BALUG: meeting TOMORROW!: Tu 2018-02-20 discussion topics: md RAID,
Meltdown/Spectre, ...; & other BALUG News
------------------------------
items, details further below:
BALUG: meeting TOMORROW!: Tu 2018-02-20 discussion topics:
md RAID
Meltdown/Spectre/Speculative Execution, ...
giveaways (Books/publications, CDs/DVDs, ...)
help BALUG! :-) - volunteering, venue, ...
Twitter https://twitter.com/#!/BALUG_org
------------------------------
For our 2018-02-20 BALUG meeting
Meltdown/Spectre/Speculative Execution, ...
At least presently, we don't have any particularly formal presentation
lined up for this meeting, but we do have some suggested discussion
topics:
o md/mdadm/Multiple Device driver aka Linux Software RAID
o Meltdown/Spectre/Speculative Execution
If that sounds a bit similar to last month, well, it is ...
we had so much additional/other exciting stuff happening
last month
https://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-talk/2018-February/000145.htmlhttps://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-talk/2018-February/000146.html
we only partly made it to md/mdadm ...
and didn't get to Meltdown/Spectre/... at all.
In any case, feel free to also come and bring your own topics,
questions, etc. Good discussions to be had!
We also manage to sometimes secure/confirm a speaker too late for us to
announce or fully publicize the speaker (that's happened at least twice
in the past). Got questions, answers, and/or opinions? We typically
have some expert(s) and/or relative expert(s) present to cover Linux
and related topic areas. Want to hear some interesting discussions on
Linux and other topics? Show up at the meeting, and feel free to bring
an agenda if you wish. Want to help ensure BALUG has
speakers/presentations lined up for future meetings? Help refer
speakers to us and/or volunteer to be one of the speaker coordinators.
Great food and people, and interesting conversations to be had.
Please RSVP to rsvp(a)balug.org if you're planning to attend,
and also note our revised RSVP policy further below.
Meeting kicks off at 6:30 P.M. - we start with meet and greet and chat
and such, then proceed with dining around 7:00 P.M. for dinner - please
arrive before 7:00 P.M. if you want to join us for dinner.
RSVP
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 20th, 2018 2018-02-20
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 $13.00 to $20.00 range, and
commonly around $15.00 to $17.00. Cash may be 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.
------------------------------
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 peek here:
http://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).
Books and other titles!
have a look/read 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 venue arrangement (e.g. followup on potential leads,
on-site coordination/preparations)
o assist on speaker coordination/procurement, etc.
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 TODAY!: Tu 2018-01-16 discussion topics: md RAID,
Meltdown/Spectre, ...; & other BALUG News
------------------------------
items, details further below:
BALUG: meeting TODAY!: Tu 2018-01-16 discussion topics:
md RAID
Meltdown/Spectre/Speculative Execution, ...
giveaways (Books/publications, CDs/DVDs, ...)
help BALUG! :-) - volunteering, venue, ...
Twitter https://twitter.com/#!/BALUG_org
------------------------------
For our 2018-01-16 BALUG meeting
Meltdown/Spectre/Speculative Execution, ...
At least presently, we don't have any particularly formal presentation
lined up for this meeting, but we do have some suggested discussion
topics:
o md/mdadm/Multiple Device driver aka Linux Software RAID
o Meltdown/Spectre/Speculative Execution
In any case, feel free to also come and bring your own topics,
questions, etc. Good discussions to be had!
We also manage to sometimes secure/confirm a speaker too late for us to
announce or fully publicize the speaker (that's happened at least twice
in the past). Got questions, answers, and/or opinions? We typically
have some expert(s) and/or relative expert(s) present to cover Linux
and related topic areas. Want to hear some interesting discussions on
Linux and other topics? Show up at the meeting, and feel free to bring
an agenda if you wish. Want to help ensure BALUG has
speakers/presentations lined up for future meetings? Help refer
speakers to us and/or volunteer to be one of the speaker coordinators.
Great food and people, and interesting conversations to be had.
Please RSVP to rsvp(a)balug.org if you're planning to attend,
and also note our revised RSVP policy further below.
