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News & BALUG 2006-11-21: Marilyn Davis on Python, programming, etc.
by Michael Paoli 12 Nov '06

12 Nov '06

News & BALUG 2006-11-21: Marilyn Davis on Python, programming, etc. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ For our November 21st, 2006 BALUG meeting, we have: Marilyn Davis as guest speaker on Python, programming, etc. Marilyn Davis is a senior software engineer and technical trainer, very active in Bay Area Python Interest Group (BayPIGgies) and a fair bit of a Python evangelist, and author of eVote(R)/Clerk and other software and many published works. Marilyn Davis is is also focused on object-oriented design, clear, efficient algorithms, and well-crafted code; with a demonstrated knack for: * Finding simple solutions to complex problems. * Articulating clear explanations. * Engendering cooperation. http://www.deliberate.com/marilyn/ http://baypiggies.net/ http://www.deliberate.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ No BALUG meeting in December this year. Note that BALUG will not be meeting in December of this year. We meet again, as usual, resuming on the 3rd Tuesday of the month on 2007-01-16. ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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BayLISA Monitoring SIG this Wednesday, Nov 8, 7PM
by Peter Mui 06 Nov '06

06 Nov '06

----------------------------------------------------- Monitoring SIG this month: Monitoring Show-n-Tell & Rant-n-Rave Based on consensus from last month's phenomenal meeting: come prepared to discuss your favorite (and not-so-favorite) monitoring- related tools and talk about what has (and hasn't) worked for you. Out of this dialogue, we'll assemble an inventory of tools to 1) map out the monitoring space and 2) compare and contrast tools, with the goal of creating consensus about the best tools and approaches to monitoring. We'll have an LCD projector and wireless available if you need to show the assembled crowd something from the web or your laptop. Bring your questions -- share your experiences! What: BayLISA Monitoring SIG: The Sequel Who: Anyone interested in IT monitoring issues and tools When: Wednesday, November 8 2006, 7PM Where: GroundWork Open Source, 139 Townsend St., San Francisco How: 139 Townsend St. is very near AT&T Park. It is two blocks from the CalTrain Depot. Take the MUNI N trolley "inbound" to 2nd and King (ballpark stop) or take the 15 or 30 buses crosstown. Free evening street parking can usually be found. Food (pizza again) and drinks (pop again) will be provided by GroundWork. We'll open up the doors at 6:30 or so and start the formal part of the meeting promptly at 7PM. RSVP (not necessary, but helpful): Peter Mui, pmui(a)groundworkopensource.com, 415 992 4573 -----------------------------------------------------

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News & BALUG 2006-10-17: Patrick McGovern of Splunk: Illuminating the issues in your Data Center
by Michael Paoli 06 Oct '06

06 Oct '06

News & BALUG 2006-10-17: Patrick McGovern of Splunk: Illuminating the issues in your Data Center ------------------------------------------------------------------------ For our October 17th, 2006 BALUG meeting, we have: Splunk, a company that claims to take the SH out of IT: TOPIC: Splunk: Illuminating the issues in your Data Center. SPEAKER: Patrick McGovern BACKGROUND: Splunk, based in San Francisco, makes a web-based AJAX-enhanced search engine that allows system administrators and programmers to search all their incoming log files in real time (any type of log files: Sendmail, Cisco, MySQL, syslog, etc.) with a browser. It's a powerful tool to allow people to 'see' inside their systems as they are running. ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Patrick is the Chief Community Splunker at Splunk, Inc. Prior to joining Splunk, Patrick McGovern managed SourceForge.net for five years for VA Software / OSTG. http://www.splunk.com/ http://www.balug.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monitoring SIG starts in San Francisco 2006-10-10: http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-announce-balug.org/2006-October/0000… ------------------------------------------------------------------------ No BALUG meeting in December this year. Note that BALUG will not be meeting in December of this year. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.balug.org/

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Inaugural Monitoring SIG meeting Tuesday, Oct. 10, 7PM
by Peter Mui 03 Oct '06

