From joyce at terraluna.org Mon Jan 5 20:09:53 2004 From: joyce at terraluna.org (Joyce Cao Traugott) Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2004 20:09:53 -0800 Subject: [Speakers] Jan. talk info and bio Message-ID: <3FFA3511.13D2E37E@terraluna.org> Hi Peter, We do not have your talk description and bio for your talk this coming Wednesday. The web site is not updated. I was out of town for two weeks, and asked Heather for help to update the website, but I guess she either didn't receive my email or didn't get around to do it. Please refer to the meeting page for the examples of the talk description and bio. http://www.svlug.org/meetings.shtml Thank you, Joyce From goldhind at ix.netcom.com Tue Jan 20 18:15:13 2004 From: goldhind at ix.netcom.com (goldhind@ix.netcom.com) Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 18:15:13 -0800 Subject: [Speakers] FW: Silicon Valley Linux User's Group? Message-ID: Message To Whom It May Concern - I spoke to Mark T. about getting Larry as a speaker. He thought it would be fine. - John Delaney -----Original Message----- From: Lawrence E. Rosen [mailto:lrosen at rosenlaw.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 6:00 PM To: goldhind at ix.netcom.com; speakers at svlug.org Subject: RE: Silicon Valley Linux User's Group? I'd welcome an opportunity to talk to svlug about open source licensing and related issues. Perhaps rather than a real talk we could mostly do Q&A? Up to you. /Larry Rosen /Lawrence Rosen Rosenlaw & Einschlag, a technology law firm (www.rosenlaw.com) General counsel, Open Source Initiative (www.opensource.org) 3001 King Ranch Road, Ukiah, CA 95482 707-485-1242 * fax: 707-485-1243 lrosen at rosenlaw.com -----Original Message----- From: John Delaney [mailto:goldhind at ix.netcom.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 5:45 PM To: lrosen at rosenlaw.com Subject: Silicon Valley Linux User's Group? Mr Rosen - I heard you speak at the World Internet Center on the topic of "OPEN SOURCE AS THE FOUNDRY FOR AN ECOSYSTEM". At the time you indicated an interest in speaking at the Silicon Valley Linux User's Group. If you are still interested, they are interested. The easiest way to contact someone is to email "speakers at svlug.org". John Delaney goldhind at ix.netcom.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.svlug.org/archives/speakers/attachments/20040120/48ea5314/attachment.htm From lrosen at rosenlaw.com Tue Jan 20 18:00:26 2004 From: lrosen at rosenlaw.com (Lawrence E. Rosen) Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 18:00:26 -0800 Subject: [Speakers] RE: Silicon Valley Linux User's Group? In-Reply-To: <410-22004132114520548@ix.netcom.com> Message-ID: <047d01c3dfc2$574e13d0$927ba8c0@ROSENGARDEN> I'd welcome an opportunity to talk to svlug about open source licensing and related issues. Perhaps rather than a real talk we could mostly do Q&A? Up to you. /Larry Rosen /Lawrence Rosen Rosenlaw & Einschlag, a technology law firm (www.rosenlaw.com) General counsel, Open Source Initiative (www.opensource.org) 3001 King Ranch Road, Ukiah, CA 95482 707-485-1242 * fax: 707-485-1243 lrosen at rosenlaw.com -----Original Message----- From: John Delaney [mailto:goldhind at ix.netcom.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 5:45 PM To: lrosen at rosenlaw.com Subject: Silicon Valley Linux User's Group? Mr Rosen - I heard you speak at the World Internet Center on the topic of "OPEN SOURCE AS THE FOUNDRY FOR AN ECOSYSTEM". At the time you indicated an interest in speaking at the Silicon Valley Linux User's Group. If you are still interested, they are interested. The easiest way to contact someone is to email "speakers at svlug.org". John Delaney goldhind at ix.netcom.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.svlug.org/archives/speakers/attachments/20040120/009b6ee4/attachment.htm From joyce at terraluna.org Tue Jan 20 21:52:53 2004 From: joyce at terraluna.org (Joyce Cao Traugott) Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 21:52:53 -0800 Subject: [Speakers] RE: Silicon Valley Linux User's Group? References: <047d01c3dfc2$574e13d0$927ba8c0@ROSENGARDEN> Message-ID: <400E13B5.B3401072@terraluna.org> The earliest available date is April 7th. Joyce "Lawrence E. Rosen" wrote: > I'd welcome an opportunity to talk to svlug about open source > licensing and related issues. Perhaps rather than a real talk we > could mostly do Q&A? Up to you. /Larry Rosen/Lawrence RosenRosenlaw > & Einschlag, a technology law firm (www.rosenlaw.com)General counsel, > Open Source Initiative (www.opensource.org)3001 King Ranch Road, > Ukiah, CA 95482707-485-1242 * fax: 707-485-1243lrosen at rosenlaw.com > > -----Original Message----- > From: John Delaney [mailto:goldhind at ix.netcom.com] > Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 5:45 PM > To: lrosen at rosenlaw.com > Subject: Silicon Valley Linux User's Group? > > Mr Rosen - I heard you speak at the World Internet > Center on the topic of "OPEN SOURCE AS THE FOUNDRY FOR AN > ECOSYSTEM".At the time you indicated an interest in speaking > at the Silicon Valley Linux User's Group. If you are still > interested, they areinterested. The easiest way to contact > someone is to email "speakers at svlug.org". John > Delaneygoldhind at ix.netcom.com > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > Speakers mailing list > Speakers at lists.svlug.org > http://lists.svlug.org/lists/listinfo/speakers > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.svlug.org/archives/speakers/attachments/20040120/91aacd30/attachment.htm From joyce at terraluna.org Tue Jan 27 22:41:49 2004 From: joyce at terraluna.org (Joyce Cao Traugott) Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 22:41:49 -0800 Subject: [Speakers] SVLUG March -- Guido van Rossum References: Message-ID: <401759AC.E9CF7C77@terraluna.org> Hi Guido, Could you give me your March 3rd talk description, your bio, your talk title, and your title (creator of Python?), so I can update the SVLUG website. Thank you, Joyce Guido van Rossum wrote: > Since February isn't open after all, let's do March. I'll pick a topic > closer to that date -- maybe something more general and introductory, > maybe a test run of what I'm going to say at PyCon 2004 later the same > month. > > Can you confirm the exact date, time and location? > > Please use my work email address, so I won't have to debug my Linux box > at home (the instructions were unhelpful, alas). > > --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido) From stevegt at TerraLuna.Org Wed Feb 4 17:03:25 2004 From: stevegt at TerraLuna.Org (stevegt@TerraLuna.Org) Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 17:03:25 -0800 Subject: [Speakers] Re: announcement In-Reply-To: <20040204200824.GA22439@merlins.org> References: <20040204200824.GA22439@merlins.org> Message-ID: <20040205010325.GM24148@pathfinder> On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 12:08:25PM -0800, Marc MERLIN wrote: > The box looks dead, but I can send the announcement for you from another > machine, please send me the mail Here you go. Please leave the From: address as yourself, so I don't get the flames this time... Steve -- Stephen G. Traugott (KG6HDQ) UNIX/Linux Infrastructure Architect, TerraLuna LLC stevegt at TerraLuna.Org http://www.stevegt.com -- http://Infrastructures.Org -------------- next part -------------- From: marc at merlins.org To: svlug-announce at svlug.org Cc: speakers at svlug.org Bcc: joyce at terraluna.org, stevegt at terraluna.org Subject: SVLUG Feb 04: Bruce Moxon: Cluster Computing Data Management: Experiences and Best Practices We're pleased to announce the next meeting of the Silicon Valley Linux Users Group! WHAT: Cluster Computing Data Management: Experiences and Best Practices WHEN: Wednesday, 04 Feb, 7pm-9pm or so. WHO: Bruce Moxon, Manager, Vertical Marketing, Panasas BACKGROUND: As Linux Cluster Computing continues its high rate of adoption, more and more organizations are faced with data management challenges posed by emerging distributed computing approaches. Large-scale cluster and grid computing approaches are based on the ability to decompose a compute workload into thousands or millions of tasks, each of which is executed independently (or almost independently). This strategy requires the creation and management of data partitions and replicas that are used by the compute nodes. Management of these partitions and replicas poses a number of operational challenges, especially in large cluster and grid computing environments, and in environments where core datasets change regularly. This presentation will identify and explore these challenges, and will present solutions drawing on common approaches used in implementing "high throughput" applications. Examples will draw from multiple disciplines, including life sciences, earth sciences, and government and commercial applications. WHERE: Cisco Building 9. The land of NUMBERS. The VINEYARDS conference center. The side we are on is the Silver Oak/Jordan conference rooms, where a large Cisco fountain is usually not turned on. Directions on how to get there are listed at: http://www.svlug.org/directions/cisco-9.shtml We've tried our very best for these directions to be accurate. If you have any improvements to make, please let our Web Team know! web-team at svlug.org NOTES: It's best if you arrive close to on time, as otherwise there may not be someone posted at the door to let you in. After the speakers end their presentation there is usually a Q&A session, time for job seekers and employers to meet, and often a few door prizes. When the meeting is over people are encouraged to chat a bit, but also to exit the building so Cisco can lock up. Don't worry, a lot of us go to dinner afterward so there's plenty of time to chat outdoors or offsite. We look forward to seeing you there! From joyce at terraluna.org Sat Feb 21 23:53:17 2004 From: joyce at terraluna.org (Joyce Cao Traugott) Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2004 23:53:17 -0800 Subject: [Speakers] RE: Silicon Valley Linux User's Group? References: <047d01c3dfc2$574e13d0$927ba8c0@ROSENGARDEN> Message-ID: <40385FED.A7A99AA@terraluna.org> Could anyone send out a confirmation mail to the speakers list for April? I'd suggest a real talk followed by Q/A though. Thank you, Joyce "Lawrence E. Rosen" wrote: > I'd welcome an opportunity to talk to svlug about open source > licensing and related issues. Perhaps rather than a real talk we > could mostly do Q&A? Up to you. /Larry Rosen/Lawrence RosenRosenlaw > & Einschlag, a technology law firm (www.rosenlaw.com)General counsel, > Open Source Initiative (www.opensource.org)3001 King Ranch Road, > Ukiah, CA 95482707-485-1242 * fax: 707-485-1243lrosen at rosenlaw.com > > -----Original Message----- > From: John Delaney [mailto:goldhind at ix.netcom.com] > Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 5:45 PM > To: lrosen at rosenlaw.com > Subject: Silicon Valley Linux User's Group? > > Mr Rosen - I heard you speak at the World Internet > Center on the topic of "OPEN SOURCE AS THE FOUNDRY FOR AN > ECOSYSTEM".At the time you indicated an interest in speaking > at the Silicon Valley Linux User's Group. If you are still > interested, they areinterested. The easiest way to contact > someone is to email "speakers at svlug.org". John > Delaneygoldhind at ix.netcom.com > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > Speakers mailing list > Speakers at lists.svlug.org > http://lists.svlug.org/lists/listinfo/speakers > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.svlug.org/archives/speakers/attachments/20040221/c1ff234c/attachment.htm From lrosen at rosenlaw.com Sun Feb 22 08:48:10 2004 From: lrosen at rosenlaw.com (Lawrence E. Rosen) Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 08:48:10 -0800 Subject: [Speakers] RE: Silicon Valley Linux User's Group? In-Reply-To: <40385FED.A7A99AA@terraluna.org> Message-ID: <022a01c3f963$a894abe0$927ba8c0@ROSENGARDEN> I have it calendared for April 7. /Larry Rosen -----Original Message----- From: joyce at venus.terraluna.org [mailto:joyce at venus.terraluna.org] On Behalf Of Joyce Cao Traugott Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2004 11:53 PM To: Lawrence E. Rosen Cc: goldhind at ix.netcom.com; speakers at lists.svlug.org Subject: Re: [Speakers] RE: Silicon Valley Linux User's Group? Could anyone send out a confirmation mail to the speakers list for April? I'd suggest a real talk followed by Q/A though. Thank you, Joyce "Lawrence E. Rosen" wrote: I'd welcome an opportunity to talk to svlug about open source licensing and related issues. Perhaps rather than a real talk we could mostly do Q&A? Up to you. /Larry Rosen/Lawrence RosenRosenlaw & Einschlag, a technology law firm (www.rosenlaw.com)General counsel, Open Source Initiative (www.opensource.org)3001 King Ranch Road, Ukiah, CA 95482707-485-1242 * fax: 707-485-1243lrosen at rosenlaw.com -----Original Message----- From: John Delaney [mailto:goldhind at ix.netcom.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 5:45 PM To: lrosen at rosenlaw.com Subject: Silicon Valley Linux User's Group? Mr Rosen - I heard you speak at the World Internet Center on the topic of "OPEN SOURCE AS THE FOUNDRY FOR AN ECOSYSTEM".At the time you indicated an interest in speaking at the Silicon Valley Linux User's Group. If you are still interested, they areinterested. The easiest way to contact someone is to email "speakers at svlug.org". John Delaneygoldhind at ix.netcom.com _____ _______________________________________________ Speakers mailing list Speakers at lists.svlug.org http://lists.svlug.org/lists/listinfo/speakers -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.svlug.org/archives/speakers/attachments/20040222/61d3f1c7/attachment.htm From Ken.Tarquinio at evc.edu Wed Feb 25 14:00:13 2004 From: Ken.Tarquinio at evc.edu (Tarquinio, Ken) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 14:00:13 -0800 Subject: [Speakers] Class Visit. Message-ID: <77513B01B8D38A4EBF07E145140166B8B7E9BE@mail.sjeccd.org> I have a Linux Class at Evergreen Valley College that might be interested in a field trip on March 3rd to hear your speaker. There might be fifteen or twenty of us. Would that be OK? Ken Tarquinio -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.svlug.org/archives/speakers/attachments/20040225/59d16adf/attachment.htm From ikluft at thunder.sbay.org Wed Feb 25 15:21:30 2004 From: ikluft at thunder.sbay.org (Ian Kluft) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 15:21:30 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Speakers] Class Visit. In-Reply-To: <77513B01B8D38A4EBF07E145140166B8B7E9BE@mail.sjeccd.org> from "Tarquinio, Ken" at Feb 25, 2004 02:00:13 PM Message-ID: >From: "Tarquinio, Ken" >I have a Linux Class at Evergreen Valley College that might be >interested in a field trip on March 3rd to hear your speaker. There >might be fifteen or twenty of us. Would that be OK? Yes, the meeting is open to the public. A Linux class is most certainly welcome at any SVLUG meeting. The room has seating for 250 before people have to start standing. On a slow day we can expect about 120. We don't know what size of audience to expect this time. SRO is a possibility for this meeting. Ask your students to try to arrive a little early - Cisco Security will ask guests to sign in before entry. However, just to alleviate any worries, late arrivals will get in too. If possible, please introduce yourself to one of the SVLUG officers before the meeting so that we can introduce your class if time permits. From stevegt at svlug.org Wed Feb 25 22:25:52 2004 From: stevegt at svlug.org (stevegt@svlug.org) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 22:25:52 -0800 Subject: [Speakers] SVLUG Mar 03: Guido van Rossum: An Introduction to Python Message-ID: We're pleased to announce the next meeting of the Silicon Valley Linux Users Group! WHAT: An Introduction to Python WHEN: Wednesday, 03 Mar, 7pm-9pm or so. WHO: Guido van Rossum, Creator of Python BACKGROUND: Python is one of the major free scripting languages -- an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language, often compared to Perl, Scheme, Java, or Ruby. Python's syntax is intentionally clean, easy to learn, and powerful. Major uses of Python on Linux include the Zope web application server, the Mailman mailing list server (which you're receiving this through), and the RedHat Anaconda installer. ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Guido van Rossum created Python in the early 1990s at CWI in Amsterdam, and he is still actively involved in the development of the language. In 1995 he moved to the US; first to work for CNRI in Reston, VA as a researcher, then for Zope Corporation as Director of PythonLabs, and since 2003, after a move to the SF bay area, for Elemental Security. His home on the web is http://www.python.org/~guido/. WHERE: Cisco Building 9. The land of NUMBERS. The VINEYARDS conference center. The side we are on is the Silver Oak/Jordan conference rooms, where a large Cisco fountain is usually not turned on. Directions on how to get there are listed at: http://www.svlug.org/directions/cisco-9.shtml We've tried our very best for these directions to be accurate. If you have any improvements to make, please let our Web Team know! web-team at svlug.org NOTES: It's best if you arrive close to on time, as otherwise there may not be someone posted at the door to let you in. After the speakers end their presentation there is usually a Q&A session, time for job seekers and employers to meet, and often a few door prizes. When the meeting is over people are encouraged to chat a bit, but also to exit the building so Cisco can lock up. Don't worry, a lot of us go to dinner afterward so there's plenty of time to chat outdoors or offsite. We look forward to seeing you there! From stevegt at TerraLuna.Org Wed Feb 25 22:47:26 2004 From: stevegt at TerraLuna.Org (stevegt@TerraLuna.Org) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 22:47:26 -0800 Subject: [Speakers] Steve and Joyce taking some time off In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20040226064726.GM2703@pathfinder> (Dropping announce et al, adding speakers list to Cc:) What Ian said below -- I'm going to be accepting a new job (at TellMe) starting March 8th, and between that and our growing family Joyce and I both need a break. This means that someone or some people need to make sure that: - The svlug website gets updated with the new talk info monthly. (Joyce has been doing this for the last two years). - The monthly e-mail goes out a week before the talk, and again a day or so before the talk, reminding people of the meeting. (I've been doing this for the last two years.) How this gets done, and/or variations in what's done, are up to you. I've long wanted to automate most if not all of this; right now I massage the info into XML to generate the e-mail, but the HTML is still manual etc. As Ian says below, there is a lot that could be done, and should be done with a transition to the sbay speakers bureau. Since Ian took the initiative (thanks Ian), ;-) please contact him if you're interested in this. I'm more than willing to answer questions, provide the speakers admin password and the code and templates I've been using, etc. I'll be able to introduce Guido unless someone else is planning on doing it; I'd strongly suggest someone confirm Larry Rosen as the April speaker (I want to meet him myself), and you'll need to sort out amongst yourselves who is going to introduce him and so on -- I'm purposely going to try to just observe. ;-) Take Care, Steve and Joyce On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 06:10:19AM -0800, Ian Kluft wrote: > SVLUG is currently recruiting for a new Speaker Coordinator. And sbay.org > needs someone to coordinate the new Speakers Bureau project. > http://speakers.sbay.org/ > If we can, we'd do well to find one person who take on both of those as one > role. It was already planned to transition this under sbay.org anyway, > in order to make the project more inclusive for BSD groups like BAFUG. > > If you volunteer for this, it can help develop project leadership experience. > If you do this well, you and your team can really help make SVLUG, BAFUG, > PenLUG and LUGoD stronger organizations by keeping a pipeline of good > speakers filled. While this was envisioned as lending a strength of SVLUG > to the other groups, SVLUG can also use help filling its position now. > That has added some urgency to the recruiting effort, but will probably > result in accelerating the vision we've had for the project. Preferably, > you'll want to lead a team rather than try to do everything yourself. > > You're already not alone... the people on the speakers list are the SVLUG > Speaker Coordination team. Members of this team help recruit speakers and > review unsolicited proposals for speaking - both are very important tasks. > > I'm also helping with getting some meeting-scheduling software started. > That would be a whole new aspect to the team. For an example of what's > been started, see http://sw.sbay.org/xml/ > > If that sounds interesting to you then offer to help with the software. > The code will be Open Source, of course. > > Now you can see more of what's going on than just recruiting speakers. > We'd like to automate this process. The idea is to download meeting dates > from the groups we work with, and then export filled meeting/speaker info > back that they can post automatically on their web site. Of course, each > group should remain involved in finding speakers too. So we're working > together so that it helps all of us. > > That's the idea. Can you help make this happen? Or do you know someone > who