Meeting kicks off at 6:30 P.M. - we start with meet and greet and chat
and such, then proceed with dining around 7:00 P.M. for dinner - please
arrive before 7:00 P.M. if you want to join us for dinner.
RSVP
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 16th, 2018 2018-01-16
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 $13.00 to $20.00 range, and
commonly around $15.00 to $17.00. Cash may be 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.
------------------------------
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 peek here:
http://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).
Books and other titles!
have a look/read 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 venue arrangement (e.g. followup on potential leads,
on-site coordination/preparations)
o assist on speaker coordination/procurement, etc.
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 MEETING IN DECEMBER, meetings resume next year
Per usual, we generally skip meeting in December, and do so again
this year. Meetings resume next year, generally meeting the third Tuesday
of the month, mark your calendars!:
2018-01-16
2018-02-20
2018-03-20
2018-04-17
2018-05-15
2018-06-19
2018-07-17
2018-08-21
2018-09-18
2018-10-16
2018-11-20
https://www.balug.org/#Meetings-upcoming
------------------------------
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 Tu 2017-11-21: Inline Dedupe & Compression
for Linux Block Storage - Louis Imershein (Red Hat)
*+one date correction in body of text
------------------------------
items, details further below:
BALUG meeting: Tu 2017-11-21: Inline Dedupe & Compression for Linux
Block Storage - Louis Imershein (Red Hat[1])
BALUG December - NO MEETING IN DECEMBER, meetings resume in 2018
giveaways (Goodies/Books/publications, CDs/DVDs, ...)
help BALUG! :-) - volunteering, venue, ...
Twitter https://twitter.com/#!/BALUG_org
BALUG lists migrations
------------------------------
BALUG meeting: Tu 2017-11-21:
Inline Dedupe & Compression for Linux Block Storage -
Louis Imershein (Red Hat[1])
Data deduplication[2] and compression[3] can increase the capacity of
storage allowing users make more efficient use of existing storage and
to make new fast storage more affordable. Traditionally these data
reduction technologies have been available in proprietary storage
systems, but more recently they've made their way into open source with
projects such as zfs and btrfs as well as with backup-specific
applications such as OpenDedupe. Each of these has issues, either they
are resource hogs, or they are designed to address limited use cases.
The Virtual Data Optimizer (dm-vdo) is a new open source project from
Red Hat that provides inline data reduction for primary storage to the
Linux block storage stack. Its intended for use in active
virtualization and or container workloads with minimal impact to
performance and resources. This talk with introduce dm-vdo, describe
how it works, resource requirements, effectiveness for different use
cases and performance impact.
Louis Imershein is the Principal Product Manager for Data Reduction
technologies at Red Hat. Louis came to Red Hat with 11 years of product
management experience in the data reduction software developed by
Permabit Technology Corporation[4], a company that supplied
deduplication and compression technology to major storage
manufacturers. Red Hat acquired the assets of Permabit in August of
2017.
1. https://www.redhat.com/en
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_deduplication
3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_compression
4. http://permabit.com/
Please RSVP to rsvp(a)balug.org if you're planning to attend.
Meeting kicks off at 6:30 P.M. - we start with meet and greet and chat
and such, then proceed with dining around 7:00 P.M. for dinner - please
arrive before 7:00 P.M. if you want to join us for dinner.
RSVP
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, November 21st, 2017 2017-11-21
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 $13.00 to $20.00 range, and
commonly around $15.00 to $17.00. Cash may be 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.
------------------------------
BALUG December - NO MEETING IN DECEMBER, meetings resume in 2018
Per usual, we generally skip meeting in December, and do so again
this year. Meetings resume in 2018, generally meeting the third Tuesday
of the month, mark your calendars!:
2018-01-16
2018-02-20
2018-03-20
2018-04-17
2018-05-15
2018-06-19
2018-07-17
2018-08-21
2018-09-18
2018-10-16
2018-11-20
------------------------------
We typically have various giveaway items at BALUG meetings. We'll
likely have at least the below plus additional items.
