REMINDER: TOMORROW!: BALUG: Meeting! (VIRTUAL) 2021-03-16: Michael
Paoli: sed - Streaming EDitor+, & other BALUG News
------------------------------
items, details further below:
REMINDER: TOMORROW!:
Meeting! (VIRTUAL) 2021-03-16: Michael Paoli: sed - Streaming EDitor+
Meetings (online/virtual/...)
COVID-19 - what you can do
(MORE INFO!): giveaways (& wanted), hardware, CDs/DVDs,
books/publications, ...
help BALUG! :-) - volunteering, venue, ...
Twitter https://twitter.com/#!/BALUG_org
------------------------------
Meeting! (VIRTUAL) 2021-03-16: Michael Paoli: sed - Streaming EDitor+
Yes, we're having a BALUG meeting!!! And it's an online VIRTUAL
meeting, "of course".
6:30pm PDT Tuesday, March 16th, 2021 2021-03-16T18:30:00-07:00
2021-03-17T01:30:00+00:00
https://meet.jit.si/BALUG.org (please see also meeting
venue information further below)
For this meeting, we have talk/presentation:
Michael Paoli on: sed - Streaming EDitor+:
sed[1] - it's a Streaming EDitor! Give it edit specification as
script(s)/program(s), and it reads from standard input (stdin) or
specified file(s), and writes to standard output (stdout). The GNU
version of sed even has extension to allow edit-in-place.
+? But sed is more than "just" that. It can well save/manipulate
things in its pattern and hold spaces, including embedded newlines
within and manipulation thereof. It also has logical grouping,
conditional and unconditional branching - so some basic flow
control. Sound like a programming language? Well, it is that too!
... at least a little bit, and yes, enough to even be possible to
program some things in sed! (See, e.g. a Tic-Tac-Toe demonstration
written in sed!). And sed is often an excellent tool for doing
those streaming edit tasks and the like, and avoiding the entire
overhead of a more general purpose language such as awk or perl or
python or the such. And sed is also very standard - per POSIX, and
history, etc. Well learn those basics and works on most any version
of sed anywhere, and being standard that it is, can quite expect it
to pretty much always be there, even on quite minimal
installations.
So, no hassles with driving, parking, public transportation, rain
... everyone gets a front row seat, don't need a PA system to hear
the speaker from further back, clearly see what's projected on the
(your) screen. And attend from any city, state, country - anywhere
on the planet! Alas, won't have the delicious cuisine of Henry's
Hunan Restaurant, but you're free to arrange whatever dining (or
not) you may prefer (including to go or delivery from many
restaurants that could very much use your business).
(currently no RSVP required for VIRTUAL meetings)
Meeting kicks off at 6:30 P.M. - we start with meet and greet and chat
and such, then proceed with more formal part of the meeting starting at
7:00 P.M.
Strongly recommended to please join us before 7:00 P.M. for the main
part of the meeting (get yourself connected and squared away by 7:00
P.M., see also: venue information further below).
meeting venue (at least until further notice or otherwise noted):
https://meet.jit.si/BALUG.org Dial-in numbers also available at the
URL.
Please use earbud(s)/headphone(s) or mute yourself to avoid audio
feedback issues, also please if you have background sound/noise issues
mute yourself when not talking.
Generally works quite fine with reasonably modern Chrome, Chromium,
Microsoft Edge, possibly others (requires WebRTC[2] (Wikipedia:
WebRTC[3]) (can also do some testing here: https://test.webrtc.org/
Probably don't worry about minor items like "Reflexive connectivity"
)), from desktop, laptop, tablet, smart phone, etc.
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sed
2. https://webrtc.org/
3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebRTC
------------------------------
Meetings (online/virtual/...)
BALUG meetings? Thus far due to COVID-19, no in-person meetings,
however, now VIRTUAL! :-) (How regularly? Well, we'll see how
attendance and interest is.)
Many regional [L]UGs have started having / moved to online meetings.
I wasn't able to earlier spot a list of such regional / Bay Area
listing for Linux User Groups (LUGs) & related, so, created one on
BALUG's wiki:
https://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=balug:covid-19#virtual_meetings
(or if that's bit much to remember, how 'bout: balug.org/covid)
If you know of others that ought be listed there, if you're set up
to edit the wiki, you can add them - or email me to get set up with
such access (or you can email the meeting online details, and I
can attempt to maintain it there). Thanks also to Rick Moen who's
also added much time and timezone information to that wiki page too!
Also, online meetings have many advantages too. Have a peek at:
https://berkeleylug.com/2020/06/21/meetings-virtual/
for a listing of some of those many unique advantages.
BALUG virtual meetings? Yes! ... at least started. How regularly?
Shall see how it goes (do still have our regularly scheduled slots
to potentially meet, in any case). Watch our Announce list and/or
check our web site for updates.
Oooh, and with virtual - speakers/presenters - can be
FROM ANYWHERE ON THE PLANET!
In all cases, continue to watch the BALUG-Announce list:
https://lists.balug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/balug-announce
and/or have a look at the BALUG web site:
https://www.balug.org/
for relevant updates.
And there's also the wiki page also mentioned further above regarding
other regional / Bay Area [L]UGs (and beyond) - with known online meetings:
https://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=balug:covid-19#virtual_meetings
(or shortcut: balug.org/covid)
------------------------------
COVID-19 - what you can do
There's much more information out there now. Please do keep in
mind, there are many that can use resources/assistance, and
particularly many and more so due to COVID-19 direct and indirect
effects.
Everything from donations of funds, certain items/materials,
skills (e.g. programming assistance on project), volunteering time,
computing resources, etc. Restaurants (and many other businesses) that
have thus far survived, can also generally quite use the business, so
if one can and is inclined to do so, and safely, etc., delivery or
to go can often quite help them out (and provide a delicious change
of taste and break from the hassles of cooking and such).
And yes, E.g.:
Some compute projects are working on COVID-19:
BOINC Rosetta@home[1]
Folding@home[2]
1. https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/forum_thread.php?id=13533#91772
2. https://foldingathome.org/
But hey, we've got vaccines now! (well, quantity and distribution
notwithstanding). Anyway, do check, many projects and such can
use assistance on getting relief/resources to where it's needed
or can be best used.
------------------------------
giveaways (& wanted), hardware, CDs/DVDs, books/publications, ...
MORE (update) INFO (e.g. on one of the items to be given away:
http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/conspire/2021-March/011559.html
Okay, so the physical may be on hold or require special arrangements due
to COVID-19 - but notwithstanding that - and some of these quite still
apply ...
We typically have various giveaway items at BALUG meetings. We'll
likely have at least the below plus additional items.
