BALUG 2008-07-15!: Mike Linksvayer (Creative Commons); and other BALUG News
Contents:
* BALUG 2008-07-15!: Mike Linksvayer (Creative Commons)
* LinuxWorld, BALUG & SF-LUG, Installfest, etc.
* upcoming BALUG meetings
* Contacts, etc.
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For the BALUG[0] 2008-07-15 meeting we are proud to present:
Mike Linksvayer[1], Vice President of Creative Commons
2008-07-15 [16]Mike Linksvayer, Vice President, [2]Creative Commons
Mike Linksvayer is Vice President of Creative Commons, having
joined Creative Commons as CTO in April 2003. Previously he
co-founded [3]Bitzi. He has over ten years experience as an
enterprise software, web, and multimedia developer and consultant
and holds a B.A. in economics from the [4]University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign.
Creative Commons (CC)
Share, Remix, Reuse. Legally.
Creative Commons provides free tools that let authors, scientists,
artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the
freedoms they want it to carry. You can use CC to change your
copyright terms from "All Rights Reserved" to "Some Rights
Reserved." Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization.
Everything Creative Commons does, including the software created
by Creative Commons, is free.
Time, location, cost (if you want dinner), etc., please see:
http://www.balug.org/#Meetings%20(general)
If you intend to come, please RSVP to: rsvp(a)balug.org
Why RSVP? Well, we probably wouldn't turn you away, but the RSVPs
really help the Four Seas Restaurant plan settings/food/staffing and
help ensure that we're able to eat upstairs in the private banquet room.
0. http://www.balug.org/
1. http://creativecommons.org/about/people#21
2. http://creativecommons.org/
3. http://bitzi.com/
4. http://www.uiuc.edu/
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LinuxWorld[5], BALUG & SF-LUG, Installfest, etc.
LinuxWorld Conference & Expo[5] is coming soon to San Francisco.
BALUG, SF-LUG[6], and some additional [L]UGs will be sharing a
combined/shared [L]UG "booth" at LinuxWorld Conference & Expo,
so ... come by, say "hi", tell folks to come check us out.
To volunteer to help out / coordinate etc. ... take a look
at the BALUG "talk"[7] list or archive thereof - there should be
some significant updates on that within the week.
Installfest for Schools[8]
Alameda County Computer Resource Center (ACCRC)[9] will supply hardware
for massive Installfest for Schools, to donate open source (Ubuntu[10])
computers to schools in need. The event is organized by Untangle[11]
and GES[12]. LinuxWorld attendees are encouraged to join the
installfest by installing Ubuntu, hacking older hardware, or donating
unwanted computers. For more information see:
http://www.untangle.com/installfest
5. http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/
6. http://www.sf-lug.org/
7. http://lists.balug.org/listinfo.cgi/balug-talk-balug.org
8. http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/ehall//SN264817
9. http://www.accrc.org/
10. http://www.ubuntu.com/
11. http://www.untangle.com/
12. http://www.ges.com/
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upcoming BALUG meetings ... mark your calendars :-):
* 2008-07-15 Mike Linksvayer, Vice President, Creative Commons
* 2008-08-19 Chris Dibona
* 2008-09-16[13] Ian Murdock, founder of Debian
* ... BALUG generally meets the third Tuesday of the month. Subscribe to
our low volume "announce"[14] list to be sure and hear about upcoming
meetings and speakers/presentations.
13. This meeting will occur at a different venue; watch for updates.
14. http://lists.balug.org/listinfo.cgi/balug-announce-balug.org
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Contacting BALUG: http://www.new.balug.org/#Contact
Feedback on our publicity/announcements (e.g. contacts or lists where we
should get our information out that we're not presently reaching, or
things we should do differently): publicity-feedback(a)balug.org
bayPIGgies meeting Thursday 7/10:
P2P/BitTorrent data mining with Python and C
by Niall O'Higgins
The BitTorrent protocol is estimated to account for 18-35% of traffic
on the Internet. This talk will give an introduction to the protocol,
why it has been so effective compared to other P2P systems, and what
its limitations are. We will then cover what features make Python an
excellent tool to power large scale data mining and analysis of P2P
networks. Finally, we will present some results of the quantitive
analysis of BitTorrent conducted by the Peer-to-Peer Research
Institute.
http://p2presearch.com/http://niallohiggins.com
Location: Google Campus
Building 42, the Seville room (second floor)
check in at the lobby in bldg 43
bayPIGgies meeting information:
http://baypiggies.net/new/plone
* Please sign up in advance to have your google access badge ready:
http://wiki.python.org/moin/BayPiggiesGoogleMeetings
(no later than close of business on Wednesday.)
