REMINDER: BALUG: meeting TODAY!: 2018-05-15 (Security ...);
2018-06-19: DC/OS; & other BALUG News
------------------------------
items, details further below:
BALUG meeting TODAY!: Tu 2018-05-15 (Security ...)
BALUG meeting 2018-06-19: Elizabeth K. Joseph: DC/OS
giveaways (Books/publications, CDs/DVDs, ...)
help BALUG! :-) - volunteering, venue, ...
Twitter https://twitter.com/#!/BALUG_org
------------------------------
BALUG meeting TODAY!: Tu 2018-05-15 (Security ...)
This month, for our 2018-05-15 (3rd Tuesday) BALUG meeting:
We don't have a formal presentation lined up for this meeting, but we
do have a suggested discussion topic: Security ... And more
specifically - we have at least one relative expert and a more specific
area of Security. Most notably: Security for developers from a Linux
sysadmin perspective. Notably:
o On security, most of developers' focus is often on their code itself,
and with little attention to the broader scope/context
o Security for sysadmins is a topic often rather well covered by
sysadmins (and others) for sysadmins
o Developers (and software architects, etc.) often can greatly improve
security by learning from the perspective of sysadmins, e.g.:
o Least Privilege Principle[1] and Defense in Depth[2], notably
including use of:
o users, groups, permissions
o Set Group ID (SGID) - including directories
o Set User ID (SUID)
o sudo(8) and secure use thereof (specifying, etc.)
o Sticky Bit - notably on directories
o chroot, BSD "jail", containers/Docker, etc.
o ssh-keys: authorized_keys and restricting commands, source IPs, etc.
o Kerberos[3]
o passwords, salts[4], hashes[5], pepper[6]
o various authentication means - less secure and more so
o encryption; secure data storage
o trust relationships
o data validation
o code review, security review, pair programming
o scanning, testing, top vulnerabilities in/from developer realm
o etc.
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_least_privilege
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defence_in_depth
3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerberos_(protocol)
4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_(cryptography)
5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptographic_hash_function
6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepper_(cryptography)
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, May 15th, 2018 2018-05-15
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 meeting 2018-06-19: Elizabeth K. Joseph: DC/OS
For our 2018-06-19 meeting we are proud to present:
Elizabeth K. Joseph[1]: DC/OS (the datacenter operating system)[2]
Elizabeth K. Joseph joins us to give an introduction to DC/OS.
Tooling around container orchestration has gained a lot of attention
recently with various open source tools promising to deliver the
framework to manage a highly available container infrastructure. This
talk will explore DC/OS (the datacenter operating system) an
open-source, distributed operating system based on the
Apache Mesos[3] distributed systems kernel. DC/OS manages multiple
machines in the cloud or on-premises from a single interface; deploys
containers, distributed services, and legacy applications into those
machines; and provides networking, service discovery and resource
management to keep the services running and communicating with each other.
A demo using real streaming will also be given to show how DC/OS can
easily use various popular open source big data tools to process data
coming in and present it to the user.
Bio: Elizabeth K. Joseph spent much of the past decade working as a
Linux systems administrator, and today works as a Developer Advocate at
Mesosphere[4]. She is the author of Common OpenStack Deployments[5]
and The Official Ubuntu Book[6].
1. https://princessleia.com/
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datacenter_Operating_System
3. http://mesos.apache.org/
4. https://mesosphere.com/
5.
https://www.pearson.com/us/higher-education/program/Joseph-Common-Open-Stac…
6. http://www.informit.com/store/official-ubuntu-book-9780134513423
------------------------------
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).
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 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 TUESDAY!: 2018-05-15 (Security ...); 2018-06-19: DC/OS;
& other BALUG News
------------------------------
items, details further below:
BALUG meeting TUESDAY!: Tu 2018-05-15 (Security ...)
BALUG meeting 2018-06-19: Elizabeth K. Joseph: DC/OS
giveaways (Books/publications, CDs/DVDs, ...)
help BALUG! :-) - volunteering, venue, ...
Twitter https://twitter.com/#!/BALUG_org
------------------------------
BALUG meeting TUESDAY!: Tu 2018-05-15 (Security ...)