can? Please help us recruit for this project. > > > _______________________________________________ > svlug-announce mailing list > svlug-announce at lists.svlug.org > http://lists.svlug.org/lists/listinfo/svlug-announce > > _______________________________________________ > svlug mailing list > svlug at lists.svlug.org > http://lists.svlug.org/lists/listinfo/svlug -- Steve Traugott (KG6HDQ) Speaker Coordinator, Silicon Valley Linux Users Group http://www.svlug.org -- UNIX/Linux Infrastructure Architect, TerraLuna LLC stevegt at TerraLuna.Org http://www.stevegt.com From ikluft at thunder.sbay.org Thu Feb 26 09:19:53 2004 From: ikluft at thunder.sbay.org (Ian Kluft) Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 09:19:53 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Speakers] Re: Steve and Joyce taking some time off In-Reply-To: <20040226064726.GM2703@pathfinder> from "stevegt@TerraLuna.Org" at Feb 25, 2004 10:47:26 PM Message-ID: >From: stevegt at TerraLuna.Org >To: Ian Kluft >Cc: speakers at svlug.org > >What Ian said below -- I'm going to be accepting a new job (at TellMe) >starting March 8th, and between that and our growing family Joyce and I >both need a break. This means that someone or some people need to make >sure that: >- The svlug website gets updated with the new talk info monthly. (Joyce > has been doing this for the last two years). >- The monthly e-mail goes out a week before the talk, and again a day or > so before the talk, reminding people of the meeting. (I've been doing > this for the last two years.) Steve and Joyce - Thanks for your help in these roles over the past 2 years. Of course, that understates your involevement in SVLUG which goes back years before that. Out of respect and understanding for your situation, Heather and I will fill the gap until we can recruit a new speaker coordinator. But we can use everyone's help in asking friends about it. Congratulations on the new job. I hope that turns out well. I guess this means I should be added to the SVLUG web-team list for now. Though Heather will take the lead on filling the gap on the Web Team. >How this gets done, and/or variations in what's done, are up to you. >I've long wanted to automate most if not all of this; right now I >massage the info into XML to generate the e-mail, but the HTML is still >manual etc. As Ian says below, there is a lot that could be done, and >should be done with a transition to the sbay speakers bureau. > >Since Ian took the initiative (thanks Ian), ;-) please contact him if >you're interested in this. I'm more than willing to answer questions, >provide the speakers admin password and the code and templates I've been >using, etc. OK, sounds good. So let's start by having you send that stuff to me. Then we can take the burden off your hands. We will undoubtedly have occasional questions for you. Any code you have can help jumpstart the automation process. As you can see at http://sw.sbay.org/xml/ , I've put together some stuff that we can use by getting some simple code running that uses the Apache Xerces-C XML parser since I considered using XCal for some of the calendar info exchange between sbay.org and the SIGs and other cooperating groups on the speaker bureau. >I'll be able to introduce Guido unless someone else is planning on doing >it; I'd strongly suggest someone confirm Larry Rosen as the April >speaker (I want to meet him myself), and you'll need to sort out amongst >yourselves who is going to introduce him and so on -- I'm purposely >going to try to just observe. ;-) Since you want to introduce the speaker one more time, then you should. I'll ask Don or Marc (whoever's presiding at this meeting) to let me introduce you before you introduce the speaker. I'll reiterate the thanks that I said above and ask for volunteers to fill the position if we haven't already found one by then. From nbs at sonic.net Thu Feb 26 17:00:21 2004 From: nbs at sonic.net (Bill Kendrick) Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 17:00:21 -0800 Subject: [Speakers] Re: Steve and Joyce taking some time off In-Reply-To: References: <20040226064726.GM2703@pathfinder> Message-ID: <20040227010020.GG23463@sonic.net> On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 09:19:53AM -0800, Ian Kluft wrote: > Out of respect and understanding for your situation, Heather and I will > fill the gap until we can recruit a new speaker coordinator. But we can > use everyone's help in asking friends about it. I'd love to help myself, and may indeed be able to soon. But I'm still in Davis, at the moment... I'll be moving down to Palo Alto / Mtn View area some time in May, assuming things go well. -bill! From bill at wards.net Thu Feb 26 18:25:23 2004 From: bill at wards.net (William R Ward) Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 18:25:23 -0800 Subject: [Speakers] Re: Steve and Joyce taking some time off In-Reply-To: <20040227010020.GG23463@sonic.net> References: <20040226064726.GM2703@pathfinder> <20040227010020.GG23463@sonic.net> Message-ID: <16446.43667.858699.2112@komodo.home.wards.net> Bill Kendrick writes: >On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 09:19:53AM -0800, Ian Kluft wrote: >> Out of respect and understanding for your situation, Heather and I will >> fill the gap until we can recruit a new speaker coordinator. But we can >> use everyone's help in asking friends about it. > >I'd love to help myself, and may indeed be able to soon. But I'm still >in Davis, at the moment... I'll be moving down to Palo Alto / Mtn View >area some time in May, assuming things go well. I too can help, but I don't want to take the lead role as I don't have much spare time for additional commitments. --Bill. -- William R Ward bill at wards.net http://www.wards.net/~bill/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- The most damaging phrase in the language is, "It's always been done that way." -- Admiral Grace Hopper From joyce at terraluna.org Fri Feb 27 22:56:50 2004 From: joyce at terraluna.org (Joyce Cao Traugott) Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 22:56:50 -0800 Subject: [Speakers] CONFIRMED April 2004 - Lawrence E. Rosen References: <022a01c3f963$a894abe0$927ba8c0@ROSENGARDEN> Message-ID: <40403BB2.B68CF170@terraluna.org> "Lawrence E. Rosen" wrote: > I have it calendared for April 7. /Larry Rosen > > -----Original Message----- > From: joyce at venus.terraluna.org > [mailto:joyce at venus.terraluna.org] On Behalf Of Joyce Cao > Traugott > Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2004 11:53 PM > To: Lawrence E. Rosen > Cc: goldhind at ix.netcom.com; speakers at lists.svlug.org > Subject: Re: [Speakers] RE: Silicon Valley Linux User's > Group? > > Could anyone send out a confirmation mail to the speakers > list for April? I'd suggest a real talk followed by Q/A > though. > > Thank you, > > Joyce > > > "Lawrence E. Rosen" wrote: > > > I'd welcome an opportunity to talk to svlug about open > > source licensing and related issues. Perhaps rather than > > a real talk we could mostly do Q&A? Up to you. /Larry > > Rosen/Lawrence RosenRosenlaw & Einschlag, a technology law > > firm (www.rosenlaw.com)General counsel, Open Source > > Initiative (www.opensource.org)3001 King Ranch Road, > > Ukiah, CA 95482707-485-1242 * fax: > > 707-485-1243lrosen at rosenlaw.com > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: John Delaney > > [mailto:goldhind at ix.netcom.com] > > Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 5:45 PM > > To: lrosen at rosenlaw.com > > Subject: Silicon Valley Linux User's Group? > > Mr Rosen - I heard you speak at the World > > Internet Center on the topic of "OPEN SOURCE AS > > THE FOUNDRY FOR AN ECOSYSTEM".At the time you > > indicated an interest in speaking at the Silicon > > Valley Linux User's Group. If you are still > > interested, they areinterested. The easiest > > way to contact someone is to email > > "speakers at svlug.org". John > > Delaneygoldhind at ix.netcom.com > > > > ----------------------------------------------------- > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakers mailing list > > Speakers at lists.svlug.org > > http://lists.svlug.org/lists/listinfo/speakers > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > Speakers mailing list > Speakers at lists.svlug.org > http://lists.svlug.org/lists/listinfo/speakers > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.svlug.org/archives/speakers/attachments/20040227/39f72f6c/attachment.htm From ikluft at thunder.sbay.org Sat Feb 28 00:55:50 2004 From: ikluft at thunder.sbay.org (Ian Kluft) Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 00:55:50 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Speakers] subscriptions to speakers@svlug.org Message-ID: I've been handed the keys to the speakers at svlug.org list while I act as Interim Speaker Coordinator for SVLUG. I see that the three of you have been sitting in the subscription request queue, in some cases for months. Sorry about that. You probably wanted to help and we're in no position to turn away genuine helpers right now. You may or may not have been asked to introduce yourself. The current procedure is that subscribers of this list are full members of the speaker review/approval group, and must be willing to volunteer in that capacity. So the previous admin was waiting for you to introduce yourself. I apologize if that was not communicated to you. I wanted to make sure you knew about that. Though I'll pretty much keep the policies as they are to start with. We'll change things as we delegate and automate parts of the process. If you're still interested in helping, please reply with an introduction (and CC to speakers at svlug.org.) In any case, sorry that this took so long. From morgan at linuxcertified.com Sat Feb 28 11:46:45 2004 From: morgan at linuxcertified.com (Morgan Lim) Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 11:46:45 -0800 Subject: [Speakers] LinuxCertified, Inc. Message-ID: <4040F025.9080802@linuxcertified.com> Dear SVLUG: I nominate the President of LinuxCertified, Inc. to be the speaker at your meeting. We have recently been successful in our Linux laptops sales, building a following, developing linux training in the academic and corporate environment. Most importantly, we have make some headway, technically, on our wireless linux notebooks. I attached a recent Newsforge news about us: http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/02/24/163200&mode=thread Feel free to contact me if you have any questions. Thanks. -- Morgan Lim Director, Business Development Linux Certified, Inc. www.linuxcertified.com morgan at linuxcertified.com 415 596 4245 From marc_news at merlins.org Sat Feb 28 22:19:28 2004 From: marc_news at merlins.org (Marc MERLIN) Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 22:19:28 -0800 Subject: [Speakers] Re: Steve and Joyce taking some time off In-Reply-To: References: <20040226064726.GM2703@pathfinder> Message-ID: <20040229061928.GD8234@merlins.org> On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 09:19:53AM -0800, Ian Kluft wrote: > >What Ian said below -- I'm going to be accepting a new job (at TellMe) > >starting March 8th, and between that and our growing family Joyce and I > >both need a break. This means that someone or some people need to make > >sure that: > >- The svlug website gets updated with the new talk info monthly. (Joyce > > has been doing this for the last two years). > >- The monthly e-mail goes out a week before the talk, and again a day or > > so before the talk, reminding people of the meeting. (I've been doing > > this for the last two years.) > > Steve and Joyce - Thanks for your help in these roles over the past 2 years. Absolutely. Thanks a lot to you both for your help. > Out of respect and understanding for your situation, Heather and I will > fill the gap until we can recruit a new speaker coordinator. But we can Thank you. > use everyone's help in asking friends about it. We'll definitely announce that wed and hopefully get some volunteers then. > >I'll be able to introduce Guido unless someone else is planning on doing > >it; Don or I do it if we have no speaker coordinator present, but otherwise the honor goes to the person currently in charge, which I guess would be you for this month :) > Since you want to introduce the speaker one more time, then you should. > I'll ask Don or Marc (whoever's presiding at this meeting) to let me > introduce you before you introduce the speaker. I'll reiterate the > thanks that I said above and ask for volunteers to fill the position > if we haven't already found one by then. Sound good. I'll be there wed BTW Marc -- "A mouse is a device used to point at the xterm you want to type in" - A.S.R. Microsoft is to operating systems & security .... .... what McDonalds is to gourmet cooking Home page: http://marc.merlins.org/ | Finger marc_f at merlins.org for PGP key From marc at merlins.org Fri Aug 20 22:10:36 2004 From: marc at merlins.org (Marc MERLIN) Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 22:10:36 -0700 Subject: [Speakers] Re: list password In-Reply-To: <20040821010958.GU13688@linuxmafia.com> References: <20040820175106.GA15536@merlins.org> <20040821005410.GT13688@linuxmafia.com> <20040821005525.GU4012@merlins.org> <20040821010958.GU13688@linuxmafia.com> Message-ID: <20040821051036.GE21144@merlins.org> On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 06:09:58PM -0700, Rick Moen wrote: > Quoting Marc MERLIN (marc at merlins.org): > > > They should be the same, aren't they? > > They're not. Ok. I don't know if the speakers list was reset to something else, or what it was, but I reset it to the same than the web-team password If some of you would like to have it, but don't currently, please Email me. Thanks Marc -- "A mouse is a device used to point at the xterm you want to type in" - A.S.R. Microsoft is to operating systems & security .... .... what McDonalds is to gourmet cooking Home page: http://marc.merlins.org/ | Finger marc_f at merlins.org for PGP key From ikluft at thunder.sbay.org Mon Aug 23 16:32:29 2004 From: ikluft at thunder.sbay.org (Ian Kluft) Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 16:32:29 -0700 Subject: [Speakers] Re: list password In-Reply-To: <20040821051036.GE21144@merlins.org> References: <20040820175106.GA15536@merlins.org> <20040821005410.GT13688@linuxmafia.com> <20040821005525.GU4012@merlins.org> <20040821010958.GU13688@linuxmafia.com> <20040821051036.GE21144@merlins.org> Message-ID: <20040823233229.GA23691@rumble.kluft.com> On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 10:10:36PM -0700, Marc MERLIN wrote: > On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 06:09:58PM -0700, Rick Moen wrote: > > Quoting Marc MERLIN (marc at merlins.org): > > > They should be the same, aren't they? > > > > They're not. > > Ok. I don't know if the speakers list was reset to something else, or what > it was, but I reset it to the same than the web-team password > > If some of you would like to have it, but don't currently, please Email me. FYI - Steve had changed it in 2002. I didn't change it. From nbs at sonic.net Fri Sep 10 19:46:58 2004 From: nbs at sonic.net (Bill Kendrick) Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 19:46:58 -0700 Subject: [Speakers] Some potential speakers, what do folks think? Message-ID: <20040911024658.GC8190@sonic.net> During my day-2 visit at LWE, I collected some business cards from folks that I thought might make interesting guest speakers at LUGOD and/or SVLUG. Here's a short list of them: * Alacos [in Seattle, WA, apparently] http://www.alacos.com/ Creates "Linux Migration Agent," a tool to pull docs, emails, preferences, etc. off of a Windows desktop and stick them on a Linux desktop, presumably making one's migration from one OS to the other more seamless. * PyX Technologies [Concord, CA] http://www.pyxtechnologies.com/ Provides a 'software-based scalable storage solution' for NetBSD and Linux. Their President and CTO is Andre Hedrick, a kernel storage guy. (And is, or was, on the ATA Technical Committee.) * Barracuda Networks [Cupertino, CA] http://www.barracudanetworks.com/ They sell 'spam firewall' devices. They apparently did a nice session on the subject at OSCON in Portland last month. * Tall Maple Systems [Sunnyvale, CA] http://www.tallmaple.com/ They provide 'a complete solution for companies building Internet Appliances.' Their technology 'allows companies starting to build an Internet appliance a way of jump-starting their product development.' * Psion Teklogix [Ontario, Canada] http://www.psionteklogix.com/ Yep, folks who did Symbian-based devices. But apparently they're moving to Linux. [ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/02/11/psion_looks_past_windows/ ] Comments? -bill! From nbs at sonic.net Mon Sep 13 11:45:35 2004 From: nbs at sonic.net (Bill Kendrick) Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 11:45:35 -0700 Subject: [Speakers] RE: Electric Cloud- Call for Speakers In-Reply-To: <200408111812.i7BICoYB008122@main.electric-cloud.com> References: <200408111812.i7BICoYB008122@main.electric-cloud.com> Message-ID: <20040913184535.GB17999@sonic.net> On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 11:14:59AM -0700, Carl White wrote: > I wanted to see if you were looking for interesting speakers for the SVLUG. > Our founder, John Ousterhout would be interested in speaking at one of your > upcoming SVLUG meetings on the topic of "Speeding Up the Software > Development Process", through dramatically reducing build times. I have > attached a White Paper that describes Electric Cloud's build accelerator > called Electric Make. John is also the developer of tcl tk. > Hi Carl, sorry for the long delay in getting back to this. I'm the new SVLUG speaker coordinator, and have been pretty busy lately. I'm only just now finding time to settle into the position. :) The Electric Cloud product sounds interesting (pull out GNU Make or NMAKE, and plug in Electric Make, and get clustered builds). Since the product supports Linux and GNU Make (along with Solaris and Sys V Make), it seems appropriate for SVLUG. Does anyone here have any reason we'd want to decline the offer? Carl, would John be able to speak at SVLUG's October 6th meeting? Thanks! -bill! bill at newbreedsoftware.com Man, some trip this turned out to be. http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/ All we caught is a tire, a boot, New Breed Software a tin can and this book of cliches. From nbs at sonic.net Fri Sep 17 17:44:47 2004 From: nbs at sonic.net (Bill Kendrick) Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 17:44:47 -0700 Subject: [Speakers] So I'm going to just invite people now :) Message-ID: <20040918004447.GA32136@sonic.net> Noone commented on the various potential speakers I listed a few days ago, so I'm going to start sending out invitations for November and beyond. :) -bill! From rick at linuxmafia.com Fri Sep 17 18:13:05 2004 From: rick at linuxmafia.com (Rick Moen) Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 18:13:05 -0700 Subject: [Speakers] So I'm going to just invite people now :) In-Reply-To: <20040918004447.GA32136@sonic.net> References: <20040918004447.GA32136@sonic.net> Message-ID: <20040918011305.GA22041@linuxmafia.com> Quoting Bill Kendrick (nbs at sonic.net): > Noone commented on the various potential speakers I listed a few days ago, > so I'm going to start sending out invitations for November and beyond. :) Apologies if this is actually still in the planning stages, but do we yet have a speaker & topic for October? (Thanks.) -- Cheers, "All persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental, Rick Moen and should not be construed." rick at linuxmafia.com -- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. From nbs at sonic.net Fri Sep 17 18:41:21 2004 From: nbs at sonic.net (Bill Kendrick) Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 18:41:21 -0700 Subject: [Speakers] So I'm going to just invite people now :) In-Reply-To: <20040918011305.GA22041@linuxmafia.com> References: <20040918004447.GA32136@sonic.net> <20040918011305.GA22041@linuxmafia.com> Message-ID: <20040918014121.GA11191@sonic.net> On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 06:13:05PM -0700, Rick Moen wrote: > Quoting Bill Kendrick (nbs at sonic.net): > > > Noone commented on the various potential speakers I listed a few days ago, > > so I'm going to start sending out invitations for November and beyond. :) > > Apologies if this is actually still in the planning stages, but do we > yet have a speaker & topic for October? (Thanks.) Er... Sorry. s/November/October/ Getting ahead of myself ;) -bill! From nbs at sonic.net Wed Sep 22 14:34:06 2004 From: nbs at sonic.net (Bill Kendrick) Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 14:34:06 -0700 Subject: [Speakers] Electric Cloud Message-ID: <20040922213406.GB642@sonic.net> FYI- As noone seemed to have any issue with John O. from Electric Cloud coming to speak at SVLUG, and since we're still without an Oct. speaker, I've accepted their offer to come present. I also recently sent an email to Andre Hedrick from Pyx Technologies, but have not received a response. Sorry for being so slow at this lately! :^/ -bill! From rick at linuxmafia.com Wed Sep 22 14:40:35 2004 From: rick at linuxmafia.com (Rick Moen) Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 14:40:35 -0700 Subject: [Speakers] Electric Cloud In-Reply-To: <20040922213406.GB642@sonic.net> References: <20040922213406.GB642@sonic.net> Message-ID: <20040922214035.GS22041@linuxmafia.com> Quoting Bill Kendrick (nbs at sonic.net): > As noone seemed to have any issue with John O. from Electric Cloud coming > to speak at SVLUG, and since we're still