Have some Linux Professional Institute[1] goodies from recent
Jon "maddog" Hall[2] / Partimus[3] event at Twitter[4]
1. https://www.lpi.org/
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Hall_(programmer)
3. https://partimus.org/
4. https://twitter.com/?lang=en
Our presenter(s) often have swag goodies.
Books and other titles!
have a look/read here:
https://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=balug:books_and_publications
CDs/DVDs/ISOs, etc. - have a peek here:
http://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=balug:cds_and_images_etc
We may also be able to "burn" images per request or copy to USB flash,
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).
------------------------------
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 venue arrangement (e.g. followup on potential leads,
on-site coordination/preparations)
o chief/assistant cat herder
o assist on speaker coordination/procurement, etc.
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
------------------------------
BALUG lists migrations & DreamHost.com hosting exodus
Just a reminder, hopefully everyone's switched back to the canonical
(lists.balug.org) by now, as temp.balug.org will be going away in near
future:
o BALUG was fully migrated off of DreamHost.com hosting 2017-09-17.
o lists.balug.org is again the canonical name for the lists,
both for web (https://lists.balug.org/) and list email
(@lists.balug.org)
o The temporary transitional domain temp.balug.org does
still temporarily persist for ease of transition, but it
will be removed in the fairly near future (sometime on or after
2017-11-30 but not later than 2017-12-16T13:47:00+0000).
o Further details available on the other lists (most notably
BALUG-Admin), and also the wiki pages mentioned/referenced thereupon.
------------------------------
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 2017-11-21: Inline Dedupe & Compression for Linux
Block Storage - Louis Imershein (Red Hat)
------------------------------
items, details further below:
BALUG meeting: Tu 2017-11-21: Inline Dedupe & Compression for Linux
Block Storage - Louis Imershein (Red Hat[1])
giveaways (Goodies/Books/publications, CDs/DVDs, ...)
help BALUG! :-) - volunteering, venue, ...
Twitter https://twitter.com/#!/BALUG_org
BALUG lists migrations
------------------------------
BALUG meeting: Tu 2017-11-21:
Inline Dedupe & Compression for Linux Block Storage -
Louis Imershein (Red Hat[1])
Data deduplication[2] and compression[3] can increase the capacity of
storage allowing users make more efficient use of existing storage and
to make new fast storage more affordable. Traditionally these data
reduction technologies have been available in proprietary storage
systems, but more recently they've made their way into open source with
projects such as zfs and btrfs as well as with backup-specific
applications such as OpenDedupe. Each of these has issues, either they
are resource hogs, or they are designed to address limited use cases.
The Virtual Data Optimizer (dm-vdo) is a new open source project from
Red Hat that provides inline data reduction for primary storage to the
Linux block storage stack. Its intended for use in active
virtualization and or container workloads with minimal impact to
performance and resources. This talk with introduce dm-vdo, describe
how it works, resource requirements, effectiveness for different use
cases and performance impact.
Louis Imershein is the Principal Product Manager for Data Reduction
technologies at Red Hat. Louis came to Red Hat with 11 years of product
management experience in the data reduction software developed by
Permabit Technology Corporation[4], a company that supplied
deduplication and compression technology to major storage
manufacturers. Red Hat acquired the assets of Permabit in August of
2017.
1. https://www.redhat.com/en
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_deduplication
3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_compression
4. http://permabit.com/
Please RSVP to rsvp(a)balug.org if you're planning to attend.
Meeting kicks off at 6:30 P.M. - we start with meet and greet and chat
and such, then proceed with dining around 7:00 P.M. for dinner - please
arrive before 7:00 P.M. if you want to join us for dinner.
RSVP
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, October 17th, 2017 2017-10-17
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 $13.00 to $20.00 range, and
commonly around $15.00 to $17.00. Cash may be 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.
------------------------------
We typically have various giveaway items at BALUG meetings. We'll
likely have at least the below plus additional items.
Have some Linux Professional Institute[1] goodies from recent
Jon "maddog" Hall[2] / Partimus[3] event at Twitter[4]
1. https://www.lpi.org/
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Hall_(programmer)
3. https://partimus.org/
4. https://twitter.com/?lang=en
Our presenter(s) often have swag goodies.