(could probably be arranged via snail mail or such, if needed)
CDs/DVDs/ISOs, etc. - have a look here:
https://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=balug:cds_and_images_etc
Donations of blank or +-RW media, USB flash, or funding thereof,
also appreciated. See the above URL for details (and the inventory
(qty.) of what we specifically have "burned" and available on-hand does
also tend to change).
Hardware, etc. wanted/offered!
Got some (computer, etc.) hardware, etc. you're looking to give
away or acquire (or if not free, well below current fair market value),
and locally? We have a wiki page to list that - so ... see what's
offered, wanted, etc.! (Yes, don't forget to check once in a while,
seems to be updated semi-regularly and used by a few [L]UGs around the
Bay Area):
https://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=balug:offered_wanted_hardware_e…
Books and other titles! (includes some online digital resources)
have a peek here:
https://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=balug:books_and_publications
------------------------------
Volunteering and helping BALUG
We could also always use more volunteers to make BALUG even better! You
can do useful and cool stuff volunteering to help BALUG! Quite a
variety of opportunities to help BALUG, e.g.:
o assist or lead on speaker coordination/procurement, etc. (help
arrange, refer to us, coordinate schedules, etc.)
o venue arrangement (e.g. followup on potential leads, on-site
coordination/preparations) and the like, for now and/or in future
o publicity (e.g. helping us get information out in as timely a
manner as feasible, and in as many places as appropriate)
o website: webmaster and/or assistance with routine updates/additions
designer, graphic artist
o Linux Systems Administration (e.g. do/assist/learn, with/under some
quite experienced and skilled Linux systems administrator(s)).
o archivist/history/retrieval/etc.
o writing up meeting "minutes" (brief summaries of meeting highlights
- e.g. information on presentations, interesting/noteworthy
discussions/topics, etc.; suitable for web use, or even just rough
notes on the relevant items)
o mailing list maintenance
o chief/assistant cat herder
o and other various/miscellaneous tasks BALUG would like to be doing
(also feel free to suggest ideas!)
If you're at all interested in helping with any and/or all of the
above, or more, or looking for more information, please drop us a note
at:
BALUG contact <mailto:balug-contact@balug.org>
and/or talk to us at a meeting.
------------------------------
Twitter - you can also follow BALUG on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/#!/BALUG_org
------------------------------
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
BALUG: Meeting! (VIRTUAL) 2021-03-16: Michael Paoli: sed - Streaming
EDitor+, & other BALUG News
------------------------------
items, details further below:
Meeting! (VIRTUAL) 2021-03-16: Michael Paoli: sed - Streaming EDitor+
Meetings (online/virtual/...)
COVID-19 - what you can do
giveaways (& wanted), hardware, CDs/DVDs, books/publications, ...
help BALUG! :-) - volunteering, venue, ...
Twitter https://twitter.com/#!/BALUG_org
------------------------------
Meeting! (VIRTUAL) 2021-03-16: Michael Paoli: sed - Streaming EDitor+
Yes, we're having a BALUG meeting!!! And it's an online VIRTUAL
meeting, "of course".
6:30pm Tuesday, March 16th, 2021 2021-03-16T18:30:00-07:00
2021-03-17T01:30:00+00:00
https://meet.jit.si/BALUG.org (please see also meeting
venue information further below)
For this meeting, we have talk/presentation:
Michael Paoli on: sed - Streaming EDitor+:
sed[1] - it's a Streaming EDitor! Give it edit specification as
script(s)/program(s), and it reads from standard input (stdin) or
specified file(s), and writes to standard output (stdout). The GNU
version of sed even has extension to allow edit-in-place.
+? But sed is more than "just" that. It can well save/manipulate
things in its pattern and hold spaces, including embedded newlines
within and manipulation thereof. It also has logical grouping,
conditional and unconditional branching - so some basic flow
control. Sound like a programming language? Well, it is that too!
... at least a little bit, and yes, enough to even be possible to
program some things in sed! (See, e.g. a Tic-Tac-Toe demonstration
written in sed!). And sed is often an excellent tool for doing
those streaming edit tasks and the like, and avoiding the entire
overhead of a more general purpose language such as awk or perl or
python or the such. And sed is also very standard - per POSIX, and
history, etc. Well learn those basics and works on most any version
of sed anywhere, and being standard that it is, can quite expect it
to pretty much always be there, even on quite minimal
installations.
So, no hassles with driving, parking, public transportation, rain
... everyone gets a front row seat, don't need a PA system to hear
the speaker from further back, clearly see what's projected on the
(your) screen. And attend from any city, state, country - anywhere
on the planet! Alas, won't have the delicious cuisine of Henry's
Hunan Restaurant, but you're free to arrange whatever dining (or
not) you may prefer (including to go or delivery from many
restaurants that could very much use your business).
(currently no RSVP required for VIRTUAL meetings)
Meeting kicks off at 6:30 P.M. - we start with meet and greet and chat
and such, then proceed with more formal part of the meeting starting at
7:00 P.M.
Strongly recommended to please join us before 7:00 P.M. for the main
part of the meeting (get yourself connected and squared away by 7:00
P.M., see also: venue information further below).
meeting venue (at least until further notice or otherwise noted):
https://meet.jit.si/BALUG.org Dial-in numbers also available at the
URL.
Please use earbud(s)/headphone(s) or mute yourself to avoid audio
feedback issues, also please if you have background sound/noise issues
mute yourself when not talking.
Generally works quite fine with reasonably modern Chrome, Chromium,
Microsoft Edge, possibly others (requires WebRTC[2] (Wikipedia:
WebRTC[3]) (can also do some testing here: https://test.webrtc.org/
Probably don't worry about minor items like "Reflexive connectivity"
)), from desktop, laptop, tablet, smart phone, etc.
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sed
2. https://webrtc.org/
3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebRTC
------------------------------
Meetings (online/virtual/...)
BALUG meetings? Thus far due to COVID-19, no in-person meetings,
however, now VIRTUAL! :-) (How regularly? Well, we'll see how
attendance and interest is.)
Many regional [L]UGs have started having / moved to online meetings.
I wasn't able to earlier spot a list of such regional / Bay Area
listing for Linux User Groups (LUGs) & related, so, created one on
BALUG's wiki:
https://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=balug:covid-19#virtual_meetings
(or if that's bit much to remember, how 'bout: balug.org/covid)
If you know of others that ought be listed there, if you're set up
to edit the wiki, you can add them - or email me to get set up with
such access (or you can email the meeting online details, and I
can attempt to maintain it there). Thanks also to Rick Moen who's
also added much time and timezone information to that wiki page too!
Also, online meetings have many advantages too. Have a peek at:
https://berkeleylug.com/2020/06/21/meetings-virtual/
for a listing of some of those many unique advantages.
BALUG virtual meetings? Yes! ... at least started. How regularly?