without an Oct. speaker, I've > accepted their offer to come present. If it's a product presentation about Electric Cloud's proprietary software build system, I can probably cobble together a halfway decent quick blurb for the SVLUG Web site. But I figure I should ask you, first. (One from the speaker would be better, but mine would be better than nothing.) (Please also let me know if the "O." doesn't stand for Ousterhout, though that seems like a safe bet.) From nbs at sonic.net Wed Sep 22 14:43:55 2004 From: nbs at sonic.net (Bill Kendrick) Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 14:43:55 -0700 Subject: [Speakers] Electric Cloud In-Reply-To: <20040922214035.GS22041@linuxmafia.com> References: <20040922213406.GB642@sonic.net> <20040922214035.GS22041@linuxmafia.com> Message-ID: <20040922214355.GB1863@sonic.net> On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 02:40:35PM -0700, Rick Moen wrote: > If it's a product presentation about Electric Cloud's proprietary > software build system, I can probably cobble together a halfway decent > quick blurb for the SVLUG Web site. I'm guessing that yes, that's what it's for. No confirmation back from them yet, so don't put them up as Oct's speaker just yet... > But I figure I should ask you, > first. (One from the speaker would be better, but mine would be better > than nothing.) Indeed. I'll make sure to get that kind of stuff when I hear back. > (Please also let me know if the "O." doesn't stand for Ousterhout, > though that seems like a safe bet.) Yes. Didn't have his name in front of me right then, and didn't want to mipsel it. ;) -bill! From bill at wards.net Wed Sep 22 17:03:18 2004 From: bill at wards.net (William R Ward) Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 17:03:18 -0700 Subject: [Speakers] Electric Cloud In-Reply-To: <20040922214355.GB1863@sonic.net> References: <20040922213406.GB642@sonic.net> <20040922214035.GS22041@linuxmafia.com> <20040922214355.GB1863@sonic.net> Message-ID: <16722.4806.111815.817480@komodo.home.wards.net> Bill Kendrick writes: >On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 02:40:35PM -0700, Rick Moen wrote: >> If it's a product presentation about Electric Cloud's proprietary >> software build system, I can probably cobble together a halfway decent >> quick blurb for the SVLUG Web site. > >I'm guessing that yes, that's what it's for. No confirmation back from >them yet, so don't put them up as Oct's speaker just yet... Please make it clear that we want information, not a sales pitch (but say it more nicely than I just did). -- William R Ward bill at wards.net http://bill.wards.net ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Where a calculator like the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1 1/2 tons." - Popular Mechanics, ca. 1947 From nbs at sonic.net Thu Sep 23 10:04:11 2004 From: nbs at sonic.net (Bill Kendrick) Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 10:04:11 -0700 Subject: [Speakers] CONFIRM Electric Cloud for Oct. 6th Message-ID: <20040923170411.GF18052@sonic.net> Can anyone answer the t-shirt question for me? :) ----- Forwarded message from Carl White ----- Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 09:52:18 -0700 From: "Carl White" Subject: RE: [Speakers] RE: Electric Cloud- Call for Speakers To: "'Bill Kendrick'" Cc: Bill, I spoke with John Ousterhout today and he has committed to be the speaker for the upcoming LUG meeting on Oct. 6th. John will be in touch with you shortly to prepare for the meeting ie. abstract, background etc. Let John know what you require. Is it ok for us to hand out a few T-Shirts? They are very popular. Carl ----- End forwarded message ----- [snipped: quote of my message to Carl] -bill! From bill at wards.net Fri Sep 24 01:33:01 2004 From: bill at wards.net (William R Ward) Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 01:33:01 -0700 Subject: [Speakers] CONFIRM Electric Cloud for Oct. 6th In-Reply-To: <20040923170411.GF18052@sonic.net> References: <20040923170411.GF18052@sonic.net> Message-ID: <16723.56253.329837.700156@komodo.home.wards.net> Handouts are OK; selling stuff is not. Bill Kendrick writes: > >Can anyone answer the t-shirt question for me? :) > >----- Forwarded message from Carl White ----- > >Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 09:52:18 -0700 >From: "Carl White" >Subject: RE: [Speakers] RE: Electric Cloud- Call for Speakers >To: "'Bill Kendrick'" >Cc: > > >Bill, > >I spoke with John Ousterhout today and he has committed to be the speaker >for the upcoming LUG meeting on Oct. 6th. John will be in touch with you >shortly to prepare for the meeting ie. abstract, background etc. Let John >know what you require. His email address is in the Cc > >Is it ok for us to hand out a few T-Shirts? They are very popular. > >Carl > >----- End forwarded message ----- >[snipped: quote of my message to Carl] > >-bill! > >_______________________________________________ >Speakers mailing list >Speakers at lists.svlug.org >http://lists.svlug.org/lists/listinfo/speakers -- William R Ward bill at wards.net http://bill.wards.net ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help save the San Jose Earthquakes - http://www.soccersiliconvalley.org/ From nbs at sonic.net Fri Sep 24 17:14:02 2004 From: nbs at sonic.net (Bill Kendrick) Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 17:14:02 -0700 Subject: [Speakers] [fwd] Electric Cloud summary and John Ousterhout bio Message-ID: <20040925001402.GA7491@sonic.net> Can the people who update the website, and the people who do the announcements please update the website, and do the announcements, respectively? :^) Now that it's all confirmed, is there anything else I, as speaker coord, need to do? Or is it clear sailing until the meeting actually takes place? (At which point I'm guessing someone ELSE physically helps John set things up at Cisco) Thanks!!! -bill! (still the newbie) ----- Forwarded message from John Ousterhout ----- Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 17:10:59 -0700 From: "John Ousterhout" Subject: RE: [Speakers] RE: Electric Cloud- Call for Speakers To: "'Bill Kendrick'" Here is an abstract for my talk in the upcoming SVLUG meeting, plus a bio of me, in case you need that. 10-20x Faster Software Builds ----------------------------- John Ousterhout Electric Cloud, Inc. Almost all software projects with more than a few dozen developers are plagued by slow builds that sap productivity, extend release schedules, and impact product quality. Parallel builds offer the potential of significant speedups, but previous attempts at parallelizing builds have had only modest success, primarily due to the lack of complete dependency information. In this talk I will present the architecture of Electric Cloud, a gmake-compatible build system that uses clusters of inexpensive servers to run massively-parallel builds. The key to the Electric Cloud approach is that it deduces dependencies on-the-fly by monitoring file accesses during the build, so that it knows when it is or isn't safe to run build steps in parallel. I will also describe other aspects of the system, such as its versioning network file system and its use of peer-to-peer protocols for moving file data efficiently. Finally, I will compare Electric Cloud to other approaches such as distcc. John Ousterhout is Founder and CEO of Electric Cloud. He is the creator of the Tcl scripting language and is also well known for his work in distributed operating systems, high-performance file systems, and user interfaces. Ousterhout's prior positions include Founder and CEO of Scriptics Corporation (acquired by Interwoven), Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems, and Professor of Computer Science at U.C. Berkeley. He received a BS degree in Physics from Yale University and a PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University. Ousterhout is a Member of the National Academy of Engineering and has received numerous awards, including the ACM Software System Award, the ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award, the National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award, and the U.C. Berkeley Distinguished Teaching Award. contact Ousterhout at ouster at electric-cloud.com. ----- End forwarded message ----- -- bill at newbreedsoftware.com New Breed Software http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/ Tux Paint 0.9.14 -- Coming soon! From bill at wards.net Fri Sep 24 17:15:51 2004 From: bill at wards.net (William R Ward) Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 17:15:51 -0700 Subject: [Speakers] [fwd] Electric Cloud summary and John Ousterhout bio In-Reply-To: <20040925001402.GA7491@sonic.net> References: <20040925001402.GA7491@sonic.net> Message-ID: <16724.47287.180491.338740@komodo.home.wards.net> I think that Rick can update the site but you need to send the announcement. Ask Ian how he did them. Bill Kendrick writes: > >Can the people who update the website, and the people who do the announcements >please update the website, and do the announcements, respectively? :^) > >Now that it's all confirmed, is there anything else I, as speaker coord, >need to do? Or is it clear sailing until the meeting actually takes place? >(At which point I'm guessing someone ELSE physically helps John set things >up at Cisco) > >Thanks!!! > >-bill! >(still the newbie) > >----- Forwarded message from John Ousterhout ----- > >Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 17:10:59 -0700 >From: "John Ousterhout" >Subject: RE: [Speakers] RE: Electric Cloud- Call for Speakers >To: "'Bill Kendrick'" > >Here is an abstract for my talk in the upcoming SVLUG meeting, >plus a bio of me, in case you need that. > >10-20x Faster Software Builds >----------------------------- > >John Ousterhout >Electric Cloud, Inc. > >Almost all software projects with more than a few dozen developers are >plagued by slow builds that sap productivity, extend release schedules, >and impact product quality. Parallel builds offer the potential of >significant speedups, but previous attempts at parallelizing builds >have had only modest success, primarily due to the lack of complete >dependency information. In this talk I will present the architecture >of Electric Cloud, a gmake-compatible build system that uses clusters >of inexpensive servers to run massively-parallel builds. The key to >the Electric Cloud approach is that it deduces dependencies on-the-fly >by monitoring file accesses during the build, so that it knows when it >is or isn't safe to run build steps in parallel. I will also describe >other aspects of the system, such as its versioning network file system >and its use of peer-to-peer protocols for moving file data efficiently. >Finally, I will compare Electric Cloud to other approaches such as >distcc. > > >John Ousterhout is Founder and CEO of Electric Cloud. He is >the creator of the Tcl scripting language and is also well known >for his work in distributed operating systems, high-performance >file systems, and user interfaces. Ousterhout's prior positions >include Founder and CEO of Scriptics Corporation (acquired by >Interwoven), Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems, and >Professor of Computer Science at U.C. Berkeley. He received a >BS degree in Physics from Yale University and a PhD in Computer >Science from Carnegie Mellon University. Ousterhout is a Member >of the National Academy of Engineering and has received numerous >awards, including the ACM Software System Award, the ACM Grace >Murray Hopper Award, the National Science Foundation Presidential >Young Investigator Award, and the U.C. Berkeley Distinguished >Teaching Award. > >contact Ousterhout at ouster at electric-cloud.com. > > >----- End forwarded message ----- > >-- >bill at newbreedsoftware.com New Breed Software >http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/ Tux Paint 0.9.14 -- Coming soon! > >_______________________________________________ >Speakers mailing list >Speakers at lists.svlug.org >http://lists.svlug.org/lists/listinfo/speakers -- William R Ward bill at wards.net http://bill.wards.net ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help save the San Jose Earthquakes - http://www.soccersiliconvalley.com/ From rick at linuxmafia.com Fri Sep 24 17:36:18 2004 From: rick at linuxmafia.com (Rick Moen) Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 17:36:18 -0700 Subject: [Speakers] [fwd] Electric Cloud summary and John Ousterhout bio In-Reply-To: <20040925001402.GA7491@sonic.net> References: <20040925001402.GA7491@sonic.net> Message-ID: <20040925003618.GB22041@linuxmafia.com> Quoting Bill Kendrick (nbs at sonic.net): > Can the people who update the website, and the people who do the announcements > please update the website, and do the announcements, respectively? :^) Updated to the front page, meetings page, and SVLUG News squib -- complete with punctuation corrections (concession to pedantry). How's that for speed? From nbs at sonic.net Mon Sep 27 14:11:25 2004 From: nbs at sonic.net (Bill Kendrick) Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 14:11:25 -0700 Subject: [Speakers] Electric Cloud Message-ID: <20040927211125.GB1259@sonic.net> Do we have everything we need from Electric Cloud? Anything else I should send to them? (Contact names and numbers, in case they get stuck in traffic, etc.) Thx! -bill! From jim.singletary at barbedwiretech.com Tue Oct 5 17:48:16 2004 From: jim.singletary at barbedwiretech.com (jim.singletary) Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 17:48:16 -0700 Subject: [Speakers] [Officers] Possible presenter on Linux Network Security Message-ID: <20041006011606.DFCD517F@bwmail1.barbedwiretech.com> Greetings My name is Jim Singletary and I work for Barbedwire Technologies. We make a linux based multifunction network security appliance. In my career I have presented at Linux gathers and am a believer in working with the Linux movement. I am wondering if someone from your group could take a look at our website : www.barbedwiretech.com My presentations are brief and to the point and I will be happy to treat for Pizza or your vendor food of choice. Thank you, Jim Singletary Western Region Sales Director Barbedwire Technologies 48521 Warm Springs Blvd Ste 301 Fremont, CA 94539 visit us at: www.Barbedwiretech.com What they are saying about Barbedwire... http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1519094,00.asp http://www.scmagazine.com/products/index.cfm?fuseaction=GroupTestDetails&Gro upId=6641 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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From nbs at sonic.net Mon Oct 18 16:20:00 2004 From: nbs at sonic.net (Bill Kendrick) Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 16:20:00 -0700 Subject: [Speakers] Speaker pinging Message-ID: <20041018232000.GC11328@sonic.net> I've just pinged Sam Ockman regarding having Donald Becker (Beowulf fame) speak at an upcoming SVLUG meeting. (Aniruddha mentioned he had contacted about a year ago, but we were booked, so I'm now following up.) I also pinged the folks from Coverity who wanted to come talk about their source code analysis tool. Gumstix (creators of tiny Linux boards) spoke at the last LUGOD meeting earlier this month, and it was apparently a great talk, and a very cool product. They're interested in speaking at other LUGs, but want to have a new add-on product released before doing so. I'll ping them to try and get a time-line. Two other random topics I just thought of that hasn't seemed to be spoken about at SVLUG were The Gimp (the new 2.x versions are farily new on the block), and the SliMP3 player system. Poking around some Linux news sites, things like the Looking Glass project, the E28 Linux phones, and that new Ubuntu Linux distribution sound interesting. I'll happily accept other suggestions, and comments on the above! Thanks, -bill! bill at newbreedsoftware.com New Breed Software http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/ Tux Paint 0.9.14 is out! From nbs at sonic.net Tue Oct 26 00:59:23 2004 From: nbs at sonic.net (Bill Kendrick) Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 00:59:23 -0700 Subject: [Speakers] Possible December speakers Message-ID: <20041026075923.GB6308@sonic.net> Some folks from Nokia /might/ be able to arrange to be in San Jose in early December, and come to speak at SVLUG about the Gtk+ WebCore project. I'll post more as they get back to me with a confirmation or cancellation... -bill! From nbs at sonic.net Tue Oct 26 16:41:56 2004 From: nbs at sonic.net (Bill Kendrick) Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 16:41:56 -0700 Subject: [Speakers] Re: Speaker pinging In-Reply-To: <20041018232000.GC11328@sonic.net> References: <20041018232000.GC11328@sonic.net> Message-ID: <20041026234156.GA5703@sonic.net> On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 04:20:00PM -0700, Bill Kendrick wrote: > > I've just pinged Sam Ockman regarding having Donald Becker (Beowulf fame) > speak at an upcoming SVLUG meeting. (Aniruddha mentioned he had contacted > about a year ago, but we were booked, so I'm now following up.) Sam Ockman just called me, and said he's going to contact Don to determine the best date for him to come to the west coast to speak at SVLUG. (Looks like Feb. at the earliest.) I've also pinged Gumstix and am hoping they can get back to me soon as to whether they can come talk in November. *cross your fingers!* -bill! From nbs at sonic.net Tue Oct 26 17:08:11 2004 From: nbs at sonic.net (Bill Kendrick) Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 17:08:11 -0700 Subject: [Speakers] CONFIRMED: gumstix at SVLUG, November 3rd Message-ID: <20041027000811.GB9803@sonic.net> Susan Lehman from gumstix [1] just confirmed that they can speak at SVLUG in November. We'll probably use a similar announcement to the one used for their presentation at LUGOD [2], however I know they've been working on something new, so I'll wait for her response before I give the exact wording. Sorry for cutting it so close! -bill! [1] http://www.gumstix.com/ [2] http://www.lugod.org/mailinglists/archives/vox-announce/msg00269.html From nbs at sonic.net Tue Oct 26 17:10:55 2004 From: nbs at sonic.net (Bill Kendrick) Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 17:10:55 -0700 Subject: [Speakers] CONFIRMED: gumstix at SVLUG, November 3rd In-Reply-To: <20041027000811.GB9803@sonic.net> References: <20041027000811.GB9803@sonic.net> Message-ID: <20041027001055.GD9803@sonic.net> On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 05:08:11PM -0700, Bill Kendrick wrote: > > Susan Lehman from gumstix [1] just confirmed that they can speak at SVLUG > in November. BTW, who should I pass Susan/etc. off to with regards to coordinating the actual setup and prep. for the meeting? Marc? Ian? Someone else? Thx! -bill! From bill at wards.net Wed Oct 27 00:00:18 2004 From: bill at wards.net (William R Ward) Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 00:00:18 -0700 Subject: [Speakers] CONFIRMED: gumstix at SVLUG, November 3rd In-Reply-To: <20041027001055.GD9803@sonic.net> References: <20041027000811.GB9803@sonic.net> <20041027001055.GD9803@sonic.net> Message-ID: <16767.18306.638815.345961@komodo.home.wards.net> Bill Kendrick writes: >On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 05:08:11PM -0700, Bill Kendrick wrote: >> >> Susan Lehman from gumstix [1] just confirmed that they can speak at SVLUG >> in November. > >BTW, who should I pass Susan/etc. off to with regards to coordinating >the actual setup and prep. for the meeting? Marc? Ian? Someone else? The standard has been for the speaker coordinator (you) to do it... -- William R Ward bill at wards.net http://bill.wards.net ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help save the San Jose Earthquakes - http://www.soccersiliconvalley.com/ From nbs at sonic.net Wed Oct 27 10:35:34 2004 From: nbs at sonic.net (Bill Kendrick) Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 10:35:34 -0700 Subject: [Speakers] CONFIRMED: gumstix at SVLUG, November 3rd In-Reply-To: <16767.18306.638815.345961@komodo.home.wards.net> References: <20041027000811.GB9803@sonic.net> <20041027001055.GD9803@sonic.net> <16767.18306.638815.345961@komodo.home.wards.net> Message-ID: <20041027173534.GK17934@sonic.net> On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 12:00:18AM -0700, William R Ward wrote: > Bill Kendrick writes: > >BTW, who should I pass Susan/etc. off to with regards to coordinating > >the actual setup and prep. for the meeting? Marc? Ian? Someone else? > > The standard has been for the speaker coordinator (you) to do it... Err... but I'm totally clueless as to how meetings are set up, and am not even 100% sure I'll be able to attend every time. :^) Marc suggested I contact Don, so I put Susan and him in touch. Ian told me a fellow named Tracy is the set-up person, and put me in contact with him. :^) -bill! bill at newbreedsoftware.com New Breed Software http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/ Tux Paint 0.9.14 is out! From dmarti at zgp.org Wed Oct 27 11:52:47 2004 From: dmarti at zgp.org (Don Marti) Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 11:52:47 -0700 Subject: [Speakers] CONFIRMED: gumstix at SVLUG, November 3rd In-Reply-To: <20041027173534.GK17934@sonic.net> References: <20041027000811.GB9803@sonic.net> <20041027001055.GD9803@sonic.net> <16767.18306.638815.345961@komodo.home.wards.net> <20041027173534.GK17934@sonic.net> Message-ID: <20041027185247.GA8594@lycopodium> begin Bill Kendrick quotation of Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 10:35:34AM -0700: > Err... but I'm totally clueless as to how meetings are set up, and am not > even 