From afife at untangle.com Tue Jan 8 11:34:34 2008 From: afife at untangle.com (Andrew Fife) Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 11:34:34 -0800 (PST) Subject: [buug] Eric S. Raymond @ BALUG (Next Tuesday) Message-ID: <004101c8522d$86c284c0$0200a8c0@Untangle.local> Howdy Folks: Eric S. Raymond will be kicking off the start of a great 2008 at The Bay Area Linux Users Group (BALUG) with a talk on January 15th. If you haven't been to BALUG in a while, this a great opportunity to check out what we're up to... and who knows you may just wind up eating dinner with Eric S. Raymond at your table. If you'd like to come, please RSVP: RSVP at balug.org Upcoming 2008 speakers include: Jan - Eric S. Raymond Feb - Bruce Perens March 24th (New Date) - Mark Shuttleworth April - Eric Allman May - Jeremy Allison June - Andrew Morton So why not signup for BALUG's extremely low volume announce list: http://lists.balug.org/listinfo.cgi/balug-announce-balug.org Meeting Details... 6:30pm January 15th, 2008 (Next Tuesday) Four Seas Restaurant 731 Grant Ave. San Francisco, CA 94108 Parking: http://www.portsmouthsquaregarage.com/ Cost: The meetings are always free, but dinner is $13 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. 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. Please send feedback to balug-contact at balug.org. ---------------------------------------- Andrew Fife Untangle - Open Source Security Gateway download.untangle.com 650.425.3327 (O) 415.806.6028 (C) afife at untangle.com From john_re at fastmail.us Tue Jan 15 21:45:27 2008 From: john_re at fastmail.us (john_re) Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 21:45:27 -0800 Subject: [buug] KDE 4 Release Event- Google HQ & worldwide- Jan 17-19 2008 Message-ID: <1200462327.3596.1231493997@webmail.messagingengine.com> ===== ORGANIZE YOUR OWN LOCAL KDE4 RELEASE ===== PARTY/EVENT/GET-TOGETHER, THIS January 17-19, 2008, ===== OR ATTEND AT GOOGLE HQ MT. VIEW CALIFORNIA: KDE 4 is having a release party/event January 17-19, 2008 at the main Google HQ in Mt. View, California, USA. Come attend (see pre-registration info below), or organize your local event! I am merely an interested attendee for this event - this announcement is unofficial, just my own effort to spread word about this event, in the hopes that others worldwide might also organize some get-togethers to share in the knowledge generated. :) You could be the person to organize your own local event! Please also notify your friends & interested persons - feel free to use this announcement text. :) ===== OFFICIAL EVENT URLs: KDE 4.0 release parties - worldwide! http://kde.org/kde-4.0-release-event/#parties-worldwide Events/KDE4ReleaseParties http://techbase.kde.org/index.php?title=Events/KDE4ReleaseParties KDE 4.0 Release Event; January 17 ? 19, 2008; Google Campus http://kde.org/kde-4.0-release-event/ ===== OFFICIAL RELEASE ANNOUNCEMENT: http://kde.org/kde-4.0-release-event/#info "In mid January 2008, the mojo of the KDE community will - for one weekend - move to Mountain View, California, where Google Inc. invited the KDE project to celebrate its KDE 4.0 Release Event as a three day conference on the Google campus. Aside from being a conference for Community members from America and around the world, we explicitly invite press and our partners in the IT industry to come, see and feel the spirit of free software and KDE. A whole day will be dedicated to this important audience, hosting the official KDE 4.0 launch keynote held by Aaron Seigo and other talks on the principles and innovations of KDE, ending with a great KDE 4.0 Release Party! This will be the first time for the international KDE project to have a conference of that size held in America, which is a great chance for the American KDE community - contributors as well as users - to come together and discuss the future of KDE. You are community, so be there to meet the makers of your favorite desktop environment, and discuss your ideas and proposals to make it even better! But better be fast, as the number of attendees is limited to 200 people." ---- My comment: Personally, though Google generously is hosting this for 200 people, I think it would be great if 1000 or 10000 people showed up. Presumably Google would limit their facilities to the 200 registered people, but there is public parkland across the street, IIRC, - who knows - it could be a KDE be-in! :) ===== COME TO THE GOOGLE CAMPUS - PRE-REGISTRATION REQUIRED? If you can come to Mt View, California, for the attendee organized meetings, I think that would be great. http://kde.org/kde-4.0-release-event/#registration "Are you part of the KDE community? Are you interested in free software? Do you cover I.T. or free culture in the press industry? Are you involved with an organization that partners with KDE or free software? You should definitely consider attending our 4.0 Release Event in Mountain View. The primary event is to be held on January 18, 2008, with community meetings the day before and the day after. To Register: Simply send an email to the KDE Release Team listing: 1. Who you are (and if you represent an organization) 2. How many people will be attending with you and their names 3. What days you'll be attending 4. Who will need hotel lodging for the 17th and/or 18th It's that simple." ===== BASIC SCHEDULE: Thurs 17 - Attendee organized community meetings Fri 18 - Media announcements Sat 19 - Attendee organized community meetings Preliminary event schedule http://kde.org/kde-4.0-release-event/#info ===== SPREAD THE WORD TO OTHER FRIENDS & LUGs: I will be making one attempt to send this message to the following locations. It would be great if you would notify other LUGs in your nearby, or other, locations. Feel free to copy this message if you wish! :) [Would you please cc me if you send this email on? I'm curious to know if it gets to any other groups. Thanks. :) ] California: SVLUG (SiliconValley), BayLISA (Mt View?), LUGOD (Davis), BayLUG(SanFrancisco), PenLUG (FosterCity?), LA, Fresno, Sacramento, Redding, Stanford, Berkeley, CABAL USA: Nevada, Oregon, Washington, Arizona, NY, Atlanta ===== KDE ANNOUNCEMENTS ABOUT KDE4 & RELEASE EVENTS KDE 4.0 available http://kde.org/announcements/4.0/ KDE 4.0 Release Event anuary 17 ? 