Urgent: Upcoming BayLISA Events for 8/7 and 8/8 2007

Wed Aug 1 10:56:32 PDT 2007

NEXT WEEK in conjunction with the LinuxWorld event, we have some great 
events planned through the Monitoring SIG.

First, we have the BayLISA Meet and Greet Monitoring Banquet.  This will 
be August 8 2007 (Wednesday) at 7pm at Henry's Hunan 110 Natoma St San 
Francisco.  Many thanks to Peter Mui as the BayLISA Monitoring SIG for 
organizing this and signing up all the various monitoring folks (Alex 
Russell - Dojo Toolkit, Ethan Galstad - Nagios, Howard Jones - PHP 
WeatherMap, Ian Berry - Cacti, Matt Massie - Ganglia, Remo Rickli - NeDi, 
and Tobi Oetiker - RRDTool, MRTG, SmokePing).  Food will be covered, but 
we are limited to maximum of 100 people.  Register here:
http://www.eventbrite.com/event/67945226

You can meet, talk with, and visit these folks at LinuxWorld as well. 
Make sure to:

Register for a free exhibits pass in advance (to avoid long lines) at:

http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/

Use GroundWork's Priority Code N0170 to see if that gets you anything.

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The activities are:

1) "Ask the Expert" presentations at GroundWork booth during exhibit hours
2) IT Monitoring BoF Tuesday, 6PM (BOF5)
3) Meet-n-Greet IT Banquet at Henry's Hunan, 110 Natoma St., Weds, Aug 8, 7PM
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1) "Ask the Expert" presentations at GroundWork booth during exhibit hours

Tuesday and Wednesday, August 7, 8:

"Ask the Expert" Q&A presentations at booth 501 in Exhibits Hall.  Tentative 
schedule:

Tuesday:
11-Noon Remo Rickli - NeDi
2-3	Tobi Oetiker - RRDtool, MRTG, Smokeping
3-4 Ian Berry - Cacti
4-5 Howard Jones - php-Weathermap

Wednesday:
11-Noon Alex Russell - Dojo Toolkit
2-3 Ethan Galstad - Nagios
3-4 Remo Rickli - NeDi
4-5 Tobi Oetiker - RRDtool, MRTG, Smokeping

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2) IT Monitoring BoF Tuesday, 6PM (BOF5)

BOF5:  IT Monitoring Tips and Tricks
08/07/2007, 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM

A freeform Q&A session where you can take advantage of the assembled wisdom to 
tackle your thorniest (or most basic) monitoring issues. Featuring the project 
leads for Ganglia, Cacti, RRDtool, MRTG, NeDi, Sendpage and Smokeping. Also on 
hand: members of the SF-Bay Area-local BayLISA Monitoring SIG, which has been 
meeting regularly to develop, document, and disseminate best practices with 
regards to IT monitoring.

http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12SFO07A/conference/tracksessions//QMONYB001HW5

Many many thanks to Peter Mui, and GroundWork for their continued support, 
and involvement in BayLISA.  Peter has been managing the Monitoring SIG 
and organizing great events up in the SF area for quite a few months now.