100% sure I'll be able to attend every time. :^) > > Marc suggested I contact Don, so I put Susan and him in touch. As speaker coordinator, you can go ahead and confirm Susan yourself. You don't need to go through me. > Ian told me a fellow named Tracy is the set-up person, and put me in contact > with him. Yes, he's our contact at Cisco. -- Don Marti http://zgp.org/~dmarti/ dmarti at zgp.org Keep your mangement off my digital rights. From nbs at sonic.net Wed Oct 27 11:59:53 2004 From: nbs at sonic.net (Bill Kendrick) Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 11:59:53 -0700 Subject: [Speakers] CONFIRMED: gumstix at SVLUG, November 3rd In-Reply-To: <20041027185247.GA8594@lycopodium> References: <20041027000811.GB9803@sonic.net> <20041027001055.GD9803@sonic.net> <16767.18306.638815.345961@komodo.home.wards.net> <20041027173534.GK17934@sonic.net> <20041027185247.GA8594@lycopodium> Message-ID: <20041027185953.GC32227@sonic.net> On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 11:52:47AM -0700, Don Marti wrote: > begin Bill Kendrick quotation of Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 10:35:34AM -0700: > > > Err... but I'm totally clueless as to how meetings are set up, and am not > > even 100% sure I'll be able to attend every time. :^) > > > > Marc suggested I contact Don, so I put Susan and him in touch. > > As speaker coordinator, you can go ahead and confirm > Susan yourself. You don't need to go through me. Oh, the point wasn't confirmation... it was to make sure any logistics are dealt with when it comes to them coming and setting up for their talk. i.e., now that I've confirmed they're coming, who should they talk to to arrange what time, who to meet, how to get in at Cisco, etc. :^) Anyway... I'll wait to hear back from Tracy :) Thx! -bill! PS - Thanks Don... I'm addicted to Burrito Real now! >:^P From ikluft at thunder.sbay.org Wed Oct 27 14:24:28 2004 From: ikluft at thunder.sbay.org (Ian Kluft) Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 14:24:28 -0700 Subject: [Speakers] CONFIRMED: gumstix at SVLUG, November 3rd In-Reply-To: <20041027185953.GC32227@sonic.net> References: <20041027000811.GB9803@sonic.net> <20041027001055.GD9803@sonic.net> <16767.18306.638815.345961@komodo.home.wards.net> <20041027173534.GK17934@sonic.net> <20041027185247.GA8594@lycopodium> <20041027185953.GC32227@sonic.net> Message-ID: <20041027212428.GB13841@thunder.sbay.org> On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 11:59:53AM -0700, Bill Kendrick wrote: > Oh, the point wasn't confirmation... it was to make sure any logistics > are dealt with when it comes to them coming and setting up for their talk. Most of the time the speaker doesn't have questions about he facility and just comes to speak. So there is nothing to do in those cases. > i.e., now that I've confirmed they're coming, who should they talk to > to arrange what time, who to meet, how to get in at Cisco, etc. :^) If the speaker doesn't have any questions, such as about special equipment they'd like to bring, then you're pretty much done. Your next step will be to send out announcements to announce at lists.svlug.org. Be sure to BCC them to the speaker so they also serve as a gentle reminder in case their preparations weren't done. Then you or whoever referred the speaker will introduce them. Though that falls upon the speaker coordinator if no one else wants to do it. There was one time recently when a speaker (Dave Bryson) wanted to visit the facility days before the meeting to check that his laptop and stuff worked with the facility. This can be arranged through Tracy, me or any Cisco employee. I brought Dave there that time. This can be done on an on-request basis. But I wouldn't bring it up - let the speaker ask. A few things about the room that come up once in a while... * The VGA projection screens want to use a resolution of 1024x768. There are VGA and audio cables on the podium to connect a laptop. There have been a few rare cases of someone's laptop being unable to sync with the projector. * We can't serve food unless it's arranged through Cisco. The headquarters conference center in Bldg 9 is covered by a catering agreement which involves exclusive access for their union personnel. So only they can bring food there. It's too expensive for SVLUG to consider. But if any company who is speaking offers to buy pizzas or something like that, this is why we have to decline when we meet at Cisco. It's one of the awkward points from being the only ongoing public meeting at a private facility. * We can't allow anyone (speakers or others) to sell anything at the meeting. It just wouldn't be respectful as guests in Cisco's facility. Giveaways are fine. And making contacts or directing people to their web site are of course fine. As for the meeting room, Tracy and I usually balance "wearing two hats" as Cisco employees and SVLUG members, to work with the conference center staff to make sure SVLUG appears as a good guest and Cisco appears as a good host. Sometimes other Cisco employees/SVLUG members have helped with that role too, including Dave Masten and a recent new college hire Chris Verges. A quote last month from the conference center staff was, "you guys are great" (referring to all of SVLUG.) From nbs at sonic.net Wed Oct 27 14:40:34 2004 From: nbs at sonic.net (Bill Kendrick) Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 14:40:34 -0700 Subject: [Speakers] CONFIRMED: gumstix at SVLUG, November 3rd In-Reply-To: <20041027212428.GB13841@thunder.sbay.org> References: <20041027000811.GB9803@sonic.net> <20041027001055.GD9803@sonic.net> <16767.18306.638815.345961@komodo.home.wards.net> <20041027173534.GK17934@sonic.net> <20041027185247.GA8594@lycopodium> <20041027185953.GC32227@sonic.net> <20041027212428.GB13841@thunder.sbay.org> Message-ID: <20041027214034.GB17599@sonic.net> On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 02:24:28PM -0700, Ian Kluft wrote: > If the speaker doesn't have any questions, such as about special equipment > they'd like to bring, then you're pretty much done. Your next step will be > to send out announcements to announce at lists.svlug.org. Be sure to BCC them > to the speaker so they also serve as a gentle reminder in case their > preparations weren't done. Then you or whoever referred the speaker will > introduce them. Though that falls upon the speaker coordinator if no one > else wants to do it. Thanks. Is there a template for the announcement that I should use? (Or should I just look at previous annc'ments?) > * We can't allow anyone (speakers or others) to sell anything at the meeting. > It just wouldn't be respectful as guests in Cisco's facility. Giveaways > are fine. And making contacts or directing people to their web site are > of course fine. I had suggested they bring items to LUGOD to sell, and suggested a give-away would be nice. I don't believe they actually did either, but just to make sure everything's 100% understood, I'll let her know that they canNOT sell anything at SVLUG, as per the above. Thanks! -bill! From bill at wards.net Wed Oct 27 14:52:55 2004 From: bill at wards.net (William R Ward) Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 14:52:55 -0700 Subject: [Speakers] CONFIRMED: gumstix at SVLUG, November 3rd In-Reply-To: <20041027173534.GK17934@sonic.net> References: <20041027000811.GB9803@sonic.net> <20041027001055.GD9803@sonic.net> <16767.18306.638815.345961@komodo.home.wards.net> <20041027173534.GK17934@sonic.net> Message-ID: <16768.6327.664717.493897@komodo.home.wards.net> Bill Kendrick writes: >On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 12:00:18AM -0700, William R Ward wrote: >> Bill Kendrick writes: >> >BTW, who should I pass Susan/etc. off to with regards to coordinating >> >the actual setup and prep. for the meeting? Marc? Ian? Someone else? >> >> The standard has been for the speaker coordinator (you) to do it... > >Err... but I'm totally clueless as to how meetings are set up, and am not >even 100% sure I'll be able to attend every time. :^) Well, as speaker coordinator it would be good for you to either make sure you attend (at least 5-10 minutes prior to 7pm) or delegate it to someone. Unless, of course, we decide to adopt a new policy regarding that - which is something that the new Pres & VP may be able to discuss when they take office. --Bill. -- William R Ward bill at wards.net http://bill.wards.net ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help save the San Jose Earthquakes - http://www.soccersiliconvalley.com/ From pcubbage at opencountry.com Wed Oct 27 18:11:42 2004 From: pcubbage at opencountry.com (Paul Cubbage) Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 18:11:42 -0700 Subject: [Speakers] Aid for speaker coordinators In-Reply-To: <16768.6327.664717.493897@komodo.home.wards.net> References: <20041027000811.GB9803@sonic.net> <20041027001055.GD9803@sonic.net> <16767.18306.638815.345961@komodo.home.wards.net> <20041027173534.GK17934@sonic.net> <16768.6327.664717.493897@komodo.home.wards.net> Message-ID: <4180474E.9080808@opencountry.com> In the discussion on the next speaker, some good info has emerged. I think it's a good idea to put up a page to help coordinators and speakers. How do we do that? I'm willing to help or do it but assume that we have to work with our webmaster. A link of of http://www.svlug.org/call4speakers.shtml might be the right place. Some info from current emails is a start: *********************************************** Bill Kendrick writes: BTW, who should I pass Susan/etc. off to with regards to coordinating the actual setup and prep. for the meeting? Marc? Ian? Someone else? The standard has been for the speaker coordinator (you) to do it... *********************************************** Well, as speaker coordinator it would be good for you to either make sure you attend (at least 5-10 minutes prior to 7pm) or delegate it to someone. Unless, of course, we decide to adopt a new policy regarding that - which is something that the new Pres & VP may be able to discuss when they take office. -Bill. ******************************************** Ian writes: >Oh, the point wasn't confirmation... it was to make sure any logistics >> are dealt with when it comes to them coming and setting up for their talk. Most of the time the speaker doesn't have questions about he facility and just comes to speak. So there is nothing to do in those cases. >> i.e., now that I've confirmed they're coming, who should they talk to >> to arrange what time, who to meet, how to get in at Cisco, etc. :^) If the speaker doesn't have any questions, such as about special equipment they'd like to bring, then you're pretty much done. Your next step will be to send out announcements to announce at lists.svlug.org. Be sure to BCC them to the speaker so they also serve as a gentle reminder in case their preparations weren't done. Then you or whoever referred the speaker will introduce them. Though that falls upon the speaker coordinator if no one else wants to do it. There was one time recently when a speaker (Dave Bryson) wanted to visit the facility days before the meeting to check that his laptop and stuff worked with the facility. This can be arranged through Tracy, me or any Cisco employee. I brought Dave there that time. This can be done on an on-request basis. But I wouldn't bring it up - let the speaker ask. A few things about the room that come up once in a while... * The VGA projection screens want to use a resolution of 1024x768. There are VGA and audio cables on the podium to connect a laptop. There have been a few rare cases of someone's laptop being unable to sync with the projector. * We can't serve food unless it's arranged through Cisco. The headquarters conference center in Bldg 9 is covered by a catering agreement which involves exclusive access for their union personnel. So only they can bring food there. It's too expensive for SVLUG to consider. But if any company who is speaking offers to buy pizzas or something like that, this is why we have to decline when we meet at Cisco. It's one of the awkward points from being the only ongoing public meeting at a private facility. * We can't allow anyone (speakers or others) to sell anything at the meeting. It just wouldn't be respectful as guests in Cisco's facility. Giveaways are fine. And making contacts or directing people to their web site are of course fine. As for the meeting room, Tracy and I usually balance "wearing two hats" as Cisco employees and SVLUG members, to work with the conference center staff to make sure SVLUG appears as a good guest and Cisco appears as a good host. Sometimes other Cisco employees/SVLUG members have helped with that role too, including Dave Masten and a recent new college hire Chris Verges. A quote last month from the conference center staff was, "you guys are great" (referring to all of SVLUG.) From val at nmt.edu Thu Oct 28 18:02:03 2004 From: val at nmt.edu (Valerie Henson) Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 19:02:03 -0600 Subject: [Speakers] File systems and LinuxChix Message-ID: <20041029010203.GC21994@speare5-1-16> Hello, I'm interested in speaking at SVLUG in December about two topics, a review of UNIX file systems (including the major Linux file systems), and LinuxChix (http://www.linuxchix.org). I figure about one hour for the first topic, half an hour for the second, and half an hour for questions. Interested? -VAL From nbs at sonic.net Thu Oct 28 18:42:53 2004 From: nbs at sonic.net (Bill Kendrick) Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 18:42:53 -0700 Subject: [Speakers] File systems and LinuxChix In-Reply-To: <20041029010203.GC21994@speare5-1-16> References: <20041029010203.GC21994@speare5-1-16> Message-ID: <20041029014253.GA27683@sonic.net> On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 07:02:03PM -0600, Valerie Henson wrote: > Hello, > > I'm interested in speaking at SVLUG in December about two topics, a > review of UNIX file systems (including the major Linux file systems), > and LinuxChix (http://www.linuxchix.org). I figure about one hour for > the first topic, half an hour for the second, and half an hour for > questions. Interested? Hi Valerie... This sounds pretty interesting. Since I'm still new at being the SVLUG speaker coordinator, I'm curious to hear what other think of a dual-topic meeting, but personally I think it'd be great. Anyone else have comments? -bill! From rick at linuxmafia.com Fri Oct 29 00:10:14 2004 From: rick at linuxmafia.com (Rick Moen) Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 00:10:14 -0700 Subject: [Speakers] File systems and LinuxChix In-Reply-To: <20041029010203.GC21994@speare5-1-16> References: <20041029010203.GC21994@speare5-1-16> Message-ID: <20041029071014.GL27397@linuxmafia.com> Quoting Valerie Henson (val at nmt.edu): > I'm interested in speaking at SVLUG in December about two topics, a > review of UNIX file systems (including the major Linux file systems), > and LinuxChix (http://www.linuxchix.org). I figure about one hour for > the first topic, half an hour for the second, and half an hour for > questions. Interested? Bill, I've met Val and think she'd be a dynamite speaker on any of several topics. (Hi, Val!) -- Cheers, Rick Moen This .signature intentionally left blank. rick at linuxmafia.com From keikom at qlusters.com Fri Oct 29 15:28:06 2004 From: keikom at qlusters.com (Keiko Moriyama) Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 18:28:06 -0400 Subject: [Speakers] Speaking Opportunity at Your Monthly Meeting? Message-ID: <7B595BDA88C8B74A8AD0B850B586013502A6AE74@ATL1VEXC010.usdom003.tco.tc> Hi Mark: I'm the Marketing Programs Manager at Qlusters, Inc - we offer software solutions that allow companies to manage their Linux datacenters. We are very interested in speaking at one of your monthly meetings. Keiko Moriyama Sr. Marketing Programs Manager www.qlusters.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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I haven't met Val, but it sounds like a great topic. --Bill. -- William R Ward bill at wards.net http://bill.wards.net ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help save the San Jose Earthquakes - http://www.soccersiliconvalley.com/ From nbs at sonic.net Fri Oct 29 17:22:58 2004 From: nbs at sonic.net (Bill Kendrick) Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 17:22:58 -0700 Subject: [Speakers] File systems and LinuxChix In-Reply-To: <16770.56660.972234.674170@komodo.home.wards.net> References: <20041029010203.GC21994@speare5-1-16> <20041029071014.GL27397@linuxmafia.com> <16770.56660.972234.674170@komodo.home.wards.net> Message-ID: <20041030002258.GB11268@sonic.net> On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 05:16:20PM -0700, William R Ward wrote: > Rick Moen writes: > >Quoting Valerie Henson (val at nmt.edu): > > > >> I'm interested in speaking at SVLUG in December about two topics, a > >> review of UNIX file systems (including the major Linux file systems), > >> and LinuxChix (http://www.linuxchix.org). I figure about one hour for > >> the first topic, half an hour for the second, and half an hour for > >> questions. Interested? > > > >Bill, I've met Val and think she'd be a dynamite speaker on any of > >several topics. (Hi, Val!) > > I haven't met Val, but it sounds like a great topic. Alright, that settles it! Let's put Valerie down for December's SVLUG. (I've also got her confirmed for a March appearance in Davis :^) ) Thx! -bill! From nbs at sonic.net Sun Oct 31 19:17:15 2004 From: nbs at sonic.net (Bill Kendrick) Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 19:17:15 -0800 Subject: [Speakers] Re: (Qlusters) Speaking Opportunity at Your Monthly (SVLUG) Meeting? Message-ID: <20041101031715.GA2227@sonic.net> You wrote: > I'm the Marketing Programs Manager at Qlusters, Inc - we offer software > solutions that allow companies to manage their Linux datacenters. We > are very interested in speaking at one of your monthly meetings. Hi Keiko, this is Bill Kendrick, Speaker Coordinator for SVLUG in San Jose. Thank you for your offer to come speak at one of our meetings. I think that would be great. I see Dr. Moshe Bar (of openMosix fame) is one of your co-founders; would he be interested in coming to do the presentation? Also, we're currently booked through December, but our Wednesday, Jan. 5th meeting is still available. Would that be a suitable date? Thanks, -bill! http://www.svlug.org/ From nbs at sonic.net Thu Nov 4 10:46:40 2004 From: nbs at sonic.net (Bill Kendrick) Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 10:46:40 -0800 Subject: [December SVLUG] Re: [Speakers] File systems and LinuxChix In-Reply-To: <20041029010203.GC21994@speare5-1-16> References: <20041029010203.GC21994@speare5-1-16> Message-ID: <20041104184640.GA18099@sonic.net> On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 07:02:03PM -0600, Valerie Henson wrote: > Hello, > > I'm interested in speaking at SVLUG in December about two topics, a > review of UNIX file systems (including the major Linux file systems), > and LinuxChix (http://www.linuxchix.org). I figure about one hour for > the first topic, half an hour for the second, and half an hour for > questions. Interested? Hi all. Valerie, I was wondering if you could confirm that you can make it to Wed. Dec. 1st's SVLUG meeting, and if you'd be kind enough to expand the following summary a little bit: A review of UNIX file systems, including those for Linux. Valerie Henson works at IBM as a Linux kernel developer, and has served on program committees for FREENIX, the USENIX Technical Conference and the Ottawa Linux Symposium. Valerie will also briefly discuss LinuxChix, a community for women who like Linux, and for supporting women in computing. The membership ranges from novices to experienced users, and includes professional and amateur programmers, system administrators and technical writers. Thanks! -bill! From val at nmt.edu Thu Nov 4 18:25:10 2004 From: val at nmt.edu (Valerie Henson) Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 19:25:10 -0700 Subject: [December SVLUG] Re: [Speakers] File systems and LinuxChix In-Reply-To: <20041104184640.GA18099@sonic.net> References: <20041029010203.GC21994@speare5-1-16> <20041104184640.GA18099@sonic.net> Message-ID: <20041105022510.GA6596@speare5-1-16> Yes, I'm coming. Sorry for the delay; my bio is out of date and I need to rewrite it. I'll get it to you by Saturday. -VAL On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 10:46:40AM -0800, Bill Kendrick wrote: > On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 07:02:03PM -0600, Valerie Henson wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'm interested in speaking at SVLUG in December about two topics, a > > review of UNIX file systems (including the major Linux file systems), > > and LinuxChix (http://www.linuxchix.org). I figure about one hour for > > the first topic, half an hour for the second, and half an hour for > > questions. Interested? > > Hi all. Valerie, I was wondering if you could confirm that you can make > it to Wed. Dec. 1st's SVLUG meeting, and if you'd be kind enough to expand > the following summary a little bit: > > > A review of UNIX file systems, including those for Linux. > > Valerie Henson works at IBM as a Linux kernel developer, and has > served on program committees for FREENIX, the USENIX Technical > Conference and the Ottawa Linux Symposium. > > Valerie will also briefly discuss LinuxChix, a community for women > who like Linux, and for supporting women in computing. The membership > ranges from novices to experienced users, and includes professional > and amateur programmers, system administrators and technical writers. > > > Thanks! > > -bill! From