BALUG news!: 08-19 mtg., 09-16 Todd Varland of AWS, 10-21 New Venue! - BALUG-Announce

1 Aug 2014


      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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