Shall see how it goes (do still have our regularly scheduled slots
to potentially meet, in any case). Watch our Announce list and/or
check our web site for updates.
Oooh, and with virtual - speakers/presenters - can be
FROM ANYWHERE ON THE PLANET!
In all cases, continue to watch the BALUG-Announce list:
https://lists.balug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/balug-announce
and/or have a look at the BALUG web site:
https://www.balug.org/
for relevant updates.
And there's also the wiki page also mentioned further above regarding
other regional / Bay Area [L]UGs (and beyond) - with known online meetings:
https://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=balug:covid-19#virtual_meetings
(or shortcut: balug.org/covid)
------------------------------
COVID-19 - what you can do
There's much more information out there now. Please do keep in
mind, there are many that can use resources/assistance, and
particularly many and more so due to COVID-19 direct and indirect
effects.
Everything from donations of funds, certain items/materials,
skills (e.g. programming assistance on project), volunteering time,
computing resources, etc. Restaurants (and many other businesses) that
have thus far survived, can also generally quite use the business, so
if one can and is inclined to do so, and safely, etc., delivery or
to go can often quite help them out (and provide a delicious change
of taste and break from the hassles of cooking and such).
And yes, E.g.:
Some compute projects are working on COVID-19:
BOINC Rosetta@home[1]
Folding@home[2]
1. https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/forum_thread.php?id=13533#91772
2. https://foldingathome.org/
But hey, we've got vaccines now! (well, quantity and distribution
notwithstanding). Anyway, do check, many projects and such can
use assistance on getting relief/resources to where it's needed
or can be best used.
------------------------------
giveaways (& wanted), hardware, CDs/DVDs, books/publications, ...
Okay, so the physical may be on hold or require special arrangements due
to COVID-19 - but notwithstanding that - and some of these quite still
apply ...
We typically have various giveaway items at BALUG meetings. We'll
likely have at least the below plus additional items.
(could probably be arranged via snail mail or such, if needed)
CDs/DVDs/ISOs, etc. - have a look here:
https://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=balug:cds_and_images_etc
Donations of blank or +-RW media, USB flash, or funding thereof,
also appreciated. See the above URL for details (and the inventory
(qty.) of what we specifically have "burned" and available on-hand does
also tend to change).
Hardware, etc. wanted/offered!
Got some (computer, etc.) hardware, etc. you're looking to give
away or acquire (or if not free, well below current fair market value),
and locally? We have a wiki page to list that - so ... see what's
offered, wanted, etc.! (Yes, don't forget to check once in a while,
seems to be updated semi-regularly and used by a few [L]UGs around the
Bay Area):
https://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=balug:offered_wanted_hardware_e…
Books and other titles! (includes some online digital resources)
have a peek here:
https://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=balug:books_and_publications
------------------------------
Volunteering and helping BALUG
We could also always use more volunteers to make BALUG even better! You
can do useful and cool stuff volunteering to help BALUG! Quite a
variety of opportunities to help BALUG, e.g.:
o assist or lead on speaker coordination/procurement, etc. (help
arrange, refer to us, coordinate schedules, etc.)
o venue arrangement (e.g. followup on potential leads, on-site
coordination/preparations) and the like, for now and/or in future
o publicity (e.g. helping us get information out in as timely a
manner as feasible, and in as many places as appropriate)
o website: webmaster and/or assistance with routine updates/additions
designer, graphic artist
o Linux Systems Administration (e.g. do/assist/learn, with/under some
quite experienced and skilled Linux systems administrator(s)).
o archivist/history/retrieval/etc.
o writing up meeting "minutes" (brief summaries of meeting highlights
- e.g. information on presentations, interesting/noteworthy
discussions/topics, etc.; suitable for web use, or even just rough
notes on the relevant items)
o mailing list maintenance
o chief/assistant cat herder
o and other various/miscellaneous tasks BALUG would like to be doing
(also feel free to suggest ideas!)
If you're at all interested in helping with any and/or all of the
above, or more, or looking for more information, please drop us a note
at:
BALUG contact <mailto:balug-contact@balug.org>
and/or talk to us at a meeting.
------------------------------
Twitter - you can also follow BALUG on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/#!/BALUG_org
------------------------------
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
BALUG: Meetings (online & otherwise) & other BALUG News
------------------------------
items, details further below:
Meetings (online & otherwise)
COVID-19 - what you can do
giveaways (& wanted), hardware, CDs/DVDs, books/publications, ...
help BALUG! :-) - volunteering, venue, ...
Twitter https://twitter.com/#!/BALUG_org
------------------------------
Meetings (online & otherwise)
BALUG meetings? Thus far due to COVID-19, no in-person meetings,
and no online meeting for BALUG ... yet, however ...
Many regional [L]UGs have started having / moved to online meetings.
I wasn't able to earlier spot a list of such regional / Bay Area
listing for Linux User Groups (LUGs) & related, so, created one on
BALUG's wiki:
https://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=balug:covid-19#virtual_meetings
If you know of others that ought be listed there, if you're set up
to edit the wiki, you can add them - or email me to get set up with
such access (or you can email the meeting online details, and I
can attempt to maintain it there).
Also, online meetings have many advantages too. Have a peek at:
https://berkeleylug.com/2020/06/21/meetings-virtual/
for a listing of some of those many unique advantages.
BALUG virtual meetings? Not yet, ... but could happen. I've also been
watching interest/attendance of some other regional / Bay Area online
meetings. If there's sufficient interest, I/we could certainly set
that up and do that for BALUG. Also, at least traditionally, BALUG
more commonly (at least over the years), typically does
presented talks for much of meetings, so perhaps if we arrange
a particular presentation topic and presenter, we may specifically
set up an online meeting for such - or if there's sufficient interest
of having a meeting around a particular discussion topic.
So feel free to discuss that on the BALUG-Talk list:
https://lists.balug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/balug-talk
If sufficient interest develops, we may set up an online meeting.
We might also do it in future "just because" - and when it's been
"long enough" - as BALUG has a somewhat different (and generally larger)
membership, than other Bay Area LUGs - though meeting attendance
size can vary a lot (from hundreds, to just a handful or so).
In-person meetings? At least for BALUG - and as far as I'm aware
the other regional / Bay Area [L]UGs - no in-person meetings ...
yet. Though things are (slowly and carefully) starting to
re-open ... slightly. E.g. I've been getting reports of and seeing
some restaurants/cafes doing socially/physically distanced outdoor
dining. Of course, even notwithstanding COVID-19 considerations,
for the more social/physical distanced outdoor, there may be
many practical considerations such as noise, lighting,
(lack of) Wi-Fi/power, infeasibility of screen projection or well
visible large display, etc.