Books and other titles!
have a look/read here:
https://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=balug:books_and_publications
CDs/DVDs/ISOs, etc. - have a peek here:
http://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=balug:cds_and_images_etc
We may also be able to "burn" images per request or copy to USB flash,
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).
------------------------------
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 venue arrangement (e.g. followup on potential leads,
on-site coordination/preparations)
o chief/assistant cat herder
o assist on speaker coordination/procurement, etc.
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
------------------------------
BALUG lists migrations & DreamHost.com hosting exodus
Just a reminder, hopefully everyone's switched back to the canonical
(lists.balug.org) by now, as temp.balug.org will be going away in near
future:
o BALUG was fully migrated off of DreamHost.com hosting 2017-09-17.
o lists.balug.org is again the canonical name for the lists,
both for web (https://lists.balug.org/) and list email
(@lists.balug.org)
o The temporary transitional domain temp.balug.org does
still temporarily persist for ease of transition, but it
will be removed in the fairly near future (sometime on or after
2017-11-30 but not later than 2017-12-16T13:47:00+0000).
o Further details available on the other lists (most notably
BALUG-Admin), and also the wiki pages mentioned/referenced thereupon.
------------------------------
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 TOMORROW: Tu 2017-10-17 & other News
------------------------------
items, details further below:
BALUG meeting TOMORROW: Tu 2017-10-17 (note also RSVP policy)
LISA17 in San Francisco! 2017-10-29--2017-11-03
BALUG lists migrations
giveaways (Books/publications, CDs/DVDs, ...)
help BALUG! :-) - volunteering, venue, ...
Twitter https://twitter.com/#!/BALUG_org
------------------------------
BALUG meeting: Tu 2017-10-17 (note also RSVP policy)
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 and discussions. We also manage to
sometimes secure/confirm a speaker too late for us to announce or fully
publicize the speaker (that's happened at least twice in the past).
Got questions, answers, and/or opinions? We typically have some
expert(s) and/or relative expert(s) present to cover Linux and related
topic areas. Want to hear some interesting discussions on LINUX and
other topics? Show up at the meeting, and feel free to bring an agenda
if you wish. Want to help ensure BALUG has speakers/presentations
lined up for future meetings? Help refer speakers to us and/or
volunteer to be one of the speaker coordinators. Great food and
people, and interesting conversations to be had.
As was decided unanimously at the 2017-03-21 BALUG meeting, we updated
the RSVP policy - in short, if you want to be sure there's a meeting to
go to, be sure to send your RSVP in time for us to receive it by not
later than 5pm of date of meeting.
Please RSVP to rsvp(a)balug.org if you're planning to attend,
and also note our revised RSVP policy further below.
Meeting kicks off at 6:30 P.M. - we start with meet and greet and chat
and such, then proceed with dining around 7:00 P.M. for dinner - please
arrive before 7:00 P.M. if you want to join us for dinner.
RSVP
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).
IF WE'VE RECEIVED EXACTLY ZERO RSVPs BY 5:00 P.M. ON DATE OF MEETING,
MEETING MAY BE CANCELLED WITH NO FURTHER NOTIFICATIONS. So, if we
receive your RSVP in time, then there is a meeting, if we receive zero
RSVPs in time, there may not be a meeting, so if you want to be sure
there's a meeting to go to, be sure to send your RSVP in time for
us to receive it by not later than 5:00 P.M. US/Pacific time on date of
meeting. Host(s) and any speaker(s)/presenter(s) will be presumed to be
RSVPed yes, but will not be counted towards the total of RSVPs received
even if they've explicitly RSVPed (hosts/speaker(s)/presenter(s) will
be communicated to if meeting is cancelled for any reason).
6:30pm Tuesday, October 17th, 2017 2017-10-17
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 $13.00 to $20.00 range, and
commonly around $15.00 to $17.00. Cash may be 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.
