will give an overview of the aim of the project, give
an update on its status and provide information to start hacking on it.
Stefano Maffulli, long time free/libre software advocate, former
Italian Chancellor of Free Software Foundation Europe, helped Europe
reject the directive on software patents and in the European antitrust
trial against Microsoft. Worked as community manager for open source
company Funambol and later at Twitter, taking care of user growth in
Italy. Currently helping the FreedomBox Foundation reach its goal.
1. http://freedomboxfoundation.org/
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, June 21st, 2011 2011-06-21
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).
------------------------------
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".
------------------------------
"Slides" from 2011-05-17 BALUG meeting:
Cloud.com's Mark Hinkle, VP of Community, on: Open Source Solutions for
Building and Deploying Private and Public Clouds
Have a look on Mark Hinkle's site[1] at the various slide/presentation
references/links.
1. http://socializedsoftware.com/
------------------------------
Twitter! - follow BALUG on Twitter: BALUG_org
You can now follow BALUG on Twitter. We're still working out exactly
how we'll use that BALUG_org account on Twitter, but follow us there,
and we'll likely include at least some announcements and updates.
Thoughts/feedback on how we use that Twitter account? - drop us a note
at: publicity-feedback(a)balug.org
------------------------------
http://www.balug.org/
In this issue (details further below):
2011-05-17: Cloud.com's Mark Hinkle, VP of Community, on: Open Source
Solutions for Building and Deploying Private and Public Clouds
"Slides" from 2011-04-19 BALUG meetnig:
GlusterFS - Petascale Cloud Filesystem, Anand Babu (AB) Periasamy,
CTO Gluster
------------------------------
Bay Area Linux User Group (BALUG) meeting
Tuesday 6:30 P.M. 2011-05-17
Please RSVP if you're planning to come (see further below).
For our Tuesday 6:30 P.M. 2011-05-17 meeting, we're proud to present:
Cloud.com[1]'s Mark Hinkle, VP of Community, on:
Open Source Solutions for Building and Deploying Private and Public
Clouds
As cloud computing has moved beyond hype, becoming a true
enterprise-ready tool that cuts IT costs and fits a variety of use
cases, IT is seeking new ways to efficiently and cost-effectively
build, deploy and manage clouds. Cloud.com's CloudStack Community
Edition, available under the GPLv3 license, is an open sourced
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) software platform that simplifies
the creation and management of public and private clouds. This platform
seamlessly integrates with existing data center infrastructure without
the need for modifications, special-purpose hardware or
reconfiguration, making it possible for users to instantly realize the
benefits of the cloud.
CloudStack Community Edition delivers several benefits including:
o Massive computing power - providing virtually unlimited CPUs
on-demand, as required and billed by actual usage in public, private
or hybrid deployments.
o Powerful API - Easily build, integrate and use applications based on
common cloud APIs like Amazon's Web Services API, Citrix Cloud CenterT
(C3) API and the vCloud API
o Secure Cloud Computing - Isolating compute, network, and storage
resources by user, location and deployment.
o Comprehensive Service Management - Defining, metering, deploying and
managing services to be consumed within your cloud.
o Automated resource distribution - delivering capabilities to automate
the distribution of compute, network and storage while adhering to
defined policies on load balancing, data security and compliance.
o Real-time visibility and reporting capabilities - ensuring compliance,
security and comprehensive metering customer usage.
o Simplified management - empowering administrators to offset the daily
management of services to the end users with a powerful self-service
portal that gives the day-to-day management tasks to the user,
enabling administrators to focus on more business critical issues
while giving the client more control and agility over the service by
providing a catalog of custom built and pre-defined machine images.
This session will provide best practices for building clouds, and a
technical overview and demonstration of CloudStack.