nbs at sonic.net Thu Nov 4 22:22:50 2004 From: nbs at sonic.net (Bill Kendrick) Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 22:22:50 -0800 Subject: [December SVLUG] Re: [Speakers] File systems and LinuxChix In-Reply-To: <20041105022510.GA6596@speare5-1-16> References: <20041029010203.GC21994@speare5-1-16> <20041104184640.GA18099@sonic.net> <20041105022510.GA6596@speare5-1-16> Message-ID: <20041105062250.GB13310@sonic.net> On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 07:25:10PM -0700, Valerie Henson wrote: > Yes, I'm coming. Sorry for the delay; my bio is out of date and I > need to rewrite it. I'll get it to you by Saturday. Thanks! -bill! From nbs at sonic.net Fri Nov 5 12:32:29 2004 From: nbs at sonic.net (Bill Kendrick) Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 12:32:29 -0800 Subject: [Speakers] Re: (Qlusters) Speaking Opportunity at Your Monthly (SVLUG) Meeting? In-Reply-To: <7B595BDA88C8B74A8AD0B850B586013502E0F351@ATL1VEXC010.usdom003.tco.tc> References: <7B595BDA88C8B74A8AD0B850B586013502E0F351@ATL1VEXC010.usdom003.tco.tc> Message-ID: <20041105203229.GB30360@sonic.net> On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 03:28:52PM -0500, Keiko Moriyama wrote: > Hi Bill: > > Yes. Please put us down for January 5. We will send either Moshe Bar > or another executive from the company depending on scheduling issues. I > will give you definite name of speaker by end of November. Would that > be OK? > > Keiko Moriyama Hi Keiko, that sounds good. Thanks! -bill! Cc'ing SVLUG speakers list and SVLUG web team From val at nmt.edu Mon Nov 8 23:57:47 2004 From: val at nmt.edu (Valerie Henson) Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2004 00:57:47 -0700 Subject: Speaker & topic description (was Re: [December SVLUG] Re: [Speakers] File systems and LinuxChix) In-Reply-To: <20041104184640.GA18099@sonic.net> References: <20041029010203.GC21994@speare5-1-16> <20041104184640.GA18099@sonic.net> Message-ID: <20041109075747.GA8498@speare5-1-16> I finally found a way to type that doesn't aggravate my RSI... Editorial comments welcomed. --- Valerie will give a review of UNIX file systems, focussing on Linux file systems, the evolution of file system design, and various approaches to solving the problems of performance, consistency, and recovery. Valerie will also briefly discuss LinuxChix, a community for women in Linux. The membership ranges from novices to experienced users, and includes programmers, system administrators, technical writers and people who just like Linux. Valerie Henson works at IBM as a Linux kernel developer, and has served on program committees for FREENIX, the USENIX Technical Conference and Ottawa Linux Symposium. Most recently she worked on ZFS, a new file system for Solaris. Valerie became interested in women in computing after wondering where all the other female Linux kernel developers were. -VAL From nbs at sonic.net Mon Nov 15 14:45:29 2004 From: nbs at sonic.net (Bill Kendrick) Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 14:45:29 -0800 Subject: [Speakers] GOSSiP talk Message-ID: <20041115224529.GC22096@sonic.net> FYI, I emailed Mark Langston privately after he mentioned the "GOSSiP" project, and invited him to speak at an SVLUG meeting about the project. Anyone have any comments/problems with this? He sounds willing. Thanks, -bill! From bill at svlug.org Mon Nov 15 15:47:24 2004 From: bill at svlug.org (William R Ward) Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 15:47:24 -0800 Subject: [Speakers] Oracle @ SVLUG Message-ID: <16793.16396.464581.981930@komodo.home.wards.net> I talked with Todd Trichler today and he wants to schedule someone from Oracle to talk to SVLUG. Oracle will sponsor the Dennys food afterward. Is Feb. still available? -- William R. Ward - Vice President, Silicon Valley Linux Users Group From nbs at sonic.net Mon Nov 15 15:51:55 2004 From: nbs at sonic.net (Bill Kendrick) Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 15:51:55 -0800 Subject: [Speakers] Oracle @ SVLUG In-Reply-To: <16793.16396.464581.981930@komodo.home.wards.net> References: <16793.16396.464581.981930@komodo.home.wards.net> Message-ID: <20041115235155.GA27832@sonic.net> On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 03:47:24PM -0800, William R Ward wrote: > > I talked with Todd Trichler today and he wants to schedule someone > from Oracle to talk to SVLUG. Oracle will sponsor the Dennys food > afterward. Is Feb. still available? It is /currently/, but I've just let Mark L. know that it's available if he wanted to do his GOSSiP talk at that meeting. I'll let you know once I hear back from him. If he doesn't want Feb or has other commitments, we can let Oracle have it. Otherwise, the next open date isn't til March. Thx! (Say 'hi' to Todd for me! Let him know there's a new Tux Paint ;^) ) -bill! From nbs at sonic.net Mon Nov 15 16:36:36 2004 From: nbs at sonic.net (Bill Kendrick) Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 16:36:36 -0800 Subject: [Speakers] CONFIRMED: Mark C. Langston, "GOSSiP", February 2, 2005 Message-ID: <20041116003636.GB431@sonic.net> Mark has confirmed that he can talk about the GOSSiP project at SVLUG in February. His post about it from today is in the archives, here: http://lists.svlug.org/archives/svlug/2004-November/048562.html The project itself lives here: http://sufficiently-advanced.net/ -bill! From nbs at sonic.net Mon Nov 15 16:37:53 2004 From: nbs at sonic.net (Bill Kendrick) Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 16:37:53 -0800 Subject: [Speakers] [fwd] [mark@bitshift.org: Re: [svlug] Show and tell: What is everybody working on?] Message-ID: <20041116003753.GC431@sonic.net> Please see Mark's note below... -bill! ----- Forwarded message from "Mark C. Langston" ----- Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 16:36:48 -0800 From: "Mark C. Langston" Subject: Re: [svlug] Show and tell: What is everybody working on? To: Bill Kendrick On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 04:34:59PM -0800, Bill Kendrick wrote: > On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 04:29:49PM -0800, Mark C. Langston wrote: > > > > Yep, that's fine. > > Great! I'll have the SVLUG webmaster folks put you down for our > February speaker. Sounds good. I don't want any affiliation listed; just my name (also a requirement of my new job). -- Mark C. Langston The GOSSiP Project mark at bitshift.org http://sufficiently-advanced.net Factotum Distributed, Peer-to-Peer http://bitshift.org E-mail Reputation System ----- End forwarded message ----- -- bill at newbreedsoftware.com New Breed Software http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/ Tux Paint 0.9.14 is out! From nbs at sonic.net Wed Nov 17 11:31:04 2004 From: nbs at sonic.net (Bill Kendrick) Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 11:31:04 -0800 Subject: [Speakers] Advertising responsibility? Message-ID: <20041117193104.GA13043@sonic.net> Who's responsibility is it to advertise upcoming SVLUG meetings (e.g., on Usenet, to various web calendars & Linux news sites, etc.?) Would it be mine, as speaker coordinator? (At LUGOD, I've been speaker coordinator under the 'Public Relations officer' post, so in that group, it was, and I'm familiar with how it works :) ) Thx! -bill! From nbs at sonic.net Wed Nov 17 11:34:31 2004 From: nbs at sonic.net (Bill Kendrick) Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 11:34:31 -0800 Subject: [Speakers] Re: Linux Based Messaging Server In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20041117193431.GB13043@sonic.net> On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 10:50:51AM -0800, Steve Martensen wrote: > > Hello, Hello Steve! > I work for Scalix, a San Mateo based company who is dedicated to > Linux; it is the only server platform we support. Many companies > today are looking for an Exchange replacement and, with our full > Outlook support as well as standards based clients and truly amazing > dynamic web client, we feel Scalix is the answer for companies from 10 > - 10's of thousands of users. I attended a recent meeting of the > SVLUG (the presenter was from Gumstix) and, while our product isn't > bleeding edge technology, I do believe it satisfies a demand in the > Linux community. I hope you enjoyed the Gumstix talk. :^) > Please take a moment to peruse our site and let me know if you feel it > appropriate to present to the group. I'm Cc'ing my response to the SVLUG 'speakers' mailing list, to see if anyone out here has any comments or issues, but I'm guessing not. Unfortunately, we're currently booked through January with confirmed speakers, and potentially through February or March with a few other people we're in contact with. Would you be willing to come in April or beyond? Thanks! (Note: I'm leaving the rest of the quoted message here so that the folks on the speakers list can see it...) -bill! > I would be more than happy to > demonstrate the product and give a brief background on the company and > the technology and spend as much time as necessary answering > questions. JFTR, I have been in the messaging industry since 1991, > first working for Lotus Development on cc:Mail (the world's leading > messaging platform of the early 90's! ) then on to Lotus Notes, > then focusing for several years on messaging migration and now at > Scalix for the past two years. I am not a developer so I can't tell > the audience how we wrote the web client (other than HTML, JavaScript, > CSS, using SOAP and XML for server communication, etc.) but I do know > messaging and I wrote and developed the Exchange to Scalix migration > process. > > > > Feel free to contact me by phone or e-mail if this seems an > appropriate topic for your community. > > > > Thanks! - Steve > > > > Steve Martensen > > Sr. Messaging Specialist > > > > Scalix Corporation > > 1400 Fashion Island Blvd, #180 > > San Mateo CA 94404 > > > > > > > > > > > Requisite Marketing Drivel ! > > > > Are you currently using an under-performing or obsolete mail system? > Are you facing a change because your vendor is terminating support, > such as with Exchange 5.5? > Do you want to move to Linux, but fear those products aren't up to > snuff? > Don't worry!--join the hundreds who are leading their organizations > in a new, more productive direction by migrating their email and > calendaring to Linux. > Learn how in "Embracing Linux While Preserving Your Outlook." > [1]www.scalix.com/contact/webcast_linux.html > It's a new, on-demand webcast where Gregory Volan the CIO for > Bloomington, Indiana, and Julie Hanna Farris, the Founder of Scalix, > take you inside that city's successful and seamless migration of > email and calendaring to Linux. > This noteworthy case history illustrates the power of a Linux-based > solution > * Giving employees the Microsoft Outlook compatibility, look, feel, > functionality and productivity they expect > * Enhancing web access to email, calendars, contacts, and shared info > * Creating a clean migration path that requires zero user downtime > and retains all user data > * Maximizing the flexibility, performance, openness and savings only > Linux delivers > You'll discover all those benefits and more in "Embracing Linux While > Preserving Your Outlook." > [2]www.scalix.com/contact/webcast_linux.html > As important, you'll see how Linux and open systems adds a new > dynamic to your messaging solution. Replacing licensing lock-in with > freedom and choice. And preserving your data assets and the rich > messaging environment users have grown accustomed to. Best of all, > this is a solution any size organization with any current messaging > technology can achieve quickly and cost effectively. Which is why > this free webcast is such a smart first step. > So click over. Get the facts. And enjoy a new outlook as you learn > why you can--and should!--migrate email and calendaring to Linux. > [3]www.scalix.com/contact/webcast_linux.html > > References > > 1. http://www.scalix.com/contact/webcast_linux.html > 2. http://www.scalix.com/contact/webcast_linux.html > 3. http://www.scalix.com/contact/webcast_linux.html From steve.martensen at scalix.com Wed Nov 17 11:33:29 2004 From: steve.martensen at scalix.com (Steve Martensen) Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 11:33:29 -0800 Subject: [Speakers] RE: Linux Based Messaging Server Message-ID: Thanks for the timely response. I would certainly be interested in speaking to the group any time. Obviously, the sooner the better as people are addressing their messaging systems everyday, especially if they are trying to dump Exchange 5.5 I am at your beck and call! : ) Thanks! - Steve -----Original Message----- From: Bill Kendrick [mailto:nbs at sonic.net] Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 11:35 AM To: Steve Martensen; SVLUG Speakers List Cc: preed at sigkill.com Subject: Re: Linux Based Messaging Server On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 10:50:51AM -0800, Steve Martensen wrote: > > Hello, Hello Steve! > I work for Scalix, a San Mateo based company who is dedicated to > Linux; it is the only server platform we support. Many companies > today are looking for an Exchange replacement and, with our full > Outlook support as well as standards based clients and truly amazing > dynamic web client, we feel Scalix is the answer for companies from 10 > - 10's of thousands of users. I attended a recent meeting of the > SVLUG (the presenter was from Gumstix) and, while our product isn't > bleeding edge technology, I do believe it satisfies a demand in the > Linux community. I hope you enjoyed the Gumstix talk. :^) > Please take a moment to peruse our site and let me know if you feel it > appropriate to present to the group. I'm Cc'ing my response to the SVLUG 'speakers' mailing list, to see if anyone out here has any comments or issues, but I'm guessing not. Unfortunately, we're currently booked through January with confirmed speakers, and potentially through February or March with a few other people we're in contact with. Would you be willing to come in April or beyond? Thanks! (Note: I'm leaving the rest of the quoted message here so that the folks on the speakers list can see it...) -bill! > I would be more than happy to > demonstrate the product and give a brief background on the company and > the technology and spend as much time as necessary answering > questions. JFTR, I have been in the messaging industry since 1991, > first working for Lotus Development on cc:Mail (the world's leading > messaging platform of the early 90's! ) then on to Lotus Notes, > then focusing for several years on messaging migration and now at > Scalix for the past two years. I am not a developer so I can't tell > the audience how we wrote the web client (other than HTML, JavaScript, > CSS, using SOAP and XML for server communication, etc.) but I do know > messaging and I wrote and developed the Exchange to Scalix migration > process. > > > > Feel free to contact me by phone or e-mail if this seems an > appropriate topic for your community. > > > > Thanks! - Steve > > > > Steve Martensen > > Sr. Messaging Specialist > > > > Scalix Corporation > > 1400 Fashion Island Blvd, #180 > > San Mateo CA 94404 > > > > > > > > > > > Requisite Marketing Drivel ! > > > > Are you currently using an under-performing or obsolete mail system? > Are you facing a change because your vendor is terminating support, > such as with Exchange 5.5? > Do you want to move to Linux, but fear those products aren't up to > snuff? > Don't worry!--join the hundreds who are leading their organizations > in a new, more productive direction by migrating their email and > calendaring to Linux. > Learn how in "Embracing Linux While Preserving Your Outlook." > [1]www.scalix.com/contact/webcast_linux.html > It's a new, on-demand webcast where Gregory Volan the CIO for > Bloomington, Indiana, and Julie Hanna Farris, the Founder of Scalix, > take you inside that city's successful and seamless migration of > email and calendaring to Linux. > This noteworthy case history illustrates the power of a Linux-based > solution > * Giving employees the Microsoft Outlook compatibility, look, feel, > functionality and productivity they expect > * Enhancing web access to email, calendars, contacts, and shared info > * Creating a clean migration path that requires zero user downtime > and retains all user data > * Maximizing the flexibility, performance, openness and savings only > Linux delivers > You'll discover all those benefits and more in "Embracing Linux While > Preserving Your Outlook." > [2]www.scalix.com/contact/webcast_linux.html > As important, you'll see how Linux and open systems adds a new > dynamic to your messaging solution. Replacing licensing lock-in with > freedom and choice. And preserving your data assets and the rich > messaging environment users have grown accustomed to. Best of all, > this is a solution any size organization with any current messaging > technology can achieve quickly and cost effectively. Which is why > this free webcast is such a smart first step. > So click over. Get the facts. And enjoy a new outlook as you learn > why you can--and should!--migrate email and calendaring to Linux. > [3]www.scalix.com/contact/webcast_linux.html > > References > > 1. http://www.scalix.com/contact/webcast_linux.html > 2. http://www.scalix.com/contact/webcast_linux.html > 3. http://www.scalix.com/contact/webcast_linux.html From marc_news at merlins.org Wed Nov 17 12:37:18 2004 From: marc_news at merlins.org (Marc MERLIN) Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 12:37:18 -0800 Subject: [Speakers] Advertising responsibility? In-Reply-To: <20041117193104.GA13043@sonic.net> References: <20041117193104.GA13043@sonic.net> Message-ID: <20041117203718.GE18698@merlins.org> On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 11:31:04AM -0800, Bill Kendrick wrote: > Who's responsibility is it to advertise upcoming SVLUG meetings > (e.g., on Usenet, to various web calendars & Linux news sites, etc.?) The only thing is to send the monthly message to the SVLUG announce list, and that's the speaker coordinator For the rest, there isn't really any responsibilty of anything, so it's anything people can/are willing to do Marc -- "A mouse is a device used to point at the xterm you want to type in" - A.S.R. Microsoft is to operating systems & security .... .... what McDonalds is to gourmet cooking Home page: http://marc.merlins.org/ | Finger marc_f at merlins.org for PGP key From rick at linuxmafia.com Mon Nov 22 11:27:18 2004 From: rick at linuxmafia.com (Rick Moen) Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 11:27:18 -0800 Subject: [Speakers] (forw) [web-team] feedback from SVLUG website Message-ID: <20041122192718.GB11091@linuxmafia.com> Sounds like they want to be a monthly speaker. Also, maybe one of the officers wouldn't mind giving them the straight skivvy about what SVLUG means by "sponsor". Yosemite Technologies makes TapeWare software and related stuff. ----- Forwarded message from Jake Mora ----- From: Jake Mora To: webmaster at svlug.org Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 11:01:20 -0800 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2657.72) Cc: Subject: [web-team] feedback from SVLUG website X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_01,HTML_50_60, HTML_MESSAGE autolearn=no version=2.63 Hello, I am the marketing director for Yosemite. We create a Linux backup software solution. I am interested in sharing my solution with the Linux community and becoming a sponsor. What is the procedure? Thanks for your response. Jake Mora Marketing Director Yosemite Technologies Phone: 559.449.8181 Fax: 559.449.1188 Email: jake.mora at yosemitetech.com ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ web-team mailing list web-team at lists.svlug.org http://lists.svlug.org/lists/listinfo/web-team ----- End forwarded message ----- From nbs at sonic.net Mon Nov 22 15:01:52 2004 From: nbs at sonic.net (Bill Kendrick) Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 15:01:52 -0800 Subject: [Speakers] CONFIRMED: Scalix in February (Was RE: Linux Based Messaging Server) Message-ID: <20041122230152.GC16212@sonic.net> I've just responded to this and Cc'd Paul Reed & SVLUG Webmasters. We've made sure to get a technical talk, over a marketingspeak one. -bill! ----- Forwarded message from Steve Martensen ----- Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 08:46:37 -0800 FROM: "Steve Martensen" Subject: RE: Linux Based Messaging Server TO: Bill Kendrick CC: preed at sigkill.com Reply-To: "Steve Martensen" Gentlemen, I understand your perspective and wouldn't dream of giving a sales pitch.? I think the idea of bringing a developer to talk about our approach to DHTML would be time well spent for your audience and I am certainly capable? of addressing any messaging questions.? While at Lotus I designed/implemented/maintained messaging infrastructures of a few organizations of which you may have heard: SSA, US Senate, US Census, Procter & Gamble, US Postal service, Delloitte&Touche, Disney, Symantec, and the list goes on.? Only in the tens of millions of seats!? : ) I will present a VERY brief introduction of the company, discuss the architecture of the server, demonstrate the web client and the Outlook support and turn it over to the developer to discusss the web cleint as well as open it to Q&A.? If that sounds good, I would like to secure time in February but willl accept any slot you can put me in. Look forward to hearing from you. Thanks! - Steve ? Steve martensen Sr. Messaging Specialist Scalix Corporation 1400 Fashion Island Blvd, Suite 180 San Mateo CA? 94404 ----- Original Message ----- From: Bill Kendrick Sent: Fri Nov 19 2004 17:44:15 GMT-0800 (Pacific Standard Tme) To: Steve Martensen Cc: preed at sigkill.com Subject: Re: Linux Based Messaging Server On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 10:50:51AM -0800, Steve Martensen wrote: > >????I work??for??Scalix,??a??San??Mateo??based company who is dedicated to >????Linux;??it??is??the??only??server platform we support.??Many companies >????today??are??looking??for??an??Exchange??replacement and, with our full >????Outlook??support??as well as standards based clients and truly amazing >????dynamic web client, we feel Scalix is the answer for companies from 10 >????