03 Oct '06

(Hi Michael et al, is this announcement an appropriate post to BALUG? We don't want to be perceived as spamming. Thanks! -Peter) Announcing the inaugural meeting of the Monitoring SIG next Tuesday, October 10 at 7PM (in conjunction with BayLISA, the local Large Installation System Administrators chapter). They'll be a short overview presentation on Open Source monitoring tools and and then we'll open it up for a discussion of issues people want to cover in the SIG. All interested parties are invited (nay, heartily encouraged!) to attend. Here's the text-based announcement: feel free to forward it as you see fit: ----------------------------------------------------- What: Inaugural Monitoring SIG Meeting Who: Anyone interested in IT monitoring issues and tools When: Tuesday, October 10 2006, 7PM Where: GroundWork Open Source, 139 Townsend St., San Francisco How: 139 Townsend St. is very near AT&T Park. It is two blocks from the CalTrain Depot. Take the MUNI N trolley "inbound" to 2nd and King (ballpark stop) or take the 15 or 30 buses crosstown. Free evening street parking can usually be found. We'll have a brief presentation and then brainstorm about ways to build the finest sys admin/IT tools for monitoring and how this SIG can facilitate that. Food (probably pizza) and drinks (definitely pop) will be provided by GroundWork. RSVP (not necessary, but helpful): Peter Mui, pmui(a)groundworkopensource.com, 415 992 4573 ----------------------------------------------------- Let me know if you have any questions. Cheers, -Peter Peter Mui, Open Source Community Advocate GROUNDWORK Open Source, Inc. 139 Townsend Street, Suite 100 San Francisco, CA 94107-1946 +1 415 992 4573 (direct) +1 415 947 0684 (fax) pmui(a)groundworkopensource.com

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BALUG 2006-09-19 meeting reminder, etc.
by Michael Paoli 15 Sep '06

15 Sep '06

BALUG 2006-09-19 meeting reminder For our September 19, 2006 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. 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. Good food, good people, and interesting conversations to be had. Meeting time, location, etc (also on the BALUG web site): 7:00 P.M. US/Pacific $11.00 fee for dinner Four Seas Restaurant 731 Grant Ave., 3rd Floor Banquet Facility: "The China Room"* San Francisco, CA 94108-2113 Feel free to join us as early as 6:30 P.M. at the bar for social chat, etc. before the main meeting. *sometimes we eat and/or meet in the main dining facilities on the 2nd floor, just ask where the BALUG meeting is when you arrive and you'll be pointed to the appropriate place http://www.balug.org/

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News & BALUG 2006-08-15: Don Armstrong of Debian: Debian: Why? How? What next?
by Michael Paoli 11 Aug '06

