From john_re at fastmail.us Tue Jul 1 01:31:35 2008 From: john_re at fastmail.us (john_re) Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2008 01:31:35 -0700 Subject: [buug] Berkeley TIP - Great 1st Meeting Success - Report Message-ID: <1214901095.22920.1261244399@webmail.messagingengine.com> Contents: Berkeley BSD / GNU-Linux Talks Installfeest Potluck (TIP) 1) June 7 - 1st Meeting - Summary 2) July 5 Saturday - Next (2nd) Meeting - Some preliminary info ===== Hi everyone - We had a great first meeting. Since people came from most of the LUG's & sw group mailing lists I posted the first meeting announcement to, I just wanted to let you all know how the meeting went, and to give you a heads up awareness & invite you to our next meeting. Next (2nd) Meeting: July 5 Saturday, 10AM-6PM, Berkeley ===== First Berkeley - TIP Meeting Summary/Report We had a fantastic first meeting. I created this event as an unpaid, unreimbursed, "volunteer for the community" effort, in my part time, on very short notice, on my own, without any assistance, with no $ but that out of my pocket, when I have a number of primary responsibilities & other things to do with my time. In less than 2.5 weeks we went from non existence to having 12 people attending from as far as Sacramento & Pleasanton, 75% of the announcements going out and 60% attendees coming with only about 24 hours advance notice - the BSD / GNU-Linux attendees are very capable people. Thanks to the preparedness, effort & enginuity of the attendees we had electric power, networking & net access. We enjoyed conversations, people doing installs & system improvements, a beautiful summer veranda afternoon at UCB's Free Speech Cafe, and discussion, idea input, & improving suggestions for next month's meeting. My personal hopes & goals before the meeting had been: 1 person besides me attend = that would be a success. 4 people attend = fantastic success 10 people attend = flabbergasting success. I posted a note on the mailing list 12 hours before the meeting with the latest details. 14 people came for the meeting. The first one apparently didn't find the open building entrances, and didn't meet the second arrival, and both left before the third attendee arrived at 12:40 PM, for a meeting I had announced as running from 12N - 6PM. The third person had plugged his laptop into an outlet in the hall & was hard at work on his actual work when I arrived about 12:50PM. About another 5 people arrived in about the next 15 minutes. Several more in the next 20 minutes. The rest scattered throughout the next several hours. One of our attendees, a CS grad student, from Sacramento, is working on a Google Summer of Code project, http://code.google.com/soc/2008/ossim/about.html and gave a us a 4 minute mini talk about that project. Our youngest attendee was a high school senior & GNU-Linux enthusiast from Pleasanton, who came with his father, an EE who had attended UCBerkeley. He was also the first person to offer to give a talk at a future meeting, on the Digital Mars D Programming Language. [UCB needs to offer this guy a scholarship quick!] Our oldest attendee was a retired phycist who described himself as currently a hobbyist & volunteer sysadmin for various non-profit organizations. We had the following attendees who heard about the meeting from these groups, and came from these cities: Bay Area Debian 2 Moraga, ?? Bay Python 1 San Francisco NBLUG 1 Berkeley SVLUG 3 Plesanton, Hollister LUGOD 1 Sacramento UCBOCF 1 Berkeley BUUG 4 2 Berkeley, Concord?, ??, Oakland The two attendees who arrived & left before I arrived came from SVLUG & BUUG/BAD list announcements. Probabilistic prior RSVP % attendance was ~5?? Actual arrivals = 14 Prob Multiplier = 2.75?? I encouraged everyone who came from out of town to post carpool notices to their local groups for the next meeting, to save gas, save $, enjoy conversation on the trip to & from, & make it easier for others to attend. For the July 5 Saturday meeting next month there will be closer to 30 days notice, to allow much more time for arranging for carpools & advance planning. We had 1 high school senior, 2 undergrads, one grad student, one to be grad student. We had academic backgrounds: CS, EE, Linguistics, BioInformatics, Physics, Math, that I remember. We had at least two consulting programmers or internet infrastructure developers, and many systems administrators, and several hobbyists. potluck - 2 people, 3rd later suggested order pizza & probably doesn't know he has come up with an idea that LUGOD uses at their installfests. The president of SacLUG saw my notice on LUGOD & forwarded it to SacLUG - thank you. Two people came for installfest help & got it - one for X windows config, another for Ubuntu? install help. We didn't even get started on my goal of establishing a test video stream. Several people posted meeting summary & feedback on BUUG & SVLUG. That's great - thank you. If everyone would post a short summary of this meeting announcement to their group's mailing list, that would be fantastic - maybe it would encourage others from that group to attend in July, & raise carpool awareness. I wish to thank everyone for attending & contributing, the mailing list maintainers where I posted announcements, & extra thanks to Michael Paoli for cleanup help! ===== June 5 Saturday - 2nd Meeting B-TIP - Preliminary Announcement/Info ======= Meet probably at UCB Berkeley, 10AM - 6PM, Evans Hall. Installfest, Talks, Potluck, ProgrammingParty New: ProgrammingParty New: Simultaneous events around the Americas, New: Technical talk video download & maybe streaming New: Bring microphone headset & laptop & VOIP & IRC w/ attendees at other locations. ===== Goals: TALKS: Tom Belote from Untangle has passed word he could talk about Backups. Scheduling in process - Probably for August meeting. Audio/Video streaming of talk to other simultaneous/parallel group meetings. Announcements need to go out to US LUGs BSDs Unix & programming & ??other groups encouraging them to set up simultaneous/parallel meetings in their cities for reception of live talk video stream. ===== Hope you can attend this Saturday, July 5. I'll post an actual meeting announcement for that soon. From Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu Thu Jul 3 15:40:59 2008 From: Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu (Michael Paoli) Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 15:40:59 -0700 Subject: [buug] More books for BUUG from the Pearson Education User Group Program Message-ID: <1215124859.486d557bde522@webmail.rawbw.com> Apparently arrived 2008-06-25, and I'll likely* bring them to the 2008-07-03 BUUG meeting: Dojo: Using the Dojo JavaScript Library to Build Ajax Applications http://www.informit.com/title/0132358042 By James E. Harmon Published Jun 11, 2008 by Addison-Wesley Professional. Part of the Developer's Library series. Pages: 336 Edition: 1st. ISBN-10: 0-13-235804-2 ISBN-13: 978-0-13-235804-0 and: Sams Teach Yourself PHP, MySQL and Apache All in One, 4th Edition http://www.informit.com/title/067232976X By Julie C. Meloni Published Jun 18, 2008 by Sams. Part of the Sams Teach Yourself series. Pages: 648 Edition: 4th. ISBN-10: 0-672-32976-X ISBN-13: 978-0-672-32976-0 *I've got on-call, so there's a bit more unpredictability, but I'll probably make it there. These: http://www.weak.org/pipermail/buug/2008-June/003069.html did make it to the 2008-06-19 BUUG meeting. 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Finally, we will present some results of the quantitive analysis of BitTorrent conducted by the Peer-to-Peer Research Institute. http://p2presearch.com/ http://niallohiggins.com Location: Google Campus Building 42, the Seville room (second floor) check in at the lobby in bldg 43 bayPIGgies meeting information: http://baypiggies.net/new/plone * Please sign up in advance to have your google access badge ready: http://wiki.python.org/moin/BayPiggiesGoogleMeetings (no later than close of business on Wednesday.) Agenda ..... 7:30 PM ........................... General hubbub, inventory end-of-meeting announcements, any first-minute announcements. ..... 