From Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu Sat Jun 1 09:02:11 2013 From: Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu (Michael Paoli) Date: Sat, 01 Jun 2013 09:02:11 -0700 Subject: [buug] [DON'T REPLY-ALL] calendar & Ubuntu Hour Berkeley - new days/times/locations Message-ID: <20130601090211.977472ejtkgsykws@webmail.rawbw.com> [DON'T REPLY-ALL unless you're member of ALL the applicable lists!] [Bcc: Bill Ward] calendar & Ubuntu Hour Berkeley - new days/times/locations The Google calendar: BerkeleyLUG https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=0eeqsdloeuvb2vbc2k0gk3ij9s%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America/Los_Angeles has been consolidated onto the Google calendar: SF Bay Area Open Source/Linux Events https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=caj9iea2ol69b7n2uqdek4ocso%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America/Los_Angeles For those specifically looking for BerkeleyLUG or Berkeley events, just search the above for BerkeleyLUG or Berkeley, respectively, for those events or for events in or related to Berkeley. I also reviewed and updated/corrected/clarified (and in some cases simplified) listings moved to that calendar (e.g. San Francisco Android User Group (sfandroid) (now?) meets last Tuesday, rather than 4th Tuesday of the month). Note that there are also other such San Francisco Bay Area Linux and/or Open Source related calendars, and lists, see, e.g.: http://bad.debian.net/list/2013-February/003536.html Ubuntu Hour Berkeley - new days/times/locations: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-us-ca/2013-May/002224.html https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam/Projects/UbuntuHours And, one might notice that has moderate overlap with: Berkeley Unix User Group (BUUG) http://www.buug.org/ and Berkeley Linux Users Group (BerkeleyLUG) http://www.berkeleylug.com/ as BUUG meets a total of 8 hours per 2 months, and BerkeleyLUG 12 hours per 2 months, that will have Ubuntu Hour Berkeley (1 hour per month) colocated with BUUG 1/8 of the BUUG time, and colocated with BerkeleyLUG 1/12 of the BerkeleyLUG meeting time. Anyway, I don't think BUUG or BerkeleyLUG will mind at all, and will give Ubuntu Hour Berkeley folks a place to go (and they can always spend more time at BUUG and/or BerkeleyLUG if they wish). And, for BUUG and/or BerkeleyLUG folks, that might want some more Ubuntu time or to meet some more Ubuntu oriented folks, it provides a specific time within where Ubuntu folks are quite specifically invited and encouraged to attend (not that they're discouraged at any other time, but if one is looking for a specific hour per month, rather than 4 or 6, there is also that). From Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu Fri Jun 7 03:03:45 2013 From: Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu (Michael Paoli) Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2013 03:03:45 -0700 Subject: [buug] User Groups, etc.? Message-ID: <20130607030345.198071qyid9g55og@webmail.rawbw.com> Anyway, at this Thursday's meeting, there was some discussion of what other User Groups are around. I did mention I'd posted to list(s) some stuff about such list(s) and calendars. Probably most useful and fairly recent on that would be the first rather large paragraph in here: http://buug.org/pipermail/buug/2013-June/004000.html Also mentioned, was: Diablo Valley Linux Users Group http://www.dvlug.org/ Question was also asked about BSD user groups. Not sure exactly which are still around and active, but The BALE -- Bay Area Linux Events http://linuxmafia.com/bale/ seems a good (and quite possibly best) place to start looking, and seems Bay Area FreeBSD Users Group http://www.bafug.org/ either is active, or at least has been active fairly recently. From itz at buug.org Mon Jun 10 23:08:35 2013 From: itz at buug.org (Ian Zimmerman) Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 23:08:35 -0700 Subject: [buug] Project In-Reply-To: <1369944520.85968.YahooMailNeo@web164706.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> References: <1369944520.85968.YahooMailNeo@web164706.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20130610230835.0b97afd9.itz@buug.org> On Thu, 30 May 2013 13:08:40 -0700 (PDT) Anonymous wrote: > Does anyone on this list need help with any Java programming projects? I don't know much about any Java Free Software projects, but my company [1] is desperately looking for _good_ programmers in pretty much any language. And I just forwarded the recruiting authorities this [2] which should have made them a bit more clued about hiring women. In theory. [1] http://www.linqia.com/about/jobs/ [2] http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/552848/a35889de9c4b7eb8/ -- Please *no* private copies of mailing list or newsgroup messages. gpg public key: 1024D/C6FF61AD fingerprint: 66DC D68F 5C1B 4D71 2EE5 BD03 8A00 786C C6FF 61AD Funny pic: http://bit.ly/ZNE2MX From uzimac at da3m0n8t3r.com Mon Jun 10 23:30:23 2013 From: uzimac at da3m0n8t3r.com (Waitman Gobble) Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 23:30:23 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [buug] Project Message-ID: <20130611063023.87A5C36F49AD@dx.burplex.com> On Mon, 10 Jun 2013 23:08:35 -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > >On Thu, 30 May 2013 13:08:40 -0700 (PDT) >Anonymous wrote: > >> Does anyone on this list need help with any Java programming projects? > >I don't know much about any Java Free Software projects, but my