11 Aug '06

News & BALUG 2006-08-15: Don Armstrong of Debian: Debian: Why? How? What next? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2006-08-15 BALUG: Don Armstrong of Debian: Debian: Why? How? What next? ... For our August 15th, 2006 BALUG meeting, we have: Don Armstrong on Debian: Why? How? What next? Why you should consider using Debian, some tips on how to actually use Debian, with a look into how Debian actually got where it is and where Debian is going in the future, both for Etch, and beyond. Don Armstrong is a Debian Developer who is active in end user support, package maintenance, legal issues affecting Free Software, and works on the Debian Bug Tracking System. He is also a graduate student at the University of California, Riverside in the Cell, Molecular and Developmental Biology program, where he uses Debian in his research. Some keysignings might also occur (we had a bit of an impromptu keysigning at our July meeting, and when and where Debian folks gather there's also an increased probability of keysignings occurring). Also, there will probably be some keysignings at/around LinuxWorld (see also LinuxWorld, below). Also see The San Francisco Bay Area keysigning information and discussion list (publicly archived) for latest developments/plans/announcements. http://www.debian.org/ http://www.donarmstrong.com/ http://www.balug.org/ http://zer0.org/mailman/listinfo/ba-keysign/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2006-08-14 - 2006-08-17 LinuxWorld Conference and Expo. Free "Exhibits Only" pass registration is still available through 2006-08-13. An "Exhibits Only" pass includes for free: 3-day access to the LinuxWorld Exhibit Hall Keynotes Feature Presentations Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) sessions* *Please also note, if you're going to LinuxWorld Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) Meetings on 2006-08-15 and you want to make the BALUG meeting, please try to depart LinuxWorld by approximately 6:40 P.M. to make it to BALUG at least approximately on time. Some keysignings will almost certainly be arranged at LinuxWorld (see also The San Francisco Bay Area keysigning information and discussion list (publicly archived) for latest developments/plans/announcements). http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/ http://www.balug.org/ http://zer0.org/mailman/listinfo/ba-keysign/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2006-08-16 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM BoF: Network, Device, and Environment Monitoring (BoF at LinuxWorld - see also LinuxWorld, above) Informal "meet and greet" reception at GroundWork's offices after the BoF http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-talk-balug.org/2006-July/003780.html http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12SFO06A/conference/tracksessi… ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2006-08-19 Picn*x15 - registration is still open - at least last I checked http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-talk-balug.org/2006-August/003790.ht… http://www.linuxpicnic.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2006-09-19 BALUG meeting - don't have a specific speaker/presentation confirmed yet, but even if we end up without, that doesn't stop us from having good, interesting meetings (good folks, good food, good conversation, interesting questions/observations/"answers"/etc.). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2006-10-17 BALUG: Patrick McGovern of Splunk For our October 17th, 2006 BALUG meeting, we have: Splunk, a company that claims to take the SH out of IT: TOPIC: Splunk: Illuminating the issues in your Data Center. SPEAKER: Patrick McGovern BACKGROUND: Splunk, based in San Francisco, makes a web-based AJAX-enhanced search engine that allows system administrators and programmers to search all their incoming log files in real time (any type of log files: Sendmail, Cisco, MySQL, syslog, etc.) with a browser. It's a powerful tool to allow people to 'see' inside their systems as they are running. ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Patrick is the Chief Community Splunker at Splunk, Inc. Prior to joining Splunk, Patrick McGovern managed SourceForge.net for five years for VA Software / OSTG. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2006-11-21 BALUG meeting ... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.balug.org/

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Picn*x 15 Announcement
by John Delaney 03 Aug '06

03 Aug '06

Picn*x 15 Announcement The Picn*x 15 Committee cordially invites all the friends of open source software to a picnic to be held Saturday August 19, 2006 from 11AM - 5PM at Sunnyvale's Baylands Park. This years theme celebrates the tremendous progress made by the open source community over the last fifteen years, including, but not limited to, FreeBSD, GNU, Apache, MySQL, PERL, Python, PHP, OpenOffice, GIMP, and of course Linux. There are over 70,000 open source projects. We truly live in a new world. August 19 is the Saturday following the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo in San Francisco. The Picn*x 15 Committee encourages Conference attendees to stay over for the picnic. A large out-of-town turnout is expected since this year's Expo celebrates the 15th anniversary of Linux. Early registration is advised. For your inner geek, the picnic has activities like installing and troubleshooting software on your laptop, experimenting with wireless communication, and visits to local hardware stores. For your inner child there is acoustic music, Frisbee, soccer, bocce ball, softball, volleyball and juggling. Participating organizations include: BayLISA, The Bay Area Large Installation System Administrators; The Linux User Group of Davis; The South Bay Community Network; The Silicon Valley Linux User Group; and The Silicon Valley Wireless Users and Experimenters. The picnic is free to attendees, but reservations are required. Many thanks to our sponsors, including Mirapoint, Raw Bandwidth, BayLISA, and Splunk. See http://www.linuxpicnic.org for additional information. Picn*x 15 Committee

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BALUG 2006-08-15: (correction/update)
by Michael Paoli 03 Aug '06

03 Aug '06

BALUG 2006-08-15: (correction/update) Turns out we made a scheduling error, so for our 2006-08-15 meeting, at the moment we don't have a speaker/presentation lined up, but we're working to change that. Patrick McGovern of Splunk will probably be presenting at a later BALUG meeting date (probably also not on 2006-09-19, but likely 2006-10-17 or subsequent). With or without a formal speaker/presentation for the 2006-08-15 meeting, it should still be an interesting and exiting meeting (good food, good folks, good conversation), and it's also one of the days LinuxWorld is in San Francisco, so we may draw a larger and more varied crowd to our meeting. If you have a contact/lead for a talk/presentation (especially 2006-08-15) you can drop an e-mail note to me and also the "speaker" contact found on the BALUG web site. Details on meeting time, location, cost (for dinner), etc. are available on the BALUG web site: http://www.balug.org/