7:35 PM to 8:45 PM ................ The Talk ..... 8:45 PM to 9:00 PM or After The Talk ................ Mapping and Random Access Mapping is a rapid-fire audience announcement of topics the announcers are interested in. Random Access follows immediately to allow follow up individually on the announcements and other topics of interest. ..... Thursday, August 14 ................ 7:30 PM BayPIGgies Steven Knight on SCons From dragon42 at mail.ru Wed Jul 9 01:22:39 2008 From: dragon42 at mail.ru (asd sdf) Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2008 12:22:39 +0400 Subject: [buug] =?windows-1251?q?Don=27t_work_=22net_time_set=22?= Message-ID: Hello All. I have installed FreeBSD 6.2 release and Samba 3.0.30 over it. When I'm trting to get Kerberos ticket ("kinit aranel at KOLOS.LOCAL" (KOLOS.LOCAL - w2K3 domain)), i've get a message "Clock skew too great". Well, i'm executing "net time set -S SERVER" and the answer is: "date: illegal time format usage: date [-jnu] [-d dst] [-r seconds] [-t west] [-v[+|-]val[ymwdHMS]] ... [-f fmt date | [[[[[cc]yy]mm]dd]HH]MM[.ss]] [+format] /bin/date 070410372008.53 failed. Error was (No such file or directory)" What's wrong (google doesn't help)? From Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu Thu Jul 10 00:47:49 2008 From: Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu (Michael Paoli) Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:47:49 -0700 Subject: [buug] Don't work "net time set" In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1215676069.4875bea50ea7b@webmail.rawbw.com> net time set -S SERVER sounds more like a Microsoft Windows/DOS command than a UNIX/BSD/Linux/... command. Is that being executed under (Free)BSD? The diagnostics would seem to suggest that date(1) is being handed options and/or arguments in a format it's not expecting. If the net command is some script (e.g. shell, perl) one should be able to trace what it's doing fairly easily. If it's a binary, strace/truss/tusc - or whatever FreeBSD may have of equivalent functionality may be quite useful (most notably by following child processes, and noting what gets passed as options and arguments to execve(2)). Also, kerberos will typically fail where clocks differ too much - e.g. system times differ by more than 15 minutes. I'm not sure exactly how that works on Microsoft Windows with timezones and all that. For Unix/Linux/BSD, it's the system time (time(2)) that matters in that regard. The date commands on Unix/Linux/BSD and Microsoft Windows/DOS are quite different, and in the case of options/arguments, expect quite different data. Perhaps the date command being called isn't the intended one. "No such file or directory" - perhaps it's not located at /bin/date? That would be somewhat atypicaly, given date(1)'s relative importance on Unix/Linux/BSD. Perhaps it's located at /usr/bin/date - that would be the case for some flavors (e.g. Solaris, at least typically). Quoting asd sdf : > Hello All. > I have installed FreeBSD 6.2 release and Samba 3.0.30 over it. > When I'm trting to get Kerberos ticket ("kinit aranel at KOLOS.LOCAL" > (KOLOS.LOCAL - w2K3 domain)), i've get a message "Clock skew too great". > Well, i'm executing "net time set -S SERVER" and the answer is: > "date: illegal time format > usage: date [-jnu] [-d dst] [-r seconds] [-t west] [-v[+|-]val[ymwdHMS]] ... > > [-f fmt date | [[[[[cc]yy]mm]dd]HH]MM[.ss]] [+format] > /bin/date 070410372008.53 failed. Error was (No such file or directory)" > What's wrong (google doesn't help)? From Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu Sat Jul 12 10:31:42 2008 From: Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu (Michael Paoli) Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2008 10:31:42 -0700 Subject: [buug] BALUG 2008-07-15!: Mike Linksvayer (Creative Commons); and other BALUG News Message-ID: <1215883902.4878ea7ee48b4@webmail.rawbw.com> BALUG 2008-07-15!: Mike Linksvayer (Creative Commons); and other BALUG News Contents: * BALUG 2008-07-15!: Mike Linksvayer (Creative Commons) * LinuxWorld, BALUG & SF-LUG, Installfest, etc. * upcoming BALUG meetings * Contacts, etc. ------------------------------ For the BALUG[0] 2008-07-15 meeting we are proud to present: Mike Linksvayer[1], Vice President of Creative Commons 2008-07-15 [16]Mike Linksvayer, Vice President, [2]Creative Commons Mike Linksvayer is Vice President of Creative Commons, having joined Creative Commons as CTO in April 2003. Previously he co-founded [3]Bitzi. He has over ten years experience as an enterprise software, web, and multimedia developer and consultant and holds a B.A. in economics from the [4]University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Creative Commons (CC) Share, Remix, Reuse. Legally. Creative Commons provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry. You can use CC to change your copyright terms from "All Rights Reserved" to "Some Rights Reserved." Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization. Everything Creative Commons does, including the software created by Creative Commons, is free. Time, location, cost (if you want dinner), etc., please see: http://www.balug.org/#Meetings%20(general) If you intend to come, please RSVP to: rsvp at balug.org Why RSVP? Well, we probably wouldn't turn you away, but the RSVPs really help the Four Seas Restaurant plan settings/food/staffing and help ensure that we're able to eat upstairs in the private banquet room. 0. http://www.balug.org/ 1. http://creativecommons.org/about/people#21 2. http://creativecommons.org/ 3. http://bitzi.com/ 4. http://www.uiuc.edu/ ------------------------------ LinuxWorld[5], BALUG & SF-LUG, Installfest, etc. LinuxWorld Conference & Expo[5] is coming soon to San Francisco. BALUG, SF-LUG[6], and some additional [L]UGs will be sharing a combined/shared [L]UG "booth" at LinuxWorld Conference & Expo, so ... come by, say "hi", tell folks to come check us out. To volunteer to help out / coordinate etc. ... take a look at the BALUG "talk"[7] list or archive thereof - there should be some significant updates on that within the week. Installfest for Schools[8] Alameda County Computer Resource Center (ACCRC)[9] will supply hardware for massive Installfest for Schools, to donate open source (Ubuntu[10]) computers to schools in need. The event is organized by Untangle[11] and GES[12]. LinuxWorld attendees are encouraged to join the installfest by installing Ubuntu, hacking older hardware, or donating unwanted computers. For more information see: http://www.untangle.com/installfest 5. http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/ 6. http://www.sf-lug.org/ 7. http://lists.balug.org/listinfo.cgi/balug-talk-balug.org 8. http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/ehall//SN264817 9. http://www.accrc.org/ 10. http://www.ubuntu.com/ 11. http://www.untangle.com/ 12. http://www.ges.com/ ------------------------------ upcoming BALUG meetings ... mark your calendars :-): * 2008-07-15 Mike Linksvayer, Vice President, Creative Commons * 2008-08-19 Chris Dibona * 2008-09-16[13] Ian Murdock, founder of Debian * ... BALUG generally meets the third Tuesday of the month. Subscribe to our low volume "announce"[14] list to be sure and hear about upcoming meetings and speakers/presentations. 13. This meeting will occur at a different venue; watch for updates. 