BALUG: 2016-09-20: letsencrypt.org/SSL/TLS dicussion, 2016-10-18: Fred Moyer - Better service monitoring through histograms; & other BALUG News
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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
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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@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.
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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
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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).
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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.
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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@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!)
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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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