Agenda
..... 7:30 PM ...........................
General hubbub, inventory end-of-meeting announcements,
any first-minute announcements.
..... 7:35 PM to 8:45 PM ................
The Talk
..... 8:45 PM to 9:00 PM or After The Talk ................
Mapping and Random Access
Mapping is a rapid-fire audience announcement of topics
the announcers are interested in.
Random Access follows immediately to allow follow up
individually on the announcements and other topics of
interest.
..... Thursday, August 14 ................
7:30 PM BayPIGgies Steven Knight on SCons
Hello BALUG:
This is just a quick note to remind everyone that tomorrow's BALUG meeting
has been postponed until NEXT Tuesday (June 24th).
We're quite excited about hosting Andrew Morton (a lead kernel developer
and maintainer) so please don't forget to RSVP if you intend to join us.
RSVP(a)balug.org
Looking forward to seeing everyone next week.
-Andrew
--
Andrew Fife
Untangle - The Open Source Network Gateway
www.untangle.com/download
650.425.3327 desk
415.806.6028 cell
Howdy Folks:
BALUG is very proud to host Andrew Morton as our speaker on Tuesday, June
24th. (PLEASE NOTE: this is not our regular meeting date... There will be
NO MEETING on the 3rd Tuesday) Andrew Morton is a lead linux kernel
developer and a key kernel maintainer. Andrew Morton is curious what you
want to hear him speak about, so please let us know if you have any
questions for him. More on Andrew Morton here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Morton_(computer_programmer)
If you'd like to come, please RSVP:
RSVP(a)balug.org
===Why RSVP?===
RSVPs are really important to BALUG, but don't worry we won't turn you
away if you forget or decide to come last minute. However, if we don't
have enough RSVPs by the Friday before the meeting, we won't be able to
eat buffet style in the private banquet room upstairs. It's a much nicer
meeting to have the upstairs banquet room, so please RSVP early... Why not
now?
Meeting Details...
6:30pm
June 24th, 2008 (Tuesday)
Four Seas Restaurant
731 Grant Ave.
San Francisco, CA 94108
Easy $5 Parking: http://www.portsmouthsquaregarage.com/
Cost = $13 for dinner, but the meeting itself is free
Upcoming 2008 speakers include:
July - Mike Linksyaver (Creative Commons)
Aug - TBD
Sept - Ian Murdock (Debian & Sun)
--
Andrew Fife
Untangle - The Open Source Network Gateway
www.untangle.com/download
650.425.3327 desk
415.806.6028 cell
Howdy Folks:
Balug on Tuesday will host Thomas Belote, who is a new speaker. Tom is a
software developer at Untangle and a CS grad student at San Jose State.
Tom will be talking about wireless mesh networking. As a grad student at
SJSU, Thomas has worked on Wireless Mesh Networking and Mobile Ad Hoc
Networking. His talk will compare solutions like OLSR and Microsoft's semi
open source Mesh Connectivity Layer (that doesn't run on Linux). He will
discuss why WDS is not sufficient and a mesh protocol is needed, and
discuss the lack of openness thus far in 802.11s even though it is
included in the OLPC, as well as security issues and implications.
If you'd like to come, please RSVP:
RSVP(a)balug.org
Meeting Details...
6:30pm
April 20th, 2008 (Tuesday)
Four Seas Restaurant
731 Grant Ave.
San Francisco, CA 94108
Easy $5 Parking: http://www.portsmouthsquaregarage.com/
Cost = $13 for dinner, but the meeting itself is free and open to the
public
Upcoming 2008 speakers include:
June - Andrew Morton (Linux Kernel)
July - Mike Linksyaver (Creative Commons)
Aug - TBD
Sept - Ian Murdock (Debian & Sun)
Signup for BALUG's extremely low volume announce list:
http://lists.balug.org/listinfo.cgi/balug-announce-balug.org
--
Andrew Fife
Untangle - The Open Source Network Gateway
www.untangle.com/download
650.425.3327 desk
415.806.6028 cell
Eric Allman at BALUG 2008-04-15!, and other BALUG News
Contents:
* Eric Allman at BALUG 2008-04-15!