14. http://lists.balug.org/listinfo.cgi/balug-announce-balug.org ------------------------------ Contacting BALUG: http://www.new.balug.org/#Contact Feedback on our publicity/announcements (e.g. contacts or lists where we should get our information out that we're not presently reaching, or things we should do differently): publicity-feedback at balug.org From jim at well.com Thu Jul 17 07:10:07 2008 From: jim at well.com (jim) Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 07:10:07 -0700 Subject: [buug] Common LUG booth at LinuxWorld: come help out Message-ID: <1216303807.6319.469.camel@ubuntu> There will be a booth for bay area Linux groups and related in the .Org Pavilion of this year's LinuxWorld, Tuesday August 5 through Thursday August 7, in Moscone Center in San Francisco, thanks to the Bay Area Linux User Group (BALUG) (in the .Org Pavilion, booth 14). If you're going to LinuxWorld any of those three days, please stop by and help out at the booth: the job is to hang out, talk with other people who are working the booth, and talk with people who stop by and want to know about the various SF Bay Area Linux User Groups and related groups. Even a short stint will help someone who wants a break or wants to see a bit of the show. Last year there were a lot of fun conversations, and a few people brought demo machines. If you can't make it, try to get some printed handouts about your group that we can pass out. If you can make it, please email jim at well.com with times you can be there (morning, mid-day, or afternoon) so we can schedule. If you'll be there all of one day or two or three days, let me know so we can plug you in where coverage is light. Thanks in advance, jim at well dot com From afife at untangle.com Thu Jul 24 12:56:47 2008 From: afife at untangle.com (Andrew Fife) Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:56:47 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [buug] Installfest for Schools Message-ID: <016501c8edc7$680cc000$38264000$@com> Hi Folks: I'm very pleased to announce that Untangle & ACCRC have teamed up with LinuxWorld (Aug 5-7) for our second Installfest for Schools. The first ACCRC/Untangle Installfest for Schools in March refurbished 350 Ubuntu computers for schools[1]. This time we've gotten a large booth on the expo floor and will have workstations setup for volunteers to refurbish recycled computers with Ubuntu and GnewSense. We particularly need help with the following: 1)Installing Ubuntu and/or gNewSense 2)Hacking older hardware and identifying good/bad components You can signup for a work station here: http://www.untangle.com/installfest Also, if you know of a school in need of computers that's willing to try GNU/Linux please nominate them here: http://www.untangle.com/index.php?option=com_collect&task=installfestNomin ate&Itemid=1426 And if you have an older computer that you want to donate or recycle, please bring it to LinuxWorld. ACCRC will have a collection booth setup and can provide tax deductable receipts. PIII and newer systems will be refurbished with Ubuntu for schools. Older systems will be recycled properly by the ACCRC. Lastly, we are always looking for help getting the word out. If you want to give the event some love on your blog, Digg, StumbleUpon, Slashdot, or some crazy forum please link to the main installfest page, which is http://www.untangle.com/installfest Thanks so much for your help! -Andrew P.S. The LinuxWorld Expo free if you register before the conference starts here: https://register.rcsreg.com/regos-1.0/lnsf2008/ga/index2.html References: [1]Here is a writeup of the first event: http://lwn.net/Articles/273770/ and here are some pictures: http://www.untangle.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=355&Item id=139 -- 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 john_re at fastmail.us Wed Jul 30 05:55:07 2008 From: john_re at fastmail.us (john_re) Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 05:55:07 -0700 Subject: [buug] MEETING August 2 this Saturday- BerkeleyTIP- 1st Global Talks Installfest Potluck ProgrammingParty Message-ID: <1217422507.21637.1266109485@webmail.messagingengine.com> The Berkeley GNU/BSD Talks Installfest Potluck & ProgrammingParty is having its third GREAT meeting this Saturday August 2, at the U. C. Berkeley Campus. 10 AM - 6 PM. Berkeley-TIP-Global is a meeting of friendly, helpful people interested in LEARNING about, USING & CREATING GNU & BSD type software. Read the mail list, & join both groups: == LOCAL GROUP - WHO WILL BRING WHICH VIDEOS http://groups.google.com/group/BerkTIP == GLOBAL GROUP - WHAT VIDEOS ARE AVAILABLE http://groups.google.com/group/BerkTIPGlobal ===== THREE GREAT NEW ADDITIONS THIS MONTH: ===== 1) TALKS, 2) GLOBAL, 3) PROGRAMMING PARTY 1) TALKS - about 7 this month [VOIP, Linus Torvalds - git, WIFI Repeaters, Python Intro - Martelli, MySQL, Web 2.0, OLPC] See details below - a) Determine talks you're interested in b) Look on BerkTIP mailing list to see if someone else will bring the video c) Otherwise YOU Download the video to your laptop & bring it, email to the list you'll bring that talk, and share watching it at the meeting on your laptop. 2) GLOBAL-USA simultaneous MEETINGS (Simultaneous meetings throughout the USA.) Bring your laptop & Microphone Headset & join VOIP & IRC chat with other attendees around the USA, and watching the same videos simultaneously. 3) PROGRAMMING PARTY MEETING TOPIC: VOIP, TeamSpeak - getting VOIP going between USA locations Plan to arrive about 9:30 AM if you want to leisurely be ready for the first talk at 10:00 AM === DO: Print out this email & bring it with you for reference. There is a LOT of information here, & it will probably be valueable to you to have it in print form for easy reference. :) === DO; PLEASE RSVP TO john_re at fastmail dot us . I want to know if we might need a larger meeting location. Thank you. I'm including the Global-USA announcement in full after this short local announcement. It has lots of information. Do read it. ===== PROGRAMMING PARTY TOPIC: ===== VOIP TEAMSPEAK - GETTING VOIP GOING BETWEEN USA LOCATIONS More like a group installfest project than actual programming. Work together to get a server running TeamSpeak, and ensure client TeamSpeak sw communicates properly between groups around the USA. ===== TENTATIVE MEETING LOCATION: FREE SPEECH CAFE FREE SPEECH CAFE Veranda outdoors at MOFFIT UNDERGRAD LIBRARY, which is approximately the geographic center of campus. http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=37.872496,-122.261155&spn=0.000578,0.000633&t=h&z=20 http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/AboutLibrary/fsmcafe.html http://www.berkeley.edu/map/maps/BC34.html http://www.berkeley.edu/map/3dmap/3dmap.shtml (It's the same place we had the first meeting. Note: Don't go to Evans Hall, just go directly to the FSCafe. Note: WATCH the BerkTIP WEBSITE the DAY OF THE MEETING IN CASE WE CHANGE to ANOTHER meeting LOCATION.) Weather page for Berkeley: http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?brand=sfgate&query=Berkeley%2C+CA We had beautiful 75 degrees on the June meeting. Be prepared for warmer or cooler conditions. ===== CARPOOL: POST A CARPOOL MESSAGE TO YOUR MAILING LIST!!!!! It's GREAT to carpool. Saves $, gas, & is fun to talk with your fellow travelers. DO: YOU POST a carpool notice to this mailing list, or to lists covering the geography you will travel through. A great message would be like: "Subject: CARPOOL to BerkeleyTIP Aug 2 Saturday Am interested in attending the BerkeleyTIP meeting Aug 2 Saturday. Can drive you if you pay a share of gas. Or, I can pay for gas if you drive. Email me your phone #. Would like to arrive by 10 AM for the first talk." We've had past attendees come from Sacramento & Pleasanton. It would be great if each LUG around Northern California could get one or more carpools attending. ===== INSTALLFEST: This is a SELF RELIANT EVENT. Bring everything you might possibly need - laptop, speakers, power cord, wifi card, wifi router, router, ethernet cables, Distro ISOs, etc. We will have power, & almost definitely Internet access. Bring your cell phone Internet if you have it, just in case. ===== POTLUCK Bring food for potluck, or $5 to order pizza or something. Optional. Or, just bring your own bag lunch. The cafe is expensive. There are many less expensive restaurants about 4 short blocks walk. ===== TRANSPORTATION: CAR: University Exit from 880 Bayshore freeway. Up 1.5 mile to campus. West entrance to campus has a map, & maybe someone in the entrance booth to give directions. Loading zone 5 minute parking behind the Library. CARPOOL! CARPOOL! CARPOOL! - & POST A CARPOOL EMAIL TO YOUR LIST!!!!! Parking: There are about 60 on campus pay parking spaces near the Gym, about 200 yards away from the cafe. There