From nbs at sonic.net Mon Jan 3 15:54:35 2005 From: nbs at sonic.net (Bill Kendrick) Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 15:54:35 -0800 Subject: [Speakers] proposed SVLUG speaker In-Reply-To: <013801c4f1ec$76cf9cf0$5b66fea9@laptop> References: <20041231112532.GA1509@sonic.net> <013801c4f1ec$76cf9cf0$5b66fea9@laptop> Message-ID: <20050103235435.GJ27577@sonic.net> On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 06:32:17PM -0500, Russell DeVeau wrote: > Bill, I spoke with the LAP Board rep today about the July 6th SVLUG > speaking opp and we would very much like to pursue. > > Let me know what you need from me to get the ball rolling. Hi Russ, thanks so much! First, we'll obviously want a confirmation for that particular date, so we make sure not to book it for anyone else. ;^) I think we can pull a description of LAP from the LAP website, but it would also be good if you could provide a short summary of what the talk itself will be about. The name of the speaker (if it isn't you), and a short biography would be useful, as well. SVLUG meets at the Cisco campus in San Jose, and there's a projection and sound system there. Some people have had problems getting their laptop to talk to the projectors in the past, so it might be good to deliver your presentation notes before hand. I believe the Cisco laptop on the podium is running some version of Windows, and has MS Office installed. Beyond that, I can't think of much else. I'm Cc'ing the SVLUG speakers list once again. Once you get more details to me, I'll forward them to the webmaster and we'll get you up on the "Meetings" page. Thanks, and let me know if you have any other questions! -bill! http://www.svlug.org/ Silicon Valley Linux Users Group From nbs at sonic.net Tue Jan 4 09:43:42 2005 From: nbs at sonic.net (Bill Kendrick) Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 09:43:42 -0800 Subject: [Speakers] Re: (Qlusters) Speaking Opportunity at Your Monthly (SVLUG) Meeting? In-Reply-To: <7B595BDA88C8B74A8AD0B850B586013504DB58E3@ATL1VEXC010.usdom003.tco.tc> References: <7B595BDA88C8B74A8AD0B850B586013504DB58E3@ATL1VEXC010.usdom003.tco.tc> Message-ID: <20050104174342.GB3645@sonic.net> On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 11:53:22AM -0500, Keiko Moriyama wrote: > Thanks, Bill. > > What is your cell number in case Dror and/or I may need to reach you on > the day of the event? My cell is: 530-304-5060 I'm Cc'ing the SVLUG speakers list in case anyone out there needs my number, or anyone who might be at the meeting location before me (e.g., Cisco folks) wanted to share their number(s) with you. Thanks! -bill! From nbs at sonic.net Thu Jan 6 15:24:18 2005 From: nbs at sonic.net (Bill Kendrick) Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 15:24:18 -0800 Subject: [Speakers] proposed SVLUG speaker In-Reply-To: <016a01c4f446$77f3a200$5b66fea9@laptop> References: <20050103235435.GJ27577@sonic.net> <016a01c4f446$77f3a200$5b66fea9@laptop> Message-ID: <20050106232418.GA952@sonic.net> On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 06:21:36PM -0500, Russell DeVeau wrote: > Bill, I am working on getting you the name of the speaker for July 6th. > We want to make sure we match the speaker with the technical > expectations of SVLUG participants. We are looking at the date as > confirmed. It's a matter of getting the right person out of the 150+ > members of LAP. Excellent, thanks. I'm Cc'ing the Speakers list and SVLUG webmasters, so we can pencil you in. Webmasters, LAP's website is at: http://www.projectliberty.org/ Take care! -bill! From nbs at sonic.net Sun Jan 9 02:43:00 2005 From: nbs at sonic.net (Bill Kendrick) Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2005 02:43:00 -0800 Subject: [Speakers] DETAILS: July 6th meeting topic & bio Message-ID: <20050109104300.GA15078@sonic.net> ----- Forwarded message from Russell DeVeau ----- Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2005 17:22:18 -0500 From: "Russell DeVeau" Subject: RE: [Speakers] proposed SVLUG speaker To: "'Bill Kendrick'" Looks like this is our guy. Atul Tulshibagwale, CEO of Trustgenix (http://www.trustgenix.com/). Trustgenix is a Liberty Alliance member organization delivering solutions based on LAP specifications. Atul will develop and present the Federated Identity Management presentation for the July 