------------------------------
LISA17 in San Francisco! 2017-10-29--2017-11-03
This year, the Large Installations Systems Administration (LISA)
conference, etc. is in San Francisco! (It is an annual event, and
typically alternates between some West Coast location and somewhere on
the other side of the Continental Divide). This year it's in
San Francisco! - Highly conveniently located for the San Francisco Bay
Area and San Francisco. It's put on by
Usenix (The Advanced Computing Systems Association) -
a quite wonderful organization.
https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa17https://www.usenix.org/
------------------------------
BALUG lists migrations & DreamHost.com hosting exodus
o BALUG was fully migrated off of DreamHost.com hosting 2017-09-17.
o lists.balug.org is again the canonical name for the lists,
both for web (https://lists.balug.org/) and list email
(@lists.balug.org)
o The temporary transitional domain temp.balug.org does
still temporarily persist for ease of transition, but it
will be removed in the fairly near future (sometime on or after
2017-11-30 but not later than 2017-12-16T13:47:00+0000).
o Further details available on the other lists (most notably
BALUG-Admin), and also the wiki pages mentioned/referenced thereupon.
------------------------------
We typically have various giveaway items at BALUG meetings. We'll
likely have at least the below plus additional items.
Books and other titles!
have a look/read here:
https://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=balug:books_and_publications
CDs/DVDs/ISOs, etc. - have a peek here:
http://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=balug:cds_and_images_etc
We may also be able to "burn" images per request or copy to USB flash,
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).
------------------------------
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 venue arrangement (e.g. followup on potential leads,
on-site coordination/preparations)
o chief/assistant cat herder
o assist on speaker coordination/procurement, etc.
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: TOMORROW! Tu 2017-09-19 & other News
------------------------------
items, details further below:
BALUG meeting: Tu 2017-09-19 (note also RSVP policy)
Keysigning (in San Francisco) 2017-10-03 6PM to 8PM US/Pacific
LISA17 in San Francisco! 2017-10-29--2017-11-03 (early reg. by 2017-10-09)
BALUG lists migrations & DreamHost.com hosting exodus!
giveaways (Books/publications, CDs/DVDs, ...)
help BALUG! :-) - volunteering, venue, ...
Twitter https://twitter.com/#!/BALUG_org
------------------------------
BALUG meeting: Tu 2017-09-19 (note also RSVP policy)
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 and discussions. We also manage to
sometimes secure/confirm a speaker too late for us to announce or fully
publicize the speaker (that's happened at least twice in the past).
Got questions, answers, and/or opinions? We typically have some
expert(s) and/or relative expert(s) present to cover Linux and related
topic areas. Want to hear some interesting discussions on LINUX and
other topics? Show up at the meeting, and feel free to bring an agenda
if you wish. Want to help ensure BALUG has speakers/presentations
lined up for future meetings? Help refer speakers to us and/or
volunteer to be one of the speaker coordinators. Great food and
people, and interesting conversations to be had.
As was decided unanimously at the 2017-03-21 BALUG meeting, we updated
the RSVP policy - in short, if you want to be sure there's a meeting to
go to, be sure to send your RSVP in time for us to receive it by not
later than 5pm of date of meeting.
Please RSVP to rsvp(a)balug.org if you're planning to attend,
and also note our revised RSVP policy further below.
Meeting kicks off at 6:30 P.M. - we start with meet and greet and chat
and such, then proceed with dining around 7:00 P.M. for dinner - please
arrive before 7:00 P.M. if you want to join us for dinner.
RSVP
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).
IF WE'VE RECEIVED EXACTLY ZERO RSVPs BY 5:00 P.M. ON DATE OF MEETING,
MEETING MAY BE CANCELLED WITH NO FURTHER NOTIFICATIONS. So, if we
receive your RSVP in time, then there is a meeting, if we receive zero
RSVPs in time, there may not be a meeting, so if you want to be sure
there's a meeting to go to, be sure to send your RSVP in time for
us to receive it by not later than 5:00 P.M. US/Pacific time on date of
meeting. Host(s) and any speaker(s)/presenter(s) will be presumed to be
RSVPed yes, but will not be counted towards the total of RSVPs received
even if they've explicitly RSVPed (hosts/speaker(s)/presenter(s) will
be communicated to if meeting is cancelled for any reason).
