BALUG: meeting TOMORROW!: Tu 2017-01-17; & other BALUG News
------------------------------
items, details further below:
BALUG meeting TOMORROW: Tu 2017-01-17
giveaways (Books (including 3 new!) & other titles, CDs/DVDs, ...)
help BALUG! :-) - volunteering, venue, ...
Twitter https://twitter.com/#!/BALUG_org
Upcoming BALUG list changes?!
------------------------------
For our 2017-01-17 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. Sometimes we also
manage to 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.
So, if you'd like to join us please RSVP to:
rsvp(a)balug.org
**Why RSVP??**
Well, don't worry we won't turn you away, but the RSVPs really help
BALUG and our venue plan for the meeting and accommodations, so please
let us know.
6:30pm Tuesday, January 17th, 2017 2017-01-17
Henry's Hunan Restaurant
110 Natoma St. (between 2nd & New Montgomery)
San Francisco, CA 94105-3704
1-415-546-4999
http://www.henryshunanrestaurant.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 $17.50 range, and
commonly around $15.00 to $16.50. 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!
includes 3 new titles courtesy No Starch Press' User Group program:
How Linux Works, 2nd Edition
Linux Firewalls
Linux Command Line
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,
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!)
------------------------------
Twitter - you can also follow BALUG on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/#!/BALUG_org
------------------------------
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. (primary
volunteer on this has been buried under some other stuff to attend to,
so taking a bit longer.) 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.
------------------------------
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 BALUG meeting in December, next BALUG meeting: 2017-01-17
Just a reminder, BALUG typically doesn't meet in December - we have no
BALUG meeting this month.
Next BALUG meeting: 2017-01-17
If you want to start marking your calendars for upcoming BALUG meetings:
2017-01-17 2017-02-21 2017-03-21 2017-04-18 2017-05-16 2017-06-20
2017-07-18 2017-08-15 2017-09-19 2017-10-17 2017-11-21
http://www.balug.org/#Meetings-upcoming
BALUG: TOMORROW: Tu 2016-11-15: Domain Name System Security Extensions
(DNSSEC) discussion (Michael Paoli ...) & other BALUG News
------------------------------
items, details further below:
BALUG meeting TOMORROW: Tu 2016-11-15: Domain Name System Security
Extensions (DNSSEC) discussion (Michael Paoli ...)
giveaways (Books & other titles, CDs/DVDs, ...)
Upcoming BALUG list changes?!
help BALUG! :-) - volunteering, venue, ...
Twitter https://twitter.com/#!/BALUG_org
------------------------------
For our 2016-11-15 BALUG meeting:
Discussion Topic:
We do have suggested discussion topic area for this meeting:
Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC)[1]
So, come join us, learn some things about why DNSSEC is important,
how it's used, dos and don'ts for implementing it, some of the
various ways to implement it and relevant considerations, how to
check if one already has DNSSEC available and is using it or not,
which domains are and aren't DNSSEC enabled, DNSSEC adoption around
the world, additional cool and useful things that can be done with
DNSSEC, etc.
Michael Paoli will be leading this discussion - he has not only
well over a decades experience with Linux, but has also been
managing and administering DNS well over a decade, and also now has
some fair bit of practical hands-on experience implementing DNSSEC.
"Of course" that doesn't mean we're limited to the above, but
expect we'll probably be at least touching upon those. Feel free
also to bring your own topics/suggestions to meeting, and/or
suggest for upcoming meetings.
So, come meet with us and enjoy interesting Linux, etc. discussion.
Bring questions, answers, interesting stuff to share, learn stuff,
hear and share cool interesting stories and meet cool and
interesting people!
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_Name_System_Security_Extensions
rsvp(a)balug.org
**Why RSVP??**
Well, don't worry we won't turn you away, but the RSVPs really help
BALUG and our venue plan for the meeting and accommodations, so please
let us know.
6:30pm Tuesday, November 15th, 2016 2016-11-15
Henry's Hunan Restaurant
110 Natoma St. (between 2nd & New Montgomery)
San Francisco, CA 94105-3704
1-415-546-4999
http://www.henryshunanrestaurant.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 $17.50 range, and
commonly around $15.00 to $16.50. 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).
------------------------------
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. (primary
volunteer on this has been buried under some other stuff to attend to,
so taking a bit longer.) 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.
------------------------------
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!)
------------------------------
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: TOMORROW: BALUG: Tu 2016-10-18: Fred Moyer - Better service
monitoring through histograms; ...