* LugRadio Live USA 2008 in San Francisco
* Additional upcoming BALUG meeting dates and speakers
* Contacts, etc.
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For our 2008-04-15 meeting we are proud to present:
Eric Allman, on: Email Evolving
Internet email is in a process of rapid evolution. Besides the obvious
things, such as spam and malware, many other technology trends are
having an impact. These include mobile devices, new messaging
technologies, social networking, changing legal requirements, the rise
of Software as a Service and Service Oriented Architectures, and an
unstable underpinning of the network itself. Not surprisingly, many of
these same forces do or will affect other parts of the network. This
talk will describe these evolutionary pressures, point out some of the
unexpected consequences of our attempts to adapt to these pressures,
and make some dire predictions for the future. Generous time will be
allotted to Q&A.
Eric Allman[1] created and authored sendmail[2], spearheads
sendmail.org[3], and is Chief Science Officer[4] and co-founder of
Sendmail, Inc.[5] Sendmail remains the most popular mail transfer
agent (MTA) on the Internet. Eric co-authored the draft specification
for DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM)[6]. Among his work and
contributions, Eric was also Chief Programmer on the INGRES Relational
Database Management System and an early contributor to Berkeley UNIX,
authoring syslog, tset, the troff -me macros, and trek in addition to
sendmail.
If you intend to come, please RSVP to: rsvp(a)balug.org
Why RSVP? Well, we probably wouldn't turn you away, but the RSVPs
really help the Four Seas Restaurant plan settings/food/staffing and
help ensure that we're able to eat upstairs in the private banquet room.
Subscribe to our (low volume) Announce list[7] to be sure and be
notified of our upcoming events.
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Allman
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sendmail
3. http://www.sendmail.org/
4. http://www.sendmail.com/sm/company/management/
5. http://www.sendmail.com/
6. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dkim
7. http://www.new.balug.org/#Lists
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LugRadio Live USA 2008[8] at The Metreon in San Francisco, April 12th &
13th, 2008
LugRadio Live USA 2008 brings San Francisco the unique atmosphere of
LugRadio Live UK, an event that has developed a strong reputation for
providing a range of topics about free software, Open Source, digital
rights, technology and more, a compelling list of speakers, exhibitors
and birds of a feather sessions, and wrapping it all in a unique, fun,
loose, social and inclusive event, which is often described as
combining the atmosphere of a rock concert and a computer conference.
8. http://www.lugradio.org/live/USA2008/
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Additional upcoming BALUG meeting dates[9] and speakers (see our web
page[9] for more details):
2008-05-20 Jeremy Allison[10]
2008-06-17 Andrew Morton[11]
2008-07-15 Mike Linksvayer, CTO, Creative Commons[12]
2008-08-19 (speaker confirmation pending)
2008-09-16 Ian Murdock, founder of Debian[13]
Subscribe to our (quite low volume) Announce list[7] to be sure and be
notified of our upcoming events.
7. http://www.new.balug.org/#Lists
9. http://www.new.balug.org/#Meetings%20(upcoming)
10. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Allison
11. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Morton_%28computer_programmer%29
12. http://creativecommons.org/
13. http://www.debian.org/
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Contacting BALUG: http://www.new.balug.org/#Contact
Feedback on our publicity/announcements (e.g. contacts or lists where we
should get our information out that we're not presently reaching, or
things we should do differently): publicity-feedback(a)balug.org
TOMORROW: Mark Shuttleworth at BALUG 2008-03-25!; & other BALUG News
Contents:
* TOMORROW: Mark Shuttleworth at BALUG 2008-03-25
* Ian Murdoc in September and additional upcoming dates & speakers
* Installfest for Schools
* Contacts, etc.
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TOMORROW: Mark Shuttleworth at BALUG 2008-03-25
If you're planning to come, please RSVP to: rsvp(a)balug.org if you
haven't already - Thanks.
For our 2008-03-25 meeting we are proud to present:
Mark Shuttleworth[1] of Ubuntu[2]/Canonical[3].
