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.
------------------------------
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 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
------------------------------
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.
------------------------------
http://www.balug.org/
BALUG TOMRROW! Tu 2010-10-19 BALUG meeting; & other BALUG news
In this issue (details further below):
2010-10-19 Tu: TOMORROW! BALUG meeting
Linux Lawyers (& software for Laywers)
Linux/Ubuntu CDs
------------------------------
Bay Area Linux User Group (BALUG) meeting
Tuesday 6:30 P.M. 2010-10-19
Please RSVP if you're planning to come (see further below).
For our 2010-10-19 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, October 19th, 2010 2010-10-19
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).
------------------------------
Linux Lawyers (& software for Laywers)
From Martyn Collins talk/presentation at BALUG last month on 2010-09-21,
he also provided BALUG with "a list of the applications I find essential
in making my solo practice viable":
http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-talk-balug.org/2010-October/004679.h…
------------------------------
We'll also have various Linux/Ubuntu CDs available at the 2010-10-19
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 for getting CDs to
us.
------------------------------
http://www.balug.org/
REMINDER+: BALUG meeting Tomorrow Tu 2010-09-21: Martyn Collins: Linux
Lawyers (converted his solo law office to Linux); & other BALUG news
In this issue (details further below):
2010-09-21 Tu: BALUG meeting Tu:
Martyn Collins: Linux Lawyers (converted his solo law office to Linux)
Books for BALUG!
Linux/Ubuntu CDs
2010-10-01--2010-10-03 Joomla Day West 2010
------------------------------
Bay Area Linux User Group (BALUG) meeting
Tomorrow Tuesday 6:30 P.M. 2010-09-21
Please RSVP if you're planning to come (see further below).
For our Tuesday 6:30 P.M. 2010-09-21 meeting, we're proud to present
Martyn Collins of All-Access Law on Linux Lawyers. Martyn Collins
converted his solo law office to Linux in November 2009. He's not
looked back since. He'll be talking to us about his experience in
making the move, as well as his thoughts about Linux and lawyers.
See also a bit further below for some additional goodies we'll have at
this meeting (books, 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, September 21th, 2010 2010-09-21
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 ticket to join 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):
Pearson Education User Group Program: Books - review copies for BALUG
We have at least the following books to give away:
UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook, 4th Edition
http://www.informit.com/title/0131480057
o By Evi Nemeth, Garth Snyder, Trent R. Hein, Ben Whaley
o Published Jul 14, 2010 by Prentice Hall.
o Copyright 2011
o Dimensions: 7 X 9-1/8
o Pages: 1344
o Edition: 4th
o Book ISBN-10: 0-13-148005-7 ISBN-13: 978-0-13-148005-6
Official Ubuntu Book, The, 5th Edition
http://www.informit.com/title/0137081308
o By Benjamin Mako Hill, Matthew Helmke, Corey Burger
o Published Jun 21, 2010 by Prentice Hall.
o Copyright 2010
o Dimensions: 7 X 9-1/8
o Pages: 448
o Edition: 5th
o Book ISBN-10: 0-13-708130-8 ISBN-13: 978-0-13-708130-1
We also have an additional book or two from local Linux authors. If we
manage to confirm author(s) for a BALUG meeting later this year, we'd
give the corresponding book away at that meeting. If not, at least one
of those books will be given away at a BALUG meeting (possibly as soon
as our upcoming Tuesday meeting) this year. (BUUG
(http://www.buug.org/) has first dibs on the Mark Sobell book if BALUG
doesn't secure Mark Sobell as speaker at BALUG this year). Those books
are:
Official Ubuntu Server Book, The, 2nd Edition
http://www.informit.com/title/0137081332
o By Kyle Rankin, Benjamin Mako Hill
o Published Aug 8, 2010 by Prentice Hall.
o Copyright 2011
o Pages: 592
o Edition: 2nd
o Book ISBN-10: 0-13-708133-2 ISBN-13: 978-0-13-708133-2
o eBook ISBN-10: 0-13-216798-0 ISBN-13: 978-0-13-216798-7
Practical Guide to Ubuntu Linux, A, 3rd Edition
http://www.informit.com/title/013254248X
o By Mark G. Sobell
o Published Aug 12, 2010 by Prentice Hall.
o Copyright 2011
o Dimensions: 7-3/8 X 9-1/8
o Pages: 1320
o Edition: 3rd
o Book ISBN-10: 0-13-254248-X ISBN-13: 978-0-13-254248-7
o eBook ISBN-10: 0-13-248334-3 ISBN-13: 978-0-13-248334-6
Also of note:
o Appears all of the books mentioned above are also available as eBook
(may be watermarked), though I didn't spot ISBN-10/ISBN-13 numbers
for some of them (see the referenced URLs).
o Kyle Rankin and Mark Sobell are both local Linux authors, and both
have spoken at BALUG before.
o this book:
UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook, 4th Edition
generally comes highly recommended - especially for those new(er) to
UNIX and Linux systems administration, but probably also still a handy
reference for those with up through at least intermediate levels of
experience on any particular flavor of UNIX/Linux where they may find
themselves doing systems administration.
We'll also have various Linux/Ubuntu CDs available at the 2010-09-21
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 for getting CDs to
us.