-??10's??of??thousands??of??users.??I attended a recent meeting of the >????SVLUG??(the??presenter??was from Gumstix) and, while our product isn't >????bleeding??edge??technology,??I do believe it satisfies a demand in the >????Linux community. Hi again Steve.??We've discussed your proposal a bit, and wonder if it would be possible to get a technical presentation at SVLUG (as opposed to a salespitch :^) ). Most SVLUG members are highly technical, and typically aren't the 'decision makers' when it comes to deciding on the products their company users.??(They may, of course, have influence.??But you need to plress them with technical saavy rather than marketing-speak ;^) ) I definitely think a product like this would be a good fit for the SVLUG crowd, but we just want to make sure it'll be an interesting technical talk. You mentioned you're not a developer...??would it be possible to have a Scalix developer come to speak???You could, of course, team up... he or she presenting the technical ins-and-outs, and you talking about the business end of things. I've seen other companies do 'tag-team' presentations in this manner, and it really helps in covering all the bases.??I've seen a few non-technical speakers get overwhelmed with technical questions they couldn't answer (which the audience in turn really didn't like), but at the same time I've seen technical speakers come, but not be able to answer questions like "So, how do you make money with this?" that often come up. So, to sum it up... if you can provide us with a highly technical presentation, with or without some business content, that'd be great! Please let us know what month works best for you (February, March, or beyond). Otherwise, sadly, we think it might just be a waste of everyone's time. Sorry if we're sounding too picky... we do get large crowds at the meetings, and they only happen once a month, so we need to keep the 'signal-to-noise' ratio as high as possible. ;) Thanks again! -bill! http://www.svlug.org/ ----- End forwarded message ----- -- bill at newbreedsoftware.com New Breed Software http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/ Tux Paint 0.9.14 is out! From nbs at sonic.net Wed Nov 24 02:52:08 2004 From: nbs at sonic.net (Bill Kendrick) Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 02:52:08 -0800 Subject: [web-team] Speaker & topic description (was Re: [December SVLUG] Re: [Speakers] File systems and LinuxChix) In-Reply-To: <20041109075747.GA8498@speare5-1-16> References: <20041029010203.GC21994@speare5-1-16> <20041104184640.GA18099@sonic.net> <20041109075747.GA8498@speare5-1-16> Message-ID: <20041124105208.GB5473@sonic.net> On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 12:57:47AM -0700, Valerie Henson wrote: > I finally found a way to type that doesn't aggravate my > RSI... Editorial comments welcomed. Did I never respond to this? If so, I'm sorry! Anyway, I wanted to thank you for the bio/blurb. I see you've passed it along to the SVLUG webmaster address, and we've got the short version up on the front page. I'll update the blurb I have for your encore in Davis over on the LUGOD site as well. Thx!! -bill! From bill at svlug.org Thu Nov 25 08:27:53 2004 From: bill at svlug.org (William R Ward) Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 08:27:53 -0800 Subject: [Speakers] Re: [Officers] (forw) [web-team] feedback from SVLUG website In-Reply-To: <20041122192718.GB11091@linuxmafia.com> References: <20041122192718.GB11091@linuxmafia.com> Message-ID: <16806.2057.244869.429597@komodo.home.wards.net> Well, we wouldn't want a marketing presentation but perhaps a technical one would be OK. Or we could ask them to sponsor the holiday party we've been talking about...? Rick Moen writes: >Sounds like they want to be a monthly speaker. Also, maybe one of the >officers wouldn't mind giving them the straight skivvy about what SVLUG >means by "sponsor". > >Yosemite Technologies makes TapeWare software and related stuff. > >----- Forwarded message from Jake Mora ----- > >From: Jake Mora >To: webmaster at svlug.org >Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 11:01:20 -0800 >X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2657.72) >Cc: >Subject: [web-team] feedback from SVLUG website >X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_01,HTML_50_60, > HTML_MESSAGE autolearn=no version=2.63 > >Hello, > >I am the marketing director for Yosemite. We create a Linux backup software >solution. I am interested in sharing my solution with the Linux community >and becoming a sponsor. What is the procedure? > > > >Thanks for your response. > > > >Jake Mora > >Marketing Director > >Yosemite Technologies > >Phone: 559.449.8181 > >Fax: 559.449.1188 > >Email: jake.mora at yosemitetech.com > > > > > > > >______________________________________________________________________ >This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. >For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email >______________________________________________________________________ >_______________________________________________ >web-team mailing list >web-team at lists.svlug.org >http://lists.svlug.org/lists/listinfo/web-team > > >----- End forwarded message ----- > >_______________________________________________ >Silicon Valley Linux Users Group Officers >Unsubscribe at: >http://lists.svlug.org/mailman/listinfo/officers -- William R. Ward - Vice President, Silicon Valley Linux Users Group From rick at linuxmafia.com Thu Nov 25 10:19:11 2004 From: rick at linuxmafia.com (Rick Moen) Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 10:19:11 -0800 Subject: [Speakers] Re: [Officers] (forw) [web-team] feedback from SVLUG website In-Reply-To: <16806.2057.244869.429597@komodo.home.wards.net> References: <20041122192718.GB11091@linuxmafia.com> <16806.2057.244869.429597@komodo.home.wards.net> Message-ID: <20041125181910.GV11078@linuxmafia.com> Quoting William R Ward (bill at svlug.org): [About Jake Mora of Yosemite Technologies, Inc.] > Well, we wouldn't want a marketing presentation but perhaps a > technical one would be OK. Or we could ask them to sponsor the > holiday party we've been talking about...? I'll leave that up to you officer guys. ;-> On the matter of sponsorship in the sense of being listed as a sponsor on the Web site, Don Marti had a good reply he sent the last time we had an inquiry (Shawn Walters of UncoverTheNet), but I didn't retain a copy. From joyce at TerraLuna.Org Tue Nov 30 10:01:45 2004 From: joyce at TerraLuna.Org (Joyce C. Traugott) Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 10:01:45 -0800 Subject: [Speakers] Re: SVLUG Speaking Engagement In-Reply-To: <1101836046.1387.62.camel@debian> References: <1101836046.1387.62.camel@debian> Message-ID: <41ACB589.4040906@terraluna.org> Steve is not the speaker coordinator anymore, but the speakers list is still there. You may want to send an email to speakers at lists.svlug.org. I copied this email to the speakers list. Joyce David Allen wrote: >Steve / Marc: > >If you are looking for an SVLUG meeting speaker sometime within the next >few months, I would like to volunteer. I'd like to give a talk entitled >"Windows to Linux Migration Roadmap", which I'll also be presenting at >LinuxWorld. Let me know if this interests you. > >http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12BOS05A/conference/tracks > >http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12BOS05A/conference/tracksessions/System+and+Application+Management/QMONYA04MZ2U > >This session gives guidance and best-practices methodology for >performing a successful enterprise migration of network services from >Windows to Linux. Linux migration paths for Windows NT, Windows 2000, >Active Directory, and Exchange 5.5 / 2000 are explored. The presentation >will explore DHCP, DNS, directory, authentication, file, print, >messaging, groupware, and web services migration from Windows to Linux >servers. Migrating from Windows to Linux desktops will also be examined. > >Sincerely, >David Allen >President, CR Consulting >www.crconsulting.com > > > From rick at linuxmafia.com Tue Nov 30 10:31:14 2004 From: rick at linuxmafia.com (Rick Moen) Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 10:31:14 -0800 Subject: [Speakers] Re: SVLUG Speaking Engagement In-Reply-To: <41ACB589.4040906@terraluna.org> References: <1101836046.1387.62.camel@debian> <41ACB589.4040906@terraluna.org> Message-ID: <20041130183114.GO11091@linuxmafia.com> David Allen wrote: > If you are looking for an SVLUG meeting speaker sometime within the next > few months, I would like to volunteer. I'd like to give a talk entitled > "Windows to Linux Migration Roadmap", which I'll also be presenting at > LinuxWorld. Let me know if this interests you. [...] I sort of know David Allen: He's a former colleague who has very recently written a book (published by "Syngress", whoever they are) called "Windows to Linux Migration Toolkit" (which, alas, I have not read). The book is intended, in part, to feed into his consulting business. He has a lot of his stuff at http://www.crconsulting.com/ . Also, as a favour to him, I have some of his earlier LinuxWorld Expo papers hosted at http://linuxmafia.com/presentations/ . From marc_news at merlins.org Tue Nov 30 10:43:47 2004 From: marc_news at merlins.org (Marc MERLIN) Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 10:43:47 -0800 Subject: [Speakers] Re: SVLUG Speaking Engagement In-Reply-To: <41ACB589.4040906@terraluna.org> References: <1101836046.1387.62.camel@debian> <41ACB589.4040906@terraluna.org> Message-ID: <20041130184347.GB26951@merlins.org> On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 10:01:45AM -0800, Joyce C. Traugott wrote: > >If you are looking for an SVLUG meeting speaker sometime within the next > >few months, I would like to volunteer. I'd like to give a talk entitled > >"Windows to Linux Migration Roadmap", which I'll also be presenting at > >LinuxWorld. Let me know if this interests you. > > > >http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12BOS05A/conference/tracks (I've removed him) I can't vouch for his talk or say bad things about it, since I haven't seen/heard it, but I did work with him at VA Linux for a few months and I was less than impressed. He didn't even know that passwords in shadow files were encrypted... That doesn't mean his talk is crap, it may not be, but of course, linuxworld is the last entity I'd trust for judging someone's capacity or a talk's worthiness. All that said, feel free to check it out and invite him if you think it's good (note that he Emailed me yesterday and he was hoping to plug his book at svlug) Marc -- "A mouse is a device used to point at the xterm you want to type in" - A.S.R. Microsoft is to operating systems & security .... .... what McDonalds is to gourmet cooking Home page: http://marc.merlins.org/ | Finger marc_f at merlins.org for PGP key From rick at linuxmafia.com Tue Nov 30 13:13:36 2004 From: rick at linuxmafia.com (Rick Moen) Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 13:13:36 -0800 Subject: [Speakers] Re: SVLUG Speaking Engagement In-Reply-To: <20041130184347.GB26951@merlins.org> References: <1101836046.1387.62.camel@debian> <41ACB589.4040906@terraluna.org> <20041130184347.GB26951@merlins.org> Message-ID: <20041130211336.GQ11091@linuxmafia.com> Quoting Marc MERLIN (marc_news at merlins.org): > I can't vouch for his talk or say bad things about it, since I haven't > seen/heard it, but I did work with him at VA Linux for a few months > and I was less than impressed. > > He didn't even know that passwords in shadow files were encrypted... > > That doesn't mean his talk is crap, it may not be, but of course, > linuxworld is the last entity I'd trust for judging someone's capacity > or a talk's worthiness. David Allen actually approached, consecutively, both Marc and me with his idea of writing a book on migration. In my case, at least (not sure about Marc), David's concept turned out to be "I'll provide the idea, you'll write the book, and we'll split the revenues". I was very un-thrilled by this, especially as David had me sign a (now expired) non-disclosure and non-compete agreement in order to qualify to even _hear_ his cool business opportunity -- basically ignoring my warnings that I'd be very, very annoyed with him if that NDA/non-compete for his "idea" turned out to interfere with, and purport to curtail, the scope of my own existing consulting practice, which I'd described at length, including the migration aspects. Marc and I both (separately) politely declined David's offer, anyway. This was maybe a year ago. But I'm trying to be fair -- and even a superficial treatment of Windows to Linux migration issues might be very worthwhile. Businesses considering such moves really need a broad (but accurate) overview more than a highly technical one. For all I know, David's talk might be really good. I hope his talk reflects having grappled with real-world roadblocks for a year two at customer deployments. The supplied URLs unfortunately give _no_ details useful for judging quality. David didn't provide a lecture-notes link, just a teaser paragraph. From nbs at sonic.net Tue Nov 30 14:15:57 2004 From: nbs at sonic.net (Bill Kendrick) Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 14:15:57 -0800 Subject: [Speakers] Re: (Qlusters) Speaking Opportunity at Your Monthly (SVLUG) Meeting? In-Reply-To: <7B595BDA88C8B74A8AD0B850B586013503C3C911@ATL1VEXC010.usdom003.tco.tc> References: <7B595BDA88C8B74A8AD0B850B586013503C3C911@ATL1VEXC010.usdom003.tco.tc> Message-ID: <20041130221557.GA3111@sonic.net> On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 04:59:28PM -0500, Keiko Moriyama wrote: > Bill: > > Can you give me location/time details for the January 5 meeting. > > I am still in the process of confirming speaker for you. > > Keiko Moriyama Thanks Keiko. The meeting will be at Cisco in San Jose at 7pm. The speaker should probably arrive by 6:30pm to set up (connect to the projection system, etc.) Details are available at this page on the SVLUG website: http://www.svlug.org/directions/cisco-9-intro.shtml Please let me know if you need anything else. Thanks! -bill! From stevegt at TerraLuna.Org Tue Nov 30 23:51:24 2004 From: stevegt at TerraLuna.Org (Steve Traugott) Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 23:51:24 -0800 Subject: [Speakers] Re: SVLUG Speaking Engagement In-Reply-To: <20041130184347.GB26951@merlins.org> References: <1101836046.1387.62.camel@debian> <41ACB589.4040906@terraluna.org> <20041130184347.GB26951@merlins.org> Message-ID: <20041201075124.GF19962@terraluna.org> I've seen David speak and was impressed. He'd make a good SVLUG speaker, and this topic is timely -- the Windows->Linux migration trend is in full swing and is not being discussed nearly enough. Note that we've had quite a few authors speak and plug books at SVLUG -- technical book authors do *not* make a livable income off of sales; without talks, consulting gigs, etc. most technical books would not be written at all. I will not contact David to confirm this talk -- someone else will need to. Joyce and I are still slowly digging our own family business out of the recession and are not following the speakers list while we do so. Steve On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 10:43:47AM -0800, Marc MERLIN wrote: > On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 10:01:45AM -0800, Joyce C. Traugott wrote: > > >If you are looking for an SVLUG meeting speaker sometime within the next > > >few months, I would like to volunteer. I'd like to give a talk entitled > > >"Windows to Linux Migration Roadmap", which I'll also be presenting at > > >LinuxWorld. Let me know if this interests you. > > > > > >http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12BOS05A/conference/tracks > > (I've removed him) > I can't vouch for his talk or say bad things about it, since I haven't > seen/heard it, but I did work with him at VA Linux for a few months and I > was less than impressed. > > He didn't even know that passwords in shadow files were encrypted... > > That doesn't mean his talk is crap, it may not be, but of course, linuxworld > is the last entity I'd trust for judging someone's capacity or a talk's > worthiness. > > All that said, feel free to check it out and invite him if you think it's > good (note that he Emailed me yesterday and he was hoping to plug his book > at svlug) > > Marc > -- > "A mouse is a device used to point at the xterm you want to type in" - A.S.R. > Microsoft is to operating systems & security .... > .... what McDonalds is to gourmet cooking > Home page: http://marc.merlins.org/ | Finger marc_f at merlins.org for PGP key > -- Stephen G. Traugott (KG6HDQ) UNIX/Linux Infrastructure Architect, TerraLuna LLC stevegt at TerraLuna.Org http://www.stevegt.com -- http://Infrastructures.Org From rick at linuxmafia.com Wed Dec 1 00:21:06 2004 From: rick at linuxmafia.com (Rick Moen) Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 00:21:06 -0800 Subject: [Speakers] Re: SVLUG Speaking Engagement In-Reply-To: <20041201075124.GF19962@terraluna.org> References: <1101836046.1387.62.camel@debian> <41ACB589.4040906@terraluna.org> <20041130184347.GB26951@merlins.org> <20041201075124.GF19962@terraluna.org> Message-ID: <20041201082106.GU11091@linuxmafia.com> Quoting Steve Traugott (stevegt at TerraLuna.Org): > I've seen David speak and was impressed. He'd make a good SVLUG > speaker, and this topic is timely -- the Windows->Linux migration trend > is in full swing and is not being discussed nearly enough. Delighted to hear that he does the subject justice. Certainly, it'd be a popular topic. Thanks for writing in, Steve! From nbs at sonic.net Wed Dec 1 00:51:28 2004 From: nbs at sonic.net (Bill Kendrick) Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 00:51:28 -0800 Subject: [Speakers] Re: SVLUG Speaking Engagement In-Reply-To: <20041201082106.GU11091@linuxmafia.com> References: <1101836046.1387.62.camel@debian> <41ACB589.4040906@terraluna.org> <20041130184347.GB26951@merlins.org> <20041201075124.GF19962@terraluna.org> <20041201082106.GU11091@linuxmafia.com> Message-ID: <20041201085128.GB26226@sonic.net> On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 12:21:06AM -0800, Rick Moen wrote: > Delighted to hear that he does the subject justice. Certainly, it'd be > a popular topic. > > Thanks for writing in, Steve! Okay, I'll contact him tomorrow. (Someone remind me if I get busy and forget ;) ) -bill! From nbs at sonic.net Wed Dec 1 10:09:36 2004 From: nbs at sonic.net (Bill Kendrick) Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 10:09:36 -0800 Subject: [Speakers] Re: SVLUG Speaking Engagement In-Reply-To: <41ACB589.4040906@terraluna.org> References: <1101836046.1387.62.camel@debian> <41ACB589.4040906@terraluna.org> Message-ID: <20041201180936.GF3227@sonic.net> David wrote: > > If you are looking for an SVLUG meeting speaker sometime within the next > few months, I would like to volunteer. I'd like to give a talk entitled > "Windows to Linux Migration Roadmap", which I'll also be presenting at > LinuxWorld. Let me know if this interests you. Hi David, thanks for the offer. We're currently, tentatively, booked through April, so the next available meeting slot isn't until May (which would land on Wednesday, May 4th). Would that work for you? Thanks! -bill! http://www.svlug.org/ From bill at wards.net Wed Dec 1 10:57:00 2004 From: bill at wards.net (William R Ward) Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 10:57:00 -0800 Subject: [Speakers] Add PenLUG Speaker coordinator? Message-ID: <16814.5116.478837.126122@komodo.home.wards.net> PenLUG has a new speaker coordinator, Bill Crooke. Is it OK if he joins this list as well? He's already on the sbay one, but that one isn't being used currently. -- William R Ward bill at wards.net http://bill.wards.net ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help save the San Jose Earthquakes - http://www.soccersiliconvalley.com/ From nbs at sonic.net Wed Dec 1 12:28:27 2004 From: nbs at sonic.net (Bill Kendrick) Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 12:28:27 -0800 Subject: [Speakers] RECONFIRMED/CHANGED: Scalix in MARCH Message-ID: <20041201202827.GA20758@sonic.net> I screwed up and double-booked February. Since Mark (GoSSIP talk) was first, he's confirmed for February (webmaster, see my previous mail). So Steve Martensen's Scalix talk is moved, and CONFIRMED, for March. Can we please put this up on the website (along with Mark/Gossip)? Thanks! ----- Forwarded message from Steve Martensen ----- Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 08:46:37 -0800 FROM: "Steve Martensen" Subject: RE: Linux Based Messaging Server TO: Bill Kendrick CC: preed at sigkill.com Reply-To: "Steve Martensen" Gentlemen, I understand your perspective and wouldn't dream of giving a sales pitch.? I think the idea of bringing a developer to talk about our approach to DHTML would be time well spent for your audience and I am certainly capable? of addressing any messaging questions.? While at Lotus I designed/implemented/maintained messaging infrastructures