company >[1] is desperately looking for _good_ programmers in pretty much any >language. And I just forwarded the recruiting authorities this [2] >which should have made them a bit more clued about hiring women. In >theory. > >[1] http://www.linqia.com/about/jobs/ > Hi, perhaps a typo? "You have experience with a server-side web tempting system" I /think/ maybe its supposed to be 'templating'. -- Waitman Gobble San Jose California USA +1.5108307875 From itz at buug.org Mon Jun 10 23:37:24 2013 From: itz at buug.org (Ian Zimmerman) Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 23:37:24 -0700 Subject: [buug] Project In-Reply-To: <20130611063023.87A5C36F49AD@dx.burplex.com> References: <20130611063023.87A5C36F49AD@dx.burplex.com> Message-ID: <20130610233724.21c1d887.itz@buug.org> On Mon, 10 Jun 2013 23:30:23 -0700 (PDT) Waitman Gobble wrote: > Hi, > > perhaps a typo? > > "You have experience with a server-side web tempting system" LOL I haven't noticed that. Needless to say I have not written that job posting. Thanks for spotting it! -- Please *no* private copies of mailing list or newsgroup messages. gpg public key: 1024D/C6FF61AD fingerprint: 66DC D68F 5C1B 4D71 2EE5 BD03 8A00 786C C6FF 61AD Funny pic: http://bit.ly/ZNE2MX From uzimac at da3m0n8t3r.com Tue Jun 11 00:33:39 2013 From: uzimac at da3m0n8t3r.com (Waitman Gobble) Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 00:33:39 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [buug] Project Message-ID: <20130611073339.D7A7636F489C@dx.burplex.com> On Mon, 10 Jun 2013 23:37:24 -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > >On Mon, 10 Jun 2013 23:30:23 -0700 (PDT) >Waitman Gobble wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> perhaps a typo? >> >> "You have experience with a server-side web tempting system" > >LOL I haven't noticed that. Needless to say I have not written that >job posting. Thanks for spotting it! > Sure, I was wondering if that was some new cool lingo the kids came up with. :) I estimate I have about 15,000 hours of programming experience with PHP (it's basically how I've been able to eat, clears the 10k 'expert' line) - and much JavaScript, C and Perl on various platforms.. but I'm not so keen on using Flash and I while I've written some stuff - I consider myself weak/lean on Python experience. So.. I'm not sure I'd be good for the job.. lol. At minimum I caught a typo. I helped a little. Hopefully you'll find some qualified folks! Waitman Gobble San Jose California USA From uzimac at da3m0n8t3r.com Tue Jun 11 22:36:31 2013 From: uzimac at da3m0n8t3r.com (Waitman Gobble) Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 22:36:31 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [buug] Project Message-ID: <20130612053631.27C4436F48DD@dx.burplex.com> On Tue, 11 Jun 2013 20:51:39 -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > >On Tue, 11 Jun 2013 00:33:39 -0700 (PDT) >Waitman Gobble wrote: > >Waitman> I estimate I have about 15,000 hours of programming experience >Waitman> with PHP (it's basically how I've been able to eat, clears the >Waitman> 10k 'expert' line) - and much JavaScript, C and Perl on various >Waitman> platforms.. but I'm not so keen on using Flash and I while I've >Waitman> written some stuff - I consider myself weak/lean on Python >Waitman> experience. So.. I'm not sure I'd be good for the job.. lol. > >There is no Flash, promise. There's a body of dodgy PHP code (in 2 >different frameworks) which we need beat into shape before transitioning >to Python. You could grow into the Python part. More than anything we >want people with some algorithmic good sense. The languages are >secondary. > >We're in San Francisco, though, and that may be a bit far for you. > >-- oh, sorry - I saw a thing about Balsamiq on the site. I'm not _that_ stubborn though, :-) I can always run flash stuff in a qemu instance. lol. SF isn't so far. If you drive at 4am it's like 35 minutes. During daytime hours the silver bullet train can fly by the traffic. Maybe Friday is good to meet? -- Waitman Gobble San Jose California USA +1.5108307875 From Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu Mon Jun 17 07:37:34 2013 From: Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu (Michael Paoli) Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 07:37:34 -0700 Subject: [buug] BALUG TOMORROW! Tu 2013-06-18 BALUG meeting; & other BALUG items Message-ID: <20130617073734.2093408prsu30dk4@webmail.rawbw.com> BALUG TOMORROW! Tu 2013-06-18 BALUG meeting; & other BALUG items ------------------------------ items, details further below: 2013-06-18: BALUG meeting! CDs/DVDs, and other "door prizes", etc. volunteering to help BALUG Twitter https://twitter.com/#!/BALUG_org ------------------------------ For our 2013-06-18 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 publicize the speaker (that's happened at least twice in the past six 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, June 18th, 2013 2013-06-18 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). ------------------------------ CDs/DVDs, and other "door prizes", etc. Goodies we'll have at the BALUG meeting (at least the following): CDs/DVDs, 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. ------------------------------ 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!) ------------------------------ Twitter - you can also follow BALUG on Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/BALUG_org ------------------------------ 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/