6 SVLUG meeting. Let me know what else you might need, Bill. Russ Trustgenix Atul Tulshibagwale, CEO > > Atul co-founded Trustgenix, Inc. in June 2002. Prior to founding > Trustgenix, Atul was a Director of Engineering at VeriSign, Inc. > > During his career at VeriSign, Atul has successfully developed several > key products that have been globally deployed by Fortune 500 > companies. These products include VeriSign's first Enterprise RA and > International Affliiate products; GoSecure! for Microsoft Exchange; > the Personal Trust Agent and Personal Trust Service; Qualcomm BREW "3G > Code Signing" Services; VeriSign SecureExpress and several others. > > Before working at VeriSign, Atul was employee#1 at Querisoft, Inc. and > prior to that a supercomputing expert at the Indian Center for > Development of Advanced Computing. > > Atul has an M.Tech in Computer Science from University of Pune, India. -----Original Message----- From: Bill Kendrick [mailto:nbs at sonic.net] Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 6:24 PM To: Russell DeVeau Cc: SVLUG Speakers List; webmaster at svlug.org Subject: Re: [Speakers] proposed SVLUG speaker On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 06:21:36PM -0500, Russell DeVeau wrote: > Bill, I am working on getting you the name of the speaker for July 6th. > We want to make sure we match the speaker with the technical > expectations of SVLUG participants. We are looking at the date as > confirmed. It's a matter of getting the right person out of the 150+ > members of LAP. Excellent, thanks. I'm Cc'ing the Speakers list and SVLUG webmasters, so we can pencil you in. Webmasters, LAP's website is at: http://www.projectliberty.org/ Take care! -bill! ----- End forwarded message ----- -- bill at newbreedsoftware.com April shower bring Kompressor power! http://newbreedsoftware.com/ From nbs at sonic.net Wed Jan 19 12:51:21 2005 From: nbs at sonic.net (Bill Kendrick) Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 12:51:21 -0800 Subject: [Speakers] July and August potential speakers Message-ID: <20050119205121.GA24791@sonic.net> I've asked the folks who spoke at LUGOD this week (one is from the Open Vote Foundation, the other is from BlackBoxVoting.org) if they'd like to speak at SVLUG. Depending on their schedule, the July meeting might work. I've also found out that someone from VMWare might be able to speak in August. Webmasters, can you put these talks down as 'tentative' on the meetings page? (mostly so I and others know not to double-book them ;^) ) Thanks! -bill! From nbs at sonic.net Wed Jan 19 13:35:54 2005 From: nbs at sonic.net (Bill Kendrick) Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 13:35:54 -0800 Subject: [Speakers] Re: [web-team] July and August potential speakers In-Reply-To: <20050119205121.GA24791@sonic.net> References: <20050119205121.GA24791@sonic.net> Message-ID: <20050119213554.GA30120@sonic.net> On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 12:51:21PM -0800, Bill Kendrick wrote: > I've also found out that someone from VMWare might be able to > speak in August. The actual topic won't be VMWare, though, so I guess he wouldn't be there representing VMWare. The topic would be: "galago, desktop notifications, IM.. something like that" Speaker is: Christian Hammond, of the GNUpdate project ( http://www.gnupdate.org/ ) and contributor to Gaim ( http://gaim.sf.net/ ). -bill! From vcartwright at penguincomputing.com Wed Jan 19 19:51:49 2005 From: vcartwright at penguincomputing.com (Virginia Cartwright) Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 19:51:49 -0800 Subject: [Speakers] RE: Don Becker In-Reply-To: <20041231012840.GB14081@sonic.net> Message-ID: Bill, Sorry for the delay. Will this work for you?: Bio: Donald Becker Chief Scientist, Scyld Software and Chief Technology Officer, Penguin Computing Donald is an internationally recognized operating system developer and the original inventor of Beowulf. In 1999 he founded Scyld Computing and led the development of the next-generation Beowulf cluster operating system, which is the cornerstone for commodity-based high-performance cluster computing. Prior to founding Scyld, Don started the Beowulf Parallel Workstation project at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Don's work in parallel and distributed computing began in1983 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. He is the co-author of How to Build a Beowulf: A Guide to the Implementation and Application of PC Clusters. With colleagues from the California Institute of Technology and the Los Alamos National Laboratory, he was the recipient of the IEEE Computer Society 1997 Gordon Bell Prize for Price/Performance. Don holds a B.S. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Topic/Abstract: Donald Becker, Chief Scientist of Scyld Software and CTO of Penguin Computing, has consistently challenged conventional wisdom - from the early days of his Beowulf Project at NASA through to the creation of Scyld as a commercial entity and the introduction of the Scyld Beowulf distribution. By upsetting expected beliefs, Donald has maintained a continuum of innovation in the Linux arena that continues to address unmet needs today. Ten years ago, it was widely believed that only custom designed vector architectures could solve supercomputing problems.... Along came Beowulf which solved such problems using a connected cluster of commodity systems, based on Linux - at a time when many who had not explored Linux, either ignored it or grouped it with other 'toy' systems. In fact at the first cluster systems conference in 1997 the widely held belief was that Microsoft held the future of all software in its hands. Fast forward to 2000 when Scyld introduced a prototype of a Unified Cluster System which completely changed the approach to building clusters by using a full installation only on a master node, with compute nodes running only applications. Donald's talk will look back on this history of challenging conventional wisdom and how it has contributed to the startling growth in Linux clustering; and he'll also offer a glimpse of a future where, he believes, clustering will be the natural evolution of the computing ecosystem. About Penguin Computing & Scyld Software: Penguin Computing is the leading innovator of highly scalable Linux cluster, server and workstation platforms based on open standards hardware and software. Scyld Software, a subsidiary of Penguin Computing, provides the industry leading Linux clustering software, Scyld Beowulf. The company's extensive customer base includes Fortune 1000 companies, government agencies and educational institutions. Founded in 1998, Penguin Computing is headquartered in San Francisco, California. For more information, please visit Penguin Computing at http://www.penguincomputing.com and Scyld Software at http://www.scyld.com. Virginia Cartwright VP, Corporate Marketing Penguin Computing www.penguincomputing.com 300 California St, suite 600 San Francisco CA 94104 tel: 415 954 2800 -----Original Message----- From: Bill Kendrick [mailto:nbs at sonic.net] Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2004 5:29 PM To: Virginia Cartwright; SVLUG Speakers List Cc: Donald Becker; suzie at scyld.com; ockman at penguincomputing.com; webmaster at svlug.org Subject: Re: Don Becker 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 Thu Jan 20 15:02:10 2005 From: nbs at sonic.net (Bill Kendrick) Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 15:02:10 -0800 Subject: [Speakers] RE: Don Becker In-Reply-To: References: <20041231012840.GB14081@sonic.net> Message-ID: <20050120230210.GB14540@sonic.net> On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 07:51:49PM -0800, Virginia Cartwright wrote: > Bill, > Sorry for the delay. Will this work for you?: I believe it will, thanks! :^) -bill! From rick at linuxmafia.com Mon Jan 24 14:52:22 2005 From: rick at linuxmafia.com (Rick Moen) Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 14:52:22 -0800 Subject: [Speakers] Re: [web-team] July and August potential speakers In-Reply-To: <20050119213554.GA30120@sonic.net> References: <20050119205121.GA24791@sonic.net> <20050119213554.GA30120@sonic.net> Message-ID: <20050124225222.GF3549@linuxmafia.com> Quoting Bill Kendrick (nbs at sonic.net): > The actual topic won't be VMWare, though, so I guess he wouldn't be there > representing VMWare. > > The topic would be: > > "galago, desktop notifications, IM.. something like that" OK, I think we're now all caught up again. Please let me know if you spote anything amiss. From nbs at sonic.net Mon Jan 24 23:34:07 2005 From: nbs at sonic.net (Bill