In all cases, continue to watch the BALUG-Announce list:
https://lists.balug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/balug-announce
and/or have a look at the BALUG web site:
https://www.balug.org/
for relevant updates.
And there's also the wiki page also mentioned further above regarding
other regional / Bay Area [L]UGs - including known online meetings:
https://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=balug:covid-19#virtual_meetings
------------------------------
COVID-19 - what you can do
There's much more information out there now. Please do keep in
mind, there are many that can use resources/assistance, and
particularly many and more so due to COVID-19 direct and indirect
effects.
Everything from donations of funds, certain items/materials,
skills (e.g. programming assistance on project), volunteering time,
computing resources, etc.
E.g.:
Some compute projects are working on COVID-19:
BOINC Rosetta@home[1]
Folding@home[2]
1. https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/forum_thread.php?id=13533#91772
2. https://foldingathome.org/
------------------------------
giveaways (& wanted), hardware, CDs/DVDs, books/publications, ...
Okay, so the physical may be on hold or require special arrangements due
to COVID-19 - but notwithstanding that - and some of these quite still
apply ..
We typically have various giveaway items at BALUG meetings. We'll
likely have at least the below plus additional items.
(could probably be arranged via snail mail or such, if needed)
CDs/DVDs/ISOs, etc. - have a look here:
https://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=balug:cds_and_images_etc
Donations of blank or +-RW media, USB flash, or funding thereof,
also appreciated. See the above URL for details (and the inventory
(qty.) of what we specifically have "burned" and available on-hand does
also frequently change).
Hardware, etc. wanted/offered!
Got some (computer, etc.) hardware, etc. you're looking to give
away or acquire (or if not free, well below current fair market value),
and locally? We have a wiki page to list that - so ... see what's
offered, wanted, etc.!
https://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=balug:offered_wanted_hardware_e…
Books and other titles! (includes some online digital resources)
have a peek here:
https://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=balug:books_and_publications
------------------------------
help BALUG! :-) - volunteering, venue ...
You can do useful and cool stuff volunteering to help BALUG.
Quite a variety of opportunities to help BALUG. Come talk to us at a
meeting and/or drop us a note at: balug-contact(a)balug.org
These opportunities may include, among other possibilities:
o assist or lead on speaker coordination/procurement, etc.
o venue arrangement (e.g. followup on potential leads,
on-site coordination/preparations)
o chief/assistant cat herder
o assist on publicity
o Linux Systems Administration (e.g. do/assist/learn, with/under some
quite experienced and skilled Linux systems administrator(s)).
o webmaster, assistant webmaster, designer, graphic artist
o archivist/history/retrieval/etc.
o and other various/miscellaneous tasks BALUG would like to be doing
(also feel free to suggest ideas!)
------------------------------
Twitter - you can also follow BALUG on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/#!/BALUG_org
------------------------------
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
BALUG: Tu 2020-03-17 meeting CANCELLED (COVID-19)!; & other BALUG News
------------------------------
items, details further below:
BALUG: Tu 2020-03-17 meeting CANCELLED (COVID-19)!
COVID-19 - what you can do
giveaways (& wanted), hardware, CDs/DVDs, books/publications, ...
help BALUG! :-) - volunteering, venue, ...
Twitter https://twitter.com/#!/BALUG_org
------------------------------
BALUG: Tu 2020-03-17 meeting CANCELLED (COVID-19)!
Due to COVID-19 concerns and prudent actions, etc.
The BALUG Tu 2020-03-17 meeting has been CANCELLED!
Watch the announcements and web site for updates.
The meeting dates are still out there if one wants to leave them
penciled in on one's calendars, but meetings remain cancellend (at least
for in-person) until it's reasonably prudent to resume regular in-person
meetings.
------------------------------
COVID-19 - what you can do
In addition to relevant precautions/actions to not catch/spread ...
Some compute projects are working on COVID-19:
BOINC Rosetta@home[1]
Folding@home[2]
1. https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/forum_thread.php?id=13533#91772
2. https://foldingathome.org/
There may also be opportunties to usefully assist - remote, locally,
donate relevant resources, etc.
Some list(s) may also discuss releant topics and provide useful
information.
------------------------------
giveaways (& wanted), hardware, CDs/DVDs, books/publications, ...
We typically have various giveaway items at BALUG meetings. We'll
likely have at least the below plus additional items.
CDs/DVDs/ISOs, etc. - have a look here:
https://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=balug:cds_and_images_etc
Donations of blank or +-RW media, USB flash, or funding thereof,
also appreciated. See the above URL for details (and the inventory
(qty.) of what we specifically have "burned" and available on-hand does
also frequently change).
Hardware, etc. wanted/offered!
Got some (computer, etc.) hardware, etc. you're looking to give
away or acquire (or if not free, well below current fair market value),
and locally? We have a wiki page to list that - so ... see what's
offered, wanted, etc.!
https://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=balug:offered_wanted_hardware_e…
Books and other titles!
have a peek here:
https://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=balug:books_and_publications
------------------------------
help BALUG! :-) - volunteering, venue ...
You can do useful and cool stuff volunteering to help BALUG.
Quite a variety of opportunities to help BALUG. Come talk to us at a
meeting and/or drop us a note at: balug-contact(a)balug.org
These opportunities may include, among other possibilities:
o assist or lead on speaker coordination/procurement, etc.
o venue arrangement (e.g. followup on potential leads,
on-site coordination/preparations)
o chief/assistant cat herder
o assist on publicity
o Linux Systems Administration (e.g. do/assist/learn, with/under some
quite experienced and skilled Linux systems administrator(s)).
o webmaster, assistant webmaster, designer, graphic artist
o archivist/history/retrieval/etc.
o and other various/miscellaneous tasks BALUG would like to be doing
(also feel free to suggest ideas!)
------------------------------
Twitter - you can also follow BALUG on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/#!/BALUG_org
------------------------------
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
BALUG: meeting: Tu 2020-03-17 DNS: Dynamic Update (Michael Paoli); &
other BALUG News
------------------------------
items, details further below:
BALUG: meeting: Tu 2020-03-17: DNS: Dynamic Update (Michael Paoli)
giveaways (& wanted), hardware, CDs/DVDs, books/publications, ...
help BALUG! :-) - volunteering, venue, ...
Twitter https://twitter.com/#!/BALUG_org
------------------------------
For our 2020-03-17 (3rd Tuesday) BALUG meeting, we're proud to present:
2020-03-17 DNS: Dynamic Update (Michael Paoli)
For our 2020-03-17 meeting, we'll have a talk/presentation by
Michael Paoli on Dynamic Update of DNS. So ...
o What is it?
o Why Dynamic Update? / Use cases
o How? On the client side
o How? On the server side
o Pros/cons - why wouldn't one want to?
o Examples/demos (featuring but not necessarily limited to) BIND9
Please RSVP if you're planning to attend. To do so please
e-mail us a note to rsvp(a)balug.org
indicating meeting date. If you'll be bringing additional guest(s)
please let us know total number of folks you're RSVPing for.