Mark Hinkle is Cloud.com's Vice President of Community where he is
responsible for driving all of the community efforts around the
Cloud.com's leading open source, cloud computing software and
ecosystem. Before that he was the force behind the Zenoss Core open
source management projects adoption and community involvement, growing
community membership to over 100,000 members. He is a co-founder of
both the Open Source Management Consortium and the Desktop Linux
Consortium, has served as Editor-in-Chief for both LinuxWorld Magazine
and Enterprise Open Source Magazine, and authored the book, "Windows to
Linux Business Desktop Migration" (Thomson, 2006). Mark has also held
executive positions at a number of technology start-ups, including
Earthlink, (previously MindSpring)--where he was the head of the
technical support organization recognized by PC Computing and PC World
as the best in the industry--Win4Lin and Emu Software.
1. http://www.cloud.com/
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, May 17th, 2011 2011-05-17
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).
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".
------------------------------
"Slides" from 2011-04-19 BALUG meetnig:
GlusterFS - Petascale Cloud Filesystem, Anand Babu (AB) Periasamy, CTO Gluster
see:
http://www.archive.balug.org/2011/2011-04-19/GlusterFS%20-%20Petascale%20Cl…
------------------------------
http://www.balug.org/
BALUG Tu 2011-04-19: GlusterFS - Petascale Cloud Filesystem, Anand
Babu (AB) Periasamy & other BALUG news
In this issue (details further below):
2011-04-19 Tu: BALUG meeting Tu:
GlusterFS - Petascale Cloud Filesystem, Anand Babu (AB) Periasamy
Also, Linux CDs and other giveaway items.
2011-05-17: Cloud.com's Mark Hinkle, VP of Community, on: Open Source
Solutions for Building and Deploying Private and Public Clouds
"Slides" from 2011-03-15 BALUG meetnig:
Jack Deslippe on Developing for Android
Other Linux & Open Source happenings
Twitter! - follow BALUG on Twitter: BALUG_org
------------------------------
Bay Area Linux User Group (BALUG) meeting
Tuesday 6:30 P.M. 2011-04-19
Please RSVP if you're planning to come (see further below).
For our Tuesday 6:30 P.M. 2011-04-19 meeting, we're proud to present:
Anand Babu (AB) Periasamy, CTO Gluster[2] on
GlusterFS[1] - Petascale Cloud Filesystem
Title: - GlusterFS - Petascale Cloud Filesystem
Abstract: As the explosion of unstructured data continues unabated,
filesystems are under tremendous architectural strain. Traditional and
hybrid filesystem architectures fail to meet the demanding challenges of
both public and private clouds and users in these environments struggle
with filesystem limitations. The GlusterFS petascale filesystem
architecture is designed to easily handle massive amounts of
unstructured data and linearly scale performance and capacity in order
to efficiently manage unplanned spikes in performance and provide high
availability as a standard function of the filesystem. GlusterFS is an
Open Source filesystem.
Anand Babu (AB) Periasamy, CTO
As CTO and Co-founder, AB sets the vision and strategy for the Gluster
product platform. Prior to Gluster, AB served as CTO at California
Digital Corporation[3] (CDC), where his work led to the scaling of the
commodity cluster computing to supercomputing class performance. He
drove the adoption of cluster computing and GNU/Linux at enterprise data
centers and helped close strategic accounts at CDC. In 2004, AB led the
development of the world's second fastest Supercomputer "Thunder", for
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory[4]. AB also serves on the board
of "Free Software Foundation - India[5]". He is the author /
contributor of various other Free Software projects like GNU FreeIPMI
(Intelligent Platform Management Interface), GNU Garp (Gratuitous ARP
Daemon), bios-config (edit/replicate CMOS parameters), librpci/hdb (RPC
interpose for GNU Hurd) and Hymn/PlayFair (iTunes ripper), GNU Freetalk
(Scheme extensible messenger for Jabber, Google talk), and Freehoo
(Scheme extensible messenger for YahooIM). He holds a Computer Science
Engineering degree from Annamalai University, Tamil Nadu, India.