------------------------------
items, details further below:
REMINDER: TOMORROW: BALUG: Tu 2016-10-18: Fred Moyer - Better service
monitoring through histograms
@OpenLate 2016-11-01: An Advanced Introduction to GnuPG (& keysigning) -
Neal H. Walfield
giveaways (Books & other titles, CDs/DVDs, ...)
Upcoming BALUG list changes?!
help BALUG! :-) - volunteering, venue, ...
Twitter https://twitter.com/#!/BALUG_org
------------------------------
TOMORROW: for our Tu 2016-10-18 BALUG meeting:
Fred Moyer - Better service monitoring through histograms
Fred Moyer will introduce us to statistical based service monitoring.
If you've used something like Nagios[1], Graphite[2], or Zabbix[3] to
monitor your systems, you're probably familiar with threshold based
alerting. Specifically, that it often results in you waking up in the
middle of the night for false positives. This talk will show you how to
implement quantile based service monitoring with histograms, so that
you can understand how your service is actually doing, rather than just
guessing based on metric averages.
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagios
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphite_(software)
3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zabbix
1. https://letsencrypt.org/
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_Layer_Security
rsvp(a)balug.org
**Why RSVP??**
Well, don't worry we won't turn you away, but the RSVPs really help
BALUG and our venue plan for the meeting and accommodations, so please
let us know.
6:30pm Tuesday, October 18th, 2016 2016-10-18
Henry's Hunan Restaurant
110 Natoma St. (between 2nd & New Montgomery)
San Francisco, CA 94105-3704
1-415-546-4999
http://www.henryshunanrestaurant.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 $17.50 range, and
commonly around $15.00 to $16.50. 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.
------------------------------
@OpenLate 2016-11-01: An Advanced Introduction to GnuPG (& keysigning) -
Neal H. Walfield
Neal H. Walfield is visiting from New York, and will be giving a GnuPG
talk at OpenLate on 2016-11-01, which will be followed by keysigning.
http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-talk-balug.org/2016-October/000053.h…
------------------------------
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).
------------------------------
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. (primary
volunteer on this has been buried under some other stuff to attend to,
so taking a bit longer.) 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.
------------------------------
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!)
------------------------------
Twitter - you can also follow BALUG on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/#!/BALUG_org
------------------------------
Feedback on our publicity/announcements (e.g. contacts or lists where we
should get our information out that we're not presently reaching, or
things we should do differently): publicity-feedback(a)balug.org
------------------------------
BALUG: Tu 2016-10-18: Fred Moyer - Better service monitoring through
histograms; & other BALUG News
------------------------------
items, details further below:
BALUG meeting Tu 2016-10-18: Fred Moyer - Better service monitoring
through histograms
@OpenLate 2016-11-01: An Advanced Introduction to GnuPG (& keysigning) -
Neal H. Walfield
giveaways (Books & other titles, CDs/DVDs, ...)
Upcoming BALUG list changes?!
help BALUG! :-) - volunteering, venue, ...
Twitter https://twitter.com/#!/BALUG_org
------------------------------
For our 2016-10-18 BALUG meeting:
Fred Moyer - Better service monitoring through histograms
Fred Moyer will introduce us to statistical based service monitoring.
If you've used something like Nagios[1], Graphite[2], or Zabbix[3] to
monitor your systems, you're probably familiar with threshold based
alerting. Specifically, that it often results in you waking up in the
middle of the night for false positives. This talk will show you how to
implement quantile based service monitoring with histograms, so that
you can understand how your service is actually doing, rather than just
guessing based on metric averages.
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagios
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphite_(software)
3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zabbix
1. https://letsencrypt.org/
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_Layer_Security
rsvp(a)balug.org
**Why RSVP??**
Well, don't worry we won't turn you away, but the RSVPs really help
BALUG and our venue plan for the meeting and accommodations, so please
let us know.
6:30pm Tuesday, October 18th, 2016 2016-10-18
Henry's Hunan Restaurant
110 Natoma St. (between 2nd & New Montgomery)
San Francisco, CA 94105-3704
1-415-546-4999
http://www.henryshunanrestaurant.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 $17.50 range, and
commonly around $15.00 to $16.50. 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.
------------------------------
@OpenLate 2016-11-01: An Advanced Introduction to GnuPG (& keysigning) -
Neal H. Walfield
Neal H. Walfield is visiting from New York, and will be giving a GnuPG
talk at OpenLate on 2016-11-01, which will be followed by keysigning.
http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-talk-balug.org/2016-October/000053.h…
------------------------------
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).