Mark is founder of the Ubuntu Project[2], and also founded
Thawte[4] (which specialized in digital certificates),
HBD Venture Capital[5] (invests in early stage South African companies
with high growth potential) and
The Shuttleworth Foundation[6] (non-profit organization that accelerates
social innovation in Africa with a particular focus on education), and
also formed Canonical[3] (commercial sponsor of Ubuntu, and committed to
the development, distribution and promotion of open source software
products, and to providing tools and support to the open source
community). In April 2002, Mark also became the
First African in Space[7], arriving via Soyuz TM-34 to the
International Space Station and spending several days there, and
returning via Soyuz TM-33.
If you intend to come, please RSVP to: rsvp(a)balug.org
Why RSVP? Well, we probably wouldn't turn you away, but the RSVPs
really help the Four Seas Restaurant plan settings/food/staffing and
help ensure that we're able to eat upstairs in the private banquet room.
Subscribe to our (low volume) Announce list[8] to be sure and be
notified of our upcoming events.
1. http://www.markshuttleworth.com/biography
2. http://www.ubuntu.com/
3. http://www.canonical.com/
4. http://www.thawte.com/
5. http://www.hbd.com/
6. http://www.shuttleworthfoundation.org/
7. http://www.africaninspace.com/
8. http://www.new.balug.org/#Lists
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Ian Murdoc in September and additional upcoming BALUG meeting dates[9]
and speakers (see our web page[9] for more details):
2008-04-15 Eric Allman
2008-05-20 Jeremy Allison
2008-06-17 Andrew Morton
2008-07-15 Mike Linksvayer, CTO, Creative Commons
2008-08-19 (speaker confirmation pending)
2008-09-16 Ian Murdock, founder of Debian[10]
Subscribe to our (quite low volume) Announce list[8] to be sure and be
notified of our upcoming events.
8. http://www.new.balug.org/#Lists
9. http://www.new.balug.org/#Meetings%20(upcoming)
10. http://www.debian.org/
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Installfest for Schools[11]
The (first?) Installfest for Schools[11] was held 2008-03-01, and was a
highly successful event. Be sure to check out the new
LWN.net article[12] covering the event. With a combined community
effort by Alameda County Computer Resource Center (ACCRC)[13],
Untangle[14], additional volunteers/supporters/donors/contributors -
including also many User Groups (among them
San Francisco Linux Users' Group (SF-LUG)[15] and
Bay Area Linux Users Group (BALUG)[16][17]), and a quite large number of
volunteers (over 100 volunteers total among four locations), several
hundred computers were built and configured with Ubuntu and additional
free software for donation to schools. Some additional
articles/write-ups, etc.: [17][18][19][20]
11. http://www.untangle.com/installfest
12. http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/273770/1d48ed5372f22879/
13. http://www.accrc.org/
14. http://www.untangle.com/
15. http://www.sf-lug.org/
16. http://www.balug.org/
17. http://www.thejournal.com/articles/22165_2
18. http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/sf-lug/2008q1/003914.html
19.
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Old-Hardware-Gets-New-Lease-of-Life-with-Ubu…
20. http://www.untangle.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=355&Itemi…
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Contacting BALUG: http://www.new.balug.org/#Contact
Feedback on our publicity/announcements (e.g. contacts or lists where we
should get our information out that we're not presently reaching, or
things we should do differently): publicity-feedback(a)balug.org
Mark Shuttleworth at BALUG 2008-03-25!, and other BALUG News
Contents:
* Mark Shuttleworth at BALUG 2008-03-25 (note change from usual date)
* Additional upcoming BALUG meeting dates and speakers
* LugRadio Live USA 2008 in San Francisco
* Contacts, etc.
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Mark Shuttleworth at BALUG 2008-03-25 (note change from usual date)
NOTE SPECIAL MEETING DATE: 2008-03-25 (no meeting on 2008-03-18)
For our 2008-03-25 meeting we are proud to present:
Mark Shuttleworth[1] of Ubuntu[2]/Canonical[3].
Mark is founder of the Ubuntu Project[2], and also founded
Thawte[4] (which specialized in digital certificates),
HBD Venture Capital[5] (invests in early stage South African companies
with high growth potential) and
The Shuttleworth Foundation[6] (non-profit organization that accelerates
social innovation in Africa with a particular focus on education), and
also formed Canonical[3] (commercial sponsor of Ubuntu, and committed to
the development, distribution and promotion of open source software
products, and to providing tools and support to the open source
community). In April 2002, Mark also became the
First African in Space[7], arriving via Soyuz TM-34 to the
International Space Station and spending several days there, and
returning via Soyuz TM-33.