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BALUG 2006-07-18: Mark Ferlatte of Linden Lab on Second Life, etc.
by Michael Paoli 15 Jul '06

15 Jul '06

BALUG 2006-07-18: Mark Ferlatte of Linden Lab on Second Life, etc. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ For our July 18th, 2006 BALUG meeting, we have: Mark Ferlatte of Linden Lab will talk to BALUG about the technology beneath Second Life and present techniques for managing large quantities of servers with only a few support staff. (Second Life is a 3-D virtual world entirely built and owned by its residents, population 200,000!) http://www.secondlife.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Next month, for our August 15th, 2006 BALUG meeting, we have: Splunk, a company that claims to take the SH out of IT: TOPIC: Splunk: Illuminating the issues in your Data Center. SPEAKER: Patrick McGovern BACKGROUND: Splunk, based in San Francisco, makes a web-based AJAX-enhanced search engine that allows system administrators and programmers to search all their incoming log files in real time (any type of log files: Sendmail, Cisco, MySQL, syslog, etc.) with a browser. It's a powerful tool to allow people to 'see' inside their systems as they are running. ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Patrick is the Chief Community Splunker at Splunk, Inc. Prior to joining Splunk, Patrick McGovern managed SourceForge.net for five years for VA Software / OSTG. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Meeting time, location, etc. (also on the BALUG web site): 2006-07-18* 7:00 P.M. US/Pacific $11.00 fee for dinner Four Seas Restaurant 731 Grant Ave., 3rd Floor Banquet Facility: "The China Room"** San Francisco, CA 94108-2113 Feel free to join us as early as 6:30 P.M. at the bar for social chat, etc. before the main meeting. *Almost always the third Tuesday of each month, 7:00 P.M. local time **Sometimes we eat and/or meet in the main dining facilities on the 2nd floor, just ask where the BALUG meeting is when you arrive and you'll be pointed to the appropriate place. http://www.balug.org/

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BALUG Tue. 2006-07-18: Mark Ferlatte of Linden Lab, on Second Life
by Rick Moen 15 Jul '06

15 Jul '06

On Tue., 2006-07-18, Mark Ferlatte of Linden Lab will talk to BALUG about the technology beneath Second Life, and present techniques for managing large quantities of servers with only a few support staff. (Second Life is a 3-D virtual world entirely built and owned by its residents, population 200,000!) http://www.secondlife.com/ Note: Dates in calendar are closer than they appear: We're talking NEXT TUESDAY. :r! cal July 2006 Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ For the August 18 meeting, we'll hear from Splunk, a company that claims to "Take the SH out of IT". TOPIC: Splunk: Illuminating the issues in your Data Center. SPEAKER: Patrick McGovern BACKGROUND: Splunk, based in San Francisco, makes a Web-based AJAX-enhanced search engine that allows system administrators and programmers to search all their incoming log files in real time (any type of log files: Sendmail, Cisco, MySQL, syslog, etc.) with a browser. It's a powerful tool to allow people to 'see' inside their systems as they are running. ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Patrick is Chief Community Splunker at Splunk, Inc. Prior to joining Splunk, Patrick McGovern managed SourceForge.net for five years for VA Software / OSTG. Meeting time, location, etc. (also on the BALUG Web site): Tue 2006-07-18 7:00 P.M. PDT $11.00 fee for dinner Four Seas Restaurant 731 Grant nr. Sacramento., 3rd Floor Banquet Facility: "The China Room"* San Francisco Feel free to join us as early as 6:30 P.M. at the bar for social chat, etc., before the main meeting. *Sometimes we eat and/or meet in the main dining facilities on the 2nd floor; just ask where the BALUG meeting is when you arrive, and you'll be pointed to the appropriate place. http://www.balug.org/

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