From Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu Thu Oct 10 07:04:08 2013 From: Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu (Michael Paoli) Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2013 07:04:08 -0700 Subject: [buug] BALUG Tu 2013-10-15: Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph: Code Review for Systems Administrators; & other BALUG News Message-ID: <20131010070408.11460o1wu5pfaz8g@webmail.rawbw.com> BALUG Tu 2013-10-15: Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph: Code Review for Systems Administrators; & other BALUG News ------------------------------ items, details further below: 2013-10-15: Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph: Code Review for Systems Administrators giveaways (CDs/DVDs, book(s), ...) volunteering to help BALUG (and add to your resume/experience) Twitter https://twitter.com/#!/BALUG_org ------------------------------ For our 2013-10-15 BALUG meeting, we're proud to present: Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph[1] on Code Review for Systems Administrators The OpenStack project uses a public code review system and automated series of unit and integration tests before merging to confirm that code submitted is adhering to project standards and doesn't cause problems for other software in the stack. The OpenStack Infrastructure team not only manages this system using all open source tools, like Gerrit and Jenkins for review and testing, but also uses the system themselves for reviewing and testing changes being made to systems running the infrastructure itself. Puppet configuration files, Python scripts and more are subjected to automated syntax tests and then collaboratively reviewed in public by community and core team members alike before approval. This talk will give you a walk through of the actual software used to accomplish this and how this process has allowed the team to have a considerably open, collaborative approach to systems administration for the project infrastructure. Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph is an Automation and Tools Engineer at HP[2] working on the OpenStack Infrastructure[3] team. She is also a member of the Ubuntu Community Council[4] and on the Board of Directors for Partimus[5], a non-profit in the San Francisco Bay Area providing Linux-based computers to schools in need. 1. http://www.princessleia.com/ 2. http://www.hp.com/ 3. http://ci.openstack.org/ 4. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CommunityCouncil 5. http://partimus.org/ 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 15th, 2013 2013-10-15 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). ------------------------------ We typically have various giveaway items at BALUG meetings. We'll likely have at least the below plus additional items. 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 (and the inventory (qty.) of what we specifically have "burned" and available on-hand does also frequently change). Book(s)!: Oracle Solaris 11 System Administration Thanks to Pearson's User Group program for providing these review copies. For details see: http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-talk-balug.org/2013-July/005034.html Pearson User Group member page (member discounts: 35% off print, 45% off eBook): http://www.informit.com/usergroupwelcome ------------------------------ volunteering to help BALUG (and add to your resume/experience) Not only can you do useful and cool stuff volunteering to help BALUG, but it can also be a way to gain useful and practical experience, and could also be something to add to or round out one's resume. There a quite a variety of opportunities to help BALUG. Come talk to us at a meeting and/or drop us a note at: balug-contact at balug.org These opportunities may include, among other possibilities: o assist on speaker coordination/procurement, etc. o assist on publicity o chief/assistant cat herder o Linux Systems Administration (e.g. do/assist/learn, with/under some quite experienced and skilled Linux systems administrators). o webmaster, assistant webmaster, designer, graphic artist o archivist/history/retrieval/etc. o and other various/miscellaneous tasks BALUG "ought" to be doing or would be good to do (feel free to suggest 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/