Also please let us know any special requirements or concerns you may
have (e.g. if you have any particular dietary considerations, so that
we might possibly be able to accommodate you, or if you won't be dining
with us but do wish to otherwise join our meeting).
6:30pm Tuesday, March 17th, 2020 2020-03-17
Henry's Hunan Restaurant
110 Natoma St. (between 2nd & New Montgomery)
San Francisco, CA 94105-3704
1-415-546-4999
Easy Transit/Parking Access: short walk from BART, MUNI, parking
Trip planning: http://www.511.org/
Delicious Hunan cuisine and reasonably priced.
Meeting Details...
Cost/Dining:
The meetings are always free, but dinner is not (unless you are our
guest speaker, in which case we also treat you to dinner). For
Henry's Hunan Restaurant, if folks are agreeable, we'll share and
dine "family" style, and split up the costs, and typical cost per
person including tax and tip (but not including beverages beyond
complementary tea) would be in the $15.00 to $31.00 range, and
commonly around $18.00 to $27.00. Cash preferred to ease splitting
up the check. One can also specifically order the dish(es) one
needs/prefers (e.g. for dietary considerations) - and we also
commonly order some dish(es) that may meet various dietary
considerations) (e.g. vegetarian, non-pork, ...). Please arrive by
7:00 P.M., we expect to order entrees at that time, and may order
appetizer(s) and/or soup(s) anytime after 6:30 P.M.
------------------------------
giveaways (& wanted), hardware, CDs/DVDs, books/publications, ...
We typically have various giveaway items at BALUG meetings. We'll
likely have at least the below plus additional items.
CDs/DVDs/ISOs, etc. - have a look here:
https://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=balug:cds_and_images_etc
Donations of blank or +-RW media, USB flash, or funding thereof,
also appreciated. See the above URL for details (and the inventory
(qty.) of what we specifically have "burned" and available on-hand does
also frequently change).
Hardware, etc. wanted/offered!
Got some (computer, etc.) hardware, etc. you're looking to give
away or acquire (or if not free, well below current fair market value),
and locally? We have a wiki page to list that - so ... see what's
offered, wanted, etc.!
https://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=balug:offered_wanted_hardware_e…
Books and other titles!
have a peek here:
https://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=balug:books_and_publications
------------------------------
help BALUG! :-) - volunteering, venue ...
You can do useful and cool stuff volunteering to help BALUG.
Quite a variety of opportunities to help BALUG. Come talk to us at a
meeting and/or drop us a note at: balug-contact(a)balug.org
These opportunities may include, among other possibilities:
o assist or lead on speaker coordination/procurement, etc.
o venue arrangement (e.g. followup on potential leads,
on-site coordination/preparations)
o chief/assistant cat herder
o assist on publicity
o Linux Systems Administration (e.g. do/assist/learn, with/under some
quite experienced and skilled Linux systems administrator(s)).
o webmaster, assistant webmaster, designer, graphic artist
o archivist/history/retrieval/etc.
o and other various/miscellaneous tasks BALUG would like to be doing
(also feel free to suggest ideas!)
------------------------------
Twitter - you can also follow BALUG on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/#!/BALUG_org
------------------------------
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
BALUG: meeting: Tu 2020-03-17 DNS: Dynamic Update (Michael Paoli); &
other BALUG News
------------------------------
items, details further below:
BALUG: meeting: Tu 2020-03-17: DNS: Dynamic Update (Michael Paoli)
giveaways (& wanted), hardware, CDs/DVDs, books/publications, ...
help BALUG! :-) - volunteering, venue, ...
Twitter https://twitter.com/#!/BALUG_org
------------------------------
For our 2020-03-17 (3rd Tuesday) BALUG meeting, we're proud to present:
2020-03-17 DNS: Dynamic Update (Michael Paoli)
For our 2020-03-17 meeting, we'll have a talk/presentation by
Michael Paoli on Dynamic Update of DNS. So ...
o What is it?
o Why Dynamic Update? / Use cases
o How? On the client side
o How? On the server side
o Pros/cons - why wouldn't one want to?
o Examples/demos (featuring but not necessarily limited to) BIND9
Please RSVP if you're planning to attend. To do so please
e-mail us a note to rsvp(a)balug.org
indicating meeting date. If you'll be bringing additional guest(s)
please let us know total number of folks you're RSVPing for.
Also please let us know any special requirements or concerns you may
have (e.g. if you have any particular dietary considerations, so that
we might possibly be able to accommodate you, or if you won't be dining
with us but do wish to otherwise join our meeting).
6:30pm Tuesday, March 17th, 2020 2020-03-17
Henry's Hunan Restaurant
110 Natoma St. (between 2nd & New Montgomery)
San Francisco, CA 94105-3704
1-415-546-4999
Easy Transit/Parking Access: short walk from BART, MUNI, parking
Trip planning: http://www.511.org/
Delicious Hunan cuisine and reasonably priced.
Meeting Details...
Cost/Dining:
The meetings are always free, but dinner is not (unless you are our
guest speaker, in which case we also treat you to dinner). For
Henry's Hunan Restaurant, if folks are agreeable, we'll share and
dine "family" style, and split up the costs, and typical cost per
person including tax and tip (but not including beverages beyond
complementary tea) would be in the $15.00 to $31.00 range, and
commonly around $18.00 to $27.00. Cash preferred to ease splitting
up the check. One can also specifically order the dish(es) one
needs/prefers (e.g. for dietary considerations) - and we also
commonly order some dish(es) that may meet various dietary
considerations) (e.g. vegetarian, non-pork, ...). Please arrive by
7:00 P.M., we expect to order entrees at that time, and may order
appetizer(s) and/or soup(s) anytime after 6:30 P.M.
------------------------------
giveaways (& wanted), hardware, CDs/DVDs, books/publications, ...
We typically have various giveaway items at BALUG meetings. We'll
likely have at least the below plus additional items.
CDs/DVDs/ISOs, etc. - have a look here:
https://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=balug:cds_and_images_etc
Donations of blank or +-RW media, USB flash, or funding thereof,
also appreciated. See the above URL for details (and the inventory
(qty.) of what we specifically have "burned" and available on-hand does
also frequently change).
Hardware, etc. wanted/offered!
Got some (computer, etc.) hardware, etc. you're looking to give
away or acquire (or if not free, well below current fair market value),
and locally? We have a wiki page to list that - so ... see what's
offered, wanted, etc.!
https://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=balug:offered_wanted_hardware_e…
Books and other titles!
have a peek here:
https://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=balug:books_and_publications
------------------------------
help BALUG! :-) - volunteering, venue ...
