The Linux Users' Group of Davis (LUGOD) will be holding the following meeting:
Monday
July 20, 2015
7:00pm - 9:00pm
Presentation:
Some MySQL tricks -- an open discussion
presented by Bill Kendrick, CTO, Smashwords, Inc.
MySQL is the world's most widely used open source relational database
management system (RDBMS), and second most used of all RDBMSes, after
Oracle. Over the years at Smashwords, we've come up with a number of
methods to help address performance problems, including materialized
views, caching, slave databases, denormalization, historical tables,
and more.
This talk will briefly discuss some of these things, but since MySQL
is 20 years old, and SQL in general first appeared over 40 years ago,
the topic is quite large. Therefore, this meeting will be held as an
open discussion, with the audience invited to share their thoughts
and experience on the subject!
About the speaker:
Bill Kendrick is CTO of Smashwords, Inc. an online ebook publishing
and distribution service. He spends a lot of his time at the mysql>
prompt, but makes no claim at expertise.
About Smashwords:
Launched in 2008, Smashwords is a self-serve system where independent
authors, publishers, and literary agents alike upload and manage their
ebooks, which are sold at the Smashwords website, and distributed to
numerous online retailers, including Apple iBooks Store, Barnes and
Noble, Kobo, Oyster, Scribd, OverDrive, and more.
This meeting will be held at:
Explorit Nature Center
3141 5th Street
Davis, CA 95616
For more details on this meeting, visit:
http://www.lugod.org/meeting/
For maps, directions, public transportation schedules, etc., visit:
http://www.lugod.org/meeting/explorit/
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About LUGOD:
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The Linux Users' Group of Davis is a 501(c)7 non-profit organization
dedicated to the Linux computer operating system and other Open Source
and Free Software.
Since 1999, LUGOD has held regular meetings with guest speakers
in Davis, California, as well as other events in Davis and the greater
Sacramento region. Events are always free and open to the public.
You can 'like' LUGOD on Facebook at:
https://www.facebook.com/LinuxUsersGroupOfDavis
join the LUGOD group on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/lugod/
and find us on LinkedIn at: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=35879
Please visit our website for more details: http://www.lugod.org/
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Bill Kendrick
pr(a)lugod.org
Public Relations Officer
Linux Users' Group of Davis
http://www.lugod.org/
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Re: Thu 6/18: Join me at Sandstorm meetup & learn about app permissions and self-hosted web apps
--- asheesh(a)sandstorm.io wrote:
>> At first glance, there would appear to be some tragic
>> irony in promoting "self-hosted web apps" via meetup.com. (-:
Extensive cross-posting and over-promoting the very same "self-hosted web apps" on various online venues could also be considered bad form ;/ http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/sf-lug/2015q2/011245.html
--- asheesh(a)sandstorm.io wrote:
>> ...But I agree that the Meetup.com privacy policy could be an issue.
>> If that is an issue for anyone, .....
Anyone else consider the possibility that major issues with Meetup.com, a.k.a. Meetup, Inc, do not rest solely with its Privacy Policy?
http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Essays/meetup.html
(hint: a recommended read)
-A
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Re: Thu 6/18: Join me at Sandstorm meetup & learn about app permissions and self-hosted web apps
--- asheesh(a)sandstorm.io wrote:
>> TL;DR: If you are interested in open source web apps, you
>> should join me at the Sandstorm meetup next Thursday & learn
>> about an open source project that makes open source web apps
>> easier to run and more secure.
>> RSVP: http://www.meetup.com/Sandstorm-SF-Bay-Area/events/223113702/
>> (If you can't make it to the event, sign up there to receive
>> notifications of other events.)
Nice event possibility, although there are possibly one or more persons interested in this event who -- for whatever reason(s); www.meetup.com/privacy -- will decidedly NOT subscribe to Meetup.com for the purposes of RSVP'ing and/or notifications.
>> I'm on the Sandstorm team, and we have a meetup at 6 PM in SF on Thu 6/18:
>> http://www.meetup.com/Sandstorm-SF-Bay-Area/events/223113702/
Again, this event is intentionally listed as going through Meetup.com.
Just saying....
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Hi fellow bay area Linux users!
TL;DR: If you are interested in open source web apps, you should join me at
the Sandstorm meetup next Thursday & learn about an open source project
that makes open source web apps easier to run and more secure. RSVP:
http://www.meetup.com/Sandstorm-SF-Bay-Area/events/223113702/
(If you can't make it to the event, sign up there to receive notifications
of other events.)
Sandstorm is an open source package manager for web apps, and it runs on
Linux systems. It makes it easy to start up Etherpad (or any other packaged
app) with a click. You can read more + try the demo here:
https://sandstorm.io/
Security-wise, it takes the Google Docs sharing model and applies it to
entire app instances, resulting in web apps that are private by default,
insulating you from app bugs. Usability-wise, it takes 120 seconds to
install and automatically updates itself.
I'm on the Sandstorm team, and we have a meetup at 6 PM in SF on Thu 6/18:
http://www.meetup.com/Sandstorm-SF-Bay-Area/events/223113702/
This meetup features a talk about the Sandstorm app permissions & sharing
model (which for security nerds, is based on object-capability security) by
David Renshaw. There are also and a hands-on session to see how to install
Sandstorm on a server, and a hands-on session on how to package apps for
it. Any web app that runs on Linux can work on Sandstorm.
P.S. More on our security hardening of apps here:
https://github.com/sandstorm-io/sandstorm/wiki/Security-Practices-Overview
P.P.S. I'm also sending a note like this to sf-lug; semi-sorry if you see
it twice.
P.P.P.S. Sorry for the startup-tastic .io domain name. It really is free,
open source software, despite the domain name in the Indian Ocean.