BALUG: 2012-02-21: OpenPhoto Project - Jaisen Mathai; & other BALUG news
------------------------------
items, details further below: 2012-02-21: OpenPhoto Project - Jaisen Mathai 2012-03-20: Double-Take Availability for Linux by Vision Solutions book(s), CDs, and other "door prizes", etc. BALUG system upgrades & volunteering to help BALUG
------------------------------
BALUG is proud to announce, for our 2012-02-21 meeting we have:
Data portability, the next frontier, and The OpenPhoto Project[1], by Jaisen Mathai[2]
Putting users in control of their data means separating data storage from application logic. Doing so opens up possibilities which were previously impossible. Open data will do for the Internet what open source did for computing.
Jaisen Mathai[2] is the founder of The OpenPhoto Project[1]: an open source, decentralized and federated photo platform. Prior to starting the project Jaisen was an engineer at [3]Yahoo! and before that he co-founded a photo startup.
The OpenPhoto Project was accepted into Mozilla[4]'s WebFWD[8] program. Prior to joining WebFWD the project raised $25,000 on Kickstarter[9]. All of the source code is available on Github[10].
You can find more information about: The OpenPhoto Project at: http://theopenphotoproject.org/ and Jaisen Mathai at: http://www.jaisenmathai.com/
1. http://theopenphotoproject.org/ 2. http://www.jaisenmathai.com/ 3. http://www.yahoo.com/ 4. http://www.mozilla.org/ 8. https://webfwd.org/ 9. http://www.kickstarter.com/ 10. https://github.com/
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, February 21st, 2012 2012-02-21
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).
------------------------------
BALUG is proud to announce, for our 2012-03-20 meeting we have:
A technical presentation by Vision Solutions[1] on Double-Take Availability for Linux[2]. Double-Take Availability for Linux is a continuous, byte-level replication and failover software product. As it can monitor changes to any data files, it can protect any application - DB or others.
The replication is from source to target server. Each server is licensed and has the software installed. Configuration of what data to replicate and what failover parameters are to be used is accomplished by a universal console that can run on any Windows platform - PC, laptop, server, etc. The console doesn't need to run on the servers being protected. Source and target servers can be in the same room or across any geographic distance - over any TCP/IP network.
As Availability is considered a high availability product, RPOs are typically in the near-zero range because the data changes are captured and transmitted continuously. RTO (or failover) is typically in the seconds to minutes range.
Vision Solutions currently supports most releases of RHEL, Oracle Linux, CentOS, SUSE with the Ext and XFS file systems. These distributions are supported on physical and virtual environments.
Here is a short data sheet on the product: http://pdf.visionsolutions.com/pdfs/us-double-take-availability-for-linux.pd... and website has several white papers also: http://www.visionsolutions.com/Popular-Resources/Whitepapers.aspx
1. http://www.visionsolutions.com/ 2. http://www.visionsolutions.com/Products/DT-Avail-Lin.aspx
------------------------------
book(s), CDs, and other "door prizes", etc.
Book(s) - from No Starch Press, we received for review: _The Linux Command Line_ A Complete Introduction by William E. Shotts, Jr. January 2012, 480 pp. ISBN: 978-1-59327-389-7 http://www.nostarch.com/tlcl.htm
Additional goodies we'll have at the meeting (at least the following):
CDs, etc. - have a peek here: http://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=balug:cds_and_images_etc We do also have some additional give-away items, and may have "door prizes".
------------------------------
BALUG system upgrades & volunteering to help BALUG
BALUG has some system upgrades (mostly operating system upgrades) coming in its future. For most of the information on that, have a look at posts on or after 2012-01-22 on the SF-LUG[1] list[2] with the string: SF-LUG & BALUG: System OS upgrades in the Subject: header
Want to volunteer to help out BALUG? (quite a variety of opportunities exist, including the above) Drop us a note at: balug-contact@balug.org Or come talk to us at a BALUG meeting.
1. http://www.sf-lug.com/ http://www.sf-lug.org/ 2. http://linuxmafia.com/mailman/listinfo/sf-lug
------------------------------