BALUG Tu 2013-07-16 Linux & Virtual Machines, etc. - Michael Paoli; & other BALUG items
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items, details further below: 2013-07-16: BALUG: Linux & Virtual Machines, etc. - Michael Paoli Books!, CDs/DVDs/ISOs, and other "door prizes", etc. Debian meeting, 20th birthday/anniversary celebration (and fundraiser) 2013-08-14 volunteering to help BALUG Twitter https://twitter.com/#!/BALUG_org
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For our 2013-07-16 BALUG meeting, we're proud to present: Linux & Virtual Machines, etc. - Michael Paoli
Michael Paoli will be giving presentation and demonstration of virtual machine (VM) technologies. This will include information on and demonstrations with qemu-kvm[1], qemu[2], libvirt[3] and VirtualBox[4], and also information on Xen[5], VMware[6] and additional virtualization technologies and possibly additional demonstration bits.
Michael Paoli has been administering virtual machines on Linux for over 5 years, including VMware, Xen, KVM/qemu-kvm/QEMU and VirtualBox, and has used virtual machine technologies and virtual technologies many additional years. He's been administering Linux for 15 years, Unix for over a quarter century, and first used Unix about a third of a century ago.
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_machine 2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel-based_Virtual_Machine 3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qemu 4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libvirt 5. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VirtualBox 6. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xen 7. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vmware
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, July 16th, 2013 2013-07-16
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 and helping to defray BALUG costs such treating our speakers to dinner).
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Books!, CDs/DVDs, and other "door prizes", etc.
Goodies we'll have at the BALUG meeting (at least the following):
Books!: Nagios: Building Enterprise-Grade Monitoring Infrastructures for Systems and Networks, 2nd Edition MySQL, 5th Edition Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment, 3rd Edition Oracle Solaris 11 System Administration Thanks to Pearson's User Group program for providing these review copies. Details on these books, please see: http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-talk-balug.org/2013-July/005034.html
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.
We typically also have at least a few other items up for grabs.
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Debian - meeting, 20th birthday/anniversary celebration (and fundraiser) at the next Bay Area Debian (BAD) meeting 2013-08-14, see: http://bad.debian.net/list/2013-July/003558.html
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volunteering to help BALUG
Want to volunteer to help out BALUG? Quite a variety of opportunities* Drop us a note at: balug-contact@balug.org Or come talk to us at a BALUG meeting. *e.g.: o assist on publicity o assist on speaker coordination/procurement, etc. o webmastering o archivist/history/retrieval/etc. o Linux Systems Administration (e.g. do/assist/learn, with/under some quite experienced and skilled Linux systems administrators). o chief/assistant cat herder o and other various/miscellaneous tasks BALUG "ought" to be doing or would be good to do (feel free to bring in ideas!)
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Twitter - you can also follow BALUG on Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/BALUG_org
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