News & BALUG 2006-08-15: Don Armstrong of Debian: Debian: Why? How? What next?
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2006-08-15 BALUG: Don Armstrong of Debian: Debian: Why? How? What next? ...
For our August 15th, 2006 BALUG meeting, we have:
Don Armstrong on Debian: Why? How? What next?
Why you should consider using Debian, some tips on how to actually use
Debian, with a look into how Debian actually got where it is and where
Debian is going in the future, both for Etch, and beyond.
Don Armstrong is a Debian Developer who is active in end user support,
package maintenance, legal issues affecting Free Software, and works
on the Debian Bug Tracking System. He is also a graduate student at
the University of California, Riverside in the Cell, Molecular and
Developmental Biology program, where he uses Debian in his research.
Some keysignings might also occur (we had a bit of an impromptu
keysigning at our July meeting, and when and where Debian folks
gather there's also an increased probability of keysignings
occurring). Also, there will probably be some keysignings at/around
LinuxWorld (see also LinuxWorld, below). Also see The San
Francisco Bay Area keysigning information and discussion list
(publicly archived) for latest developments/plans/announcements.
http://www.debian.org/http://www.donarmstrong.com/http://www.balug.org/http://zer0.org/mailman/listinfo/ba-keysign/
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2006-08-14 - 2006-08-17 LinuxWorld Conference and Expo.
Free "Exhibits Only" pass registration is still available through
2006-08-13. An "Exhibits Only" pass includes for free:
3-day access to the LinuxWorld Exhibit Hall
Keynotes
Feature Presentations
Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) sessions*
*Please also note, if you're going to LinuxWorld Birds-of-a-Feather
(BoF) Meetings on 2006-08-15 and you want to make the BALUG meeting,
please try to depart LinuxWorld by approximately 6:40 P.M. to make it
to BALUG at least approximately on time.
Some keysignings will almost certainly be arranged at LinuxWorld (see
also The San Francisco Bay Area keysigning information and discussion
list (publicly archived) for latest developments/plans/announcements).
http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/http://www.balug.org/http://zer0.org/mailman/listinfo/ba-keysign/
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2006-08-16 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM BoF: Network, Device, and Environment Monitoring
(BoF at LinuxWorld - see also LinuxWorld, above)
Informal "meet and greet" reception at GroundWork's offices after the BoF
http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-talk-balug.org/2006-July/003780.htmlhttp://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12SFO06A/conference/tracksessi…
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2006-08-19 Picn*x15 - registration is still open - at least last I checked
http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-talk-balug.org/2006-August/003790.ht…http://www.linuxpicnic.org/
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2006-09-19 BALUG meeting - don't have a specific speaker/presentation
confirmed yet, but even if we end up without, that doesn't stop us
from having good, interesting meetings (good folks, good food, good
conversation, interesting questions/observations/"answers"/etc.).
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2006-10-17 BALUG: Patrick McGovern of Splunk
For our October 17th, 2006 BALUG meeting, we have: Splunk, a company
that claims to take the SH out of IT: TOPIC: Splunk: Illuminating the
issues in your Data Center. SPEAKER: Patrick McGovern BACKGROUND:
Splunk, based in San Francisco, makes a web-based AJAX-enhanced
search engine that allows system administrators and programmers to
search all their incoming log files in real time (any type of log
files: Sendmail, Cisco, MySQL, syslog, etc.) with a browser. It's a
powerful tool to allow people to 'see' inside their systems as they
are running. ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Patrick is the Chief Community
Splunker at Splunk, Inc. Prior to joining Splunk, Patrick McGovern
managed SourceForge.net for five years for VA Software / OSTG.
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2006-11-21 BALUG meeting
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http://www.balug.org/
Picn*x 15 Announcement
The Picn*x 15 Committee cordially invites all the friends of open source software to a picnic to be held Saturday August 19, 2006 from 11AM - 5PM at Sunnyvale's Baylands Park. This years theme celebrates the tremendous progress made by the open source community over the last fifteen years, including, but not limited to, FreeBSD, GNU, Apache, MySQL, PERL, Python, PHP, OpenOffice, GIMP, and of course Linux. There are over 70,000 open source projects. We truly live in a new world.
August 19 is the Saturday following the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo in San Francisco. The Picn*x 15 Committee encourages Conference attendees to stay over for the picnic. A large out-of-town turnout is expected since this year's Expo celebrates the 15th anniversary of Linux. Early registration is advised.
For your inner geek, the picnic has activities like installing and troubleshooting software on your laptop, experimenting with wireless communication, and visits to local hardware stores. For your inner child there is acoustic music, Frisbee, soccer, bocce ball, softball, volleyball and juggling.
Participating organizations include: BayLISA, The Bay Area Large Installation System Administrators; The Linux User Group of Davis; The South Bay Community Network; The Silicon Valley Linux User Group; and The Silicon Valley Wireless Users and Experimenters.
The picnic is free to attendees, but reservations are required. Many thanks to our sponsors, including Mirapoint, Raw Bandwidth, BayLISA, and Splunk.
See http://www.linuxpicnic.org for additional information.
Picn*x 15 Committee
BALUG 2006-08-15: (correction/update)
Turns out we made a scheduling error, so for our 2006-08-15 meeting,
at the moment we don't have a speaker/presentation lined up, but we're
working to change that. Patrick McGovern of Splunk will probably be
presenting at a later BALUG meeting date (probably also not
on 2006-09-19, but likely 2006-10-17 or subsequent).
With or without a formal speaker/presentation for the 2006-08-15
meeting, it should still be an interesting and exiting meeting (good
food, good folks, good conversation), and it's also one of the days
LinuxWorld is in San Francisco, so we may draw a larger and more
varied crowd to our meeting.
If you have a contact/lead for a talk/presentation (especially 2006-08-15)
you can drop an e-mail note to me and also the "speaker" contact found
on the BALUG web site.
Details on meeting time, location, cost (for dinner), etc. are
available on the BALUG web site:
http://www.balug.org/