1. http://www.gluster.com/products/glusterfs/
2. http://www.gluster.com/
3. http://www.californiadigital.com/
4. http://www.llnl.gov/
5. http://www.gnu.org.in/
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, April 19th, 2011 2011-04-19
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).
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".
------------------------------
For our Tuesday 6:30 P.M. 2011-05-17 meeting, we're proud to present:
Cloud.com[1]'s Mark Hinkle, VP of Community, on:
Open Source Solutions for Building and Deploying Private and Public
Clouds
As cloud computing has moved beyond hype, becoming a true
enterprise-ready tool that cuts IT costs and fits a variety of use
cases, IT is seeking new ways to efficiently and cost-effectively
build, deploy and manage clouds. Cloud.com's CloudStack Community
Edition, available under the GPLv3 license, is an open sourced
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) software platform that simplifies
the creation and management of public and private clouds. This platform
seamlessly integrates with existing data center infrastructure without
the need for modifications, special-purpose hardware or
reconfiguration, making it possible for users to instantly realize the
benefits of the cloud.
CloudStack Community Edition delivers several benefits including:
o Massive computing power - providing virtually unlimited CPUs
on-demand, as required and billed by actual usage in public, private
or hybrid deployments.
o Powerful API - Easily build, integrate and use applications based on
common cloud APIs like Amazon's Web Services API, Citrix Cloud CenterT
(C3) API and the vCloud API
o Secure Cloud Computing - Isolating compute, network, and storage
resources by user, location and deployment.
o Comprehensive Service Management - Defining, metering, deploying and
managing services to be consumed within your cloud.
o Automated resource distribution - delivering capabilities to automate
the distribution of compute, network and storage while adhering to
defined policies on load balancing, data security and compliance.
o Real-time visibility and reporting capabilities - ensuring compliance,
security and comprehensive metering customer usage.
o Simplified management - empowering administrators to offset the daily
management of services to the end users with a powerful self-service
portal that gives the day-to-day management tasks to the user,
enabling administrators to focus on more business critical issues
while giving the client more control and agility over the service by
providing a catalog of custom built and pre-defined machine images.
This session will provide best practices for building clouds, and a
technical overview and demonstration of CloudStack.
Mark Hinkle is Cloud.com's Vice President of Community where he is
responsible for driving all of the community efforts around the
Cloud.com's leading open source, cloud computing software and
ecosystem. Before that he was the force behind the Zenoss Core open
source management projects adoption and community involvement, growing
community membership to over 100,000 members. He is a co-founder of
both the Open Source Management Consortium and the Desktop Linux
Consortium, has served as Editor-in-Chief for both LinuxWorld Magazine
and Enterprise Open Source Magazine, and authored the book, "Windows to
Linux Business Desktop Migration" (Thomson, 2006). Mark has also held
executive positions at a number of technology start-ups, including
Earthlink, (previously MindSpring)--where he was the head of the
technical support organization recognized by PC Computing and PC World
as the best in the industry--Win4Lin and Emu Software.
1. http://www.cloud.com/
------------------------------
"Slides" from the BALUG 2011-03-15 meeting:
Jack Deslippe on Developing for Android
see:
http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-talk-balug.org/2011-March/004733.html
------------------------------
Other Linux & Open Source happenings
Too many to list here :-) - but one might also want to:
peek at BALUG's "talk" list/archives, if one's not subscribed:
http://lists.balug.org/listinfo.cgi/balug-talk-balug.org
check other lists of events/sites, and their respective sites/lists:
http://linuxmafia.com/bale/https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=caj9iea2ol69b7n2uqdek4ocso@group.…
------------------------------
Twitter! - follow BALUG on Twitter: BALUG_org
You can now follow BALUG on Twitter. We're still working out exactly
how we'll use that BALUG_org account on Twitter, but follow us there,
and we'll likely include at least some announcements and updates.
Thoughts/feedback on how we use that Twitter account? - drop us a note
at: publicity-feedback(a)balug.org
------------------------------
http://www.balug.org/
BALUG Tu 2011-03-15: Jack Deslippe on Developing for Android; & other
BALUG news
In this issue (details further below):
2011-03-15 Tu: BALUG meeting Tu: Jack Deslippe on Developing for Android
Debian/Linux/Ubuntu/... CDs
2011-05-17: Cloud.com's Mark Hinkle, VP of Community, on: Open Source
Solutions for Building and Deploying Private and Public Clouds
Twitter! - follow BALUG on Twitter: BALUG_org
------------------------------
Bay Area Linux User Group (BALUG) meeting
Tuesday 6:30 P.M. 2011-03-15
Please RSVP if you're planning to come (see further below).
For our Tuesday 6:30 P.M. 2011-03-15 meeting, we're proud to present:
Jack Deslippe[1] on Developing for Android[2]
It is has become clear over the last few years that mobile devices such
as smartphones, "superphones" and tablets are more than just a passing
fad - they are quickly becoming the new primary goto devices for the
public's computing and connecting needs. This mobile revolution has
given Linux[3] & open-source a second chance at being the OS of choice
for the average end-user. In particular, the Linux powered,
open-source, Android OS[2] has recently emerged as the number one
selling OS on mobile devices in the US.
Jack will give a brief introduction to what Android is (and is not) and
will discuss the opportunities and challenges of developing for
Android. Finally, he will walk us through developing your first Android
application on an Ubuntu[4] desktop and talk about some of the
development lessons that he learned the hard way.
Jack Deslippe is computational physics Ph.D. student candidate at UC
Berkeley[5]. He spends his weekdays programming for some of the largest
super-computers in the world and his weekends developing for some of
the smallest computers (Android phones). He has been using Linux for 10
years on the desktop and server and, 2 years ago, founded the Berkeley
Linux Users Group[6]. He is an active member of the Ubuntu-California
local team[7] and a developer-of/contributor-to various desktop Linux
projects. You can learn more about Jack at jdeslippe.com[1].
1. http://jdeslippe.com/
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_(operating_system)
3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux
4. http://www.ubuntu.com/
5. http://www.berkeley.edu/
6. http://www.berkeleylug.com/
7. http://loco.ubuntu.com/teams/ubuntu-california
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.
Meeting Details...
6:30pm
Tuesday, March 15th, 2011 2011-03-15
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).
Additional goodies we'll have at this meeting (at least the following):
We'll have various Linux(Debian/Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Fedora/...) CDs available
at the 2011-03-15
BALUG meeting (and likely also future meetings as long as our supply
lasts/continues), most notably presently including:
Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.0 "Squeeze" - latest "stable"(/production) released
2011-02-06:
Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.0 "Squeeze" - Official i386 CD Binary-1
Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.0 "Squeeze" - Official amd64 CD Binary-1
Ubuntu 10.10 Desktop CD PC (Intel x86) i386
Kubuntu 10.10 Desktop Edition
Fedora 14 i686
And other editions/releases/flavors
Thanks to Grant Bowman and the Ubuntu California Team and others for
getting CDs to us.
------------------------------
For our Tuesday 6:30 P.M. 2011-05-17 meeting, we're proud to present:
Cloud.com[1]'s Mark Hinkle, VP of Community, on:
Open Source Solutions for Building and Deploying Private and Public
Clouds
As cloud computing has moved beyond hype, becoming a true
enterprise-ready tool that cuts IT costs and fits a variety of use
cases, IT is seeking new ways to efficiently and cost-effectively
build, deploy and manage clouds. Cloud.com's CloudStack Community
Edition, available under the GPLv3 license, is an open sourced
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) software platform that simplifies
the creation and management of public and private clouds. This platform
seamlessly integrates with existing data center infrastructure without
the need for modifications, special-purpose hardware or
reconfiguration, making it possible for users to instantly realize the
benefits of the cloud.
