BALUG Tu 2011-03-15: Jack Deslippe on Developing for Android; & other BALUG news
In this issue (details further below): 2011-03-15 Tu: BALUG meeting Tu: Jack Deslippe on Developing for Android Debian/Linux/Ubuntu/... CDs 2011-05-17: Cloud.com's Mark Hinkle, VP of Community, on: Open Source Solutions for Building and Deploying Private and Public Clouds Twitter! - follow BALUG on Twitter: BALUG_org
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Bay Area Linux User Group (BALUG) meeting Tuesday 6:30 P.M. 2011-03-15
Please RSVP if you're planning to come (see further below).
For our Tuesday 6:30 P.M. 2011-03-15 meeting, we're proud to present:
Jack Deslippe[1] on Developing for Android[2]
It is has become clear over the last few years that mobile devices such as smartphones, "superphones" and tablets are more than just a passing fad - they are quickly becoming the new primary goto devices for the public's computing and connecting needs. This mobile revolution has given Linux[3] & open-source a second chance at being the OS of choice for the average end-user. In particular, the Linux powered, open-source, Android OS[2] has recently emerged as the number one selling OS on mobile devices in the US.
Jack will give a brief introduction to what Android is (and is not) and will discuss the opportunities and challenges of developing for Android. Finally, he will walk us through developing your first Android application on an Ubuntu[4] desktop and talk about some of the development lessons that he learned the hard way.
Jack Deslippe is computational physics Ph.D. student candidate at UC Berkeley[5]. He spends his weekdays programming for some of the largest super-computers in the world and his weekends developing for some of the smallest computers (Android phones). He has been using Linux for 10 years on the desktop and server and, 2 years ago, founded the Berkeley Linux Users Group[6]. He is an active member of the Ubuntu-California local team[7] and a developer-of/contributor-to various desktop Linux projects. You can learn more about Jack at jdeslippe.com[1].
1. http://jdeslippe.com/ 2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_(operating_system) 3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux 4. http://www.ubuntu.com/ 5. http://www.berkeley.edu/ 6. http://www.berkeleylug.com/ 7. http://loco.ubuntu.com/teams/ubuntu-california
See also a bit further below for some additional goodies we'll have at this meeting (CDs, etc.)
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 the Four Seas Restaurant plan the meal and dining arrangements and such.
Meeting Details...
6:30pm Tuesday, March 15th, 2011 2011-03-15
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, 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 treating our speakers to dinner).
Additional goodies we'll have at this meeting (at least the following):
We'll have various Linux(Debian/Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Fedora/...) CDs available at the 2011-03-15 BALUG meeting (and likely also future meetings as long as our supply lasts/continues), most notably presently including: Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.0 "Squeeze" - latest "stable"(/production) released 2011-02-06: Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.0 "Squeeze" - Official i386 CD Binary-1 Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.0 "Squeeze" - Official amd64 CD Binary-1 Ubuntu 10.10 Desktop CD PC (Intel x86) i386 Kubuntu 10.10 Desktop Edition Fedora 14 i686 And other editions/releases/flavors Thanks to Grant Bowman and the Ubuntu California Team and others for getting CDs to us.
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For our Tuesday 6:30 P.M. 2011-05-17 meeting, we're proud to present:
Cloud.com[1]'s Mark Hinkle, VP of Community, on: Open Source Solutions for Building and Deploying Private and Public Clouds
As cloud computing has moved beyond hype, becoming a true enterprise-ready tool that cuts IT costs and fits a variety of use cases, IT is seeking new ways to efficiently and cost-effectively build, deploy and manage clouds. Cloud.com's CloudStack Community Edition, available under the GPLv3 license, is an open sourced Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) software platform that simplifies the creation and management of public and private clouds. This platform seamlessly integrates with existing data center infrastructure without the need for modifications, special-purpose hardware or reconfiguration, making it possible for users to instantly realize the benefits of the cloud.
CloudStack Community Edition delivers several benefits including:
o Massive computing power - providing virtually unlimited CPUs on-demand, as required and billed by actual usage in public, private or hybrid deployments. o Powerful API - Easily build, integrate and use applications based on common cloud APIs like Amazon's Web Services API, Citrix Cloud CenterT (C3) API and the vCloud API o Secure Cloud Computing - Isolating compute, network, and storage resources by user, location and deployment. o Comprehensive Service Management - Defining, metering, deploying and managing services to be consumed within your cloud. o Automated resource distribution - delivering capabilities to automate the distribution of compute, network and storage while adhering to defined policies on load balancing, data security and compliance. o Real-time visibility and reporting capabilities - ensuring compliance, security and comprehensive metering customer usage. o Simplified management - empowering administrators to offset the daily management of services to the end users with a powerful self-service portal that gives the day-to-day management tasks to the user, enabling administrators to focus on more business critical issues while giving the client more control and agility over the service by providing a catalog of custom built and pre-defined machine images.
This session will provide best practices for building clouds, and a technical overview and demonstration of CloudStack.
Mark Hinkle is Cloud.com's Vice President of Community where he is responsible for driving all of the community efforts around the Cloud.com's leading open source, cloud computing software and ecosystem. Before that he was the force behind the Zenoss Core open source management projects adoption and community involvement, growing community membership to over 100,000 members. He is a co-founder of both the Open Source Management Consortium and the Desktop Linux Consortium, has served as Editor-in-Chief for both LinuxWorld Magazine and Enterprise Open Source Magazine, and authored the book, "Windows to Linux Business Desktop Migration" (Thomson, 2006). Mark has also held executive positions at a number of technology start-ups, including Earthlink, (previously MindSpring)--where he was the head of the technical support organization recognized by PC Computing and PC World as the best in the industry--Win4Lin and Emu Software.
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Twitter! - follow BALUG on Twitter: BALUG_org
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