Kendrick) Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 23:34:07 -0800 Subject: [Speakers] Knoppix in September Message-ID: <20050125073407.GA29511@sonic.net> Kyle Rankin, author of "Knoppix Hacks" (pub'd by O'Reilly) has agreed to speak at SVLUG in September. It will be a more technical talk than the ones he's been making at other LUGs, and will focus more on system recovery using Knoppix. Can we put a brief note on the meetings page, and I'll get more details soon... -bill! From rick at linuxmafia.com Tue Jan 25 09:52:18 2005 From: rick at linuxmafia.com (Rick Moen) Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 09:52:18 -0800 Subject: [Speakers] Re: [web-team] Knoppix in September In-Reply-To: <20050125073407.GA29511@sonic.net> References: <20050125073407.GA29511@sonic.net> Message-ID: <20050125175218.GK3549@linuxmafia.com> Quoting Bill Kendrick (nbs at sonic.net): > Kyle Rankin, author of "Knoppix Hacks" (pub'd by O'Reilly) has agreed > to speak at SVLUG in September. > > It will be a more technical talk than the ones he's been making at other > LUGs, and will focus more on system recovery using Knoppix. > > Can we put a brief note on the meetings page, and I'll get more details > soon... Cool. I've added him in. Man, Bill, this is an impressive stack of speakers you've been lining up. Well done! From nbs at sonic.net Tue Jan 25 10:01:47 2005 From: nbs at sonic.net (Bill Kendrick) Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 10:01:47 -0800 Subject: [Speakers] Re: [web-team] Knoppix in September In-Reply-To: <20050125175218.GK3549@linuxmafia.com> References: <20050125073407.GA29511@sonic.net> <20050125175218.GK3549@linuxmafia.com> Message-ID: <20050125180147.GB15484@sonic.net> On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 09:52:18AM -0800, Rick Moen wrote: > Man, Bill, this is an impressive stack of speakers you've been lining > up. Well done! I'm glad you think so. Paul and others have been helping as well. :^) -bill! From bill at wards.net Tue Jan 25 16:54:41 2005 From: bill at wards.net (William R Ward) Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 16:54:41 -0800 Subject: [Speakers] Re: [web-team] Knoppix in September In-Reply-To: <20050125180147.GB15484@sonic.net> References: <20050125073407.GA29511@sonic.net> <20050125175218.GK3549@linuxmafia.com> <20050125180147.GB15484@sonic.net> Message-ID: <16886.59985.222113.644946@komodo.home.wards.net> Bill Kendrick writes: >On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 09:52:18AM -0800, Rick Moen wrote: >> Man, Bill, this is an impressive stack of speakers you've been lining >> up. Well done! > >I'm glad you think so. Paul and others have been helping as well. :^) If you get inquiries for people who want to speak in the next few months, PenLUG (email: officers at penlug.org) would appreciate the referral... -- 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 Tue Jan 25 17:19:33 2005 From: nbs at sonic.net (Bill Kendrick) Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 17:19:33 -0800 Subject: [Speakers] Re: [web-team] Knoppix in September In-Reply-To: <16886.59985.222113.644946@komodo.home.wards.net> References: <20050125073407.GA29511@sonic.net> <20050125175218.GK3549@linuxmafia.com> <20050125180147.GB15484@sonic.net> <16886.59985.222113.644946@komodo.home.wards.net> Message-ID: <20050126011933.GA8809@sonic.net> On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 04:54:41PM -0800, William R Ward wrote: > If you get inquiries for people who want to speak in the next few > months, PenLUG (email: officers at penlug.org) would appreciate the > referral... Don't worry -- I always keep PenLUG, BALUG, etc. in mind. ;^) I mentioned it to Kyle, but he's already been making the rounds. ;) -bill! From bill at wards.net Tue Jan 25 18:49:25 2005 From: bill at wards.net (William R Ward) Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 18:49:25 -0800 Subject: [Speakers] Re: [web-team] Knoppix in September In-Reply-To: <20050126011933.GA8809@sonic.net> References: <20050125073407.GA29511@sonic.net> <20050125175218.GK3549@linuxmafia.com> <20050125180147.GB15484@sonic.net> <16886.59985.222113.644946@komodo.home.wards.net> <20050126011933.GA8809@sonic.net> Message-ID: <16887.1333.402526.722197@komodo.home.wards.net> Bill Kendrick writes: >On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 04:54:41PM -0800, William