CloudStack Community Edition delivers several benefits including:
o Massive computing power - providing virtually unlimited CPUs
on-demand, as required and billed by actual usage in public, private
or hybrid deployments.
o Powerful API - Easily build, integrate and use applications based on
common cloud APIs like Amazon's Web Services API, Citrix Cloud CenterT
(C3) API and the vCloud API
o Secure Cloud Computing - Isolating compute, network, and storage
resources by user, location and deployment.
o Comprehensive Service Management - Defining, metering, deploying and
managing services to be consumed within your cloud.
o Automated resource distribution - delivering capabilities to automate
the distribution of compute, network and storage while adhering to
defined policies on load balancing, data security and compliance.
o Real-time visibility and reporting capabilities - ensuring compliance,
security and comprehensive metering customer usage.
o Simplified management - empowering administrators to offset the daily
management of services to the end users with a powerful self-service
portal that gives the day-to-day management tasks to the user,
enabling administrators to focus on more business critical issues
while giving the client more control and agility over the service by
providing a catalog of custom built and pre-defined machine images.
This session will provide best practices for building clouds, and a
technical overview and demonstration of CloudStack.
Mark Hinkle is Cloud.com's Vice President of Community where he is
responsible for driving all of the community efforts around the
Cloud.com's leading open source, cloud computing software and
ecosystem. Before that he was the force behind the Zenoss Core open
source management projects adoption and community involvement, growing
community membership to over 100,000 members. He is a co-founder of
both the Open Source Management Consortium and the Desktop Linux
Consortium, has served as Editor-in-Chief for both LinuxWorld Magazine
and Enterprise Open Source Magazine, and authored the book, "Windows to
Linux Business Desktop Migration" (Thomson, 2006). Mark has also held
executive positions at a number of technology start-ups, including
Earthlink, (previously MindSpring)--where he was the head of the
technical support organization recognized by PC Computing and PC World
as the best in the industry--Win4Lin and Emu Software.
1. http://www.cloud.com/
------------------------------
Twitter! - follow BALUG on Twitter: BALUG_org
You can now follow BALUG on Twitter. We're still working out exactly
how we'll use that BALUG_org account on Twitter, but follow us there,
and we'll likely include at least some announcements and updates.
Thoughts/feedback on how we use that Twitter account? - drop us a note
at: publicity-feedback(a)balug.org
------------------------------
http://www.balug.org/
BALUG Tu 2011-03-15: Jack Deslippe on Developing for Android; & other
BALUG news
In this issue (details further below):
2011-03-15 Tu: BALUG meeting Tu: Jack Deslippe on Developing for Android
Debian/Linux/Ubuntu/... CDs
2011-05-17: Cloud.com's Mark Hinkle, VP of Community, on: Open Source
Solutions for Building and Deploying Private and Public Clouds
Twitter! - follow BALUG on Twitter: BALUG_org
------------------------------
Bay Area Linux User Group (BALUG) meeting
Tuesday 6:30 P.M. 2011-03-15
Please RSVP if you're planning to come (see further below).
For our Tuesday 6:30 P.M. 2011-03-15 meeting, we're proud to present:
Jack Deslippe[1] on Developing for Android[2]
It is has become clear over the last few years that mobile devices such
as smartphones, "superphones" and tablets are more than just a passing
fad - they are quickly becoming the new primary goto devices for the
public's computing and connecting needs. This mobile revolution has
given Linux[3] & open-source a second chance at being the OS of choice
for the average end-user. In particular, the Linux powered,
open-source, Android OS[2] has recently emerged as the number one
selling OS on mobile devices in the US.
Jack will give a brief introduction to what Android is (and is not) and
will discuss the opportunities and challenges of developing for
Android. Finally, he will walk us through developing your first Android
application on an Ubuntu[4] desktop and talk about some of the
development lessons that he learned the hard way.