are several parking garages, which charge on Saturday. The closest is on the North side of campus, Hearst below Euclid, about a 4-5 short block walk from the cafe. There is free street parking on the North side of campus - Check the signs above the sidewalk for details. Hearst is the street at the North edge of campus. http://pt.berkeley.edu/ http://pt.berkeley.edu/around/drive http://pt.berkeley.edu/park/public http://www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/transportation/Parking/OffStreet.html BART: Downtown Berkeley exit, 10 minute easy walk slightly uphill. ===== SUMMARY: This sould be a great event for anyone wanting to keep on top of the leading developments in GNU/BSD technology. With 7 or more great talks, you'll learn lots & meet with many top people. Read the GLOBAL-USA announcement below, to learn about 1) how this meeting is growing, & 2) for details about the talks. NOTE: I'm doing this as a small part time effort as a volunteer for the community when I have many other things to do with my time. So, don't expect perfection, do expect hiccups, and if you see something you think could be improved - YOU CAN VOLUNTEER TO IMPROVE THINGS. :) Best wishes - I hope to see you there. :) =================================================================== =================================================================== ===== APPENDIX: The Global-USA Announcement INVITATION- August 2 Saturday, Berkeley-TIP-Global-USA ====-----------------------===== Hello from Berkeley, everyone. :) Hey - I'm putting together a little global GNU(Linux)/BSD type free software monthly event - anyone want to join in? The Global Simultaneous Berkeley GNU(Linux)/BSD Software Monthly Event - Talks, Installfest, Potluck & ProgrammingParty (TIP) It goes Global-USA August 2, this Saturday. If you are interested in LEARNING about, USING &/or CREATING FREE SOFTWARE, then you are invited to the First Berkeley-TIP-Global meeting. Coming to YOUR LOCATION, in & throughout the USA. This Saturday August 2. [Yep. You can do that.] Join: http://groups.google.com/group/BerkTIPGlobal It's really easy to join with us. And you'll have a fun day learning & producing things with your buddies from all over the (Global)-USA. I'm writing to let you know about this event, & find out if anyone there is interested in helping setup a local meeting, & participating with us. If anyone is, I'll try to help you out - answer questions, give you some guidance. ===================================================================== ===== CONTENTS: ===== 1) THE MULTIMEDIA ANNOUNCEMENT 2) THE BASIC ANNOUNCEMENT DETAILS 3) TALKS SCHEDULE AUGUST 2 (Pacific Daylight Savings Time PDST) 4) TALKS/VIDEOS/GROUP_MEETINGS AGENDA (PDST) 5) TALKS: Videos for the August 2 Meeting 6) !!!!! MAIN AGENDA FOR AUGUST 2 MEETING = VOIP !!!!! 7) ME + YOU = 3 - What I do, what you do. 8) GLOBAL-USA - This month's step forward goal. 9) SUMMARY -- 10) Sample Local Announcement ===================================================================== ===== 1) THE MULTIMEDIA ANNOUNCEMENT ===== [Que: 10 Second Countdown] [Roll: Countdown] [Que: The first 42 seconds of Caravan, by Van Morrison & The Band, "Van Morrison - Caravan - The Last Waltz - great quality Video" The Last Waltz, 1976, San Francisco, California] [Roll: Caravan] ===== And, the caravan is on it's way - I can hear that merry gypsy play. Mama mama look at Ammareu! She's a-playin' with the ... radio! La la la la, la la la. La la la la, la la la! ===== Well, the Berkeley TIP has had two great meetings, and this month, once again, we're gonna bop it up another notch. This month we go Global-USA. You're invited - Come join with us, August 2 Saturday, Pacific Daylight Savings Time 10 AM - 6 PM. Oh, . . . , yeah, . . ., at your local loca-tion. [. . . oh, . . . yeah . .. . ] - La la la la, la la la. La la la la, la la la! [ ;) ] ===================================================================== ===== 2) THE BASIC ANNOUNCEMENT DETAILS ===== If you are interested in LEARNING about, USING &/or CREATING FREE SOFTWARE, Then you are invited to the first Berkeley-TIP-Global meeting - this Saturday August 2nd. Berkeley-TIP-Global is a meeting for friendly, helpful people interested in learning about, using & creating GNU & BSD type software. There are 4 PARALLEL TRACKS of events at each meeting: 1) TALKS Talks by various speakers (stream/DL video globally) 2) INSTALLFEST Bring your computer & install BSD or GNU/Linux software. 3) POTLUCK Bring $5 or food to share: eat, chat (optional) 4) PROGRAMMING PARTY Write SW on your. or a group. project The meeting will be held in multiple simultaneous locations around the globe. This month the meeting expands to locations around the USA. This is a FREE, no $ cost, event. If you want to make a donation to help this event, that would be wonderful. Like other things in life, you might need to DO A LITTLE SOMETHING for you to have the event you want. In particular, you likely will need to DOWNLOAD A VIDEO for a talk you want to see. It's easy. This is a SELF-RELIANT event: 0) ARRANGE a local meeting LOCATION with INTERNET access. Could be as simple as someone's house, apartment, an internet cafe, a school room, or company office. 1) EMAIL to the BerkTIPGlobal mailing list LINKS to relevant VIDEO TALKS. 2) DOWNLOAD the videos you want to see to your laptop. 3) EMAIL your LOCAL GROUP the list of videos you will bring. 4) BRING your laptop, VOIP headset, & etc. 5) Meet at a location with at least internet for IRC, better yet if it can handle VOIP, better still if it can receive streaming video, & WATCH videos/talks JOIN IRC & VOIP INSTALL SW EAT some food CHAT, & help CREATE SOFTWARE, DESIGN HARDWARE, or CREATE ART. Join the mailing list. http://groups.google.com/group/BerkTIPGlobal Help set up a meeting in your area. I think it's best to have just one central meeting within about a 60 mile radius - but, hey, what do I know? You do what you think is right. ===================================================================== ===== 3) TALKS SCHEDULE AUGUST 2 (Pacific Daylight Savings Time PDST): ( !!! NOTE: Your time zone simultaneous times are a DIFFERENT HOUR OF THE DAY than the hours below if you aren't in PDST. So ADJUST FOR YOUR TIME ZONE!!! EX: EAST COAST USA = PDST + 3 HOURS. I.E. 10 AM PDST = 1 PM EDST. ) ===================================================================== ===== 4) TALKS/VIDEOS/GROUP_MEETINGS AGENDA (PDST): ===== TENTATIVE SCHEDULE: See the website for final schedule. 1000A NETWORKING - internet, Apache, Firefox web browser, VOIP... SOCIAL - EFF, FSF... 1130A PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES - Python, PERL, CC++, PHP... DATABASES - MySQL, MSQL, BerkeleyDB... 100P GUI's - GNOME, KDE... DISTROS - GNU(Linux), BSD, Debian, Gentoo, FreeBSD OpenBSD... 230P BUSINESS - CRM, ERP, spreadsheets... EDUCATION/ACADEMIC/SCIENCE - OLPC, SciPy... 400P HARDWARE - OLPC, phone(OpenMoko)... PERSONAL APPLICATIONS - K/Open-Office, games, multimedia... 530P ART - Creative Commons, music, visual, Wikipedia... These are the TIME SLOTS for the various talks. There will only BE talks if someone makes a talk available for that time slot. There are two ways to do that: LIVE & PRE-RECORDED. For this August 2 meeting, as a practical matter, there isn't really time to get live talks going, I think. Thus, for this meeting we will just view previously recorded talks. I will suggest a few talks that people can download ahead of the meeting, then view simultaneously at the meeting. And, it is YOUR responsibility to find pre-recorded talks for what interests YOU, and post links to the download location for those talks to the mailing list, so others can DL those talks & watch them simultaneously, at their meeting sites. See the group website & mailing list for details about what talks/videos are scheduled for the topic times. I'll also try to email the people who gave the recorded presentations, so they can join us online after the video to answer questions & chat. ===================================================================== ===== 5) TALKS: Videos for the August 2 Meeting: ===== TENTATIVE SCHEDULE: See the website for final schedule. 