You can do useful and cool stuff volunteering to help BALUG.
Quite a variety of opportunities to help BALUG. Come talk to us at a
meeting and/or drop us a note at: balug-contact(a)balug.org
These opportunities may include, among other possibilities:
o assist or lead on speaker coordination/procurement, etc.
o venue arrangement (e.g. followup on potential leads,
on-site coordination/preparations)
o chief/assistant cat herder
o assist on publicity
o Linux Systems Administration (e.g. do/assist/learn, with/under some
quite experienced and skilled Linux systems administrator(s)).
o webmaster, assistant webmaster, designer, graphic artist
o archivist/history/retrieval/etc.
o and other various/miscellaneous tasks BALUG would like to be doing
(also feel free to suggest ideas!)
------------------------------
Twitter - you can also follow BALUG on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/#!/BALUG_org
------------------------------
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
REMINDER: BALUG: meeting: TUESDAY 2020-02-18 Rich Morin: Perkify:
blind-friendly VM based on Ubuntu, Vagrant & VirtualBox; & other BALUG
News
(and also don't forget that Monday is a holiday for many)
------------------------------
items, details further below:
BALUG: meeting: TUESDAY 2020-02-18 Rich Morin: Perkify: blind-friendly
VM based on Ubuntu, Vagrant & VirtualBox
giveaways (& wanted), hardware, CDs/DVDs, books/publications, ...
help BALUG! :-) - volunteering, venue, ...
Twitter https://twitter.com/#!/BALUG_org
------------------------------
For our 2020-02-18 (3rd Tuesday) BALUG meeting, we're proud to present:
Rich Morin: Perkify[1]: blind-friendly VM based on Ubuntu, Vagrant &
VirtualBox
Perkify provides a convenient and unintrusive way to add open
source software to personal computers running Linux, MacOS, or
Windows. The Perkify distribution provides thousands of
command-line tools and support libraries, offers the prospect of
personal web servers, and more.
Rich Morin of Canta Forda Computer Laboratory[2], has edited a
number of software distributions, including Sun User Group tapes
and book/CD collections for Prime Time Freeware. However, those
were all collections of source code; Perkify is his first foray
into producing a "turnkey" release.
1. http://pa.cfcl.com/item?key=Areas/Content/Overviews/Perkify_Intro/main.toml
2. http://cfcl.com/
Please RSVP if you're planning to attend. To do so please
e-mail us a note to rsvp(a)balug.org
indicating meeting date. If you'll be bringing additional guest(s)
please let us know total number of folks you're RSVPing for.
Also please let us know any special requirements or concerns you may
have (e.g. if you have any particular dietary considerations, so that
we might possibly be able to accommodate you, or if you won't be dining
with us but do wish to otherwise join our meeting).
6:30pm Tuesday, February 18th, 2020 2020-02-18
Henry's Hunan Restaurant
110 Natoma St. (between 2nd & New Montgomery)
San Francisco, CA 94105-3704
1-415-546-4999
http://henryshunan.com/
Easy Transit/Parking Access: short walk from BART, MUNI, parking
Trip planning: http://www.511.org/
Delicious Hunan cuisine and reasonably priced.
Meeting Details...
Cost/Dining:
The meetings are always free, but dinner is not (unless you are our
guest speaker, in which case we also treat you to dinner). For
Henry's Hunan Restaurant, if folks are agreeable, we'll share and
dine "family" style, and split up the costs, and typical cost per
person including tax and tip (but not including beverages beyond
complementary tea) would be in the $16.00 to $23.00 range, and
commonly around $18.00 to $22.00. Cash preferred to ease splitting
up the check. One can also specifically order the dish(es) one
needs/prefers (e.g. for dietary considerations) - and we also
commonly order some dish(es) that may meet various dietary
considerations) (e.g. vegetarian, non-pork, ...). Please arrive by
7:00 P.M., we expect to order entrees at that time, and may order
appetizer(s) and/or soup(s) anytime after 6:30 P.M.
------------------------------
giveaways (& wanted), hardware, CDs/DVDs, books/publications, ...
We typically have various giveaway items at BALUG meetings. We'll
likely have at least the below plus additional items.
CDs/DVDs/ISOs, etc. - have a look here:
https://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=balug:cds_and_images_etc
Donations of blank or +-RW media, USB flash, or funding thereof,
also appreciated. See the above URL for details (and the inventory
(qty.) of what we specifically have "burned" and available on-hand does
also frequently change).
Hardware, etc. wanted/offered!
Got some (computer, etc.) hardware, etc. you're looking to give
away or acquire (or if not free, well below current fair market value),
and locally? We have a wiki page to list that - so ... see what's
offered, wanted, etc.!
https://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=balug:offered_wanted_hardware_e…
Books and other titles!
have a peek here:
https://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=balug:books_and_publications
------------------------------
help BALUG! :-) - volunteering, venue ...
You can do useful and cool stuff volunteering to help BALUG.
Quite a variety of opportunities to help BALUG. Come talk to us at a
meeting and/or drop us a note at: balug-contact(a)balug.org
These opportunities may include, among other possibilities:
o assist or lead on speaker coordination/procurement, etc.
o venue arrangement (e.g. followup on potential leads,
on-site coordination/preparations)
o chief/assistant cat herder
o assist on publicity
o Linux Systems Administration (e.g. do/assist/learn, with/under some
quite experienced and skilled Linux systems administrator(s)).
o webmaster, assistant webmaster, designer, graphic artist
o archivist/history/retrieval/etc.
o and other various/miscellaneous tasks BALUG would like to be doing
(also feel free to suggest ideas!)
------------------------------
Twitter - you can also follow BALUG on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/#!/BALUG_org
------------------------------
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
BALUG: meeting: Tu 2020-02-18 Rich Morin: Perkify: blind-friendly VM
based on Ubuntu, Vagrant & VirtualBox; & other BALUG News
------------------------------
items, details further below:
BALUG: meeting: Tu 2020-02-18 Rich Morin: Perkify: blind-friendly VM
based on Ubuntu, Vagrant & VirtualBox
giveaways (& wanted), hardware, CDs/DVDs, books/publications, ...
help BALUG! :-) - volunteering, venue, ...
Twitter https://twitter.com/#!/BALUG_org
------------------------------
For our 2020-02-18 (3rd Tuesday) BALUG meeting, we're proud to present:
Rich Morin: Perkify[1]: blind-friendly VM based on Ubuntu, Vagrant &
VirtualBox
Perkify provides a convenient and unintrusive way to add open
source software to personal computers running Linux, MacOS, or
Windows. The Perkify distribution provides thousands of
command-line tools and support libraries, offers the prospect of
personal web servers, and more.