Jack Deslippe is computational physics Ph.D. student candidate at UC
Berkeley[5]. He spends his weekdays programming for some of the largest
super-computers in the world and his weekends developing for some of
the smallest computers (Android phones). He has been using Linux for 10
years on the desktop and server and, 2 years ago, founded the Berkeley
Linux Users Group[6]. He is an active member of the Ubuntu-California
local team[7] and a developer-of/contributor-to various desktop Linux
projects. You can learn more about Jack at jdeslippe.com[1].
1. http://jdeslippe.com/
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_(operating_system)
3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux
4. http://www.ubuntu.com/
5. http://www.berkeley.edu/
6. http://www.berkeleylug.com/
7. http://loco.ubuntu.com/teams/ubuntu-california
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.
Meeting Details...
6:30pm
Tuesday, March 15th, 2011 2011-03-15
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).
Additional goodies we'll have at this meeting (at least the following):
We'll have various Linux(Debian/Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Fedora/...) CDs available
at the 2011-03-15
BALUG meeting (and likely also future meetings as long as our supply
lasts/continues), most notably presently including:
Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.0 "Squeeze" - latest "stable"(/production) released
2011-02-06:
Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.0 "Squeeze" - Official i386 CD Binary-1
Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.0 "Squeeze" - Official amd64 CD Binary-1
Ubuntu 10.10 Desktop CD PC (Intel x86) i386
Kubuntu 10.10 Desktop Edition
Fedora 14 i686
And other editions/releases/flavors
Thanks to Grant Bowman and the Ubuntu California Team and others for
getting CDs to us.
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For our Tuesday 6:30 P.M. 2011-05-17 meeting, we're proud to present:
Cloud.com[1]'s Mark Hinkle, VP of Community, on:
Open Source Solutions for Building and Deploying Private and Public
Clouds
As cloud computing has moved beyond hype, becoming a true
enterprise-ready tool that cuts IT costs and fits a variety of use
cases, IT is seeking new ways to efficiently and cost-effectively
build, deploy and manage clouds. Cloud.com's CloudStack Community
Edition, available under the GPLv3 license, is an open sourced
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) software platform that simplifies
the creation and management of public and private clouds. This platform
seamlessly integrates with existing data center infrastructure without
the need for modifications, special-purpose hardware or
reconfiguration, making it possible for users to instantly realize the
benefits of the cloud.
CloudStack Community Edition delivers several benefits including:
o Massive computing power - providing virtually unlimited CPUs
on-demand, as required and billed by actual usage in public, private
or hybrid deployments.
o Powerful API - Easily build, integrate and use applications based on
common cloud APIs like Amazon's Web Services API, Citrix Cloud CenterT
(C3) API and the vCloud API
o Secure Cloud Computing - Isolating compute, network, and storage
resources by user, location and deployment.
o Comprehensive Service Management - Defining, metering, deploying and
managing services to be consumed within your cloud.
o Automated resource distribution - delivering capabilities to automate
the distribution of compute, network and storage while adhering to
defined policies on load balancing, data security and compliance.
o Real-time visibility and reporting capabilities - ensuring compliance,
security and comprehensive metering customer usage.
o Simplified management - empowering administrators to offset the daily
management of services to the end users with a powerful self-service
portal that gives the day-to-day management tasks to the user,
enabling administrators to focus on more business critical issues
while giving the client more control and agility over the service by
providing a catalog of custom built and pre-defined machine images.
This session will provide best practices for building clouds, and a
technical overview and demonstration of CloudStack.
Mark Hinkle is Cloud.com's Vice President of Community where he is
responsible for driving all of the community efforts around the
Cloud.com's leading open source, cloud computing software and
ecosystem. Before that he was the force behind the Zenoss Core open
source management projects adoption and community involvement, growing
community membership to over 100,000 members. He is a co-founder of
both the Open Source Management Consortium and the Desktop Linux
Consortium, has served as Editor-in-Chief for both LinuxWorld Magazine
and Enterprise Open Source Magazine, and authored the book, "Windows to
Linux Business Desktop Migration" (Thomson, 2006). Mark has also held
executive positions at a number of technology start-ups, including
Earthlink, (previously MindSpring)--where he was the head of the
technical support organization recognized by PC Computing and PC World
as the best in the industry--Win4Lin and Emu Software.
