From Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu Mon Feb 2 14:12:59 2015 From: Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu (Michael Paoli) Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2015 14:12:59 -0800 Subject: [buug] Books for ... Message-ID: <20150202141259.124829qskn7wfuzo@webmail.rawbw.com> I've got some books to distribute to some user groups - including BUUG. These are review copies from Pearson Education (they'd of course quite appreciate if you write a review - especially on Amazon.com for the particular title and edition). I received 5 copies each of the physical books noted further below. I'll be doing my semi-usual of giving a book (or two) away per user group as I cycle through upcoming user group meetings I go to (given the quantity received, I'll likely do up to 2 books per user group, at least until each group has had at least one chance at getting books). Want to increase your odds of getting one of these books? :-) I'll consider these factors: o make it to the meeting (that's where I generally give the book(s) away for some person(s) in the user group) o drop a note to the [L]UG's list regarding which title(s) you're interested in (in preference order if more than one), (and for what (noble) purpose(s)) o make it to the meeting on time (or best approximations thereof) o which such note(s) of interest are posted earliest/earlier to list I may also manage to get copies of Practical Guide to Ubuntu Linux, A, 4th Edition signed by the author. Practical Guide to Ubuntu Linux, A, 4th Edition By Mark G. Sobell Published Dec 23, 2014 by Prentice Hall. Copyright 2015 Dimensions: 7-3/8" x 9-1/8" Pages: 1416 Edition: 4th ISBN-10: 0-13-392731-8 ISBN-13: 978-0-13-392731-3 http://www.informit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=0133927318 Ubuntu Unleashed 2015 Edition: Covering 14.10 and 15.04, 10th Edition By Matthew Helmke Published Nov 21, 2014 by Sams. Part of the Unleashed series. Copyright 2015 Dimensions: 7" x 9-1/8" Pages: 912 Edition: 10th Book ISBN-10: 0-672-33837-8 ISBN-13: 978-0-672-33837-3 http://www.informit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=0672338378 Perl by Example, 5th Edition By Ellie Quigley Published Dec 17, 2014 by Prentice Hall. Copyright 2015 Dimensions: 7" x 9-1/8" Pages: 888 Edition: 5th Book ISBN-10: 0-13-376081-2 ISBN-13: 978-0-13-376081-1 http://www.informit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=0133760812 Also, while they last, I still have only and exactly one copy left of each of these two titles below (and the latter of the two also signed by local author Elizabeth Joseph): Practice of Cloud System Administration, The: Designing and Operating Large Distributed Systems, Volume 2 By Thomas A. Limoncelli, Strata R. Chalup, Christina J. Hogan Published Sep 3, 2014 by Addison-Wesley Professional. Copyright 2015 Dimensions: 7" x 9-1/8" Pages: 560 Edition: 1st Book ISBN-10: 0-321-94318-X ISBN-13: 978-0-321-94318-7 http://www.informit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=032194318X Official Ubuntu Book, The, 8th Edition By Matthew Helmke, Elizabeth Joseph, José Antonio Rey, Philip Ballew, Benjamin Mako Hill Published Jul 15, 2014 by Prentice Hall. Copyright 2015 Dimensions: 7" x 9-1/8" Pages: 368 Edition: 8th Book ISBN-10: 0-13-390539-X ISBN-13: 978-0-13-390539-7 http://www.informit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=013390539X From Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu Fri Feb 13 07:23:19 2015 From: Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu (Michael Paoli) Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2015 07:23:19 -0800 Subject: [buug] BALUG: Tu 2015-02-17: Meeting!, & other BALUG News ... Message-ID: <20150213072319.20333s811y78byec@webmail.rawbw.com> BALUG: Tu 2015-02-17: Meeting!, & other BALUG News ... ------------------------------ items, details further below: BALUG meeting!: Tu 2015-02-17 giveaways (Books, CDs/DVDs, ...) help BALUG! :-) - venue, volunteering, ... Twitter https://twitter.com/#!/BALUG_org ------------------------------ For our 2015-02-17 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 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. 6:30pm Tuesday, February 17th, 2015 2015-02-17 Henry's Hunan Restaurant 110 Natoma St. (between 2nd & New Montgomery) San Francisco, CA 94105-3704 1-415-546-4999 http://www.henryshunanrestaurant.com/ Easy Transit/Parking Access: short walk from BART, MUNI, parking Trip planning: http://www.511.org/ Delicious Hunan cuisine and reasonably priced. Meeting Details... 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'll 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. Books! - have a look here: http://buug.org/pipermail/buug/2015-February/004069.html if interested mention it on our BALUG-talk list: http://lists.balug.org/listinfo.cgi/balug-talk-balug.org I still have the first three of those titles - from the Pearson Education User Group Program, plus also: Getting Started with Ubuntu 14.04 The Ubuntu Manual Team http://ubuntu-manual.org/ ISBN-10: 9781500814403 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). ------------------------------ help BALUG! :-) - volunteering, venue ... You can do useful and cool stuff volunteering to help BALUG, e.g. following up on many leads for possible venue, among many other possibilities. 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 venue arrangement (e.g. followup on potential leads on-site coordination/preparations), see also: http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-admin-balug.org/2014-July/001504.html o chief/assistant cat herder o assist on speaker coordination/procurement, etc. o assist on publicity 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 ------------------------------