R Ward wrote: >> If you get inquiries for people who want to speak in the next few >> months, PenLUG (email: officers at penlug.org) would appreciate the >> referral... > >Don't worry -- I always keep PenLUG, BALUG, etc. in mind. ;^) > >I mentioned it to Kyle, but he's already been making the rounds. ;) Yes -- the fact that he spoke at PenLUG recently was what reminded me to post that. -- William R Ward bill at wards.net http://bill.wards.net ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help save the San Jose Earthquakes - http://www.soccersiliconvalley.com/ From Mike at bladelogic.com Tue Feb 8 11:53:42 2005 From: Mike at bladelogic.com (Mike Nakamura) Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 14:53:42 -0500 Subject: [Speakers] Speaking at your meeting Message-ID: <497C0B4A0C2D4B44ADDE1D8772BE98DD28417B@MI8NYCMAIL01.Mi8.com> Hello, Good morning and thank you for taking my email. I am an Application Engineer with a software company that develops an application focused on server lifecycle management (Provisioning, App Management, Administration). From what I can gather on the website, I think your members might be interested in seeing a presentation of our product. Does the group allow outside parties to present at their meetings? If so, how do we go about setting it up? Regards, Mike From nbs at sonic.net Tue Feb 8 12:29:55 2005 From: nbs at sonic.net (Bill Kendrick) Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 12:29:55 -0800 Subject: [Speakers] Speaking at your meeting In-Reply-To: <497C0B4A0C2D4B44ADDE1D8772BE98DD28417B@MI8NYCMAIL01.Mi8.com> References: <497C0B4A0C2D4B44ADDE1D8772BE98DD28417B@MI8NYCMAIL01.Mi8.com> Message-ID: <20050208202955.GC20023@sonic.net> On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 02:53:42PM -0500, Mike Nakamura wrote: > Hello, > Good morning and thank you for taking my email. I am an > Application Engineer with a software company that develops an > application focused on server lifecycle management (Provisioning, > App Management, Administration). From what I can gather on the > website, I think your members might be interested in seeing a > presentation of our product. May I ask how the product relates to Linux and/or Open Source? Is it a product for Linux/Un*x? Would you be willing to do a technical presentation (versus a more sales-oriented one)? (We just want to make sure we keep on-topic, since our meetings are made up mostly of highly technical users/administrators who come to the club specificially because of it's Linux orientation.) > Does the group allow outside parties to present at their meetings? Indeed! > If so, how do we go about setting it up? At the moment, we're booked straight through September of this year, but if you'd like to speak in October, November, December or some time in 2006, we can work on picking a date. Thanks! -- -bill! bill at newbreedsoftware.com "I'm anticipating an all-out tactical http://newbreedsoftware.com/ dog-fight, followed by a light dinner." From nbs at sonic.net Tue Feb 8 23:28:48 2005 From: nbs at sonic.net (Bill Kendrick) Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 23:28:48 -0800 Subject: [Speakers] Speaking at your meeting In-Reply-To: <497C0B4A0C2D4B44ADDE1D8772BE98DD28417C@MI8NYCMAIL01.Mi8.com> References: <497C0B4A0C2D4B44ADDE1D8772BE98DD28417C@MI8NYCMAIL01.Mi8.com> Message-ID: <20050209072848.GB10980@sonic.net> On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 03:53:47PM -0500, Mike Nakamura wrote: > Bill, > > Our product does cross platform server management which includes Linux, Solaris, AIX and HPUX. Good to hear! > I would absolutely be willing to do a technical presentation versus a sales-oriented one. In fact, the whole time would be used for a technical demo. Sounds good! Would you like to speak in October? The date would be Wed. Oct. 5th. -bill! (Cc'd back to speakers list, too) From nbs at sonic.net Thu Mar 3 13:13:50 2005 From: nbs at sonic.net (Bill Kendrick) Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 13:13:50 -0800 Subject: [Speakers] Regarding upcoming scheduled SVLUG speakers Message-ID: <20050303211350.GB13255@sonic.net> So, since we're on the topic of 'sales vs. tech' presentations, I figured I'd spend a moment going through the current round-up of speakers, to see what people think of them... April - Donald Becker, Penguin Computing, Linux Clustering Don's CTO of Penguin, and worked on Beowulf and at NASA. I'm guessing this should be nice and technical. May - David B Allen, Windows to Linux Migration Roadmap David wrote a book on the subject. 'speakers' list members seemed divided on whether we should accept his offer to speak. My initial concern was that maybe he was just coming to sell copies of his book, but someone on the 'speakers' list (Bill Ward? I forget) said that they knew him, or had seem him speak, or something, and that it should be fine. June - Speaker from OSDL No idea what's up with this. I need to go back and confirm or cancel this. July - Atul Tulshibagwale, Trustgenix, Federated Identity Management We just discussed this one on the 'officers' list. I think we should be fine, but some folks have some concern... August - Christian Hammond, GNUpdate & Gaim, Galago, desktop notifications, IM J. Paul and I both know Christian. He's just an OSS developer geek like us, and will be talking about OSS projects. September - Kyle Rankin, Knoppix Tech. Talk Kyle is president of NBLUG, and has spoke there and at LUGOD, and people have thoroughly enjoyed his presentations. He did happen to write a book ("Knoppix Hacks") for O'Reilly, but he'll be here to talk tech, not sell books. October - Open Vote Foundation and/or BlackBoxVoting.org These guys spoke at LUGOD recently. Both speakers were kinda... quirky... but they're non-profit folks working on important issues, so this should be fine, too. As with my experience as speaker coordinator for LUGOD, the folks we invite are typically FAR less concern than the folks who contact us to see if they can come speak. Should we perhaps make it a rule to not accept solicitations without some sort of [mailing list] member voting process? (As for speakers I/we go out and find outselves, I/we can just accept the lashings from the audience after bad talks. ;^) ) -bill! From bill at svlug.org Fri Mar 4 15:47:37 2005 From: bill at svlug.org (William R Ward) Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 15:47:37 -0800 Subject: [Speakers] Regarding upcoming scheduled SVLUG speakers In-Reply-To: <20050303211350.GB13255@sonic.net> References: <20050303211350.GB13255@sonic.net> Message-ID: <16936.62361.623778.150744@komodo.home.wards.net> Bill Kendrick writes: > >So, since we're on the topic of 'sales vs. tech' presentations, I figured >I'd spend a moment going through the current round-up of speakers, to see >what people think of them... > >April - Donald Becker, Penguin Computing, Linux Clustering > Don's CTO of Penguin, and worked on Beowulf and at NASA. > I'm guessing this should be nice and technical. Yes - but we've seen a lot of focus on clustering lately. I wouldn't have scheduled this so soon after Qlusters, but it's too late now to change that. >May - David B Allen, Windows to Linux Migration Roadmap > David wrote a book on the subject. 'speakers' list members seemed > divided on whether we should accept his offer to speak. > My initial concern was that maybe he was just coming to sell copies of > his book, but someone on the 'speakers' list (Bill Ward? I forget) said > that they knew him, or had seem him speak, or something, and that it should > be fine. Wasn't me, but it sounds like a good topic. >June - Speaker from OSDL > No idea what's up with this. I need to go back and confirm or cancel this. Yes, we should definitely get some more details before deciding on this. >July - Atul Tulshibagwale, Trustgenix, Federated Identity Management > We just discussed this one on the 'officers' list. > I think we should be fine, but some folks have some concern... We did? I couldn't find it in the past few months' email. What is the concern? >August - Christian Hammond, GNUpdate & Gaim, Galago, desktop notifications, IM > J. Paul and I both know Christian. He's just an OSS developer geek like us, > and will be talking about OSS projects. OK. >September - Kyle Rankin, Knoppix Tech. Talk > Kyle is president of NBLUG, and has spoke there and at LUGOD, and people > have thoroughly enjoyed his presentations. He did happen to write a book > ("Knoppix Hacks") for O'Reilly, but he'll be here to talk tech, not sell > books. He talked at PenLUG recently. Sounds like a good choice. Try to get some copies of Knoppix to hand out at the meeting. >October - Open Vote