6:30pm Tuesday, September 19th, 2017 2017-09-19
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 $13.00 to $20.00 range, and
commonly around $15.00 to $17.00. Cash may be 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.
------------------------------
Keysigning (in San Francisco) 2017-10-03 6PM to 8PM US/Pacific
Note also that registration (free) to attend is *required*!
https://temp.balug.org/pipermail/balug-talk/2017-August/000106.htmlhttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/pgp-key-signing-party-in-san-francisco-tickets…
------------------------------
LISA17 in San Francisco! 2017-10-29--2017-11-03
The Early Bird Registration Deadline is 2017-10-09
This year, the Large Installations Systems Administration (LISA)
conference, etc. is in San Francisco! (It is an annual event, and
typically alternates between some West Coast location and somewhere on
the other side of the Continental Divide). This year it's in
San Francisco! - Highly conveniently located for the San Francisco Bay
Area and San Francisco. It's put on by
Unsenix (The Advanced Computing Systems Association) -
a quite wonderful organization.
https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa17https://www.usenix.org/
------------------------------
BALUG lists migrations & DreamHost.com hosting exodus!
BALUG has now been fully migrated off of DreamHost.com hosting!
o Lists are still (temporarily) using temp.balug.org.
They will be transitioned back to lists.balug.org, but we'll also
continue to have temp.balug.org be operational for backwards
compatibility / ease of transition for a significant time (probably
until about 2017-11-30).
o BALUG.org has now been fully migrated off of DreamHost.com hosting
services.
o Shout out and much thanks to Michael Hubbard, who's done much for
BALUG over the years, including among other things, BALUG's
migration to DreamHost.com hosting, some major changes on
DreamHost.com hosting, footing the bill for all hosting of BALUG on
DreamHost.com, dealing with the pesky DreamHost.com matters that
DreamHost.com would only allow to be done by
"primary account user" (Michael Hubbard),
much etc.
Than you Michael Hubbard!
o List archives are back on-line and much more complete - at least now
have what was on DreamHost.com hosting (at least that they'd not
earlier lost that they could not retrieve/restore), plus any more
recent postings since the lists themselves moved.
o Further details available on the other lists (most notably
BALUG-Admin), and also the wiki pages mentioned/referenced thereupon.
------------------------------
We typically have various giveaway items at BALUG meetings. We'll
likely have at least the below plus additional items.
Books and other titles!
have a look/read here:
https://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=balug:books_and_publications
CDs/DVDs/ISOs, etc. - have a peek here:
http://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=balug:cds_and_images_etc
We may also be able to "burn" images per request or copy to USB flash,
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).
------------------------------
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 venue arrangement (e.g. followup on potential leads,
on-site coordination/preparations)
o chief/assistant cat herder
o assist on speaker coordination/procurement, etc.
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 2017-08-15 discussion topics: WWW::Mechanize, ...;
& other BALUG News
------------------------------
items, details further below:
BALUG meeting: Tu 2017-08-15 discussion topics: WWW::Mechanize, ...
(note also RSVP policy)
BALUG lists migrated! ...
giveaways (Books/publications, CDs/DVDs, ...)
help BALUG! :-) - volunteering, venue, ...
Twitter https://twitter.com/#!/BALUG_org
------------------------------
BALUG meeting: Tu 2017-08-15 discussion topics: WWW::Mechanize[1], ...
(note also RSVP policy)
We don't have a formal presentation lined up for this meeting, but we do
have a suggested discussion topic: WWW::Mechanize.
WWW::Mechanize is a perl[2] module, which is very handy for, among other
things, automating handling of web pages, e.g. gathering and submitting
data, and handling reasonably predictable interaction on web pages. For
example, it was used by Michael Paoli on BALUG's recent mail list
migrations, migrating 1,232 subscriptions on 3 lists, including 13,885
subscriber option/preference settings, reading all that data from over
1,232 web pages, and likewise posting those setting preferences to 1,232
web pages.
