BALUG news!: 08-19 mtg., 09-16 Todd Varland of AWS, 10-21 New Venue!
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items, details further below: 2014-08-19 BALUG meeting - next to last at our historic meeting spot! 2014-09-16 Todd Varland of Amazon's Amazon Web Services (AWS) 2014-10-21 New venue starting in October! giveaways (CDs/DVDs, ...) volunteering to help BALUG (and add to your experience & resume!) Twitter https://twitter.com/#!/BALUG_org
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For our 2014-08-19 BALUG meeting, at least presently we don't have a specific speaker/presentation lined up for this meeting, but oh my gosh, next-to-last meeting at our historic meeting venue location and the VERY LAST YET UNFILLED SPEAKER/PRESENTER SLOT FOR THIS HISTORIC LOCATION! So, got a lead for speaker presnter? Never givevn a talk/presentation at BALUG and want to do so at the last still open slot we have for this historic location? Or given talk/presentation(s) at BALUG before, and would like to do so again before we say goodbye to this venue? Well, now's your chance - let us know! Email us at: balug-speaker-coordinators@balug.org In all cases, we're sure to have an interesting and exciting meeting, so be sure to come!
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, August 19th, 2014 2014-08-19 Four Seas Restaurant http://www.fourseasr.com/ 731 Grant Ave. San Francisco, CA 94108 Easy Transit Access: The MUNI 1 line stops half a block away. For folks on BART, the MUNI 1 starts about a block from Embarcadero BART. Trip planning: http://www.511.org/ 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).
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For our 2014-09-16 BALUG meeting, we're proud to announce we have: Todd Varland of Amazon[1]'s Amazon Web Services (AWS)[2]. Watch for more details on that to appear on our web site and upcomming announcements.
1. http://www.amazon.com/ 2. http://aws.amazon.com/
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2014-10-21 New venue starting in October!
The Four Seas Restaurant lost their lease. So their last day of business there is 2014-09-27, and our last meeting there will be 2014-09-16. We certainly want to thank The Four Seas Restaurant for their wonderful hospitality, dining, and a great place for us to meet over these many years! BALUG mas been meeting there since our first meeting back in October 1997. By my count, through September, I believe BALUG will have held 186 meetings in total at The Four Seas Restaurant, and The Four Seas Restaurant has been in business there since the 1930s! We've had multiple meetings there with over 100 attendees, including Linus Torvalds, Mark Shuttleworth, and many other speakers and highly notable speakers over the years - and we want to thank them all too! ... and continue meeting!
And continue meeting BALUG will! 3rd Tuesdays, per usuaul - but with change of venue starting 2014-10-21. Where will we be? We can certainly use your help on leads for venue! Certainly feel free to discus on our "talk[1]" list. See also the earlier item[2] on our announce list that gives fair overview of what we're hopefully looking to find as for venue. And IF YOU HAVE LEADS ON SPECIFIC VENUE(s) BE SURE TO DROP US A NOTE!: balug-contact@balug.org - and can of course also mention/discuss it on our "talk[1]" list. And much thanks for leads/contacts, useful ideas, etc. that will get us to our future venue(s)!
And watch the web site and "announce" list for updates - I'm hoping we'll have venue figured out fairly soon, but in most any case, I expect we'll have that finalized - at least for our October meeting, some weeks or more in advance.
1. http://lists.balug.org/listinfo.cgi/balug-talk-balug.org 2. http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-admin-balug.org/2014-July/001504.html
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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 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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volunteering to help BALUG (and add to your resume/experience)
Not only can you do useful and cool stuff volunteering to help BALUG, but it can also be a way to gain useful and practical experience, and could also be something to add to or round out one's resume.
There a quite a variety of opportunities to help BALUG. Come talk to us at a meeting and/or drop us a note at: balug-contact@balug.org These opportunities may include, among other possibilities: o assist on speaker coordination/procurement, etc. o assist on publicity o chief/assistant cat herder o Linux Systems Administration (e.g. do/assist/learn, with/under some quite experienced and skilled Linux systems administrators). o webmaster, assistant webmaster, designer, graphic artist o archivist/history/retrieval/etc. o and other various/miscellaneous tasks BALUG "ought" to be doing or would be good to do (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@balug.org
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