REMINDER: BALUG TODAY: Stories! / Open Mic!, Michael Paoli, ...

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items, details further below: TODAY: BALUG 2014-06-17: Stories! / Open Mic!, Michael Paoli, ... slides, etc.: 2014-05-20 Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS giveaways (Books!/CDs/DVDs, ...) volunteering to help BALUG (and add to your experience & resume!) Twitter https://twitter.com/#!/BALUG_org

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For our 2014-06-17 BALUG meeting we're proud to present: Stories! / Open Mic!, Michael Paoli, ...

Come see and hear - and share - interesting stories from the Linux/Open Source/IT trenches! Troubleshooting, oddball problems, triumphs, defeats, silly, odd and strange happenings, experiences, and observations, things companies/employers/vendors have done well and great at, messed up, or had unintended consequences - good or bad, things peers have done, noteworthy behaviors seen in software, hardware, persons or organizations, etc.

Michael Paoli will host and also tell some stories. Michael has worked with Linux and Open Source in excess of 15 years - not to mention doing it lots for fun too, and has worked in IT and electronics for decades.

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, June 17th, 2014 2014-06-17 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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Missed last month's meeting, or want to review the "slides" or check out additional bits? From last month's BALUG meeting: 2014-05-20 Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" have a look here: http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-talk-balug.org/2014-May/000576.html and/or here: http://www.archive.balug.org/2014/2014-05-20/

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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! Have a peek here: http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-talk-balug.org/2014-February/005218.h... At present, we still have one of the electronic versions of: A Practical Guide to Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux, 7th Edition

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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