1000 AM-------------------------------------------------------------- Networking1:Asterisk VOIP - Sameer Verma http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2148055040572903738 http://www.penlug.org/twiki/bin/view/Home/MeetingAgenda20070628 Social: ? 1130 AM-------------------------------------------------------------- Networking2:Debian - Setup A WiFi Repeater http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJKe_jXszFc Prog Lang: Painless Python Part 1 - Alex Martelli http://youtube.com/watch?v=bDgD9whDfEY http://mail.python.org/pipermail/baypiggies/2008-June/003629.html Database: A Googly MySQL Cluster Talk http://youtube.com/watch?v=HJ930zMk96U 100 PM-------------------------------------------------------------- GUIs: ? Distros: git - Linus Torvalds http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2199332044603874737 230 PM-------------------------------------------------------------- Business: Web 2.0 startups - David Weekly http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2765503550413131030 http://www.penlug.org/twiki/bin/view/Home/MeetingAgenda20080626 Education: Python on the OLPC XO Laptop - Merriam, Cherlin & __ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPabiIHgmBU 400 PM-------------------------------------------------------------- Hardware: ? Open Moko?? - can we get someone to give a talk on this??? Pers Apps: ? Games - TeamSpeak - can we get a talk on this??? 530 PM-------------------------------------------------------------- Art: ? ?? VLC video streaming?? Video download tool: http://www.techcrunch.com/get-youtube-movie/ Or try youtube-dl ? For this first meeting, the above list is probably plenty to start out with - given that this is the startup meeting for the USA wide effort, and a major effort & focus of this meeting will be to work on getting inter-location communications going - ie, IRC & especially VOIP. But, feel free to suggest other talks for this meeting on the google groups mailing list, if you so desire. Note: When two talks are available for the same topic, ex: 2 Distro talks, the second listed talk will happen in the time slot after the first talk. Ex: Distro1 talk at 10A, Distro2 talk at 1130A. YOU SEARCH FOR RELEVANT TALKS - some links: http://www.youtube.com http://youtube.com/user/googletechtalks http://www.archive.org/details/computersandtechvideos http://www.archive.org/details/wikimedia http://www.archive.org/details/movies http://www.archive.org/details/opensource_movies ===================================================================== ===== 6) !!!!! MAIN AGENDA FOR AUGUST 2 MEETING = VOIP !!!!! - ===== Getting COMMUNICATIONS working between meeting locations, Definitely IRC Especially VOIP - Ekiga, TeamSpeak, ? Maybe webcam streaming, video streaming, VLC? The PROGRAMMING PARTY TOPIC for this meeting is: Help get IRC, VOIP, Webcam streaming working between meeting sites. If you know about these topics - this is your chance to help out. SOFTWARE: Ekiga, TeamSpeak, VLC webcasting http://goteamspeak.com Since IRC should be easy to do, the main focus of this meeting will be to get VOIP communications working between multiple meeting site locations. From the little search I've done so far, TeamSpeak looks like it might be a good solution. "TeamSpeak is a quality, scalable application which enables people to speak with one another over the Internet. TeamSpeak consists of both client and server software. The server acts as a host to multiple client connections, capable of handling literally thousands of simultaneous users. This results in an Internet based conferencing solution that works in a variety of applications such as team mates speaking with one another while playing their favorite online game, small businesses cutting costs on long distance charges, or for personal communication with friends and family." ===================================================================== ===== 7) ME + YOU = 3 - What I do, what you do. ===== Note: I'm just creating the ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE for this meeting in my SMALL PART TIME, as my VOLUNTEER contribution to the GNU/BSD communities. I'm creating the ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE for the meeting. I'm NOT creating the MEETING - (although I'll certainly assist) - If YOU want to attend this meeting, then the person(s) creating the meeting are: YOU (collectively). I'm creating the structure to enable people who want to be able to attend an event like this to put together the event they want to have. That is part of the reason why I call this a "Self-Reliant event". "Self-Reliance" means: if you see something that could be improved, figure out an improvement & help out with that. ===================================================================== ===== 8) GLOBAL-USA - This month's step forward goal. ===== When I set out to create this Berkeley-TIP-Global event, I planned to start it small, & grow it one step at a time. I've put together two great local meetings in Berkeley the past two months. This month, I'm working to enable persons who wish to participate to get this meeting going around the USA. USA is the growth step this month. Everyone everywhere in the world is welcome to set up a local simultaneous meeting. Please forward this announcement to relevant other mailing lists. I only have time this month to focus my attention on USA groups. You, & anyone, are welcome, & encouraged, to set up a simultaneous meeting in any part of the world. I will be sending this email announcement to the following LUGs (State, Group): CA LULA SFVLUG, CO CLUE, FL LEAP, GA ALE, HI Luau, IL ChicagoLinux, LA BRLUG, MA BLU, MD BaltoLUG, MI MDLUG, NC TriLUG, NY NYLUG, OR PLUG, PA PLUG WPLUG, TX ALG, VA NoBALUG, WA GSLUG. I chose those groups in each local area because with a quick search on http://www.linux.org/groups/usa/ those groups seemed to be the ones in each area that had the most active mailing list. I will also try to send this announcement to the following interest groups: OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Debian, Gentoo, KDE, Gnome, FSF, GNU, EFF, CreativeCommons, Python, LinuxWeeklyNews, Mozilla. I will be sending a local announcement to SanFrancisco Bay Area LUGs, directing to BerkTIP, the local, not global, group page. http://groups.google.com/group/BerkTIP ==DO: -- Here are links for DIGG - please go to this URL to DIGG this site to feature the announcement for this event prominently: http://digg.com/software/Invite_Aug_2_Sat_1st_USA_wide_GNU_BSD_FreeSW_Culture_Mtg In the next months I'll work to expand this to: September 6: The Americas October 4: Europe November 1: Asia ===================================================================== ===== 9) SUMMARY: This sould be a great event for anyone wanting to keep on top of the leading developments in GNU/BSD technology. With 7 or more great talks, you'll learn lots & meet with many top people. NOTE: I'm doing this as a small part time effort as a volunteer for the community when I have many other things to do with my time. So, don't expect perfection, do expect hiccups, and if you see something you think could be improved - YOU CAN VOLUNTEER TO IMPROVE THINGS. :) Best wishes - I hope to see you there. :) From unixjavabob at yahoo.com Wed Jul 30 16:10:54 2008 From: unixjavabob at yahoo.com (Bob Read) Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:10:54 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [buug] recommendations for network security tools? Message-ID: <116865.44380.qm@web54103.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Hi, I'm looking for recommendations for network security tools: 1) subnet scanning and IP discovery (nmap...discover new IPs and categorize them with port scan) 2) corporate environment windoze workstation monitoring (to identify a windoze box that has been owned via netflow/sflow, virus scan, port scan, etc) 3) secure linux environment (for PCI compliance, for example) From jb at caustic.org Wed Jul 30 16:28:09 2008 From: jb at caustic.org (Johan Beisser) Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:28:09 -0700 Subject: [buug] recommendations for network security tools? In-Reply-To: <116865.44380.qm@web54103.mail.re2.yahoo.com> References: <116865.44380.qm@web54103.