------------------------------
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. (primary
volunteer on this has been buried under some other stuff to attend to,
so taking a bit longer.) 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.
------------------------------
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!)
------------------------------
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: TOMORROW: 2016-09-20: letsencrypt.org/SSL/TLS dicussion;
2016-10-18: Fred Moyer - Better service monitoring through histograms;
& other BALUG News
------------------------------
items, details further below:
BALUG meeting TOMORROW Tu 2016-09-20: letsencrypt.org/SSL/TLS dicussion
BALUG meeting Tu 2016-10-18: Fred Moyer - Better service monitoring
through histograms
giveaways (Books & other titles, CDs/DVDs, ...)
Upcoming BALUG list changes?!
help BALUG! :-) - volunteering, venue, ...
Twitter https://twitter.com/#!/BALUG_org
------------------------------
For our 2016-09-20 BALUG meeting:
Discussion Topic:
We do have some suggested discussion topics for this meeting:
o letsencrypt.org[1] and SSL/TLS[2] certificates
"Of course" that doesn't mean we're limited to the above, but expect
we'll probably be at least touching upon those. Feel free also to bring
your own topics/suggestions to meeting, and/or suggest for upcoming
meetings.
So, come meet with us and enjoy interesting Linux, etc. discussion.
Bring questions, answers, interesting stuff to share, learn stuff, hear
and share cool interesting stories and meet cool and interesting people!
1. https://letsencrypt.org/
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_Layer_Security
rsvp(a)balug.org
**Why RSVP??**
Well, don't worry we won't turn you away, but the RSVPs really help
BALUG and our venue plan for the meeting and accommodations, so please
let us know.
6:30pm Tuesday, September 20th, 2016 2016-09-20
Henry's Hunan Restaurant
110 Natoma St. (between 2nd & New Montgomery)
San Francisco, CA 94105-3704
1-415-546-4999
http://www.henryshunanrestaurant.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 $17.50 range, and
commonly around $15.00 to $16.50. 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.
------------------------------
For our 2016-10-18 BALUG meeting:
Fred Moyer - Better service monitoring through histograms
Fred Moyer will introduce us to statistical based service monitoring.
If you've used something like Nagios[1], Graphite[2], or Zabbix[3] to
monitor your systems, you're probably familiar with threshold based
alerting. Specifically, that it often results in you waking up in the
middle of the night for false positives. This talk will show you how to
implement quantile based service monitoring with histograms, so that
you can understand how your service is actually doing, rather than just
guessing based on metric averages.
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagios
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphite_(software)
3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zabbix
------------------------------
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).
------------------------------
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. (primary
volunteer on this has been buried under some other stuff to attend to,
so taking a bit longer.) 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.
------------------------------
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!)
------------------------------
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: 2016-09-20: letsencrypt.org/SSL/TLS dicussion, 2016-10-18: Fred
Moyer - Better service monitoring through histograms; & other BALUG News
------------------------------
items, details further below:
BALUG meeting Tu 2016-09-20: letsencrypt.org/SSL/TLS dicussion
BALUG meeting Tu 2016-10-18: Fred Moyer - Better service monitoring
through histograms
giveaways (Books & other titles, CDs/DVDs, ...)
Upcoming BALUG list changes?!
help BALUG! :-) - volunteering, venue, ...
Twitter https://twitter.com/#!/BALUG_org
------------------------------
For our 2016-09-20 BALUG meeting:
Discussion Topic:
We do have some suggested discussion topics for this meeting:
o letsencrypt.org[1] and SSL/TLS[2] certificates
"Of course" that doesn't mean we're limited to the above, but expect
we'll probably be at least touching upon those. Feel free also to bring
your own topics/suggestions to meeting, and/or suggest for upcoming
meetings.
So, come meet with us and enjoy interesting Linux, etc. discussion.
Bring questions, answers, interesting stuff to share, learn stuff, hear
and share cool interesting stories and meet cool and interesting people!
1. https://letsencrypt.org/
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_Layer_Security
rsvp(a)balug.org
**Why RSVP??**
Well, don't worry we won't turn you away, but the RSVPs really help
BALUG and our venue plan for the meeting and accommodations, so please
let us know.
6:30pm Tuesday, September 20th, 2016 2016-09-20
Henry's Hunan Restaurant
110 Natoma St. (between 2nd & New Montgomery)
San Francisco, CA 94105-3704
1-415-546-4999
http://www.henryshunanrestaurant.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 $17.50 range, and
commonly around $15.00 to $16.50. 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.
