[svlug] [svlug-announce] SVLUG Sept. 6 meeting: Linux Appliance Design

[Rick Moen]

The Silicon Valley Linux Users Group (SVLUG) meets this Wednesday,
(that's tonight!):

WHEN:

  Wednesday, September 6, 2006
  7pm-9pm


MAIN PRESENTATION:

  TOPIC:
    Linux Appliance Design

  PRESENTED BY:
    Bob Smith, Graham Phillips, and Bill Pierce 


  TOPIC SUMMARY:
    Join us as the authors of No Starch's upcoming book "Linux Appliance
    Design" describe the components used in the book's sample appliance.
    The talk will focus on what each appliance component does, why you
    might want the component in your appliance, how the component ties
    to the other components, and how to install can configure the component.

  ABOUT THE PRESENTERS:
     Bob Smith, Graham Phillips, and Bill Pierce are authors of the
     upcoming No Starch book Linux Appliance Design. Bob was the founder
     of Venturi Wireless, and has over ten years of experience with embedded
     Linux. Bob currently works for PalmSource. Graham's area of
     expertise is user interface design for embedded systems. He
     designed the AJAX-based Web interface for Laddie, the book's
     project.  Bill is currently a lead software engineer at Electronics
     for Imaging (efi.com), where he works on control software for
     printer controller appliances.  Before joining EFI, Bill spent 11
     years as an embedded systems engineer at BAE Systems.

NIFTY OF THE MONTH:

  To be announced.

LOCATION:

  Symantec  (formerly Veritas Software Corp.)
  VCAFE Facility
  350 Ellis Street  (near E. Middlefield Road)
  Mountain View, CA 94043

  Directions on how to get there are listed at:

    http://www.svlug.org/directions/veritas.shtml

  We've tried our very best for these directions to be accurate.
  If you have any improvements to make, please let SVLUG's volunteers know!
  webmaster {at} svlug -dot- org


MEETING REFRESHMENTS:

  Open Country (http://www.opencountry.com/) will be graciously providing
  refreshments for this meeting.


POST-MEETING GATHERING:

  If you just can't get enough, a smaller group usually goes to a local
  restaurant/diner after the meeting.  We'll announce the restaurant
  selection at the meeting.


We look forward to seeing you there!


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