Rich Morin of Canta Forda Computer Laboratory[2], has edited a
number of software distributions, including Sun User Group tapes
and book/CD collections for Prime Time Freeware. However, those
were all collections of source code; Perkify is his first foray
into producing a "turnkey" release.
1. http://pa.cfcl.com/item?key=Areas/Content/Overviews/Perkify_Intro/main.toml
2. http://cfcl.com/
Please RSVP if you're planning to attend. To do so please
e-mail us a note to rsvp(a)balug.org
indicating meeting date. If you'll be bringing additional guest(s)
please let us know total number of folks you're RSVPing for.
Also please let us know any special requirements or concerns you may
have (e.g. if you have any particular dietary considerations, so that
we might possibly be able to accommodate you, or if you won't be dining
with us but do wish to otherwise join our meeting).
6:30pm Tuesday, February 18th, 2020 2020-02-18
Henry's Hunan Restaurant
110 Natoma St. (between 2nd & New Montgomery)
San Francisco, CA 94105-3704
1-415-546-4999
http://henryshunan.com/
Easy Transit/Parking Access: short walk from BART, MUNI, parking
Trip planning: http://www.511.org/
Delicious Hunan cuisine and reasonably priced.
Meeting Details...
Cost/Dining:
The meetings are always free, but dinner is not (unless you are our
guest speaker, in which case we also treat you to dinner). For
Henry's Hunan Restaurant, if folks are agreeable, we'll share and
dine "family" style, and split up the costs, and typical cost per
person including tax and tip (but not including beverages beyond
complementary tea) would be in the $16.00 to $23.00 range, and
commonly around $18.00 to $22.00. Cash preferred to ease splitting
up the check. One can also specifically order the dish(es) one
needs/prefers (e.g. for dietary considerations) - and we also
commonly order some dish(es) that may meet various dietary
considerations) (e.g. vegetarian, non-pork, ...). Please arrive by
7:00 P.M., we expect to order entrees at that time, and may order
appetizer(s) and/or soup(s) anytime after 6:30 P.M.
------------------------------
giveaways (& wanted), hardware, CDs/DVDs, books/publications, ...
We typically have various giveaway items at BALUG meetings. We'll
likely have at least the below plus additional items.
CDs/DVDs/ISOs, etc. - have a look here:
https://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=balug:cds_and_images_etc
Donations of blank or +-RW media, USB flash, or funding thereof,
also appreciated. See the above URL for details (and the inventory
(qty.) of what we specifically have "burned" and available on-hand does
also frequently change).
Hardware, etc. wanted/offered!
Got some (computer, etc.) hardware, etc. you're looking to give
away or acquire (or if not free, well below current fair market value),
and locally? We have a wiki page to list that - so ... see what's
offered, wanted, etc.!
https://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=balug:offered_wanted_hardware_e…
Books and other titles!
have a peek here:
https://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=balug:books_and_publications
------------------------------
help BALUG! :-) - volunteering, venue ...
You can do useful and cool stuff volunteering to help BALUG.
Quite a variety of opportunities to help BALUG. Come talk to us at a
meeting and/or drop us a note at: balug-contact(a)balug.org
These opportunities may include, among other possibilities:
o assist or lead on speaker coordination/procurement, etc.
o venue arrangement (e.g. followup on potential leads,
on-site coordination/preparations)
o chief/assistant cat herder
o assist on publicity
o Linux Systems Administration (e.g. do/assist/learn, with/under some
quite experienced and skilled Linux systems administrator(s)).
o webmaster, assistant webmaster, designer, graphic artist
o archivist/history/retrieval/etc.
o and other various/miscellaneous tasks BALUG would like to be doing
(also feel free to suggest ideas!)
------------------------------
Twitter - you can also follow BALUG on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/#!/BALUG_org
------------------------------
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
TODAY!: BALUG: meeting: Tu 2020-01-21; & other BALUG News
------------------------------
items, details further below:
TODAY!: BALUG: meeting: Tu 2020-01-21
giveaways (& wanted), hardware, CDs/DVDs, books/publications, ...
help BALUG! :-) - volunteering, venue, ...
Twitter https://twitter.com/#!/BALUG_org
------------------------------
TODAY!
For our 2020-01-21 (3rd Tuesday) BALUG meeting:
We don't have a specific speaker/presentation lined up for this meeting,
however ...
Bring topics/questions you'd like to discuss - many interesting
discussions/meetings happen that way.
We may well also discuss some item(s) that have been recently suggested,
e.g.:
o shell scripting questions/examples
o drive issues, tips, and data recovery/restore/backups
Please RSVP if you're planning to attend. To do so please
e-mail us a note to rsvp(a)balug.org
indicating meeting date. If you'll be bringing additional guest(s)
please let us know total number of folks you're RSVPing for.
Also please let us know any special requirements or concerns you may
have (e.g. if you have any particular dietary considerations, so that
we might possibly be able to accommodate you, or if you won't be dining
with us but do wish to otherwise join our meeting).
6:30pm Tuesday, January 21st, 2020 2020-01-21
Henry's Hunan Restaurant
110 Natoma St. (between 2nd & New Montgomery)
San Francisco, CA 94105-3704
1-415-546-4999
http://henryshunan.com/
Easy Transit/Parking Access: short walk from BART, MUNI, parking
Trip planning: http://www.511.org/
Delicious Hunan cuisine and reasonably priced.
Meeting Details...
Cost/Dining:
The meetings are always free, but dinner is not (unless you are our
guest speaker, in which case we also treat you to dinner). For
Henry's Hunan Restaurant, if folks are agreeable, we'll share and
dine "family" style, and split up the costs, and typical cost per
person including tax and tip (but not including beverages beyond
complementary tea) would be in the $16.00 to $23.00 range, and
commonly around $18.00 to $22.00. Cash preferred to ease splitting
up the check. One can also specifically order the dish(es) one
needs/prefers (e.g. for dietary considerations) - and we also
commonly order some dish(es) that may meet various dietary
considerations) (e.g. vegetarian, non-pork, ...). Please arrive by
7:00 P.M., we expect to order entrees at that time, and may order
appetizer(s) and/or soup(s) anytime after 6:30 P.M.
------------------------------
giveaways (& wanted), hardware, CDs/DVDs, books/publications, ...
We typically have various giveaway items at BALUG meetings. We'll
likely have at least the below plus additional items.
CDs/DVDs/ISOs, etc. - have a look here:
https://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=balug:cds_and_images_etc
Donations of blank or +-RW media, USB flash, or funding thereof,
also appreciated. See the above URL for details (and the inventory
(qty.) of what we specifically have "burned" and available on-hand does
also frequently change).