------------------------------
For our 2016-10-18 BALUG meeting:
Fred Moyer - Better service monitoring through histograms
Fred Moyer will introduce us to statistical based service monitoring.
If you've used something like Nagios[1], Graphite[2], or Zabbix[3] to
monitor your systems, you're probably familiar with threshold based
alerting. Specifically, that it often results in you waking up in the
middle of the night for false positives. This talk will show you how to
implement quantile based service monitoring with histograms, so that
you can understand how your service is actually doing, rather than just
guessing based on metric averages.
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagios
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphite_(software)
3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zabbix
------------------------------
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).
------------------------------
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. (primary
volunteer on this has been buried under some other stuff to attend to,
so taking a bit longer.) 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.
------------------------------
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!)
------------------------------
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 2016-08-16; & other BALUG News
------------------------------
items, details further below:
BALUG meeting Tu 2016-08-16
giveaways (Books & other titles, CDs/DVDs, ...)
Upcoming BALUG list changes?!
help BALUG! :-) - volunteering, venue, ...
Twitter https://twitter.com/#!/BALUG_org
------------------------------
For our 2016-08-16 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. Sometimes we also
manage to 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.
So, if you'd like to join us please RSVP to:
rsvp(a)balug.org
**Why RSVP??**
Well, don't worry we won't turn you away, but the RSVPs really help
BALUG and our venue plan for the meeting and accommodations, so please
let us know.
6:30pm Tuesday, August 16th, 2016 2016-08-16
Henry's Hunan Restaurant
110 Natoma St. (between 2nd & New Montgomery)
San Francisco, CA 94105-3704
1-415-546-4999
http://www.henryshunanrestaurant.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 $17.50 range, and
commonly around $15.00 to $16.50. 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).
------------------------------
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. (primary
volunteer on this has been buried under some other stuff to attend to,
so taking a bit longer.) 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.
------------------------------
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!)
------------------------------
BALUG: Meeting: Tu 2016-07-19 Elizabeth K. Joseph on: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
"Xenial Xerus"; & other BALUG News
------------------------------
items, details further below:
BALUG meeting Tu 2016-07-19: Elizabeth K. Joseph on: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
"Xenial Xerus"
Shape AT&T Tech Expo July 15 & 16 @ AT&T Park (free with coupon code ...)
San Francisco Ubuntu 16.04 Release Party 2016-07-28
giveaways (Books & other titles, CDs/DVDs, ...)
Upcoming BALUG list changes?!
help BALUG! :-) - volunteering, venue, ...
Twitter https://twitter.com/#!/BALUG_org
------------------------------
For our 2016-07-19 meeting, we're proud to present:
Elizabeth K. Joseph[1] on: Ubuntu[2] 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus"[3]
Ubuntu 16.04 is the latest Long-Term Support (LTS)[4] release from the
Ubuntu community[5] and Canonical[6]. This talk will be a tour of new
features, including disabling of Amazon search by default, replacement
of the Ubuntu Software Center, replacement of init system with
systemd[7] (new since the last LTS release), ability to move the Unity
launcher to the bottom of the screen, inclusion of ZFS[8] and the
introduction of Snappy[9]. An update on the progress of Ubuntu on
phones and tablets will also be presented, with a demonstration of the
first convergence device on the market, the bq Aquaris M10 Ubuntu
edition.
Elizabeth K. Joseph is a Senior Automation and Tools Engineer at
HPE[10] working on the OpenStack[11] Infrastructure team. She is a
former member of the Ubuntu Community Council[12] and is a co-author of
the 8th and upcoming 9th editions of The Official Ubuntu Book[13]. Here
in San Francisco, she serves on the Board of Directors for
Partimus.org[14], a non-profit providing Linux-based computers to area
education and low-income housing centers in need.
1. http://princessleia.com/
2. http://www.ubuntu.com/
3. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/XenialXerus/ReleaseNotes
4. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LTS
5. http://community.ubuntu.com/
6. http://www.canonical.com/
7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemd
8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS
9. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snappy_(package_manager)
10. https://www.hpe.com/
11. https://www.openstack.org/
12. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CommunityCouncil
13. http://www.informit.com/store/official-ubuntu-book-9780133905397
14. http://partimus.org/
rsvp(a)balug.org
**Why RSVP??**
Well, don't worry we won't turn you away, but the RSVPs really help
BALUG and our venue plan for the meeting and accommodations, so please
let us know.