1. http://search.cpan.org/~oalders/WWW-Mechanize-1.86/lib/WWW/Mechanize.pm
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl
As was decided unanimously at the 2017-03-21 BALUG meeting, we updated
the RSVP policy - in short, if you want to be sure there's a meeting to
go to, be sure to send your RSVP in time for us to receive it by not
later than 5pm of date of meeting.
Please RSVP to rsvp(a)balug.org if you're planning to attend,
and also note our revised RSVP policy further below.
Meeting kicks off at 6:30 P.M. - we start with meet and greet and chat
and such, then proceed with dining around 7:00 P.M. for dinner - please
arrive before 7:00 P.M. if you want to join us for dinner.
RSVP
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).
IF WE'VE RECEIVED EXACTLY ZERO RSVPs BY 5:00 P.M. ON DATE OF MEETING,
MEETING MAY BE CANCELLED WITH NO FURTHER NOTIFICATIONS. So, if we
receive your RSVP in time, then there is a meeting, if we receive zero
RSVPs in time, there may not be a meeting, so if you want to be sure
there's a meeting to go to, be sure to send your RSVP in time for
us to receive it by not later than 5:00 P.M. US/Pacific time on date of
meeting. Host(s) and any speaker(s)/presenters will be presumed to be
RSVPed yes, but will not be counted towards the total of RSVPs received
even if they've explicitly RSVPed (hosts/speaker(s)/presenter(s) will
be communicated with if meeting is cancelled for any reason).
6:30pm Tuesday, August 15th, 2017 2017-08-15
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 $13.00 to $20.00 range, and
commonly around $15.00 to $17.00. Cash may be 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.
------------------------------
BALUG lists migrated! ...
BALUG lists have been migrated* from DreamHost.com hosting services.
Note that at least for now:
o domain for URLs and postings has temporarily changed (will
eventually be shifted back to same domain as earlier, and there will
be a fairly long overlapping grace period where both will work)
* lists have been migrated (merging/migration of old archives still
pending), subscribers and their options/settings all also migrated
(except all subscriber passwords were reset, and those were sent
out individually to subscribers when they were migrated)
o One can find the relevant links under http://www.balug.org/#Lists
o Links to older archives not yet migrated and merged, can be also be
found on each lists' current information page
o more details can be found on the BALUG-Talk list, and yet more
details on the BALUG-Admin list - all the BALUG lists are publicly
archived, so, if one wishes to, one can browse/download those
postings, without need to subscribe to those lists.
------------------------------
We typically have various giveaway items at BALUG meetings. We'll
likely have at least the below plus additional items.
Books and other titles!
have a look/read here:
https://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=balug:books_and_publications
CDs/DVDs/ISOs, etc. - have a peek here:
http://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=balug:cds_and_images_etc
We may also be able to "burn" images per request or copy to USB flash,
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).
------------------------------
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 venue arrangement (e.g. followup on potential leads,
on-site coordination/preparations), see also:
http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-admin-balug.org/2014-July/001504.html
o chief/assistant cat herder
o assist on speaker coordination/procurement, etc.
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-Announce list migrating!
This should be the last post from the list's old hosting location.
The old location of the list (and its archives) should be treated
as "read-only" - the "Emergency moderation" is set on the list, and no
postings should be approved.
Expect some email(s) once the migration has completed.
You can also check back later at:
http://www.balug.org/#Lists
for status, links, etc.
BALUG: meeting TOMORROW!: Tu 2017-07-18 discussion topics: setting up
mail lists and anti-spam; & other BALUG News
------------------------------
items, details further below:
BALUG meeting TOMORROW: Tu 2017-07-18 discussion topics: Setting up GNU
mailman version 2.1.18 lists (on Debian), including anti-spam
techniques using eximconfig v2.5 and exim4 (note also RSVP policy)
giveaways (Books/publications, CDs/DVDs, ...)
help BALUG! :-) - volunteering, venue, ...
Twitter https://twitter.com/#!/BALUG_org
Upcoming BALUG list changes!
