BALUG: meeting TOMORROW!: Tu 2018-02-20 discussion topics: md RAID, Meltdown/Spectre, ...; & other BALUG News

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items, details further below: BALUG: meeting TOMORROW!: Tu 2018-02-20 discussion topics: md RAID Meltdown/Spectre/Speculative Execution, ... giveaways (Books/publications, CDs/DVDs, ...) help BALUG! :-) - volunteering, venue, ... Twitter https://twitter.com/#!/BALUG_org

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For our 2018-02-20 BALUG meeting Meltdown/Spectre/Speculative Execution, ...

At least presently, we don't have any particularly formal presentation lined up for this meeting, but we do have some suggested discussion topics: o md/mdadm/Multiple Device driver aka Linux Software RAID o Meltdown/Spectre/Speculative Execution

If that sounds a bit similar to last month, well, it is ... we had so much additional/other exciting stuff happening last month https://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-talk/2018-February/000145.html https://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-talk/2018-February/000146.html we only partly made it to md/mdadm ... and didn't get to Meltdown/Spectre/... at all. In any case, feel free to also come and bring your own topics, questions, etc. Good discussions to be had!

We also manage to sometimes secure/confirm a speaker too late for us to announce or fully publicize the speaker (that's happened at least twice in the past). Got questions, answers, and/or opinions? We typically have some expert(s) and/or relative expert(s) present to cover Linux and related topic areas. Want to hear some interesting discussions on Linux and other topics? Show up at the meeting, and feel free to bring an agenda if you wish. Want to help ensure BALUG has speakers/presentations lined up for future meetings? Help refer speakers to us and/or volunteer to be one of the speaker coordinators. Great food and people, and interesting conversations to be had.

Please RSVP to rsvp@balug.org if you're planning to attend, and also note our revised RSVP policy further below.

Meeting kicks off at 6:30 P.M. - we start with meet and greet and chat and such, then proceed with dining around 7:00 P.M. for dinner - please arrive before 7:00 P.M. if you want to join us for dinner.

RSVP

Please RSVP if you're planning to attend. To do so please e-mail us a note to rsvp@balug.org indicating meeting date. If you'll be bringing additional guest(s) please let us know total number of folks you're RSVPing for. Also please let us know any special requirements or concerns you may have (e.g. if you have any particular dietary considerations, so that we might possibly be able to accommodate you, or if you won't be dining with us but do wish to otherwise join our meeting).

6:30pm Tuesday, February 20th, 2018 2018-02-20 Henry's Hunan Restaurant 110 Natoma St. (between 2nd & New Montgomery) San Francisco, CA 94105-3704 1-415-546-4999 http://henryshunan.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 $20.00 range, and commonly around $15.00 to $17.00. 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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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 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).

Books and other titles! have a look/read here: https://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=balug:books_and_publications

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help BALUG! :-) - volunteering, venue ...

You can do useful and cool stuff volunteering to help BALUG.

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) o assist on speaker coordination/procurement, etc. o chief/assistant cat herder 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