From secretary at baylisa.org Wed Apr 6 16:21:35 2011 From: secretary at baylisa.org (Robert Novak) Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 16:21:35 -0700 Subject: Next BayLISA meeting: April 21, 7:30pm, release and package management Message-ID: Hi all, === GENERAL MEETING === I'm pleased to announce that Philip Hollenback and Jordan Sissel will be speaking at this month's BayLISA general meeting. It's TWO WEEKS from tomorrow, April 21, at 7:30pm. We're moving to 2025 Stierlin Ct, another LinkedIN building, so don't come to the wrong place. * Phil Hollenback: In-Flight Mechanics Phil Hollenback will be reprising his Practice And Experience Report from LISA '11, In-Flight Mechanics: A Software Package Management Conversion Project. Phil works for Yahoo! and is also actively helping the sysadmin community by participating in the 10k Serverfault Challenge for which he's passed the halfway mark. * Jordan Sissel: fpm (Effing Package Management) Jordan Sissel will be talking about why you should build your own packages, and presenting his software for doing so, fpm. Jordan is a hacker in San Jose who spends weekdays coding on his front porch for Loggly. Spare coding cycles are spent on varied open source projects. (We will also be welcoming Jordan back in June for a live demo of his Logstash software) Loggly (www.loggly.com), Jordan's employer, will be supporting the pizza and beer efforts for this meeting. Please RSVP at http://bit.ly/hyszfA so we can plan for seating and refreshments. Alternately, you can email rsvp at baylisa.org if you can't access Meetup. === ANNOUNCE LIST === We have a baylisa-announce list for, well, announcements. It's been a bit idle lately, but I'll be starting to use it again for meeting announcements, and other infrequent announcements of events of interest to BayLISA members. Feel free to send announcements of interest to the membership to me and I will post/aggregate them. We also should have a space on the website for these announcements soon. If you are already on baylisa-announce or baylisa@, you will get baylisa-announce messages and need do nothing more. Volume should not exceed 1-2 messages a week, on average. If you are not, and have had this message forwarded to you... or if you want to get low-volume announcements on an alternate address, feel free to subscribe to baylisa-announce through majordomo. === UPCOMING MEETINGS === We have Brendan Gregg, author of the upcoming DTrace book, speaking at the May 19 meeting. Details/RSVP at http://bit.ly/gHIyFy The June 16 meeting will feature short-but-cool presentations by Doug Gourlay, Jason Dearborn, and Jordan Sissel. We will also be welcoming James T Nixon III who will demonstrate FreeNAS 8 and talk about Django under FreeBSD. Refreshments courtesy of iXsystems. Details/RSVP at http://bit.ly/hU6zKq === THAT'S IT FOR NOW === If you have any questions, comments, suggestions... feel free to drop me a note directly or email blw at baylisa.org Thanks, and happy April. Robert Novak BayLISA Secretary/Cheerleader From secretary at baylisa.org Mon Apr 18 16:05:10 2011 From: secretary at baylisa.org (Robert Novak) Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 16:05:10 -0700 Subject: Reminder: BayLISA meeting: THURSDAY April 21, 7:30pm, package management Message-ID: Hi all, === GENERAL MEETING === I'm pleased to announce that Philip Hollenback and Jordan Sissel will be speaking at this month's BayLISA general meeting. It's THIS THURSDAY, April 21, at 7:30pm. We're actually not changing buldings after all; we have a different space in the 2029 Stierlin building (same one as we've met in for a while now). * Phil Hollenback: In-Flight Mechanics Phil Hollenback will be reprising his Practice And Experience Report from LISA '11, In-Flight Mechanics: A Software Package Management Conversion Project. Phil works for Yahoo! and is also actively helping the sysadmin community by participating in the 10k Serverfault Challenge for which he's passed the halfway mark. * Jordan Sissel: fpm (Effing Package Management) Jordan Sissel will be talking about why you should build your own packages, and presenting his software for doing so, fpm. Jordan is a hacker in San Jose who spends weekdays coding on his front porch for Loggly. Spare coding cycles are spent on varied open source projects. (We will also be welcoming Jordan back in June for a live demo of his Logstash software) Loggly (www.loggly.com), Jordan's employer, will be supporting the pizza and beer efforts for this meeting. There will be a small raffle with some interesting prizes, and of course you must be present to win. Please RSVP at http://bit.ly/hyszfA so we can plan for seating and refreshments. Alternately, you can email rsvp at baylisa.org if you can't access Meetup. === BAYLISA BOARD MEETING === The board of BayLISA will meet before the general meeting on Thursday. If you're interested in getting involved with the board of directors or otherwise getting closer to the operations of BayLISA, you're invited to attend. Contact me personally to RSVP for the board meeting so we can make sure you can get in (the board sometimes meets in a different space from the general meeting, as there are fewer attendees for that part). === ANNOUNCE LIST === We have a baylisa-announce list for, well, announcements. It's been a bit idle lately, but I'll be starting to use it again for meeting announcements, and other infrequent announcements of events of interest to BayLISA members. Feel free to send announcements of interest to the membership to me and I will post/aggregate them. We also should have a space on the website for these announcements soon. If you are already on baylisa-announce or baylisa@, you will get baylisa-announce messages and need do nothing more. Volume should not exceed 1-2 messages a week, on average. If you are not, and have had this message forwarded to you... or if you want to get low-volume announcements on an alternate address, feel free to subscribe to baylisa-announce through majordomo. === UPCOMING MEETINGS === We have Brendan Gregg, author of the upcoming DTrace book, speaking at the May 19 meeting. Details/RSVP at http://bit.ly/gHIyFy The June 16 meeting will feature short-but-cool presentations by Doug Gourlay, Jason Dearborn, and Jordan Sissel. We will also be welcoming James T Nixon III who will demonstrate FreeNAS 8 and talk about Django under FreeBSD. Refreshments courtesy of iXsystems. ?Details/RSVP at http://bit.ly/hU6zKq === THAT'S IT FOR NOW === If you have any questions, comments, suggestions... feel free to drop me a note directly or email blw at baylisa.org Thanks, and happy April. Robert Novak BayLISA Secretary/Cheerleader