of a few organizations of which you may have heard: SSA, US Senate, US Census, Procter & Gamble, US Postal service, Delloitte&Touche, Disney, Symantec, and the list goes on.? Only in the tens of millions of seats!? : ) I will present a VERY brief introduction of the company, discuss the architecture of the server, demonstrate the web client and the Outlook support and turn it over to the developer to discusss the web cleint as well as open it to Q&A. ----- End forwarded message ----- Thanks again, -bill! From dallen at crconsulting.com Wed Dec 1 12:58:32 2004 From: dallen at crconsulting.com (David Allen) Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2004 12:58:32 -0800 Subject: [Speakers] Re: SVLUG Speaking Engagement In-Reply-To: <20041201180936.GF3227@sonic.net> References: <1101836046.1387.62.camel@debian> <41ACB589.4040906@terraluna.org> <20041201180936.GF3227@sonic.net> Message-ID: <1101934712.1260.21.camel@debian> > David wrote: > > If you are looking for an SVLUG meeting speaker sometime within the next > > few months, I would like to volunteer. I'd like to give a talk entitled > > "Windows to Linux Migration Roadmap", which I'll also be presenting at > > LinuxWorld. Let me know if this interests you. On Wed, 2004-12-01, Bill Kendrick replied: > Hi David, thanks for the offer. We're currently, tentatively, booked > through April, so the next available meeting slot isn't until May > (which would land on Wednesday, May 4th). > > Would that work for you? Bill, that would be fine. We're confirmed for Wednesday May 4th. Please let me know if you need any additional information from me. I've just finished a book entitled "Windows to Linux Migration Toolkit", published by Syngress, an O'Reilly affiliate. More information, including the press release, is available at my website, www.crconsulting.com The Amazon.com URL is www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1931836396/qid=1097865566/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-7239097-1101533?v=glance&s=books Please feel free to forward this information to any and all of your friends, and anyone that you think might be interested in the book. I (and Chris Lahti, the guy who wrote the automated migration scripts) will be attending the SVLUG meeting tonight and bringing copies of the book :-) I'm hoping to say a few words about this book (which makes migrating from Windows to Linux quick and painless ;-) ) -- Sincerely, David Allen President, CR Consulting http://www.crconsulting.com From rick at linuxmafia.com Wed Dec 1 14:09:43 2004 From: rick at linuxmafia.com (Rick Moen) Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 14:09:43 -0800 Subject: [Speakers] Add PenLUG Speaker coordinator? In-Reply-To: <16814.5116.478837.126122@komodo.home.wards.net> References: <16814.5116.478837.126122@komodo.home.wards.net> Message-ID: <20041201220942.GB11091@linuxmafia.com> Quoting William R Ward (bill at wards.net): > PenLUG has a new speaker coordinator, Bill Crooke. Is it OK if he > joins this list as well? I think it would be appropriate. He can / should file a join request at http://lists.svlug.org/lists/listinfo/speakers (or the equivalent e-mail interface thingie, i.e., approp. mail to speakers-request at lists.svlug.org). I'll be glad to approve the request when it comes in. You as VP can them whap me over the knuckles for doing it. ;-> (No, seriously, I can't imagine Bill Kendrick would object, so I assume this is something that should be done.) From nbs at sonic.net Wed Dec 1 14:33:12 2004 From: nbs at sonic.net (Bill Kendrick) Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 14:33:12 -0800 Subject: [Speakers] Add PenLUG Speaker coordinator? In-Reply-To: <20041201220942.GB11091@linuxmafia.com> References: <16814.5116.478837.126122@komodo.home.wards.net> <20041201220942.GB11091@linuxmafia.com> Message-ID: <20041201223312.GB2934@sonic.net> On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 02:09:43PM -0800, Rick Moen wrote: > (No, seriously, I can't imagine Bill Kendrick would object, > so I assume this is something that should be done.) No! MY speakers! MINE MINE MINE! ;) -bill! From nbs at sonic.net Wed Dec 1 14:34:44 2004 From: nbs at sonic.net (Bill Kendrick) Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 14:34:44 -0800 Subject: [Speakers] Re: SVLUG Speaking Engagement In-Reply-To: <1101934712.1260.21.camel@debian> References: <1101836046.1387.62.camel@debian> <41ACB589.4040906@terraluna.org> <20041201180936.GF3227@sonic.net> <1101934712.1260.21.camel@debian> Message-ID: <20041201223443.GC2934@sonic.net> Thanks David. I'm Cc'ing the SVLUG Webmasters so they can add you to the meeting schedule. -bill! (I guess I can take the next 6 months off now ;^) ) On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 12:58:32PM -0800, David Allen wrote: > Bill, that would be fine. We're confirmed for Wednesday May 4th. > Please let me know if you need any additional information from me. > > I've just finished a book entitled "Windows to Linux Migration Toolkit", > published by Syngress, an O'Reilly affiliate. More information, > including the press release, is available at my website, > www.crconsulting.com > > The Amazon.com URL is > > www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1931836396/qid=1097865566/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-7239097-1101533?v=glance&s=books > > Please feel free to forward this information to any and all of your > friends, and anyone that you think might be interested in the book. > > I (and Chris Lahti, the guy who wrote the automated migration scripts) > will be attending the SVLUG meeting tonight and bringing copies of the > book :-) I'm hoping to say a few words about this book (which makes > migrating from Windows to Linux quick and painless ;-) ) > > > -- > Sincerely, > David Allen > President, CR Consulting > http://www.crconsulting.com -- bill at newbreedsoftware.com Have I been helpful? http://newbreedsoftware.com/ http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=billkendrick From rick at linuxmafia.com Wed Dec 1 19:22:25 2004 From: rick at linuxmafia.com (Rick Moen) Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 19:22:25 -0800 Subject: [Speakers] Re: [web-team] Request: "Upcoming meetings" / "Future meetings" page In-Reply-To: <20041201175711.GC3227@sonic.net> References: <20041201175711.GC3227@sonic.net> Message-ID: <20041202032225.GE11091@linuxmafia.com> Bill Kendrick wrote on the web-team list: > I was wondering if we could maintain a page of upcoming speakers > (beyond simply the next talk listed on the "Meetings" page, and the > next two talks which are listed on the front page). OK, we now have initial data added to http://www.svlug.org/meetings.shtml for Jan through May, _except_ for April. I've search the archives of both these two mailing lists, and can't seem to find anything definite for that month. These were my notes based on trawling through the archives, posted in hopes they're useful. As you'll see by the large numbers of "TBA" and blank fields on the Web page, we still need, well, pretty much all the usual details for the upcoming several speakers. January: Dr. Moshe Bar, Qlusters, Inc. February: Mark C. Langston (no affiliation), GoSSIP Project March: Steve Martensen, Scalix April: (unverified: Maybe an as-yet-unnamed speaker from Oracle?) May: David Allen, Windows to Linux Migration Other possibles: Yosemite Technologies, Inc. (the Tapeware guys) Donald Becker, Penguin Computing (Beowulf) Nokia, Gtk+ WebCore project Coverity, source code analysist tool The GIMP SliMP3 player system Ubuntu Linux Looking Glass project E28 Linux phones From nbs at sonic.net Thu Dec 2 02:15:14 2004 From: nbs at sonic.net (Bill Kendrick) Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 02:15:14 -0800 Subject: [Speakers] Re: [web-team] Request: "Upcoming meetings" / "Future meetings" page In-Reply-To: <20041202032225.GE11091@linuxmafia.com> References: <20041201175711.GC3227@sonic.net> <20041202032225.GE11091@linuxmafia.com> Message-ID: <20041202101514.GF10840@sonic.net> On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 07:22:25PM -0800, Rick Moen wrote: > OK, we now have initial data added to > http://www.svlug.org/meetings.shtml for Jan through May, _except_ for > April. I've search the archives of both these two mailing lists, and > can't seem to find anything definite for that month. Thanks. Here are all the blanks: Feb. 2nd - GOSSiP: GOSSiP (Gossip Optimization for Selective Spam Prevention: http://sufficiently-advanced.net/ ) is a distributed, peer-to-peer reputation management system. It tracks the behavior of e-mail senders and shares senders' reputations among participating mail servers. These reputations may then be used by mail servers as part of a comprehensive program to combat unwanted e-mail. Mark C. Langston has been doing systems administration for more than 10 years. In that time, he has worked for small groups and huge companies. He has worked in academia, and industry, for startups and long-established companies, and for salaries ranging from below-subsistence to obscene in size. He's worked his way from the most junior of technical employees to Chief Technical Officer and corporate board member. He is on the advisory committee for the Linux Professional Institute certification, and is an active member of SAGE and USENIX. [I put the above together from his website; we should prob. double-check that it's a suitable bio.] Mar. 2nd - Scalix: Scalix ( http://www.scalix.com/ ) produces a Linux email server which supports shared calendaring and advanced email features, delivering desktop-grade productivity to users running Outlook and/or popular browsers such as Mozilla, Firefox and Internet Explorer. Scalix's messaging server can run side-by-side with both mainstream proprietary systems, such as Microsoft Exchange, and open source applications, bridging the two worlds and integrating with a company's existing IT infrastructure. Steve Martensen is Sr. Messaging Specialist at Scalix. He has been in the messaging industry since 1991, first working for Lotus Development on cc:Mail then on to Lotus Notes, then focusing for several years on messaging migration and now at Scalix for the past two years. He wrote and developed the Exchange to Scalix migration process. [I need to get the name and bio of the developer who will be joining Steve at this talk] Apr. 6th - Penguin Computing [Not sure of exact topic title!] [TENTATIVE; I had to move them, waiting for confirmation] Penguin Computing ( http://www.penguincomputing.com/ ) is a leading provider of high-performance Linux-based computer systems, system management software, and integration services. Penguin's extensive customer base includes Fortune 1000 companies, educational institutions, and government agencies. [Details on actual talk topic needs to go here] Donald Becker is Penguin Computing's Chief Technology Officer and was a co-founder of the original Beowulf project, which is the cornerstone for commodity-based high-performance cluster computing. Don's work in parallel and distributed computing began in 1983 at MIT's Real Time Systems group. He is known throughout the international community of operating system developers for his contributions to networking software and as the driving force behind beowulf.org. May 4th - "Windows to Linux Migration Roadmap": This talk will give guidance and best-practices methodology for performing a successful enterprise migration of network services from Windows to Linux. Linux migration paths for Windows NT, Windows 2000, Active Directory, and Exchange 5.5 / 2000 will be exploredm as will will explore DHCP, DNS, directory, authentication, file, print, messaging, groupware, and web services migration from Windows to Linux servers. Migrating from Windows to Linux desktops will also be examined. David Allen is president of Computer Resources Consulting and author of the book "Windows to Linux Migration Toolkit" (published by Syngress). He has performed over 25,000 migrations across various platforms on five continents. *WHEW*! -bill! From nbs at sonic.net Thu Dec 2 02:28:20 2004 From: nbs at sonic.net (Bill Kendrick) Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 02:28:20 -0800 Subject: [Speakers] Re: (Qlusters) Speaking Opportunity at Your Monthly (SVLUG) Meeting? In-Reply-To: <7B595BDA88C8B74A8AD0B850B586013503C3C911@ATL1VEXC010.usdom003.tco.tc> References: <7B595BDA88C8B74A8AD0B850B586013503C3C911@ATL1VEXC010.usdom003.tco.tc> Message-ID: <20041202102820.GB15674@sonic.net> On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 04:59:28PM -0500, Keiko Moriyama wrote: > Bill: > > Can you give me location/time details for the January 5 meeting. > > I am still in the process of confirming speaker for you. > > Keiko Moriyama Hi again Keiko! Any word on whether Dr. Bar (or someone else) can make it in January? Thanks! -bill! From bweinberg at osdl.org Thu Dec 2 10:49:40 2004 From: bweinberg at osdl.org (Bill Weinberg) Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 10:49:40 -0800 Subject: [Speakers] OSDL at SVLUG? Message-ID: <1102013380.4781.16.camel@bweinberg.pdx.osdl.net> Dear SVLUG Speakers Committee I and Brian Grega represent the Open Source Development Lab in the Bay Area (our HQ is in Portland, Oregon). Jerry Greenberg, one of our board members, suggested contacting your organization to establish a solid bridge to an important user community. It appears that I just missed your last mtg (yesterday!), but I will attempt to make it to one of your other December events. I am writing to introduce myself and to explore the possibility of an OSDL speaker appearing at one of your meetings (me and/or other OSDL staffers). Possible topics could include - Introduction / Update for OSDL Carrier Grade, Data Center and Desktop Linux Initiatives - Detailed presentation on any of the three initiatives - Discourse on the changes in the post 2.6 kernel development process - Topics in Embedded Linux (my personal area of deepest expertise) - others of your choosing To learn more about the OSDL, visit http://www.osdl.org My personal background info can be view at http://www.linuxpundit.com Thanks and best regards Bill W. -- Bill Weinberg : Open Source Architecture Specialist / Evangelist Open Source Development Labs - The "Center of Gravity" for Linux From rick at linuxmafia.com Thu Dec 2 11:20:11 2004 From: rick at linuxmafia.com (Rick Moen) Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 11:20:11 -0800 Subject: [Speakers] Re: [web-team] Request: "Upcoming meetings" / "Future meetings" page In-Reply-To: <20041202101514.GF10840@sonic.net> References: <20041201175711.GC3227@sonic.net> <20041202032225.GE11091@linuxmafia.com> <20041202101514.GF10840@sonic.net> Message-ID: <20041202192010.GF11091@linuxmafia.com> Quoting Bill Kendrick (nbs at sonic.net): > Thanks. Glad to help, and so on. > Here are all the blanks: Except January. We'll be wanting that. ;-> > Apr. 6th - Penguin Computing [Not sure of exact topic title!] > [TENTATIVE; I had to move them, waiting for confirmation] Put his name and title in, marked the listing as "(tentative)", left topic as "TBA", and used the Penguin Computing PR blatt as placeholder where a topic paragraph would ordinarily be. > This talk will give guidance and best-practices methodology for > performing a successful enterprise migration of network services from > Windows to Linux. Linux migration paths for Windows NT, Windows 2000, > Active Directory, and Exchange 5.5 / 2000 will be exploredm as will > will explore DHCP, DNS, directory, authentication, file, print, > messaging, groupware, and web services migration from Windows to Linux > servers. Migrating from Windows to Linux desktops will also be examined. I'm guessing that there might have been a line missing right before "will explore"? I've done my best to fix the sentence, anyway, in the posted copy on http://www.svlug.org/meetings.shtml . The result may or may not be exactly what David wanted to say, but at least it's coherent. (Yes, I did fix "exploredm" to "explored,", and did lots of other pedantic little punctuation / grammar fixes that hardly anyone will ever notice. ;-> ) From nbs at sonic.net Thu Dec 2 11:27:04 2004 From: nbs at sonic.net (Bill Kendrick) Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 11:27:04 -0800 Subject: [Speakers] Re: [web-team] Request: "Upcoming meetings" / "Future meetings" page In-Reply-To: <20041202192010.GF11091@linuxmafia.com> References: <20041201175711.GC3227@sonic.net> <20041202032225.GE11091@linuxmafia.com> <20041202101514.GF10840@sonic.net> <20041202192010.GF11091@linuxmafia.com> Message-ID: <20041202192704.GE27181@sonic.net> On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 11:20:11AM -0800, Rick Moen wrote: > (Yes, I did fix "exploredm" to "explored,", and did lots of other pedantic > little punctuation / grammar fixes that hardly anyone will ever notice. ;-> ) Heh, it WAS 2am after an SVLUG meeting when I posted that ;) I don't type so well when it's cold and dark ;) Thx much -bill! From rick at linuxmafia.com Thu Dec 2 11:30:13 2004 From: rick at linuxmafia.com (Rick Moen) Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 11:30:13 -0800 Subject: [Speakers] Re: [web-team] Request: "Upcoming meetings" / "Future meetings" page In-Reply-To: <20041202101514.GF10840@sonic.net> References: <20041201175711.GC3227@sonic.net> <20041202032225.GE11091@linuxmafia.com> <20041202101514.GF10840@sonic.net> Message-ID: <20041202193013.GG11091@linuxmafia.com> [Can't resist mentioning:] Quoting David B. Allen's blurb for the May '05 talk: > This talk will give guidance and best-practices methodology... These days, I chortle quietly when I read about "best practices", having long ago zinged that bit of business jargon on my Lexicon page, in my best Ambrose Bierce manner: http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/lexicon.html#best-practices From rick at linuxmafia.com Thu Dec 2 12:31:47 2004 From: rick at linuxmafia.com (Rick Moen) Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 12:31:47 -0800 Subject: [Speakers] FYI: Windows to Linux migration links Message-ID: <20041202203147.GH11091@linuxmafia.com> David B. Allen posted the following hyperlinks relevant to his May 2005 talk, to a private mailing list we're both on. Windows to Linux Migration Toolkit SourceForge Project: http://sourceforge.net/projects/w2lmt Windows to Linux Migration Toolkit Book Links: Amazon http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1931836396/qid=1097865566/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-9789850-0573451?v=glance&s=books Barnes & Noble http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=asq13i3Ih6&isbn=1931836396&itm=1 Bookpool http://www.bookpool.com/.x/dpgg4b76z8/sm/1931836396 From dallen at crconsulting.com Thu Dec 2 14:25:31 2004 From: dallen at crconsulting.com (David Allen) Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 14:25:31 -0800 Subject: [Speakers] Re: SVLUG Speaking Engagement In-Reply-To: <20041201223443.GC2934@sonic.net> References: <1101836046.1387.62.camel@debian> <41ACB589.4040906@terraluna.org> <20041201180936.GF3227@sonic.net> <1101934712.1260.21.camel@debian> <20041201223443.GC2934@sonic.net> Message-ID: <1102026331.4158.35.camel@debian> On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 14:34 -0800, Bill Kendrick wrote: > Thanks David. I'm Cc'ing the SVLUG Webmasters so they can add you to the > meeting schedule. If any of the "tentative" speakers become unavailable, I might be able to speak in their absence. > -bill! > (I guess I can take the next 6 months off now ;^) ) A full speaker schedule means your work is done? Are you sure you have enough work? :-) :-D *grin* *runs* David Allen From nbs at sonic.net Fri Dec 3 15:13:35 2004 From: nbs at sonic.net (Bill Kendrick) Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2004 15:13:35 -0800 Subject: [Speakers] Re: (Qlusters) Speaking Opportunity at Your Monthly (SVLUG) Meeting? In-Reply-To: <7B595BDA88C8B74A8AD0B850B586013503E6436B@ATL1VEXC010.usdom003.tco.tc> References: <7B595BDA88C8B74A8AD0B850B586013503E6436B@ATL1VEXC010.usdom003.tco.tc> Message-ID: <20041203231335.GA8146@sonic.net> On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 05:41:35PM -0500, Keiko Moriyama wrote: > > Hi Bill: > > Unfortunately, Moshe Bar will not be able to make this engagement. I am > working to get either our VP of Product Management or our Director of > Emerging Technologies to speak at your January meeting. Both are very > capable and dynamic speakers. Please let me know if this would be > acceptable. That sounds fine, thanks! Please do let us know who's coming ASAP (and if you can provide a short summary of the talk's topic, and bio(s) for the speaker(s)), so that we can update the website and send out the appropriate announcements. Thanks again, -bill! From nbs at sonic.net Wed Dec 8 01:16:57 2004 From: nbs at sonic.net (Bill Kendrick) Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2004 01:16:57 -0800 Subject: [Speakers] OSS at ARB & FTB Message-ID: <20041208091657.GD22195@sonic.net> Folks from the Calif. Air Resources Board & Franchise Tax Board spoke at LUGOD tonight and it was apparently a great presentation. I'm trying to convince them to come speak at SVLUG this summer. We're currently booked through May, so I suggested June or July to them. I know Ian wanted to talk at some point, too. Ian, can you pick a date any time soon? Or, since you're local (and at meetings anyway ;) ), I'm guessing you can be flexible? :) Thx! -bill! From ikluft at thunder.sbay.org Wed Dec 8 08:52:54 2004 From: ikluft at thunder.sbay.org (Ian Kluft) Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2004 08:52:54 -0800 Subject: [Speakers] OSS at ARB & FTB In-Reply-To: <20041208091657.GD22195@sonic.net> References: <20041208091657.GD22195@sonic.net> Message-ID: <20041208165254.GA27215@thunder.sbay.org> On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 01:16:57AM -0800, Bill Kendrick wrote: > Folks from the Calif. Air Resources Board & Franchise Tax Board spoke at > LUGOD tonight and it was apparently a great presentation. > > I'm trying to convince them to come speak at SVLUG this summer. > We're currently booked through May, so I suggested June or July to them. > > I know Ian wanted to talk at some point, too. Ian, can you pick a date > any time soon? Or, since you're local (and at meetings anyway ;) ), > I'm guessing you can be flexible? :) I can let you schedule with the state folks first. As coincidence would have it, Stratofox has just started discussing when to go on a 1-week trip around that time frame. So I'm not ready to pin down a date around then until we figure that out first. From nbs at sonic.net Sun Dec 12 21:00:04 2004 From: nbs at sonic.net (Bill Kendrick) Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2004 21:00:04 -0800 Subject: [Speakers] OSDL at SVLUG? In-Reply-To: <1102013380.4781.16.camel@bweinberg.pdx.osdl.net> References: <1102013380.4781.16.camel@bweinberg.pdx.osdl.net> Message-ID: <20041213050004.GD20746@sonic.net> On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 10:49:40AM -0800, Bill Weinberg wrote: > Dear SVLUG Speakers Committee Hi Bill, sorry for the delay in getting back to you! I thought I did right away, but apparently did not. :^) > I and Brian Grega represent the Open Source Development Lab in the Bay > Area (our HQ is in Portland, Oregon). Jerry Greenberg, one of our board > members, suggested contacting your organization to establish a solid > bridge to an important user community. Not a bad idea. ;^) > It appears that I just missed your last mtg (yesterday!), but I will > attempt to make it to one of your other December events. Great, perhaps you'll need some of us at the SVLUG/PenLUG holiday dinner this Wednesday...? > I am writing to introduce myself and to explore the possibility of an > OSDL speaker appearing at one of your meetings (me and/or other OSDL > staffers). Possible topics could include That would be great! Unfortunately, we're booked through at /least/ May, but if you'd like to come out in June or July, that would work fine. > - Introduction / Update for OSDL Carrier Grade, Data Center and Desktop > Linux Initiatives > - Detailed presentation on any of the three initiatives > - Discourse on the changes in the post 2.6 kernel development process > - Topics in Embedded Linux (my personal area of deepest expertise) All of these sound great! My personal interest would be on the Desktop and Embedded talks, but I'm only one of ~100-200 people who would be attending, so I don't really count. ;^) If you'd like, I can pose the question to the group and get a vote. Or, probably the easiest, I can just let you pick whichever topic(s) you'd prefer to speak about. ;^) > To learn more about the OSDL, visit http://www.osdl.org My personal > background info can be view at http://www.linuxpundit.com Thanks. Even if you don't choose a specific topic, please let us know which date works out best for you ASAP, and we'll get you pencilled in. Thanks again, and take care! -bill! http://www.svlug.org/ From nbs at sonic.net Sun Dec 12 21:10:26 2004 From: nbs at sonic.net (Bill Kendrick) Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2004 21:10:26 -0800 Subject: [Speakers] OSDL at SVLUG? In-Reply-To: <1102013380.4781.16.camel@bweinberg.pdx.osdl.net> References: <1102013380.4781.16.camel@bweinberg.pdx.osdl.net> Message-ID: <20041213051026.GB23090@sonic.net> On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 10:49:40AM -0800, Bill Weinberg wrote: > Dear SVLUG Speakers Committee Oh, BTW to Bill and Brian, please also consider speaking engagements at some of the other local (and remote) LUGs, as well! There doesn't seem to be a large crossover in audience members between the groups, due simply to geography. Some close-by groups to check out: Peninsula LUG (www.penlug.org), Redwood Shores (near Redwood City) Bay Area LUG (www.balug.org), San Francisco S.F. LUG (www.sf-lug.org), San Francisco East Bay LUG (www.eblug.org), Fremont Up north: North Bay LUG (www.nblug.org), Sebastopol (near Santa Rosa) Mendocino LUG (www.mendolug.net), Ukiah Out east: LUGOD (www.lugod.org), Davis (west of Sacramento) Sacramento LUG (www.saclug.org) Roseville LUG (www.roselug.org) (east of Sacramento) Chico State LUG (www.cslug.org) (north of Sacramento) Take care! -bill! From nbs at sonic.net Mon Dec 13 15:54:41 2004 From: nbs at sonic.net (Bill Kendrick) Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 15:54:41 -0800 Subject: [Speakers] [fwd] RE: (Qlusters) Speaking Opportunity at Your Monthly (SVLUG) Meeting? Message-ID: <20041213235441.GA32061@sonic.net> ----- Forwarded message from Keiko Moriyama ----- The speaker will be: Dror Harel, VP Product Management ----- End forwarded message ----- I'll see if I can get a bio out of them. :) -bill! From nbs at sonic.net Tue Dec 14 17:19:59 2004 From: nbs at sonic.net (Bill Kendrick) Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 17:19:59 -0800 Subject: [Speakers] Bio for Qlusters speaker (Jan 2005) Message-ID: <20041215011959.GA24393@sonic.net> Here you go... Dror Harel , Vice President Product Management Dror Harel came to Qlusters with over 14 years of experience in managing the development of innovative software products. Before joining Qlusters, Dror held a senior product management position at Sanctum, Inc., where he drove development of the company's security software products. Previously, Dror had been Vice President of Quality and Product Integration, and Vice President of Product Management at Veon, where he oversaw the development of web authoring and interactive multimedia products. When Veon was purchased by Philips (Royal Philips Electronics) in 2001, Dror assumed a senior position on their audio/video streaming product management team. Prior to his civilian experience, Dror served eleven years in the Israeli defense force, eight of them as Commander of an elite R&D unit. Harel holds a Computer Science and Economics degree from Tel Aviv University. -bill! From rick at linuxmafia.com Tue Dec 14 17:52:14 2004 From: rick at linuxmafia.com (Rick Moen) Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 17:52:14 -0800 Subject: [Speakers] Bio for Qlusters speaker (Jan 2005) In-Reply-To: <20041215011959.GA24393@sonic.net> References: <20041215011959.GA24393@sonic.net> Message-ID: <20041215015214.GB22615@linuxmafia.com> Quoting Bill Kendrick (nbs at sonic.net): > Here you go... Hoping to not be annoying in pointing this out, but: We're still missing a topic description paragraph. I could probably write one based on Qlusters's Web site, but it would be better for the speaker to provide it. From nbs at sonic.net Tue Dec 14 18:14:21 2004 From: nbs at sonic.net (Bill Kendrick) Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 18:14:21 -0800 Subject: [web-team] Re: [Speakers] Bio for Qlusters speaker (Jan 2005) In-Reply-To: <20041215015214.GB22615@linuxmafia.com> References: <20041215011959.GA24393@sonic.net> <20041215015214.GB22615@linuxmafia.com> Message-ID: <20041215021421.GA29704@sonic.net> On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 05:52:14PM -0800, Rick Moen wrote: > Quoting Bill Kendrick (nbs at sonic.net): > > > Here you go... > > Hoping to not be annoying in pointing this out, but: We're still > missing a topic description paragraph. > > I could probably write one based on Qlusters's Web site, but it would be > better for the speaker to provide it. Crap, you're right. :^) I'll ask :) Sorry... /so/ frickin' busy lately. Fortunately, I get a few weeks off starting next week. -bill! From jwtodd at pacbell.net Fri Dec 17 00:00:40 2004 From: jwtodd at pacbell.net (James Todd) Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 00:00:40 -0800 Subject: [Speakers] SVLug :: Presentation :: MyJXTA Message-ID: <41C29228.4030807@pacbell.net> Hey - I had a great time at the Linux holiday dinner and met alot of nice folks. That and I ate *way* too much ... but that is what New Year's resolutions are for :) Anyways, I'd like to present MyJXTA at an upcoming SVLUG meeting if possible. Here is the home page: http://myjxta2.jxta.org/ screenshots: http://myjxta2.jxta.org/screenshots license: JXTA Software License, akin to BSD and ASF I am "gonzo" and typically always logged into MyJXTA as "gonzo at home" or some such handle, in the event you get a chance to try MyJXTA. Running it is trivial if you have Java 1.5 JRE and WebStart enabled with your browser. Further, I can cover JXTA in general: http://jxta.org and I enjoy adhoc and interactive sessions. Systems wise it would be optimal to present where we could be on net w/ access to the public network where participants are encouraged to run MyJXTA along with the presentation. I'm looking forward to this so let me know what I can do to help. much appreciated, - james From russ.deveau at verizon.net Thu Dec 30 09:55:44 2004 From: russ.deveau at verizon.net (Russell DeVeau) Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 12:55:44 -0500 Subject: [Speakers] proposed SVLUG speaker Message-ID: <00ce01c4ee98$c9e89880$5b66fea9@laptop> Hello SVLUG speakers committee members. Russ DeVeau for the Liberty Alliance Project here. I am proposing a Liberty Alliance Project board member or Liberty Alliance member organization to discuss the role of Linux in open federated identity management implementations. Looks like you hold monthly meetings, so if this topic -- or something close -- seems appropriate, perhaps we can look at a spring-time date to pursue if this works on your side. In the meantime, all Linux developers in the SVLUG are welcome to attend the following developers event being held in Palo Alto on the 24th of January. Let me know if I can provide and additional information and please get in touch at any time. - Russ DeVeau. On January 24th, at the Palo Alto Crowne Plaza Hotel, Liberty Alliance will hold an informational event featuring tracks focusing on federated identity management from both a developer (including Java and Linux) and business perspective. The Liberty Alliance Project is the only global organization working to advance federated identity management specifications and identity-based Web services using open standards. This free event will provide developers, system integrators and businesses with information about how open federated identity management solutions are helping enterprises address a wide range of B2B, B2E, B2C and end-user identity management, privacy and security issues. There will be interactive demonstrations of Liberty Alliance specifications at work by many Liberty Alliance members including, AOL, General Motors, Nokia, Vodafone, Neustar and Novell. These Liberty Alliance members, as well as members of the Liberty Alliance board, will be available to discuss how open federated identity management specifications are benefiting developers and businesses today. The event runs from 11:30am-4:30pm and begins with a buffet lunch and key note address by Donal O'Shea, executive director of the Liberty Alliance. Developers and businesses interested in attending can register online at https://www.projectliberty.org/scripts/developer_event_paloalto.asp. We hope to see SVLUG members on the 24th. Get in touch at any time if you have questions. In the meantime, a one-page information sheet is available to provide more details. Please let me know if I can send this sheet to any interested members. Who: Liberty Alliance Project What: Developer and Business Informational Event and Demonstrations Where: Crowne Plaza Hotel; Palo Alto When: January 24, 11:30AM - 4:30 PM The Liberty Alliance Project was formed in September 2001 to address the technical and business issues associated with federated network identity. The Alliance is moving to accomplish this goal through the ongoing release of open technical specifications as well as business and policy guidelines to help companies deploy federated identity services across a broad range of products, systems and devices. More information on the Liberty Alliance Project is available at www.projectliberty.org. Best, Russ DeVeau Liberty Alliance Project www.projectliberty.org Mobile: 908-251-1549 Office: 718-263-1762 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.svlug.org/archives/speakers/attachments/20041230/962240a7/attachment.htm From nbs at sonic.net Thu Dec 30 17:28:40 2004 From: nbs at sonic.net (Bill Kendrick) Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 17:28:40 -0800 Subject: [Speakers] Re: Don Becker In-Reply-To: References: <20041201180325.GD3227@sonic.net> Message-ID: <20041231012840.GB14081@sonic.net> On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 11:53:14AM -0800, Virginia Cartwright wrote: > Bill - I wanted to confirm that April 6th would be great for Don and he has > it on his calendar. What do you need from our end and by when? Hi Virigina (and everyone else). Thanks for the confirmation! Would it be possible to get a more thorough description of what Mr. Becker will be speaking about? Right now, we don't have an exact topic listed, and simply have the following for the description: Penguin Computing [link] is a leading provider of high-performance Linux-based computer systems, system management software, and integration services. Penguin's extensive customer base includes Fortune 1000 companies, educational institutions, and government agencies. And a small bio under "About the Speaker": Donald Becker is Penguin Computing's Chief Technology Officer, and was co-founder of the original Beowulf project, which is the cornerstone for commodity-based high-performance cluster computing. Don's work in parallel and distributed computing began in 1983 at MIT's Real Time Systems group. He is known throughout the international community of operating system developers for his contributions to networking software and as the driving force behind beowulf.org. I'm fairly sure that's all we need, but I'm Cc'ing the SVLUG Speaker Coord'n list and webmaster, just in case. Thanks again, and happy new year to you, too! -bill! http://www.svlug.org/ From nbs at sonic.net Fri Dec 31 03:25:32 2004 From: nbs at sonic.net (Bill Kendrick) Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2004 03:25:32 -0800 Subject: [Speakers] proposed SVLUG speaker In-Reply-To: <00ce01c4ee98$c9e89880$5b66fea9@laptop> References: <00ce01c4ee98$c9e89880$5b66fea9@laptop> Message-ID: <20041231112532.GA1509@sonic.net> On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 12:55:44PM -0500, Russell DeVeau wrote: > Hello SVLUG speakers committee members. Russ DeVeau for the Liberty > Alliance Project here. I am proposing a Liberty Alliance Project board > member or Liberty Alliance member organization to discuss the role of > Linux in open federated identity management implementations. Looks like > you hold monthly meetings, so if this topic -- or something close -- > seems appropriate, perhaps we can look at a spring-time date to pursue > if this works on your side. Hi again Russell, it's Bill Kendrick. I happen to be SVLUG's speaker coordinator, too. :^) The project definitely sounds interesting, from what I've skimmed over so far. The device/platform agnosticity, open specifications, etc. will definitely be of interest to the kinds of people we get at SVLUG meetings. I was wondering, though, how technical of a presentation do you think we could get? (SVLUG definitely loves technical!) We're currently booked through June, so the earliest date you could speak wouldn't be until July. Would Wednesday, July 6th work? In the meantime, if you'd like me to put you into contact with any of the other local LUGs, please don't hesitate to ask! Thanks, good luck, and happy new year! -bill! Silicon Valley Linux Users Group http://www.svlug.org/ From russ.deveau at verizon.net Fri Dec 31 05:21:09 2004 From: russ.deveau at verizon.net (Russell DeVeau) Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2004 08:21:09 -0500 Subject: [Speakers] proposed SVLUG speaker In-Reply-To: <20041231112532.GA1509@sonic.net> Message-ID: <002001c4ef3b$97c9f300$5b66fea9@laptop> Bill, thanks again for the note. My gut told me the LUGs in CA were well connected to one another. I have looked at SVLUG past meeting topics and believe we could put together a program that meets the technical interests of your members. It would be a matter of finding the right development team and presenter, but the Liberty Alliance is made-up of organizations with a wide and in-depth range of technical capabilities and specializations. This will be an interesting project to work on early next year given federated identity management and web services are projected to explode in 2005 and Liberty Alliance is the only global organization addressing the many issues of FIM from an open perspective. If cool with you, let's pencil us in for July and I will begin investigating best possible presenters and program development during mid-January. Thanks for the offer of putting me in touch with other CA LUGs. Of course I will take you up on this as I work to promote our event in Palo Alto on the 24th of January. This event will features tracks from both a developer and business perspective and if you could circulate the following invite to SVLUG members, I would greatly appreciate it. I will send a program outline directly to you as an attachment in a separate e-mail. I don't want to clog up any inboxes included on this e-mail distribution list unnecessarily. Thanks, Bill. I look forward to working with you in 2005! Happy New Year to you and yours. Russ. On January 24th, at the Palo Alto Crowne Plaza Hotel, Liberty Alliance will hold an informational event featuring tracks focusing on federated identity management from both a developer (including Java and Linux) and business perspective. The Liberty Alliance Project is the only global organization working to advance federated identity management specifications and identity-based Web services using open standards. This free event will provide developers, system integrators and businesses with information about how open federated identity management solutions are helping enterprises address a wide range of B2B, B2E, B2C and end-user identity management, privacy and security issues. There will be interactive demonstrations of Liberty Alliance specifications at work by many Liberty Alliance members including, AOL, General Motors, Nokia, Vodafone, Neustar and Novell. These Liberty Alliance members, as well as members of the Liberty Alliance board, will be available to discuss how open federated identity management specifications are benefiting developers and businesses today. The event runs from 11:30am-4:30pm and begins with a buffet lunch and key note address by Donal O'Shea, executive director of the Liberty Alliance. Developers and businesses interested in attending can register online at https://www.projectliberty.org/scripts/developer_event_paloalto.asp. We hope to see SVLUG members on the 24th. Get in touch at any time if you have questions. In the meantime, a one-page information sheet is available to provide more details. Please let me know if I can send this sheet to any interested members. Who: Liberty Alliance Project What: Developer and Business Informational Event and Demonstrations Where: Crowne Plaza Hotel; Palo Alto When: January 24, 11:30AM - 4:30 PM The Liberty Alliance Project was formed in September 2001 to address the technical and business issues associated with federated network identity. The Alliance is moving to accomplish this goal through the ongoing release of open technical specifications as well as business and policy guidelines to help companies deploy federated identity services across a broad range of products, systems and devices. More information on the Liberty Alliance Project is available at www.projectliberty.org. Best, Russ DeVeau Liberty Alliance Project www.projectliberty.org Mobile: 908-251-1549 Office: 718-263-1762 -----Original Message----- From: Bill Kendrick [mailto:nbs at sonic.net] Sent: Friday, December 31, 2004 6:26 AM To: russ.deveau at verizon.net Cc: speakers at lists.svlug.org; webmaster at svlug.org Subject: Re: [Speakers] proposed SVLUG speaker On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 12:55:44PM -0500, Russell DeVeau wrote: > Hello SVLUG speakers committee members. Russ DeVeau for the Liberty > Alliance Project here. I am proposing a Liberty Alliance Project board > member or Liberty Alliance member organization to discuss the role of > Linux in open federated identity management implementations. Looks like > you hold monthly meetings, so if this topic -- or something close -- > seems appropriate, perhaps we can look at a spring-time date to pursue > if this works on your side. Hi again Russell, it's Bill Kendrick. I happen to be SVLUG's speaker coordinator, too. :^) The project definitely sounds interesting, from what I've skimmed over so far. The device/platform agnosticity, open specifications, etc. will definitely be of interest to the kinds of people we get at SVLUG meetings. I was wondering, though, how technical of a presentation do you think we could get? (SVLUG definitely loves technical!) We're currently booked through June, so the earliest date you could speak wouldn't be until July. Would Wednesday, July 6th work? In the meantime, if you'd like me to put you into contact with any of the other local LUGs, please don't hesitate to ask! Thanks, good luck, and happy new year! -bill! Silicon Valley Linux Users Group http://www.svlug.org/