[buug] BALUG Tu 2013-07-16 Linux & Virtual Machines, etc. - Michael Paoli; & other BALUG items

[Michael Paoli]

BALUG Tu 2013-07-16 Linux & Virtual Machines, etc. - Michael Paoli; &  
other BALUG items

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items, details further below:
2013-07-16: BALUG: Linux & Virtual Machines, etc. - Michael Paoli
Books!, CDs/DVDs/ISOs, and other "door prizes", etc.
Debian meeting, 20th birthday/anniversary celebration (and fundraiser)  
2013-08-14
volunteering to help BALUG
Twitter https://twitter.com/#!/BALUG_org

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For our 2013-07-16 BALUG meeting, we're proud to present:
Linux & Virtual Machines, etc. - Michael Paoli

Michael Paoli will be giving presentation and demonstration of virtual  
machine (VM) technologies.  This will include information on and  
demonstrations with qemu-kvm[1], qemu[2], libvirt[3] and  
VirtualBox[4], and also information on Xen[5], VMware[6] and  
additional virtualization technologies and possibly additional  
demonstration bits.

Michael Paoli has been administering virtual machines on Linux for over
5 years, including VMware, Xen, KVM/qemu-kvm/QEMU and VirtualBox, and
has used virtual machine technologies and virtual technologies many
additional years.  He's been administering Linux for 15 years, Unix for
over a quarter century, and first used Unix about a third of a century
ago.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_machine
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel-based_Virtual_Machine
3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qemu
4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libvirt
5. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VirtualBox
6. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xen
7. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vmware


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, July 16th, 2013 2013-07-16

                        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).

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Books!, CDs/DVDs, and other "door prizes", etc.

Goodies we'll have at the BALUG meeting (at least the following):

Books!:
Nagios: Building Enterprise-Grade Monitoring Infrastructures for   
Systems and Networks, 2nd Edition
MySQL, 5th Edition
Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment, 3rd Edition
Oracle Solaris 11 System Administration
Thanks to Pearson's User Group program for providing these review
copies.  Details on these books, please see:
http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-talk-balug.org/2013-July/005034.html

CDs/DVDs/ISOs, etc. - have a peek here:
http://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=balug:cds_and_images_etc
We may also be able to "burn" images per request or copy to USB flash,
etc.  Donations of blank or +-RW media, USB flash, or funding thereof,
also appreciated.  See the above URL for details.

We typically also have at least a few other items up for grabs.

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Debian - meeting, 20th birthday/anniversary celebration (and fundraiser)
at the next Bay Area Debian (BAD) meeting 2013-08-14, see:
http://bad.debian.net/list/2013-July/003558.html

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volunteering to help BALUG

Want to volunteer to help out BALUG?  Quite a variety of opportunities*
Drop us a note at:
balug-contact at balug.org
Or come talk to us at a BALUG meeting.
*e.g.:
o assist on publicity
o assist on speaker coordination/procurement, etc.
o webmastering
o archivist/history/retrieval/etc.
o Linux Systems Administration (e.g. do/assist/learn, with/under some
   quite experienced and skilled Linux systems administrators).
o chief/assistant cat herder
o and other various/miscellaneous tasks BALUG "ought" to be doing or
   would be good to do (feel free to bring in ideas!)

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Twitter - you can also follow BALUG on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/#!/BALUG_org

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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

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