BayLISA Monitoring SIG: Extra-Special LinuxWorld Activities: Tues August 7 and Weds August 8

Wed Aug 1 12:48:05 PDT 2007

Hi:

The BayLISA Monitoring SIG is proud to offer this fantastic lineup of  
people and activities in conjunction with LinuxWorld Expo next week:  
These activities are centered around the visits of these illustrious  
Project Leads:

Alex Russell – Dojo, http://dojotoolkit.org/
Ethan Galstad – Nagios, http://www.nagios.org/
Howard Jones – php-Weathermap, http://www.network-weathermap.com/
Ian Berry – Cacti, http://www.cacti.net/ (and the rest of the Cacti  
Development Team)
Matt Massie – Ganglia, http://ganglia.sourceforge.net/
Remo Rickli – NeDi, http://nedi.sourceforge.net/
Scott Parris – Monarch, http://sourceforge.net/projects/monarch/
Taylor Dondich – Fruity, http://fruity.sourceforge.net/
Tobi Oetiker - RRDtool, MRTG, and Smokeping, http:// oss.oetiker.ch/ 
mrtg/

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 extra.)

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The activities are:

1) "Ask the Expert" presentations Tuesday and Wednesday
2) IT Monitoring BoF Tuesday, Aug 7, 6PM
3) Meet-n-Greet Reception and Dinner at Henry's Hunan, 110 Natoma  
St., Wednesday, Aug 8, 7PM

Here are details of the events:

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1) "Ask the Expert" presentations

Here's your chance to learn about your favorite tools direct from the  
project leads, and to ask them questions one-on-one about their  
projects.

Tuesday and Wednesday, August 7, 8:

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

Tuesday, August 7:
11-Noon Remo Rickli - NeDi
1-2 Taylor Dondich - Fruity
2-3 Tobi Oetiker - RRDtool, MRTG, Smokeping
3-4 Ian Berry - Cacti
4-5 Howard Jones - php-Weathermap

Wednesday, August 8:
11-Noon Alex Russell - Dojo Toolkit
1-2 Scott Parris - Monarch
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

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3) Meet-n-Greet Reception and Dinner at Henry's Hunan, 110 Natoma  
St., Weds, Aug 8, 7PM

A very special meeting of the BayLISA Monitoring SIG: the project  
leads are scheduled to attend, and Bay Area Debian and BayLISA at  
large are also invited.  BayLISA and GroundWork are hosting this event.

RSVP - REGISTRATION MANDATORY for this event so we know how many  
people to expect!  Please RSVP at this URL:

http://www.eventbrite.com/event/67945226

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Let me know if you have questions, hope to see you (multiple times)  
next week! -Peter

Peter Mui
GROUNDWORK Open Source, Inc.
139 Townsend Street, Suite 100
San Francisco, CA 94107-1946
+1 415 992 4573 (direct)
+1 415 947 0684 (fax)
pmui at groundworkopensource.com
www.groundworkopensource.com