------------------------------
For our 2017-07-18 BALUG meeting discussion topics: Setting up GNU
mailman version 2.1.18 lists (on Debian), including anti-spam techniques
using eximconfig v2.5 and exim4 (note also RSVP policy):
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 and discussions, and we do have a set of
discussion topics, so we'll likely cover at least fair bit of that and
very possibly other/additional topics folks may bring up at the meeting.
Our suggested topics for this meeting:
Setting up GNU[1] mailman[2] version 2.1.18 lists (on Debian[3]),
including:
anti-spam[4] techniques using:
eximconfig[5] v2.5 and:
exim4[6]. We also manage to sometimes secure/confirm a speaker too late
for us to announce or fully publicize the speaker (that's happened at
least twice in the past). Got questions, answers, and/or opinions? We
typically have some expert(s) and/or relative expert(s) present to cover
Linux and related topic areas. Want to hear some interesting discussions
on Linux and other topics? Show up at the meeting, and feel free to
bring an agenda if you wish. Want to help ensure BALUG has
speakers/presentations lined up for future meetings? Help refer speakers
to us and/or volunteer to be one of the speaker coordinators. Great food
and people, and interesting conversations to be had.
1. http://www.gnu.org/
2. http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/index.html
3. https://www.debian.org/
4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-spam_techniques
5. http://www.jcdigita.com/eximconfig/
6. http://www.exim.org/
As was decided unanimously at the 2017-03-21 BALUG meeting, we updated
the RSVP policy - in short, if you want to be sure there's a meeting to
go to, be sure to send your RSVP in time for us to receive it by not
later than 5pm of date of meeting.
Please RSVP to rsvp(a)balug.org if you're planning to attend,
and also note our revised RSVP policy further below.
Meeting kicks off at 6:30 P.M. - we start with meet and greet and chat
and such, then proceed with dining around 7:00 P.M. for dinner - please
arrive before 7:00 P.M. if you want to join us for dinner.
RSVP
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).
IF WE'VE RECEIVED EXACTLY ZERO RSVPs BY 5:00 P.M. ON DATE OF MEETING,
MEETING MAY BE CANCELLED WITH NO FURTHER NOTIFICATIONS. So, if we
receive your RSVP in time, then there is a meeting, if we receive zero
RSVPs in time, there may not be a meeting, so if you want to be sure
there's a meeting to go to, be sure to send your RSVP in time for
us to receive it by not later than 5:00 P.M. US/Pacific time on date of
meeting. Host(s) and any speaker(s)/presenters will be presumed to be
RSVPed yes, but will not be counted towards the total of RSVPs received
even if they've explicitly RSVPed (hosts/speaker(s)/presenter(s) will
be communicated with if meeting is cancelled for any reason).
6:30pm Tuesday, July 18th, 2017 2017-07-18
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 $13.00 to $20.00 range, and
commonly around $15.00 to $17.00. Cash may be 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.
------------------------------
We typically have various giveaway items at BALUG meetings. We'll
likely have at least the below plus additional items.
Books and other titles!
have a look/read here:
https://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=balug:books_and_publications
CDs/DVDs/ISOs, etc. - have a peek here:
http://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=balug:cds_and_images_etc
We may also be able to "burn" images per request or copy to USB flash,
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).
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help BALUG! :-) - volunteering, venue ...
You can do useful and cool stuff volunteering to help BALUG,
e.g. following up on many leads for possible venue, among many other
possibilities.
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 venue arrangement (e.g. followup on potential leads
on-site coordination/preparations), see also:
http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-admin-balug.org/2014-July/001504.html
o chief/assistant cat herder
o assist on speaker coordination/procurement, etc.
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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Upcoming BALUG list changes?!
Yes, for the past many years, much of BALUG, including our lists, has
been and is still presently hosted on DreamHost.com. We will be
changing that in the not-too-horribly-distant-future. We'll update on
status when that's about to change and when it does change. We'll
provide more details as we approach and go through that transition, and
we'll make it as painless as feasible. At present, there's a bunch of
updated information regarding our progress and plans on this on the
BALUG-Admin[1] list and also the new BALUG-Test list - and there's also
a wiki page tracking a fair bit of progress details.
1. http://lists.balug.org/listinfo.cgi/balug-admin-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
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