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <32393800807301628q71537648p9b25ec7b368e5932@mail.gmail.com> On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 4:10 PM, Bob Read wrote: > Hi, > I'm looking for recommendations for network security tools: > > 1) subnet scanning and IP discovery (nmap...discover new IPs and categorize them with port scan) Old nmap is still best in class here, imho. It does support some odd and slightly useless features, but mostly has useful output. > 2) corporate environment windoze workstation monitoring (to identify a windoze box that has been owned via netflow/sflow, virus scan, port scan, etc) I'd look at putting an IDP/IDS inline to scan outbound traffic from a specific subnet. This one tends to be harder though, and multiple vendors have put forward multiple ideas and systems. As far as OpenSource solutions go, you're on your own. I've yet to find one that doesn't scream and provide too many false positives before putting in a few days worth of tuning. > 3) secure linux environment (for PCI compliance, for example) Activate SELinux. Then review the compliance regs really really well. You'll find that you have to isolate the systems, users, etc anyway. From kayve at sfsu.edu Wed Jul 30 19:05:24 2008 From: kayve at sfsu.edu (KAYVEN RIESE) Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 19:05:24 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [buug] MEETING August 2 this Saturday- BerkeleyTIP- 1st Global Talks Installfest Potluck ProgrammingParty In-Reply-To: <1217422507.21637.1266109485@webmail.messagingengine.com> References: <1217422507.21637.1266109485@webmail.messagingengine.com> Message-ID: O mwan.. Ask Ian Zimmerman about this: http://www.calchess.org/controlpanel/files/FremontOpen08.pdf {:{ On Wed, 30 Jul 2008, john_re wrote: > The Berkeley GNU/BSD Talks Installfest Potluck & ProgrammingParty > is having its third GREAT meeting this > Saturday August 2, at the U. C. Berkeley Campus. > 10 AM - 6 PM. > > Berkeley-TIP-Global is a meeting of friendly, helpful people interested > in LEARNING about, USING & CREATING GNU & BSD type software. > > Read the mail list, & join both groups: > == LOCAL GROUP - WHO WILL BRING WHICH VIDEOS > http://groups.google.com/group/BerkTIP > == GLOBAL GROUP - WHAT VIDEOS ARE AVAILABLE > http://groups.google.com/group/BerkTIPGlobal > > ===== THREE GREAT NEW ADDITIONS THIS MONTH: > ===== 1) TALKS, 2) GLOBAL, 3) PROGRAMMING PARTY > 1) TALKS - about 7 this month > [VOIP, Linus Torvalds - git, WIFI Repeaters, > Python Intro - Martelli, MySQL, Web 2.0, OLPC] > See details below - > a) Determine talks you're interested in > b) Look on BerkTIP mailing list > to see if someone else will bring the video > c) Otherwise YOU Download the video to your laptop & bring it, > email to the list you'll bring that talk, > and share watching it at the meeting on your laptop. > 2) GLOBAL-USA simultaneous MEETINGS > (Simultaneous meetings throughout the USA.) > Bring your laptop & Microphone Headset & join VOIP & IRC chat with > other attendees around the USA, > and watching the same videos simultaneously. > 3) PROGRAMMING PARTY MEETING TOPIC: > VOIP, TeamSpeak - getting VOIP going between USA locations > > Plan to arrive about 9:30 AM if you want to leisurely be ready for the > first talk at 10:00 AM > > === DO: Print out this email & bring it with you for reference. > There is a LOT of information here, & it will probably be valueable to > you to have it in print form for easy reference. :) > > === DO; PLEASE RSVP TO john_re at fastmail dot us . > I want to know if we might need a larger meeting location. Thank you. > > I'm including the Global-USA announcement in full after this short local > announcement. It has lots of information. Do read it. > > ===== PROGRAMMING PARTY TOPIC: > ===== VOIP TEAMSPEAK - GETTING VOIP GOING BETWEEN USA LOCATIONS > More like a group installfest project than actual programming. Work > together to get a server running TeamSpeak, and ensure client TeamSpeak > sw communicates properly between groups around the USA. > > ===== TENTATIVE MEETING LOCATION: FREE SPEECH CAFE > FREE SPEECH CAFE Veranda outdoors at MOFFIT UNDERGRAD LIBRARY, > which is approximately the geographic center of campus. > http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=37.872496,-122.261155&spn=0.000578,0.000633&t=h&z=20 > http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/AboutLibrary/fsmcafe.html > http://www.berkeley.edu/map/maps/BC34.html > http://www.berkeley.edu/map/3dmap/3dmap.shtml > > (It's the same place we had the first meeting. > Note: Don't go to Evans Hall, just go directly to the FSCafe. > Note: WATCH the BerkTIP WEBSITE the DAY OF THE MEETING IN CASE WE CHANGE > to ANOTHER meeting LOCATION.) > > Weather page for Berkeley: > http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?brand=sfgate&query=Berkeley%2C+CA > We had beautiful 75 degrees on the June meeting. Be prepared for warmer > or cooler conditions. > > ===== CARPOOL: POST A CARPOOL MESSAGE TO YOUR MAILING LIST!!!!! > It's GREAT to carpool. Saves $, gas, & is fun to talk with your fellow > travelers. > DO: YOU POST a carpool notice to this mailing list, or to lists covering > the geography you will travel through. A great message would be like: > > "Subject: CARPOOL to BerkeleyTIP Aug 2 Saturday > Am interested in attending the BerkeleyTIP meeting Aug 2 Saturday. > Can drive you if you pay a share of gas. > Or, I can pay for gas if you drive. > Email me your phone #. > Would like to arrive by 10 AM for the first talk." > > We've had past attendees come from Sacramento & Pleasanton. It would be > great if each LUG around Northern California could get one or more > carpools attending. > > ===== INSTALLFEST: This is a SELF RELIANT EVENT. > Bring everything you might possibly need - laptop, speakers, power cord, > wifi card, wifi router, router, ethernet cables, Distro ISOs, etc. > We will have power, & almost definitely Internet access. Bring your > cell phone Internet if you have it, just in case. > > ===== POTLUCK > Bring food for potluck, or $5 to order pizza or something. Optional. > Or, just bring your own bag lunch. The cafe is expensive. > There are many less expensive restaurants about 4 short blocks walk. > > ===== TRANSPORTATION: > CAR: University Exit from 880 Bayshore freeway. Up 1.5 mile to campus. > West entrance to campus has a map, & maybe someone in the entrance booth > to give directions. > Loading zone 5 minute parking behind the Library. > > CARPOOL! CARPOOL! CARPOOL! - & POST A CARPOOL EMAIL TO YOUR LIST!!!!! > > Parking: > There are about 60 on campus pay parking spaces near the Gym, about 200 > yards away from the cafe. There are several parking garages, which > charge on Saturday. The closest is on the North side of campus, Hearst > below Euclid, about a 4-5 short block walk from the cafe. > There is free street parking on the North side of campus - Check the > signs above the sidewalk for details. Hearst is the street at the North > edge of campus. > http://pt.berkeley.edu/ > http://pt.berkeley.edu/around/drive > http://pt.berkeley.edu/park/public > http://www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/transportation/Parking/OffStreet.html > > BART: Downtown Berkeley exit, 10 minute easy walk slightly uphill. > > ===== SUMMARY: > This sould be a great event for anyone wanting to keep on top of the > leading developments in GNU/BSD technology. With 7 or more great talks, > you'll learn lots & meet with many top people. > > Read the GLOBAL-USA announcement below, to learn about > 1) how this meeting is growing, & > 2) for details about the talks. > > NOTE: I'm doing this as a small part time effort as a volunteer for the > community when I have many other things to do with my time. So, don't > expect perfection, do expect hiccups, and if you