If you intend to come, please RSVP to: rsvp(a)balug.org
Why RSVP? Well, we probably wouldn't turn you away, but the RSVPs
really help the Four Seas Restaurant plan settings/food/staffing and
help ensure that we're able to eat upstairs in the private banquet room.
Subscribe to our (low volume) Announce list[8] to be sure and be
notified of our upcoming events.
1. http://www.markshuttleworth.com/biography
2. http://www.ubuntu.com/
3. http://www.canonical.com/
4. http://www.thawte.com/
5. http://www.hbd.com/
6. http://www.shuttleworthfoundation.org/
7. http://www.africaninspace.com/
8. http://www.new.balug.org/#Lists
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Additional upcoming BALUG meeting dates[9] and speakers (see our web
page[9] for more details):
2008-04-15 Eric Allman
2008-05-20 Jeremy Allison
2008-06-17 Andrew Morton
2008-07-15 Mike Linksvayer, CTO, Creative Commons
Subscribe to our (quite low volume) Announce list[8] to be sure and be
notified of our upcoming events.
8. http://www.new.balug.org/#Lists
9. http://www.new.balug.org/#Meetings%20(upcoming)
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LugRadio Live USA 2008[10] at The Metreon in San Francisco, April 12th &
13th, 2008
LugRadio Live USA 2008 brings San Francisco the unique atmosphere of
LugRadio Live UK, an event that has developed a strong reputation for
providing a range of topics about free software, Open Source, digital
rights, technology and more, a compelling list of speakers, exhibitors
and birds of a feather sessions, and wrapping it all in a unique, fun,
loose, social and inclusive event, which is often described as
combining the atmosphere of a rock concert and a computer conference.
BALUG may also be participating in this - along with other User Groups
in the area.
10. http://www.lugradio.org/live/USA2008/
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Contacting BALUG: http://www.new.balug.org/#Contact
Feedback on our publicity/announcements (e.g. contacts or lists where we
should get our information out that we're not presently reaching, or
things we should do differently): publicity-feedback(a)balug.org
Hi Folks:
This is a reminder that Bruce Perens will be speaking at BALUG Tonight.
(See the abstract below) So, if you'd like to come, its time to get your
RSVP in:
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 ensure that we're able to eat
upstairs in the private banquet room.
Upcoming 2008 speakers include:
Feb 19th - Bruce Perens
March 25th (New Date) - Mark Shuttleworth (Ubuntu/Canonical)
April 15th - Eric Allman (Sendmail)
May 20th - Jeremy Allison (Samba)
June 17th - Andrew Morton (Linux kernel)
July 15th - Mike Linksvayer (Creative Commons)
Aug 19th - TBD
Sept 16th - Ian Murdock (Debian & Sun)
So why not signup for BALUG's extremely low volume announce list:
http://lists.balug.org/listinfo.cgi/balug-announce-balug.org
Meeting Details...
6:30pm
February 19th, 2008 (TONIGHT!)
Four Seas Restaurant
731 Grant Ave.
San Francisco, CA 94108
PARKING: http://www.portsmouthsquaregarage.com/
Cost:
The meetings are always free, but dinner is $13
ABSTRACT: "Innovation Goes Public"
Presented by Bruce Perens, co-founder of the Open Source initiative
insoftware.
Open Source provides much of the software infrastructure for many of the
world's largest companies and organizations: Merrill Lynch, Google, Pixar,
Amazon, the City of New York, and probably you - although you might not
know it. Innovative products like Linux, Firefox, and Apache are the
market-leaders in their sectors, but there are tens of thousands of Open
Source programs, used for just about everything. But the economics of Open
Source are non-intuitive: how can you make money by giving software away?
Why did IBM de-emphasize AIX, after spending Billions, in favor of Linux,
the product of a loose collaboration of programmers that it can never
control? How can the world's greatest city trust Open Source to help
manage its jails?
Bruce Perens will show how Open Source is often the most effective
strategy for creating and utilizing new innovation. He will explain the
economics of Open Source and how it works for profit-generating companies.
His talk will be clear to beginners yet informative even for Open Source
pros.
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Andrew Fife
Untangle - Open Source Security Gateway
download.untangle.com
650.425.3327 (O)
415.806.6028 (C)
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