BALUG TOMORROW: Tu 2013-03-19: Stefano Maffulli on OpenStack; 2013-04-16: Wikimedia Foundation; & other BALUG News
REMINDER, or in case you didn't see it earlier: BALUG TOMORROW Tu 2013-03-19: Stefano Maffulli on OpenStack
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items, details further below: BALUG TOMORROW Tu 2013-03-19: Stefano Maffulli on OpenStack BALUG Tu 2013-04-16: Wikimedia Foundation CDs/DVDs, and other "door prizes", etc. volunteering to help BALUG Twitter https://twitter.com/#!/BALUG_org
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Bay Area Linux User Group (BALUG) meeting Tuesday 6:30 P.M. 2013-03-19
For our 2013-03-19 BALUG meeting, we're proud to present:
Stefano Maffulli[1] on OpenStack[2] - Open source software for building private and public clouds.
Stafano's talk/presentation to include at least: An overview of OpenStack The history of the project, how it started, what problems it tries to solve, who's participating in the development of OpenStack and where the OpenStack Foundation[3] wants to take it.
About OpenStack: OpenStack is a global collaboration of developers and cloud computing technologists producing the ubiquitous open source cloud computing platform for public and private clouds. The project aims to deliver solutions for all types of clouds by being simple to implement, massively scalable, and feature rich. The technology consists of a series of interrelated projects[4] delivering various components for a cloud infrastructure solution.
About Stefano Maffulli: As OpenStack community manager, Stefano built his career around Free Software and open source: from pre-sales engineer and product manager at Italian GNU/Linux distribution MadeInLinux[5] to Italian Chancellor of the Free Software Foundation Europe[6], where he also created the FSFE Fellowship participation program. Later as community manager of leading mobile open source sync solution Funambol[7], his efforts boosted downloads and bolstered enterprise contributions. For Twitter[8], he led efforts to expand in the Italian market. In his spare time, he builds furniture and is learning how to sail in the San Francisco Bay.
If you have a specific request or question for Stefano to cover, mention it on the BALUG-Talk List[9][10], or drop me a note at Michael.Paoli@cal.berkeley.edu and I'll pass it along.
1. http://www.openstack.org/blog/author/stefano/ 2. http://www.openstack.org/ 3. http://www.openstack.org/foundation/ 4. http://www.openstack.org/projects/ 5. http://web.archive.org/web/20031014062555/http://www.madeinlinux.com/ 6. http://fsfe.org/index.en.html 7. http://www.funambol.com/ 8. https://twitter.com/ 9. http://lists.balug.org/listinfo.cgi/balug-talk-balug.org 10. http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-talk-balug.org/2013-March/005017.html
Please RSVP if you're planning to come (see further below).
So, if you'd like to join us please RSVP to:
rsvp@balug.org
**Why RSVP??**
Well, don't worry we won't turn you away, but the RSVPs really help BALUG and the Four Seas Restaurant plan the meal and meeting, and with sufficient attendance, they also help ensure that we'll be able to eat upstairs in the private banquet room.
Meeting Details...
6:30pm Tuesday, March 19th, 2012 2013-03-19
Four Seas Restaurant http://www.fourseasr.com/ 731 Grant Ave. San Francisco, CA 94108 Easy PARKING: Portsmouth Square Garage at 733 Kearny: http://www.sfpsg.com/
Cost: The meetings are always free, but for dinner, for your gift of $13 cash or more, we give you a gift of dinner - joining us for a yummy family-style Chinese dinner - tax and tip included (your gift also helps in our patronizing the restaurant venue and helping to defray BALUG costs such as treating our speakers to dinner).
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For our 2013-04-16 BALUG meeting, we're proud to present:
The Wikimedia Foundation[1]
The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. is a nonprofit charitable organization dedicated to encouraging the growth, development and distribution of free, multilingual content, and to providing the full content of these wiki-based projects to the public free of charge. The Wikimedia Foundation operates some of the largest collaboratively edited reference projects in the world, including Wikipedia[2], a top-ten internet property.
1. http://wikimediafoundation.org/ 2. http://www.wikipedia.org/
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CDs/DVDs, and other "door prizes", etc.
Goodies we'll have at the BALUG meeting (at least the following):
CDs/DVDs, 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.
We've also got at least a few other miscellaneous items up for grabs.
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volunteering to help BALUG
Want to volunteer to help out BALUG? Quite a variety of opportunities* Drop us a note at: balug-contact@balug.org Or come talk to us at a BALUG meeting. *e.g.: o assist on publicity o assist on speaker coordination/procurement, etc. o webmastering o archivist/history/retrieval/etc. o Linux Systems Administration (e.g. do/assist/learn, with/under some quite experienced and skilled Linux systems administrators). o chief/assistant cat herder o and other various/miscellaneous tasks BALUG "ought" to be doing or would be good to do (feel free to bring in ideas!)
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Twitter - you can also follow BALUG on Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/BALUG_org
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