Hardware, etc. wanted/offered!
Got some (computer, etc.) hardware, etc. you're looking to give
away or acquire (or if not free, well below current fair market value),
and locally? We have a wiki page to list that - so ... see what's
offered, wanted, etc.!
https://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=balug:offered_wanted_hardware_e…
Books and other titles!
have a peek here:
https://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=balug:books_and_publications
------------------------------
help BALUG! :-) - volunteering, venue ...
You can do useful and cool stuff volunteering to help BALUG.
Quite a variety of opportunities to help BALUG. Come talk to us at a
meeting and/or drop us a note at: balug-contact(a)balug.org
These opportunities may include, among other possibilities:
o assist or lead on speaker coordination/procurement, etc.
o venue arrangement (e.g. followup on potential leads,
on-site coordination/preparations)
o chief/assistant cat herder
o assist on publicity
o Linux Systems Administration (e.g. do/assist/learn, with/under some
quite experienced and skilled Linux systems administrator(s)).
o webmaster, assistant webmaster, designer, graphic artist
o archivist/history/retrieval/etc.
o and other various/miscellaneous tasks BALUG would like to be doing
(also feel free to suggest ideas!)
------------------------------
Twitter - you can also follow BALUG on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/#!/BALUG_org
------------------------------
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
BALUG: NO DECEMBER MEETING!: next meeting Tu 2020-01-21; & other BALUG News
------------------------------
items, details further below:
NO DECEMBER MEETING!
BALUG: meeting: Tu 2020-01-21: ...; & other BALUG News
Meeting dates for 2020
giveaways (& wanted), hardware, CDs/DVDs, books/publications, ...
BALUG: IPv4 IP address changes & change of ISP
help BALUG! :-) - volunteering, venue, ...
Twitter https://twitter.com/#!/BALUG_org
------------------------------
NO DECEMBER MEETING!
Per usual, we'll skip and not meet in December.
Happy Holidays/Solstice/New Year/...!
------------------------------
For our 2020-01-21 (3rd Tuesday) BALUG meeting:
We don't have a specific presentation or discussion topic locked in for
our 2020-01-21 meeting, but we may possibly discuss changing of IPs and
ISPs, routing - including multiple IPs and ISPs, location/IP transitions,
etc. Watch
our web site https://www.balug.org/
and
BALUG-Announce list:
https://lists.balug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/balug-announce
for updates/details.
Feel free to also discuss/suggest via BALUG-Talk list:
https://lists.balug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/balug-talk
or email our speaker coordinators: balug-speaker-coordinators(a)balug.org
Please RSVP if you're planning to attend. To do so please
e-mail us a note to rsvp(a)balug.org
indicating meeting date. If you'll be bringing additional guest(s)
please let us know total number of folks you're RSVPing for.
Also please let us know any special requirements or concerns you may
have (e.g. if you have any particular dietary considerations, so that
we might possibly be able to accommodate you, or if you won't be dining
with us but do wish to otherwise join our meeting).
6:30pm Tuesday, January 21st, 2020 2020-01-21
Henry's Hunan Restaurant
110 Natoma St. (between 2nd & New Montgomery)
San Francisco, CA 94105-3704
1-415-546-4999
http://henryshunan.com/
Easy Transit/Parking Access: short walk from BART, MUNI, parking
Trip planning: http://www.511.org/
Delicious Hunan cuisine and reasonably priced.
Meeting Details...
Cost/Dining:
The meetings are always free, but dinner is not (unless you are our
guest speaker, in which case we also treat you to dinner). For
Henry's Hunan Restaurant, if folks are agreeable, we'll share and
dine "family" style, and split up the costs, and typical cost per
person including tax and tip (but not including beverages beyond
complementary tea) would be in the $16.00 to $23.00 range, and
commonly around $18.00 to $22.00. Cash preferred to ease splitting
up the check. One can also specifically order the dish(es) one
needs/prefers (e.g. for dietary considerations) - and we also
commonly order some dish(es) that may meet various dietary
considerations) (e.g. vegetarian, non-pork, ...). Please arrive by
7:00 P.M., we expect to order entrees at that time, and may order
appetizer(s) and/or soup(s) anytime after 6:30 P.M.
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Meeting dates for 2020 (3rd Tuesdays)
Feel free to note on your calendar (may possibly be subject to change,
but at least thus far):
2020-01-21
2020-02-18
2020-03-17
2020-04-21
2020-05-19
2020-06-16
2020-07-21
2020-08-18
2020-09-15
2020-10-20
2020-11-17
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giveaways (& wanted), hardware, CDs/DVDs, books/publications, ...
We typically have various giveaway items at BALUG meetings. We'll
likely have at least the below plus additional items.
CDs/DVDs/ISOs, etc. - have a look here:
https://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=balug:cds_and_images_etc
Donations of blank or +-RW media, USB flash, or funding thereof,
also appreciated. See the above URL for details (and the inventory
(qty.) of what we specifically have "burned" and available on-hand does
also frequently change).
Hardware, etc. wanted/offered!
Got some (computer, etc.) hardware, etc. you're looking to give
away or acquire (or if not free, well below current fair market value),
and locally? We have a wiki page to list that - so ... see what's
offered, wanted, etc.!
https://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=balug:offered_wanted_hardware_e…
Books and other titles!
have a peek here:
https://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=balug:books_and_publications
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BALUG: IPv4 IP address changes & change of ISP
BALUG is going through some changes of IPv4 IP address, and change of
ISP.
Certainly feel free to let us know if you see any particularly serious
persistent glitches. Hoping/expecting too, the dust should be well
settled by a bit after 2019-12-19 or so, and things should then
generally be working as well or better than before.
For the curious, one may wish to follow along on the
BALUG-Admin list:
https://lists.balug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/balug-admin
(and/or even some bits on the BALUG-Test list:
https://lists.balug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/balug-test
)
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help BALUG! :-) - volunteering, venue ...
You can do useful and cool stuff volunteering to help BALUG.
Quite a variety of opportunities to help BALUG. Come talk to us at a
meeting and/or drop us a note at: balug-contact(a)balug.org
These opportunities may include, among other possibilities:
o assist or lead on speaker coordination/procurement, etc.
o venue arrangement (e.g. followup on potential leads,
on-site coordination/preparations)
o chief/assistant cat herder
o assist on publicity
o Linux Systems Administration (e.g. do/assist/learn, with/under some
quite experienced and skilled Linux systems administrator(s)).
o webmaster, assistant webmaster, designer, graphic artist
o archivist/history/retrieval/etc.
o and other various/miscellaneous tasks BALUG would like to be doing
(also feel free to suggest ideas!)
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Twitter - you can also follow BALUG on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/#!/BALUG_org
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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