1. http://www.cloud.com/
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Twitter! - follow BALUG on Twitter: BALUG_org
You can now follow BALUG on Twitter. We're still working out exactly
how we'll use that BALUG_org account on Twitter, but follow us there,
and we'll likely include at least some announcements and updates.
Thoughts/feedback on how we use that Twitter account? - drop us a note
at: publicity-feedback(a)balug.org
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http://www.balug.org/
BALUG TOMRROW! Tu 2011-02-15 BALUG meeting
Bay Area Linux User Group (BALUG) meeting
Tuesday 6:30 P.M. 2011-02-15
Please RSVP if you're planning to come (see further below).
For our 2011-02-15 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, February 15th, 2011 2011-02-15
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).
http://www.balug.org/
BALUG TOMRROW! Tu 2011-01-18 BALUG meeting
Bay Area Linux User Group (BALUG) meeting
Tuesday 6:30 P.M. 2011-01-18
Please RSVP if you're planning to come (see further below).
For our 2011-01-18 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, January 18th, 2011 2011-01-18
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).
http://www.balug.org/
There is no BALUG meeting this December (we usually skip December).
Next BALUG meeting date: 2011-01-18
Watch this announce list and/or our main web site page for updates.
BALUG meeting TOMORROW Tu 2010-11-16: Mark Terranova on Fedora (14),
etc.; & other BALUG news
In this issue (details further below):
2010-11-16 Tu: BALUG meeting Tu: Mark Terranova on Fedora (14), etc.
Linux/Ubuntu CDs
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Bay Area Linux User Group (BALUG) meeting
Tuesday 6:30 P.M. 2010-11-16
Please RSVP if you're planning to come (see further below).
For our Tuesday 6:30 P.M. 2010-11-16 meeting, we're proud to present:
Mark Terranova on Fedora[1] (14), etc.
Mark Terranova will be giving a talk about Fedora and the recently
(2010-11-02) released Fedora 14. He will also speak some about his
experiences with Local tech stuff.
Mark Terranova is a "West Coast Community-Developed-Software guy".
Mark has regularly taught many types of computer classes specializing
in the benefits of Linux and Cross-Platform Software.
He has been involved with spreading Linux for a while. He has helped
organize Linux Release Parties and other tech events that make it fun -
using beer, BBQ, and other ways to create a fun community. He has spent
much time in Portland, Oregon working with FreeGeek.org[2]. Their
unique style helped him learn how to involve more people in computing.
This knowledge has helped him in his role as co-founder of
Gidget Kitchen[3] (GK). "Gidget Kitchen donates computers, generally
using Ubuntu, to groups and individuals." GK strives to make modern
technology simple, empowering, and easy for everyone to understand.
The only requirement is the ability to "play well with others."
Mark blames his interest in technical things and electronics on his
father Michael. "He gave me a Commodore 64 and helped me get my
amateur radio license (N6TBD) at an early age".
1. http://fedoraproject.org/
2. http://www.freegeek.org/
3. http://www.gidgetkitchen.org/
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.
Meeting Details...
6:30pm
Tuesday, November 16th, 2010 2010-11-16
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).
Additional goodies we'll have at this meeting (at least the following):
We'll have various Linux/Ubuntu/Fedora CDs available at the 2010-11-16
BALUG meeting (and likely also future meetings as long as our supply
lasts/continues), most notably presently including:
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx) Desktop CD PC (Intel x86) i386
(also at least some Fedora, Knoppix, and other Ubuntu variants presently)
Thanks to Grant Bowman and the Ubuntu California Team and others for
getting CDs to us.
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http://www.balug.org/