6:30pm Tuesday, July 19th, 2016 2016-07-19
Henry's Hunan Restaurant
110 Natoma St. (between 2nd & New Montgomery)
San Francisco, CA 94105-3704
1-415-546-4999
http://www.henryshunanrestaurant.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 $17.50 range, and
commonly around $15.00 to $16.50. 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.
------------------------------
Shape AT&T Tech Expo July 15 & 16 @ AT&T Park (free with coupon code ...)
http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-talk-balug.org/2016-June/000042.html
------------------------------
San Francisco Ubuntu 16.04 Release Party 2016-07-28
http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/ubuntu-california/3398-san-francisco-ubuntu-1…
------------------------------
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).
------------------------------
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. (primary
volunteer on this has been buried under some other stuff to attend to,
so taking a bit longer.) 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.
------------------------------
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!)
------------------------------
Twitter - you can also follow BALUG on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/#!/BALUG_org
------------------------------
Feedback on our publicity/announcements (e.g. contacts or lists where we
should get our information out that we're not presently reaching, or
things we should do differently): publicity-feedback(a)balug.org
------------------------------
BALUG: Meetings: 2016-06-21: Tomorrow Tu; 2016-07-19: Elizabeth K.
Joseph on: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus"; & other BALUG News
------------------------------
items, details further below:
BALUG meeting Tu 2016-06-21
BALUG meeting Tu 2016-07-19: Elizabeth K. Joseph on: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
"Xenial Xerus"
Shape AT&T Tech Expo July 15 & 16 @ AT&T Park (free with coupon code ...)
O'Reilly - free "reports" (mini-books)
giveaways (Books & other titles, CDs/DVDs, ...)
Upcoming BALUG list changes?!
help BALUG! :-) - volunteering, venue, ...
Twitter https://twitter.com/#!/BALUG_org
------------------------------
For our 2016-06-21 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. Sometimes we also
manage to 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.
So, if you'd like to join us please RSVP to:
rsvp(a)balug.org
**Why RSVP??**
Well, don't worry we won't turn you away, but the RSVPs really help
BALUG and our venue plan for the meeting and accommodations, so please
let us know.
6:30pm Tuesday, May 17th, 2016 2016-05-17
Henry's Hunan Restaurant
110 Natoma St. (between 2nd & New Montgomery)
San Francisco, CA 94105-3704
1-415-546-4999
http://www.henryshunanrestaurant.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 $17.50 range, and
commonly around $15.00 to $16.50. 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.
------------------------------
For our 2016-07-19 meeting, we're proud to present:
Elizabeth K. Joseph[1] on: Ubuntu[2] 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus"[3]
Ubuntu 16.04 is the latest Long-Term Support (LTS)[4] release from the
Ubuntu community[5] and Canonical[6]. This talk will be a tour of new
features, including disabling of Amazon search by default, replacement
of the Ubuntu Software Center, replacement of init system with
systemd[7] (new since the last LTS release), ability to move the Unity
launcher to the bottom of the screen, inclusion of ZFS[8] and the
introduction of Snappy[9]. An update on the progress of Ubuntu on
phones and tablets will also be presented, with a demonstration of the
first convergence device on the market, the bq Aquaris M10 Ubuntu
edition.
Elizabeth K. Joseph is a Senior Automation and Tools Engineer at
HPE[10] working on the OpenStack[11] Infrastructure team. She is a
former member of the Ubuntu Community Council[12] and is a co-author of
the 8th and upcoming 9th editions of The Official Ubuntu Book[13]. Here
in San Francisco, she serves on the Board of Directors for
Partimus.org[14], a non-profit providing Linux-based computers to area
education and low-income housing centers in need.
1. http://princessleia.com/
2. http://www.ubuntu.com/
3. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/XenialXerus/ReleaseNotes
4. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LTS
5. http://community.ubuntu.com/
6. http://www.canonical.com/
7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemd
8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS
9. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snappy_(package_manager)
10. https://www.hpe.com/
11. https://www.openstack.org/
12. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CommunityCouncil
13. http://www.informit.com/store/official-ubuntu-book-9780133905397
14. http://partimus.org/
------------------------------
Shape AT&T Tech Expo July 15 & 16 @ AT&T Park (free with coupon code ...)
http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-talk-balug.org/2016-June/000042.html
------------------------------
O'Reilly - free "reports" (mini-books)
http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-talk-balug.org/2016-June/000043.html
------------------------------
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_publicationshttp://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-talk-balug.org/2016-March/000035.html
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).
------------------------------
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. (primary
volunteer on this has been buried under some other stuff to attend to,
so taking a bit longer.) 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.
------------------------------
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!)
------------------------------
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
------------------------------