see something you think > could be improved - YOU CAN VOLUNTEER TO IMPROVE THINGS. :) > > Best wishes - I hope to see you there. :) > > =================================================================== > =================================================================== > ===== APPENDIX: The Global-USA Announcement > INVITATION- August 2 Saturday, Berkeley-TIP-Global-USA > > ====-----------------------===== > Hello from Berkeley, everyone. :) > > Hey - I'm putting together a little global GNU(Linux)/BSD type free > software monthly event - anyone want to join in? > > The Global Simultaneous Berkeley GNU(Linux)/BSD Software Monthly Event > - Talks, Installfest, Potluck & ProgrammingParty (TIP) > It goes Global-USA August 2, this Saturday. > > If you are interested in LEARNING about, USING &/or CREATING FREE > SOFTWARE, > then you are invited to the First Berkeley-TIP-Global meeting. > Coming to YOUR LOCATION, in & throughout the USA. This Saturday August > 2. > [Yep. You can do that.] > > Join: > http://groups.google.com/group/BerkTIPGlobal > > It's really easy to join with us. And you'll have a fun day learning & > producing things with your buddies from all over the (Global)-USA. > > I'm writing to let you know about this event, > & find out if anyone there is interested in > helping setup a local meeting, & participating with us. > If anyone is, I'll try to help you out - > answer questions, give you some guidance. > > ===================================================================== > ===== CONTENTS: ===== > 1) THE MULTIMEDIA ANNOUNCEMENT > 2) THE BASIC ANNOUNCEMENT DETAILS > 3) TALKS SCHEDULE AUGUST 2 (Pacific Daylight Savings Time PDST) > 4) TALKS/VIDEOS/GROUP_MEETINGS AGENDA (PDST) > 5) TALKS: Videos for the August 2 Meeting > 6) !!!!! MAIN AGENDA FOR AUGUST 2 MEETING = VOIP !!!!! > 7) ME + YOU = 3 - What I do, what you do. > 8) GLOBAL-USA - This month's step forward goal. > 9) SUMMARY > -- > 10) Sample Local Announcement > > ===================================================================== > ===== 1) THE MULTIMEDIA ANNOUNCEMENT ===== > [Que: 10 Second Countdown] > [Roll: Countdown] > > [Que: The first 42 seconds of Caravan, > by Van Morrison & The Band, > "Van Morrison - Caravan - The Last Waltz - great quality Video" > The Last Waltz, 1976, > San Francisco, California] > > [Roll: Caravan] > > ===== > And, the caravan is on it's way - > I can hear that merry gypsy play. > Mama mama look at Ammareu! > She's a-playin' with the ... radio! > > La la la la, la la la. > La la la la, la la la! > > ===== > Well, the Berkeley TIP has had two great meetings, > and this month, once again, > we're gonna bop it up another notch. > > This month we go Global-USA. > > You're invited - > Come join with us, August 2 Saturday, > Pacific Daylight Savings Time 10 AM - 6 PM. > > Oh, . . . , yeah, . . ., at your local loca-tion. > > [. . . oh, . . . yeah . .. . ] - > > La la la la, la la la. > La la la la, la la la! > > [ ;) ] > > ===================================================================== > ===== 2) THE BASIC ANNOUNCEMENT DETAILS ===== > If you are interested in LEARNING about, USING &/or CREATING FREE > SOFTWARE, > Then you are invited to the first Berkeley-TIP-Global meeting - this > Saturday August 2nd. > > Berkeley-TIP-Global is a meeting for friendly, helpful people interested > in learning about, using & creating GNU & BSD type software. > > There are 4 PARALLEL TRACKS of events at each meeting: > 1) TALKS Talks by various speakers (stream/DL video globally) > 2) INSTALLFEST Bring your computer & install BSD or GNU/Linux software. > 3) POTLUCK Bring $5 or food to share: eat, chat (optional) > 4) PROGRAMMING PARTY Write SW on your. or a group. project > > The meeting will be held in multiple simultaneous locations around the > globe. This month the meeting expands to locations around the USA. > > This is a FREE, no $ cost, event. If you want to make a donation to > help this event, that would be wonderful. > > Like other things in life, you might need to DO A LITTLE SOMETHING for > you to have the event you want. In particular, you likely will need to > DOWNLOAD A VIDEO for a talk you want to see. It's easy. > > This is a SELF-RELIANT event: > 0) ARRANGE a local meeting LOCATION with INTERNET access. > Could be as simple as someone's house, apartment, > an internet cafe, a school room, or company office. > 1) EMAIL to the BerkTIPGlobal mailing list LINKS to relevant VIDEO > TALKS. > 2) DOWNLOAD the videos you want to see to your laptop. > 3) EMAIL your LOCAL GROUP the list of videos you will bring. > 4) BRING your laptop, VOIP headset, & etc. > 5) Meet at a location with at least internet for IRC, > better yet if it can handle VOIP, > better still if it can receive streaming video, & > WATCH videos/talks > JOIN IRC & VOIP > INSTALL SW > EAT some food > CHAT, & > help CREATE SOFTWARE, DESIGN HARDWARE, or CREATE ART. > > Join the mailing list. > http://groups.google.com/group/BerkTIPGlobal > > Help set up a meeting in your area. I think it's best to have just one > central meeting within about a 60 mile radius - but, hey, what do I > know? You do what you think is right. > > ===================================================================== > ===== 3) TALKS SCHEDULE AUGUST 2 (Pacific Daylight Savings Time PDST): > ( !!! NOTE: Your time zone simultaneous times are a > DIFFERENT HOUR OF THE DAY than the hours below > if you aren't in PDST. So ADJUST FOR YOUR TIME ZONE!!! > EX: EAST COAST USA = PDST + 3 HOURS. > I.E. 10 AM PDST = 1 PM EDST. ) > > ===================================================================== > ===== 4) TALKS/VIDEOS/GROUP_MEETINGS AGENDA (PDST): ===== > > TENTATIVE SCHEDULE: See the website for final schedule. > > 1000A NETWORKING - internet, Apache, Firefox web browser, VOIP... > SOCIAL - EFF, FSF... > 1130A PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES - Python, PERL, CC++, PHP... > DATABASES - MySQL, MSQL, BerkeleyDB... > 100P GUI's - GNOME, KDE... > DISTROS - GNU(Linux), BSD, Debian, Gentoo, FreeBSD OpenBSD... > 230P BUSINESS - CRM, ERP, spreadsheets... > EDUCATION/ACADEMIC/SCIENCE - OLPC, SciPy... > 400P HARDWARE - OLPC, phone(OpenMoko)... > PERSONAL APPLICATIONS - K/Open-Office, games, multimedia... > 530P ART - Creative Commons, music, visual, Wikipedia... > > These are the TIME SLOTS for the various talks. There will only BE > talks if someone makes a talk available for that time slot. There are > two ways to do that: LIVE & PRE-RECORDED. For this August 2 meeting, as > a practical matter, there isn't really time to get live talks going, I > think. Thus, for this meeting we will just view previously recorded > talks. > > I will suggest a few talks that people can download ahead of the > meeting, then view simultaneously at the meeting. And, it is YOUR > responsibility to find pre-recorded talks for what interests YOU, and > post links to the download location for those talks to the mailing list, > so others can DL those talks & watch them simultaneously, at their > meeting sites. > > See the group website & mailing list for details about what talks/videos > are scheduled for the topic times. > > I'll also try to email the people who gave the recorded presentations, > so they can join us online after the video to answer questions & chat. > > ===================================================================== > ===== 5) TALKS: Videos for the August 2 Meeting: ===== > > TENTATIVE SCHEDULE: See the website for final schedule. > > > 1000 AM-------------------------------------------------------------- > Networking1:Asterisk VOIP - Sameer Verma > http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2148055040572903738 > http://www.penlug.org/twiki/bin/view/Home/MeetingAgenda20070628 > Social: ? > 1130 AM-------------------------------------------------------------- > Networking2:Debian - Setup A WiFi Repeater > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJKe_jXszFc > Prog Lang: Painless Python Part 1 - Alex Martelli > http://youtube.com/watch?v=bDgD9whDfEY > http://mail.python.org/pipermail/baypiggies/2008-June/003629.html > Database: A Googly MySQL Cluster Talk > http://youtube.com/watch?v=HJ930zMk96U > 100 PM-------------------------------------------------------------- > GUIs: ? > Distros: git - Linus Torvalds > http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2199332044603874737 > 230 PM-------------------------------------------------------------- > Business: Web 2.0 startups - David Weekly > http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2765503550413131030 > http://www.penlug.org/twiki/bin/view/Home/MeetingAgenda20080626 > Education: Python on the OLPC XO Laptop - Merriam, Cherlin & __ > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPabiIHgmBU > 400 PM-------------------------------------------------------------- > Hardware: ? Open Moko?? - can we get someone to give a talk on this??? > Pers Apps: ? Games - TeamSpeak - can we get a talk on this??? > 530 PM-------------------------------------------------------------- > Art: ? > > ?? VLC video streaming?? > > Video download tool: > http://www.techcrunch.com/get-youtube-movie/ > Or try youtube-dl ? > > For this first meeting, the above list is probably plenty to start out > with - given that this is the startup meeting for the USA wide effort, > and a major effort & focus of this meeting will be to work on getting > inter-location communications going - ie, IRC & especially VOIP. But, > feel free to suggest other talks for this meeting on the google groups > mailing list, if you so desire. > > Note: When two talks are available for the same topic, ex: 2 Distro > talks, the second listed talk will happen in the time slot after the > first talk. Ex: Distro1 talk at 10A, Distro2 talk at 1130A. > > YOU SEARCH FOR RELEVANT TALKS - some links: > http://www.youtube.com > http://youtube.com/user/googletechtalks > http://www.archive.org/details/computersandtechvideos > http://www.archive.org/details/wikimedia > http://www.archive.org/details/movies > http://www.archive.org/details/opensource_movies > > ===================================================================== > ===== 6) !!!!! MAIN AGENDA FOR AUGUST 2 MEETING = VOIP !!!!! - ===== > Getting COMMUNICATIONS working between meeting locations, > Definitely IRC > Especially VOIP - Ekiga, TeamSpeak, ? > Maybe webcam streaming, video streaming, VLC? > > The PROGRAMMING PARTY TOPIC for this meeting is: > Help get IRC, VOIP, Webcam streaming working between meeting sites. > If you know about these topics - this is your chance to help out. > SOFTWARE: Ekiga, TeamSpeak, VLC webcasting > http://goteamspeak.com > > Since IRC should be easy to do, > the main focus of this meeting will be to get VOIP communications > working between multiple meeting site locations. From the little search > I've done so far, TeamSpeak looks like it might be a good solution. > > "TeamSpeak is a quality, scalable application which enables people to > speak with one another over the Internet. TeamSpeak consists of both > client and server software. The server acts as a host to multiple client > connections, capable of handling literally thousands of simultaneous > users. This results in an Internet based conferencing solution that > works in a variety of applications such as team mates speaking with one > another while playing their favorite online game, small businesses > cutting costs on long distance charges, or for personal communication > with friends and family." > > ===================================================================== > ===== 7) ME + YOU = 3 - What I do, what you do. ===== > Note: I'm just creating the ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE for this meeting > in my SMALL PART TIME, > as my VOLUNTEER contribution to the GNU/BSD communities. > I'm creating the ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE for the meeting. > I'm NOT creating the MEETING - (although I'll certainly assist) - > If YOU want to attend this meeting, > then the person(s) creating the meeting are: YOU (collectively). > I'm creating the structure to enable > people who want to be able to attend an event like this > to put together the event they want to have. > That is part of the reason why I call this a "Self-Reliant event". > "Self-Reliance" means: if you see something that could be improved, > figure out an improvement & help out with that. > > ===================================================================== > ===== 8) GLOBAL-USA - This month's step forward goal. ===== > When I set out to create this Berkeley-TIP-Global event, > I planned to start it small, & grow it one step at a time. > I've put together two great local meetings in Berkeley the past two > months. > This month, I'm working to enable persons who wish to participate > to get this meeting going around the USA. > > USA is the growth step this month. > > Everyone everywhere in the world is welcome to set up a local > simultaneous meeting. Please forward this announcement to relevant other > mailing lists. I only have time this month to focus my attention on USA > groups. You, & anyone, are welcome, & encouraged, to set up a > simultaneous meeting in any part of the world. > > I will be sending this email announcement to the following LUGs (State, > Group): > CA LULA SFVLUG, CO CLUE, FL LEAP, GA ALE, HI Luau, IL ChicagoLinux, LA > BRLUG, MA BLU, MD BaltoLUG, MI MDLUG, NC TriLUG, NY NYLUG, OR PLUG, PA > PLUG WPLUG, TX ALG, VA NoBALUG, WA GSLUG. > > I chose those groups in each local area because with a quick search on > http://www.linux.org/groups/usa/ > those groups seemed to be the ones in each area that had the most active > mailing list. > > I will also try to send this announcement to the following interest > groups: > OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Debian, Gentoo, KDE, Gnome, FSF, GNU, EFF, > CreativeCommons, Python, LinuxWeeklyNews, Mozilla. > > I will be sending a local announcement to SanFrancisco Bay Area LUGs, > directing to BerkTIP, the local, not global, group page. > http://groups.google.com/group/BerkTIP > > ==DO: -- Here are links for DIGG - please go to this URL to DIGG this > site to feature the announcement for this event prominently: > http://digg.com/software/Invite_Aug_2_Sat_1st_USA_wide_GNU_BSD_FreeSW_Culture_Mtg > > In the next months I'll work to expand this to: > September 6: The Americas > October 4: Europe > November 1: Asia > > ===================================================================== > ===== 9) SUMMARY: > This sould be a great event for anyone wanting to keep on top of the > leading developments in GNU/BSD technology. With 7 or more great talks, > you'll learn lots & meet with many top people. > > NOTE: I'm doing this as a small part time effort as a volunteer for the > community when I have many other things to do with my time. So, don't > expect perfection, do expect hiccups, and if you see something you think > could be improved - YOU CAN VOLUNTEER TO IMPROVE THINGS. :) > > Best wishes - I hope to see you there. :) > > _______________________________________________ > Buug mailing list > Buug at weak.org > http://www.weak.org/mailman/listinfo/buug > *----------------------------------------------------------* Kayven Riese, BSCS, MS (Physiology and Biophysics) (415) 902 5513 cellular http://kayve.net Webmaster http://ChessYoga.org *----------------------------------------------------------* From Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu Thu Jul 31 12:48:51 2008 From: Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu (Michael Paoli) Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 12:48:51 -0700 Subject: [buug] Fwd: July User Group contest on InformIT Message-ID: <1217533731.489217239b0c5@webmail.rawbw.com> ----- Forwarded message from "InformIT, User Groups" ----- Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:18:44 -0400 From: "InformIT, User Groups" Reply-To: "InformIT, User Groups" Subject: July User Group contest on InformIT Hello, User Group Leader: Don't forget to enter the July User Group contest for your chance to win any three print books of choice from the InformIT store. 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