From afife at untangle.com Mon Jun 9 23:18:39 2008 From: afife at untangle.com (Andrew Fife) Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2008 23:18:39 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Andrew Morton @ BALUG (New Date = 6/24) Message-ID: <008a01c8cac1$d95def50$4101a8c0@afmeatloaf> Howdy Folks: BALUG is very proud to host Andrew Morton as our speaker on Tuesday, June 24th. (PLEASE NOTE: this is not our regular meeting date... There will be NO MEETING on the 3rd Tuesday) Andrew Morton is a lead linux kernel developer and a key kernel maintainer. Andrew Morton is curious what you want to hear him speak about, so please let us know if you have any questions for him. More on Andrew Morton here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Morton_(computer_programmer) If you'd like to come, please RSVP: RSVP at balug.org ===Why RSVP?=== RSVPs are really important to BALUG, but don't worry we won't turn you away if you forget or decide to come last minute. However, if we don't have enough RSVPs by the Friday before the meeting, we won't be able to eat buffet style in the private banquet room upstairs. It's a much nicer meeting to have the upstairs banquet room, so please RSVP early... Why not now? Meeting Details... 6:30pm June 24th, 2008 (Tuesday) Four Seas Restaurant 731 Grant Ave. San Francisco, CA 94108 Easy $5 Parking: http://www.portsmouthsquaregarage.com/ Cost = $13 for dinner, but the meeting itself is free Upcoming 2008 speakers include: July - Mike Linksyaver (Creative Commons) Aug - TBD Sept - Ian Murdock (Debian & Sun) Signup for BALUG's extremely low volume announce list: http://lists.balug.org/listinfo.cgi/balug-announce-balug.org About BALUG: ------------ BALUG is lively gathering of Linux users & free software enthusiasts that combines great food, community & intimate access to featured speakers. We meet in the bar of the Four Seas Restaurant from 6:30pm. At 7pm, we share a family-style Chinese dinner, which is followed by our guest speaker. BALUG Mailing list Policy: -------------------------- BALUG promises not to abuse other LUGs mailing lists. Our current policy is to make one monthly announcement on other Bay Area LUGs mailing lists. On high volume lists, we may also post a reminder. If you feel this is not appropriate for a particular list, please tell us which list and what you feel would be a more appropriate policy for that list. We are very open to this feedback. Please send feedback to balug-contact at balug.org. -- Andrew Fife Untangle - The Open Source Network Gateway www.untangle.com/download 650.425.3327 desk 415.806.6028 cell -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sigje at sigje.org Wed Jun 18 15:03:00 2008 From: sigje at sigje.org (Jennifer Davis) Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:03:00 -0700 (PDT) Subject: BayLISA General Meeting - Tomorrow night 7pm Hadoop! Message-ID: <20080618145937.W47305@slick.sigje.org> Last December, Marco presented a short but cool (winning the best talk of the night) in December 2008. He is back for an even more indepth discussion about how Yahoo is using Hadoop, and how you can use it as well. Topic: hadoop! Location: Yahoo Inc, 701 First St Sunnyvale CA 94086 Time: 7pm-? BayLISA events are open and free to the general public. Please do invite anyone you think might be interested. Marco will be presenting an overview of the Apache Hadoop open source project. Hadoop is platform software aimed at solving Big Data problems. It is two distributed systems that cooperatively work together using the same set of computers: a distributed file system (HDFS) and a Map-Reduce framework. We'll go over the strengths and weaknesses of the design choices made by the development team, go through a brief demo of Hadoop in action, and discuss how to implement Hadoop grids within your own enterprise. If time permits, we'll take a sneak peek at two of the new open source projects to which the Yahoo! Grid Computing team is contributing effort. Marco is the manager of Yahoo! Grid Services Operations. He has over a dozen years of experience managing Unix clusters at Walmart.com, Inktomi, GNN (a subsidiary of AOL) and UC Berkeley. His responsibilities have ranged from installations supporting over 1 billion transactions per month to systems of over 1,000 nodes. Marco holds a Bachelor's Degree from the University of California at Berkeley in Cognitive Science. Next Month: July 16, Dtrace -- Jennifer Davis http://www.baylisa.org - BayLISA events From bill at wards.net Thu Jun 19 12:00:07 2008 From: bill at wards.net (bill at wards.net) Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 12:00:07 -0700 Subject: NEXT WEEK: PenLUG meeting 06/26/2008 Message-ID: +---------------------------------------------------------------+ |Date: |Thursday, June 26th, 2008 | |---------+-----------------------------------------------------| |Time: |meeting 7:00 - 9:00 PM, social/networking until 10 PM| |---------+-----------------------------------------------------| | |Bayshore Technology Park | |Location:|1300 Island Drive | | |Redwood City, CA 94065 | | |Suite 106 - Training Room | +---------------------------------------------------------------+ David Weekly, Tinkering Before Millions How to take a hobby hack and turn it into a service used by millions (and hopefully that MAKES millions). David Weekly is the founder and CPO of PBwiki. PBwiki is the world's largest business wiki host and is home to over 500,000 communities, including groups at over at third of the Fortune 500. He graduated as a President Scholar from Stanford in 2000 with a BS in Computer Science and has worked for such institutions as Harvard Physics, MIT Lincoln Labs, Stanford Graphics, atWeb, Legato, and There.com. David wrote the first layman's level description of MP3 in early 1997, reverse engineered the Napster protocol in an evening, and was a finalist in the ACM International Programming Competition. David lives in a Cupertino mansion with seven others (he's the sommelier) and throws periodic all-night hackathons called SuperHappyDevHouse there. David is an adviser to several Bay Area startups, including Jaxtr, KiteDance, MusicManagement, and IncentAlign. He last spoke at PenLUG in November 2006. RSVP Although it is not required, we like to have an idea of how many people to expect, so if possible please email rsvp at penlug.org if you are planning to attend. GETTING THERE For information on getting to the meeting, please see: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=1300+Island+Drive,+Redwood+City,+CA http://www.penlug.org/twiki/bin/view/Home/DrivingDirectionsQualys http://www.penlug.org/twiki/bin/view/Home/TransitDirectionsQualys Traffic on 101 can be pretty bad in the evening, so we encourage you to check traffic conditions before driving by dialing 5-1-1 on your phone or visiting www.511.org, and if possible to take public transit (best bet: bicycle via Caltrain) or carpool to this meeting. MORE INFORMATION See www.penlug.org for more information. 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