From jim at well.com Wed Oct 6 14:59:22 2010 From: jim at well.com (jim) Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2010 14:59:22 -0700 Subject: [buug] Graham Dumpleton on mod_wsgi at Noisebridge Friday evening Message-ID: <1286402362.2289.66.camel@jim-laptop> Please join us this Friday evening to hear Graham Dumpleton speak on mod_wsgi at Noisebridge Graham Dumpleton is here on a family vacation but hopes to spend a few hours with the local python community at Noisebridge in San Francisco, located on the 3rd floor of 2169 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94110-1219, very near 18th Street (press the buzzer button to get in). """Getting to know mod_wsgi.""" """Graham will describe the architecture of mod_wsgi and how that compares to other Python hosting solutions. He will then discuss the pros and cons of the different modes mod_wsgi supports for running WSGI applications. Question time will follow, allowing for a more in-depth discussion of the material covered or anything else people want to know about mod_wsgi.""" http://code.google.com/p/modwsgi/ The link to the announcement on the noisebridge site is here: https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Category:Events#Upcoming_Events_edit ---------------------------------- Energy Solutions is taking Graham to dinner before the talk at Poc-Chuc on 16th near South Van Ness (nearby) at around 5:30 PM. http://www.pocchuc.com/ Poc-Chuc is big enough to absorb a bunch of drop-ins, so if you want to have dinner there before the talk, too, make your arrangements (and be ready to pay for your dinner, ES cannot host dinner for everyone. :) From Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu Mon Oct 18 06:14:21 2010 From: Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu (Michael Paoli) Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 06:14:21 -0700 Subject: [buug] BALUG TOMRROW! Tu 2010-10-19 BALUG meeting; & other BALUG news Message-ID: <20101018061421.12042efyq9lfhl5w@webmail.rawbw.com> BALUG TOMRROW! Tu 2010-10-19 BALUG meeting; & other BALUG news In this issue (details further below): 2010-10-19 Tu: TOMORROW! BALUG meeting Linux Lawyers (& software for Laywers) Linux/Ubuntu CDs ------------------------------ Bay Area Linux User Group (BALUG) meeting Tuesday 6:30 P.M. 2010-10-19 Please RSVP if you're planning to come (see further below). For our 2010-10-19 BALUG meeting, at least presently we don't have a specific speaker/presentation lined up for this meeting, but that doesn't prevent us from having interesting and exciting meetings. Sometimes we also manage to secure/confirm a speaker too late for us to announce or fully publicise the speaker (that's happened at least twice in the past five or so years). Got questions, answers, and/or opinions? We typically have some expert(s) and/or relative expert(s) present to cover LINUX and related topic areas. Want to hear some interesting discussions on LINUX and other topics? Show up at the meeting, and feel free to bring an agenda if you wish. Want to help ensure BALUG has speakers/presentations lined up for future meetings? Help refer speakers to us and/or volunteer to be one of the speaker coordinators. Good food, good people, and interesting conversations to be had. So, if you'd like to join us please RSVP to: rsvp at balug.org **Why RSVP??** Well, don't worry we won't turn you away, but the RSVPs really help BALUG and the Four Seas Restaurant plan the meal and meeting, and with sufficient attendance, they also help ensure that we'll be able to eat upstairs in the private banquet room. Meeting Details... 6:30pm Tuesday, October 19th, 2010 2010-10-19 Four Seas Restaurant http://www.fourseasr.com/ 731 Grant Ave. San Francisco, CA 94108 Easy PARKING: Portsmouth Square Garage at 733 Kearny: http://www.sfpsg.com/ Cost: The meetings are always free, but for dinner, for your gift of $13 cash, we give you a gift of dinner - joining us for a yummy family-style Chinese dinner - tax and tip included (your gift also helps in our patronizing the restaurant venue and helping to defray BALUG costs such treating our speakers to dinner). ------------------------------ Linux Lawyers (& software for Laywers) From Martyn Collins talk/presentation at BALUG last month on 2010-09-21, he also provided BALUG with "a list of the applications I find essential in making my solo practice viable": http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-talk-balug.org/2010-October/004679.html ------------------------------ We'll also have various Linux/Ubuntu CDs available at the 2010-10-19 BALUG meeting (and likely also future meetings as long as our supply lasts/continues), most notably presently including: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx) Desktop CD PC (Intel x86) i386 (also at least some Fedora, Knoppix, and other Ubuntu variants presently) Thanks to Grant Bowman and the Ubuntu California Team for getting CDs to us. ------------------------------ 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 ------------------------------ http://www.balug.org/ From jim at well.com Wed Oct 27 11:48:23 2010 From: jim at well.com (jim) Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 11:48:23 -0700 Subject: [buug] BayPIGgies meeting Thursday, October 28, 2010: Consulting As a Career Choice Message-ID: <1288205303.1875.154.camel@jim-laptop> BayPIGgies meeting Thursday, October 28, 2010: Consulting As a Career Choice This meeting's talk is Consulting As a Career Choice by Glen Jarvis, Monte Davidoff, Emile Van Sebille, Annette Bourget Tonight's talk is a four-person mini-talk and Q&A Panel: * Business Resources Available to You -- Glen Jarvis * A topic from Marketing and Networking -- Annet Bourget * Issues of Business Entities/Legal Stuff -- Monte Davidoff * Consulting vs. Contracting - Emile van Sebille ......................................... Meetings usually start with a Newbie Nugget, a short discussion of an essential Python feature, especially for those new to Python. Tonight's Newbie Nugget: none. LOCATION Symantec Corporation Symantec Vcafe 350 Ellis Street Mountain View, CA 94043 http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&ie=UTF8&fb=1&split=1&gl=us&ei=w6i_Sfr6MZmQsQOzlv0v&hl=en&t=h&msa=0&msid=116202735295394761637.00046550c09ff3d96bff1&ll=37.397693,-122.053707&spn=0.002902,0.004828&z=18 BayPIGgies meeting information is available at http://www.baypiggies.net/ ------------------------ Agenda ------------------------ ..... 7:30 PM ........................... General hubbub, inventory end-of-meeting announcements, any first-minute announcements. ..... 7:35 PM to 7:35 PM ................ Tonight's Newbie Nugget: none. ..... 7:35 PM to 8:40 PM (or so) ................ The talk: Consulting As a Career Choice ..... 8:40 PM to 9:10 PM ................ Questions and Answers ..... 9:10 PM to 9:30 PM ................ Mapping and Random Access Mapping is a rapid-fire audience announcement of issues, hiring, events, and other topics. Random Access follows people immediately to allow follow up on the announcements and other interests.