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2010-10-01--2010-10-03 Joomla Day West 2010
http://joomladaywest.com/http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-talk-balug.org/2010-September/004667…
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http://www.balug.org/
BALUG meeting Tu 2010-09-21: Martyn Collins: Linux Lawyers (converted
his solo law office to Linux); & other BALUG news
In this issue (details further below):
2010-09-21 Tu: BALUG meeting Tu:
Martyn Collins: Linux Lawyers (converted his solo law office to Linux)
Books for BALUG!
Linux/Ubuntu CDs
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Bay Area Linux User Group (BALUG) meeting
Tuesday 6:30 P.M. 2010-09-21
Please RSVP if you're planning to come (see further below).
For our Tuesday 6:30 P.M. 2010-09-21 meeting, we're proud to present
Martyn Collins of All-Access Law on Linux Lawyers. Martyn Collins
converted his solo law office to Linux in November 2009. He's not
looked back since. He'll be talking to us about his experience in
making the move, as well as his thoughts about Linux and lawyers.
See also a bit further below for some additional goodies we'll have at
this meeting (books, CDs, etc.)
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 the
Four Seas Restaurant plan the meal and dining arrangements and such.
Meeting Details...
6:30pm
Tuesday, September 21th, 2010 2010-09-21
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 ticket to join 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):
Pearson Education User Group Program: Books - review copies for BALUG
We have at least the following books to give away:
UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook, 4th Edition
http://www.informit.com/title/0131480057
o By Evi Nemeth, Garth Snyder, Trent R. Hein, Ben Whaley
o Published Jul 14, 2010 by Prentice Hall.
o Copyright 2011
o Dimensions: 7 X 9-1/8
o Pages: 1344
o Edition: 4th
o Book ISBN-10: 0-13-148005-7 ISBN-13: 978-0-13-148005-6
Official Ubuntu Book, The, 5th Edition
http://www.informit.com/title/0137081308
o By Benjamin Mako Hill, Matthew Helmke, Corey Burger
o Published Jun 21, 2010 by Prentice Hall.
o Copyright 2010
o Dimensions: 7 X 9-1/8
o Pages: 448
o Edition: 5th
o Book ISBN-10: 0-13-708130-8 ISBN-13: 978-0-13-708130-1
We also have an additional book or two from local Linux authors. If we
manage to confirm author(s) for a BALUG meeting later this year, we'd
give the corresponding book away at that meeting. If not, at least one
of those books will be given away at a BALUG meeting (possibly as soon
as our upcoming Tuesday meeting) this year. (BUUG
(http://www.buug.org/) has first dibs on the Mark Sobell book if BALUG
doesn't secure Mark Sobell as speaker at BALUG this year). Those books
are:
Official Ubuntu Server Book, The, 2nd Edition
http://www.informit.com/title/0137081332
o By Kyle Rankin, Benjamin Mako Hill
o Published Aug 8, 2010 by Prentice Hall.
o Copyright 2011
o Pages: 592
o Edition: 2nd
o Book ISBN-10: 0-13-708133-2 ISBN-13: 978-0-13-708133-2
o eBook ISBN-10: 0-13-216798-0 ISBN-13: 978-0-13-216798-7
Practical Guide to Ubuntu Linux, A, 3rd Edition
http://www.informit.com/title/013254248X
o By Mark G. Sobell
o Published Aug 12, 2010 by Prentice Hall.
o Copyright 2011
o Dimensions: 7-3/8 X 9-1/8
o Pages: 1320
o Edition: 3rd
o Book ISBN-10: 0-13-254248-X ISBN-13: 978-0-13-254248-7
o eBook ISBN-10: 0-13-248334-3 ISBN-13: 978-0-13-248334-6
Also of note:
o Appears all of the books mentioned above are also available as eBook
(may be watermarked), though I didn't spot ISBN-10/ISBN-13 numbers
for some of them (see the referenced URLs).
o Kyle Rankin and Mark Sobell are both local Linux authors, and both
have spoken at BALUG before.
o this book:
UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook, 4th Edition
generally comes highly recommended - especially for those new(er) to
UNIX and Linux systems administration, but probably also still a handy
reference for those with up through at least intermediate levels of
experience on any particular flavor of UNIX/Linux where they may find
themselves doing systems administration.
We'll also have various Linux/Ubuntu CDs available at the 2010-09-21
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 for getting CDs to
us.
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http://www.balug.org/
BALUG TOMRROW! Tu 2010-08-17 BALUG meeting; & other BALUG news
In this issue (details further below):
2010-08-17 Tu: TOMORROW! BALUG meeting
Linux/Ubuntu CDs
2010-08-21 Sa: Picn*x 19 - The Linux 19th Anniversary Picnic
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Bay Area Linux User Group (BALUG) meeting
Tuesday 6:30 P.M. 2010-08-17
Please RSVP if you're planning to come (see further below).
For our 2010-08-17 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 - including last month's meeting). 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 the
Four Seas Restaurant plan the meal and they help ensure that we'll be
able to eat upstairs in the private banquet room.
Meeting Details...
6:30pm
Tuesday, August 17th, 2010 2010-08-17
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 ticket to join 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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We'll also have various Linux/Ubuntu CDs available at the 2010-08-17
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 for getting CDs to
us.
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2010-08-21 Sa: Picn*x 19 - The Linux 19th Anniversary Picnic
http://www.linuxpicnic.org/
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http://www.balug.org/