19, 2008 Gogle Campus http://kde.org/kde-4.0-release-event/#header KDE 4.0 release parties - worldwide! http://kde.org/kde-4.0-release-event/#parties-worldwide Events/KDE4ReleaseParties http://techbase.kde.org/index.php?title=Events/KDE4ReleaseParties ===== POSSIBLE GOOGLE HOST LOCATIONS?: I certainly can't speak for Google, but perhaps if you ask nicely they might agree to provide a meeting room for your local KDE4 release event? They have offices USA & world wide. Students > North America > Google Locations http://www.google.com/support/jobs/bin/static.py?page=students.html&sid=locations Google Offices - US & Worldwide http://www.google.com/corporate/address.html Explore our offices - By Country http://www.google.com/support/jobs/bin/static.py?page=about.html&about=locations ===== COULD SOMEONE SET UP A MAILING LIST, IRC CHANNEL ===== OR LIVE VIDEOCONFERENCE? ===== If you want to contact me you'll need to cc or email me directly, since I won't be subscribed to any list I post this to. Best wishes. :) John -- john_re at fastmail.us -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Access all of your messages and folders wherever you are From Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu Wed Jan 30 19:47:55 2008 From: Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu (Michael Paoli) Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 19:47:55 -0800 Subject: [buug] Fwd: Book Mailing from Pearson Education User Group Program Message-ID: <1201751275.47a144eb61d63@webmail.rawbw.com> Looks like A) we'll have more books coming, and B) we can receive some additional selection(s) if we state our picks/interest See below for details (let me know additional title(s) you're interested in). ----- Forwarded message from "Fox, Heather" ----- Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 11:10:57 -0500 From: "Fox, Heather" Reply-To: "Fox, Heather" Subject: Book Mailing from Pearson Education User Group Program To: "Fox, Heather" Hello User Group Leaders, We hope you're enjoying the Pearson Education User Group Program, including- among other benefits- an ongoing 35% member discount, a monthly contest and a quarterly UG Program newsletter. All details are available here: www.informit.com/usergroupwelcome As your Linux liaison, I'm writing to tell you about the new books you will soon receive for your LUG. These include: - the latest book from bestselling author Mark Sobell! "A Practical Guide to Ubuntu Linux". www.informit.com/title/013236039X - a new "Unleashed" title from SAMS Publishing: "Ubuntu 7.10 Linux Unleashed", 3rd Edition, authored by Andrew and Paul Hudson; www.informit.com/title/0672329697 We have additional new titles which I'd be happy to ship you, but you must first reply to me to with your specific picks: -- Joomla! A User's Guide: Building a Successful Joomla! Powered Website by Barrie North; http://www.informit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=0136135609 -- RailsSpace Ruby on Rails Tutorial (Video LiveLessons) by Aurelius Prochazka; http://www.informit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=0321517067 -- New Paperback Edition! Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment: Paperback Edition, 2nd Edition by W. Richard Stevens , W. Richard Stevens , Stephen A. Rago ; http://www.informit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=0321525949 -- Implementing ITIL Configuration Management by By Larry Klosterboer; http://www.informit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=0132425939 As always, please ask your members to return their support with feedback-good, bad or indifferent! We encourage UG members to post their opinions on Amazon.com, BN.com, Slashdot.org, or any relevant technical site that accepts user content. A couple more news items! -- Linux Journal 2008 Readers' Choice Survey- Be sure your members cast their votes! (Polls close Feb 14th!); http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1006101 -- 40% Discount to The 6th Annual Southern California Linux Expo! (SCALE) To be held Friday, Saturday and Sunday, February 8-10, 2008 at the Westin Los Angeles Airport. Register today with a 40% User Group discount!! The promo code is PEAR2: http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/ REMINDER: ONGOING MEMBER DISCOUNT! Pearson UG members receive up to 35% off every purchase on InformIT.com and our partner imprint sites (ciscopress.com and ibmpressbooks.com )! Just follow these easy steps for savings: -- Create an Informit account: https://memberservices.informit.com/my_account/register.aspx -- Enter the following member code: USERGROUP -- LOGIN at any time to automatically receive the special pricing! Many thanks, Heather Fox ***************** Heather L. Fox, Senior Publicist & User Group Liaison Addison-Wesley Professional < IBM Press < Prentice Hall Professional < Que Publishing < Sams Publishing Publishing imprints of Pearson Education heather.fox at pearsoned.com Office Ph: 212-641-6539 *Mobile*: 201-362-7763 Geo: c/o Pearson Education, 1330 6th Ave., 35th Floor NY, NY 10019 *********************************************************************** This email may contain confidential material. If you were not an intended recipient, please notify the sender and delete all copies. 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Anyone has idea of how to do it in C-Shell? my_cd() { \cd "$1"; PS1="`hostname`:`pwd | awk -F/ '{print $4}'`>"; } alias cd=my_cd Thanks, Gary --------------------------------- Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: