From Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu Mon Jan 17 17:20:51 2011 From: Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu (Michael Paoli) Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 17:20:51 -0800 Subject: [oak perl] BALUG TOMRROW! Tu 2011-01-18 BALUG meeting Message-ID: <20110117172051.16277bksrbpzan8k@webmail.rawbw.com> BALUG TOMRROW! Tu 2011-01-18 BALUG meeting Bay Area Linux User Group (BALUG) meeting Tuesday 6:30 P.M. 2011-01-18 Please RSVP if you're planning to come (see further below). For our 2011-01-18 BALUG meeting, at least presently we don't have a specific speaker/presentation lined up for this meeting, but that doesn't prevent us from having interesting and exciting meetings. Sometimes we also manage to secure/confirm a speaker too late for us to announce or fully publicise the speaker (that's happened at least twice in the past five or so years). Got questions, answers, and/or opinions? We typically have some expert(s) and/or relative expert(s) present to cover LINUX and related topic areas. Want to hear some interesting discussions on LINUX and other topics? Show up at the meeting, and feel free to bring an agenda if you wish. Want to help ensure BALUG has speakers/presentations lined up for future meetings? Help refer speakers to us and/or volunteer to be one of the speaker coordinators. Good food, good people, and interesting conversations to be had. So, if you'd like to join us please RSVP to: rsvp at balug.org **Why RSVP??** Well, don't worry we won't turn you away, but the RSVPs really help BALUG and the Four Seas Restaurant plan the meal and meeting, and with sufficient attendance, they also help ensure that we'll be able to eat upstairs in the private banquet room. Meeting Details... 6:30pm Tuesday, January 18th, 2011 2011-01-18 Four Seas Restaurant http://www.fourseasr.com/ 731 Grant Ave. San Francisco, CA 94108 Easy PARKING: Portsmouth Square Garage at 733 Kearny: http://www.sfpsg.com/ Cost: The meetings are always free, but for dinner, for your gift of $13 cash, we give you a gift of dinner - joining us for a yummy family-style Chinese dinner - tax and tip included (your gift also helps in our patronizing the restaurant venue and helping to defray BALUG costs such treating our speakers to dinner). Feedback on our publicity/announcements (e.g. contacts or lists where we should get our information out that we're not presently reaching, or things we should do differently): publicity-feedback at balug.org http://www.balug.org/ From fred at redhotpenguin.com Thu Jan 20 19:11:01 2011 From: fred at redhotpenguin.com (Fred Moyer) Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 19:11:01 -0800 Subject: [oak perl] Fwd: Reminder: blekko: a web-scale search engine written in perl is in one week. In-Reply-To: References: <161573251.1295388750290.JavaMail.root@jobs.meetup.com> Message-ID: Not sure how many Oak.pm members are on this list who aren't on SF.pm also, but this should be an interesting talk on Tuesday. Hope you can make it; I plan to have one SF.pm talk hosted out in Oakland this year. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Fred Moyer Date: Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 2:42 PM Subject: Fwd: Reminder: blekko: a web-scale search engine written in perl is in one week. To: San Francisco Perl Mongers User Group Just a quick heads, our first talk of the year is in one week at Citizen Space. ?Greg Lindahl from blekko will be talking about their Perl based search engine. http://www.meetup.com/San-Francisco-Perl-Mongers/calendar/15745947/ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Meetup Reminder Date: Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 2:12 PM Subject: Reminder: blekko: a web-scale search engine written in perl is in one week. To: fred at redhotpenguin.com Meetup Reminder San Francisco Perl Mongers Your group has a Meetup Tuesday, January 25, 2011 7:00 PM! You RSVPed Yes. What blekko: a web-scale search engine written in perl When Tuesday, January 25, 2011 7:00 PM Who 22 Yes Where Citizen Space 425 Second St., Suite 100 San Francisco CA 94107 Update your RSVP 22 Perl Mongers RSVPed Yes, including? see all Meetup Description Our 2011 January meeting will feature Greg Lindahl speaking about blekko. Location forthcoming. blekko is a new Web-scale search engine, offering focused searching using "slashtags", which enable you to restrict search results to the specific sites of actual interest. We'll use some open-source slashtags as examples. The rest of the talk will focus our implementation of the search engine and the underlying NoSQL database using Perl+XS, Map/Reduce done better, tuning Linux for good performance, etc. Greg Lindahl is CTO at blekko. He was previously a founder at PathScale, where he was the architect of the InfiniPath low-latency InfiniBand HCA, used to build tightly-coupled supercomputing clusters. Prior to PathScale's founding in 2001, Greg worked on commodity Linux clusters at HPTi, including the 1999 Forecast Systems Lab system, which was the first time a Linux cluster won a conventional supercomputing procurement. Greg first used Perl before the Camel Book was written. 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