Foundation and/or BlackBoxVoting.org > These guys spoke at LUGOD recently. Both speakers were kinda... quirky... > but they're non-profit folks working on important issues, so this should > be fine, too. What do you mean by quirky? >As with my experience as speaker coordinator for LUGOD, the folks we >invite are typically FAR less concern than the folks who contact us to see >if they can come speak. Yes - because when we invite them we generally have some idea what they're about. >Should we perhaps make it a rule to not accept solicitations without some >sort of [mailing list] member voting process? (As for speakers I/we go out >and find outselves, I/we can just accept the lashings from the audience after >bad talks. ;^) ) I think it would be good to have a little discussion before making a decision. Also since you've done a great job of finding speakers for the next few months, we're in no hurry to book speakers. We can afford to be a little more picky since the next open slot is November. --Bill. -- William R. Ward - Vice President, Silicon Valley Linux Users Group From marc_news at merlins.org Sat Mar 12 18:20:05 2005 From: marc_news at merlins.org (Marc MERLIN) Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 18:20:05 -0800 Subject: [Speakers] [Officers] Regarding upcoming scheduled SVLUG speakers In-Reply-To: <16936.62361.623778.150744@komodo.home.wards.net> References: <20050303211350.GB13255@sonic.net> <16936.62361.623778.150744@komodo.home.wards.net> Message-ID: <20050313022005.GG26520@merlins.org> On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 03:47:37PM -0800, William R Ward wrote: > >May - David B Allen, Windows to Linux Migration Roadmap > > David wrote a book on the subject. 'speakers' list members seemed > > divided on whether we should accept his offer to speak. > > My initial concern was that maybe he was just coming to sell copies of > > his book, but someone on the 'speakers' list (Bill Ward? I forget) said > > that they knew him, or had seem him speak, or something, and that it should > > be fine. > > Wasn't me, but it sounds like a good topic. Honestly, I don't have great hopes for this one: the guy just wasn't smart or knowledgeable when I worked with him, but I'd love to be proven wrong. > >As with my experience as speaker coordinator for LUGOD, the folks we > >invite are typically FAR less concern than the folks who contact us to see > >if they can come speak. > > Yes - because when we invite them we generally have some idea what > they're about. which applies here. 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 Mar 14 13:31:03 2005 From: rick at linuxmafia.com (Rick Moen) Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 13:31:03 -0800 Subject: [Speakers] [Officers] Regarding upcoming scheduled SVLUG speakers In-Reply-To: <20050313022005.GG26520@merlins.org> References: <20050303211350.GB13255@sonic.net> <16936.62361.623778.150744@komodo.home.wards.net> <20050313022005.GG26520@merlins.org> Message-ID: <20050314213102.GP27314@linuxmafia.com> Quoting Marc MERLIN (marc_news at merlins.org): > Honestly, I don't have great hopes for this one: the guy just wasn't smart > or knowledgeable when I worked with him, but I'd love to be proven wrong. FYI, if anyone's going to be around the Leland Stanford Farm (er, Stanford U.) tomorrow, he's giving the same talk there: To: sulug-announce at lists.Stanford.EDU, sulug-discuss at lists.Stanford.EDU From: Thomas Carlson Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 13:14:53 -0800 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619.2) Subject: SULUG Meeting Tomorrow - Windows to Linux Migration Toolkit Tuesday 3/15 6:45 PM in Gates 104 http://sulug.stanford.edu Meeting Tuesday, March 15th **6:45** PM in Gates 104 David Allen will talk about his book ... Windows to Linux Migration Toolkit. Many small and mid sized business, consider this to be a very viable option due to security, vendor lock-in, customization, and costs. Meeting Tuesday, March. 15th **6:45** PM in Gates 104 http://sulug.stanford.edu/ *** There is a raffle for a couple of open source books... Plus the author will be giving away a signed copy of his book.*** -++**==--++**==--++**==--++**==--++**==--++**==--++**== The SULug web page is at http://sulug.stanford.edu and lists many resouces for the new and expercienced linux users.