This month, for our 2018-05-15 (3rd Tuesday) BALUG meeting:
We don't have a formal presentation lined up for this meeting, but we
do have a suggested discussion topic: Security ... And more
specifically - we have at least one relative expert and a more specific
area of Security. Most notably: Security for developers from a Linux
sysadmin perspective. Notably:
o On security, most of developers' focus is often on their code itself,
and with little attention to the broader scope/context
o Security for sysadmins is a topic often rather well covered by
sysadmins (and others) for sysadmins
o Developers (and software architects, etc.) often can greatly improve
security by learning from the perspective of sysadmins, e.g.:
o Least Privilege Principle[1] and Defense in Depth[2], notably
including use of:
o users, groups, permissions
o Set Group ID (SGID) - including directories
o Set User ID (SUID)
o sudo(8) and secure use thereof (specifying, etc.)
o Sticky Bit - notably on directories
o chroot, BSD "jail", containers/Docker, etc.
o ssh-keys: authorized_keys and restricting commands, source IPs, etc.
o Kerberos[3]
o passwords, salts[4], hashes[5], pepper[6]
o various authentication means - less secure and more so
o encryption; secure data storage
o trust relationships
o data validation
o code review, security review, pair programming
o scanning, testing, top vulnerabilities in/from developer realm
o etc.
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_least_privilege
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defence_in_depth
3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerberos_(protocol)
4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_(cryptography)
5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptographic_hash_function
6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepper_(cryptography)
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, May 15th, 2018 2018-05-15
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 meeting 2018-06-19: Elizabeth K. Joseph: DC/OS
For our 2018-06-19 meeting we are proud to present:
Elizabeth K. Joseph[1]: DC/OS (the datacenter operating system)[2]
Elizabeth K. Joseph joins us to give an introduction to DC/OS.
Tooling around container orchestration has gained a lot of attention
recently with various open source tools promising to deliver the
framework to manage a highly available container infrastructure. This
talk will explore DC/OS (the datacenter operating system) an
open-source, distributed operating system based on the
Apache Mesos[3] distributed systems kernel. DC/OS manages multiple
machines in the cloud or on-premises from a single interface; deploys
containers, distributed services, and legacy applications into those
machines; and provides networking, service discovery and resource
management to keep the services running and communicating with each other.
A demo using real streaming will also be given to show how DC/OS can
easily use various popular open source big data tools to process data
coming in and present it to the user.
Bio: Elizabeth K. Joseph spent much of the past decade working as a
Linux systems administrator, and today works as a Developer Advocate at
Mesosphere[4]. She is the author of Common OpenStack Deployments[5]
and The Official Ubuntu Book[6].
1. https://princessleia.com/
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datacenter_Operating_System
3. http://mesos.apache.org/
4. https://mesosphere.com/
5.
https://www.pearson.com/us/higher-education/program/Joseph-Common-Open-Stac…
6. http://www.informit.com/store/official-ubuntu-book-9780134513423
------------------------------
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).
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 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 TOMORROW!: Tu 2018-04-17; & other BALUG News
------------------------------
items, details further below:
BALUG: meeting TOMORROW!: Tu 2018-04-17
giveaways (Books/publications, CDs/DVDs, ...)
help BALUG! :-) - volunteering, venue, ...
Twitter https://twitter.com/#!/BALUG_org
------------------------------
For our 2018-04-17 (3rd Tuesday) BALUG meeting:
At least presently we don't have a specific speaker/presentation lined
up for this meeting, but that doesn't prevent us from having
interesting and exciting meetings 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.
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, April 17th, 2018 2018-04-17
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.
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).
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 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 TOMORROW!: Tu 2018-03-20; & other BALUG News
------------------------------
items, details further below:
BALUG: meeting TOMORROW!: Tu 2018-03-20
giveaways (Books/publications, CDs/DVDs, ...)
help BALUG! :-) - volunteering, venue, ...
Twitter https://twitter.com/#!/BALUG_org
------------------------------
For our 2018-03-20 (3rd Tuesday) BALUG meeting:
At least presently we don't have a specific speaker/presentation lined
up for this meeting, but that doesn't prevent us from having
interesting and exciting meetings 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.
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, March 20th, 2018 2018-03-20
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 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).
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 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 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.
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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/
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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.
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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.
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!)
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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
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