From Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu Mon Oct 20 13:57:13 2014 From: Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu (Michael Paoli) Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 13:57:13 -0700 Subject: [buug] BALUG: TOMORROW Tu 2014-10-21 New Venue! - Henry's Hunan - 110 Natoma St. Message-ID: <20141020135713.1787494epu55b86c@webmail.rawbw.com> BALUG: TOMORROW Tu 2014-10-21 New Venue! - Henry's Hunan - 110 Natoma St. ------------------------------ items, details further below: 2014-10-21 BALUG meeting: New venue! - Henry's Hunan - 110 Natoma St. giveaways (CDs/DVDs, ...) Got venue? (projector/screen ...) volunteering to help BALUG (and add to your experience & resume!) Twitter https://twitter.com/#!/BALUG_org ------------------------------ For our 2014-10-21 BALUG meeting: NEW VENUE!: Henry's Hunan Restaurant 110 Natoma St. (between 2nd & New Montgomery) San Francisco, CA 94105-3704 1-415-546-4999 http://www.henryshunanrestaurant.com/ Delicious Hunan cuisine and reasonably priced. 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 and discussions. 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). 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. Great food and 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 our venue plan for the meeting and accommodations, so please let us know. Meeting Details... 6:30pm Tuesday, October 21st, 2014 2014-10-21 Henry's Hunan Restaurant 110 Natoma St. (between 2nd & New Montgomery) San Francisco, CA 94105-3704 Easy Transit/Parking Access: short walk from BART, MUNI, parking Trip planning: http://www.511.org/ Cost/Dining: The meetings are always free, but dinner is not (unless you are our guest speaker, in which case we also treat you to dinner). For Henry's Hunan Restaurant, if folks are agreeable, we may share and dine "family" style, and split up the costs, and typical cost per person including tax and tip (but not including beverages beyond complementary tea) would be in the $13.00 to $17.50 range, and commonly around $15.00 to $16.50. Cash may be preferred to ease splitting up the check. One can also specifically order the dish(es) one needs/prefers (e.g. for dietary considerations) - and we also commonly order some dish(es) that may meet various dietary considerations) (e.g. vegetarian, non-pork, ...). Please arrive by 7:00 P.M., we expect to order entrees at that time, and may order appetizer(s) and/or soup(s) anytime after 6:30 P.M. ------------------------------ 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). ------------------------------ Got venue? We can certainly use your help on leads for venue! Certainly feel free to discus on our "talk[1]" list. See also the earlier item[2] on our admin list that gives fair overview of what we're hopefully looking to find as for venue. We could certainly use a venue that works well for speakers/presenters (e.g. projector & screen), can handle fair sized crowds (to 30 or more, ideally to over 100 as we sometimes have), is reasonably economical and consistent across varying attendance sizes (e.g. same location or very close in part of same facility), and where dinner/food/beverages are either available at such a presentation facility, or very close by. IF YOU HAVE LEADS ON SPECIFIC VENUE(s) BE SURE TO DROP US A NOTE!: balug-contact at balug.org - and can of course also mention/discuss it on our "talk[1]" list. And much thanks for leads/contacts, useful ideas, etc. that will get us to our future venue(s)! Henry's Hunan Restaurant - 110 Natoma St. can handle us well in most regards for dining and up to fair size crowd, but we have no screen/projector nor PA capabilities there, so for talks/presentations, only the less formal, smaller, and without projected "slides" would work there. (But in the meantime, the food there is really yummy!) We also expect to announce any and all venue changes not later than at the BALUG meeting prior, so folks have reasonable time to prepare/adjust and aren't (too) "surprised" and so folks don't have last minute changes sprung on them. The Four Seas Restaurant lost their lease. So their last day of business there was 2014-09-27, and our last meeting there was 2014-09-16. 1. http://lists.balug.org/listinfo.cgi/balug-talk-balug.org 2. http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-admin-balug.org/2014-July/001504.html ------------------------------ 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 ------------------------------ From Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu Wed Oct 22 18:16:08 2014 From: Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu (Michael Paoli) Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 18:16:08 -0700 Subject: [buug] Fwd: LISA14 Early Bird Deadlines Extended to Friday Message-ID: <20141022181608.36915612tq3s6hog@webmail.rawbw.com> FYI, LISA is a great event to go to if one can, and the Early Bird Deadlines have been extended. LISA14 is in Seattle this year (it's typically on the West Coast about every other year). In terms of bang for the buck, I think LISA is likely the best such conference/training among those commonly available that a systems administrator/engineer/operator, security administrator, or network administrator can typically go to. USENIX and LISA are also great organization and SIG to belong to, and put out a lot of great materials, including much of it for free! (e.g. older issues of their ;login: publication, conference proceedings and videos, etc.). https://www.usenix.org/ https://www.usenix.org/lisa references/excerpts (slightly redacted): ----- Forwarded message from julie.miller at usenix.org ----- Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 17:54:49 -0400 From: "Julie Miller" Reply-To: julie.miller at usenix.org Subject: LISA14 Early Bird Deadlines Extended to Friday To: "Michael Paoli" Dear Michael, Good news: we've extended the early bird registration and hotel room block deadline for LISA14 to Friday, October 24! Register and book your room now: https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa14/attend https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa14/travel Check out the full list of sessions via the Conference Program, Training Program, and Workshop Program Web pages. We've also created specific topic pages, so you can plan your days to focus on systems engineering, security, culture, DevOps, or monitoring/metrics sessions. https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa14/conference-program https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa14/training-program https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa14/workshops https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa14/topics Several co-located events will take place alongside LISA, including: 2014 USENIX Release Engineering Summit West (URES '14 West) https://www.usenix.org/conference/ures14west/ Monday, 8:45 am?5:30 pm CentOS Dojo Seattle https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa14/centos-dojo-seattle/ Monday, 9:00 am?5:00 pm 2014 USENIX Summit for Educators in System Administration (SESA '14) https://www.usenix.org/conference/sesa14/ Tuesday, 9:00 am?5:00 pm Puppet Camp Seattle https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa14/puppet-camp-seattle Tuesday, 9:00 am?5:00 pm LISA Data Storage Day https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa14/dsd Wednesday, 9:00 am?3:15 pm Still on the fence? Visit the USENIX Update Blog to get more details on the co-located events, read an interview with Tom Limoncelli, learn about LISA Build, and much more. https://www.usenix.org/blog I look forward to seeing you in Seattle. Julie Miller Marketing Communications Manager USENIX Connect with other attendees: Facebook: www.usenix.org/facebook YouTube: www.usenix.org/youtube Google+: www.usenix.org/gplus LinkedIn: www.usenix.org/linkedin Instagram: www.usenix.org/instagram Twitter: www.usenix.org/lisaconference #lisa14 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ LISA14 November 9-14, 2014 Seattle, WA Early Bird Registration Deadline: October 24, 2014 https://www.usenix.org/lisa14 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ============================================================================= About this mailing list: USENIX never shares, sells, rents, or exchanges email addresses of its members or conference attendees. 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