From Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu Sat Sep 7 08:27:39 2013 From: Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu (Michael Paoli) Date: Sat, 07 Sep 2013 08:27:39 -0700 Subject: [oak perl] BALUG Tu 2013-09-17: Peter Linnell on Open Build Service (OBS); & other BALUG News Message-ID: <20130907082739.10672ih0sd08slwk@webmail.rawbw.com> BALUG Tu 2013-09-17: Peter Linnell on Open Build Service (OBS); & other BALUG News ------------------------------ items, details further below: 2013-09-17: Peter Linnell on Open Build Service (OBS) 2013-10-15: Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph: Code Review for Systems Administrators giveaways (CDs/DVDs, book(s), ...) volunteering to help BALUG (and add to your resume/experience) Twitter https://twitter.com/#!/BALUG_org ------------------------------ For our 2013-09-17 BALUG meeting, we're proud to present: Peter Linnell on Open Build Service (OBS)[1] The Open Build Server (OBS) - Even wished you could have a tool to natively package your in-house applications? Peter Linnell will give a high level overview of the Open Build Service (OBS), an open source multi-platform package builder for all major Linux distributions. A complete integrated package building service which has as it goals: reliable, scalable repeatable package builds for all major Linux distributions and architectures. The talk will feature an on-line demo of OBS. Peter Linnell is a SUSE[2] Engineer working with enterprise clients and ISV/IHV partners in the Western US. He has over a decade of experience in open source projects, as a founder of and project leader of Scribus, as well as participating in many open source projects. Before joining SUSE, he worked at Cloudera - the Hadoop startup in Silicon Valley. He is a founder and PMC of Apache Bigtop, the Hadoop integration and packaging project, as well as Apache Stratos. While living in Europe, he was a technical project manager at INRIA, one of the world's leading HPC research institutes. At SUSE he has been part of the Big Data Team, guiding the technical and strategy direction on BI/Big Data. 1. http://openbuildservice.org/ 2. https://www.suse.com/ 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, September 17th, 2013 2013-09-17 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). ------------------------------ For our 2013-10-15 BALUG meeting, we're proud to present: Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph[1] on Code Review for Systems Administrators The OpenStack project uses a public code review system and automated series of unit and integration tests before merging to confirm that code submitted is adhering to project standards and doesn't cause problems for other software in the stack. The OpenStack Infrastructure team not only manages this system using all open source tools, like Gerrit and Jenkins for review and testing, but also uses the system themselves for reviewing and testing changes being made to systems running the infrastructure itself. Puppet configuration files, Python scripts and more are subjected to automated syntax tests and then collaboratively reviewed in public by community and core team members alike before approval. This talk will give you a walk through of the actual software used to accomplish this and how this process has allowed the team to have a considerably open, collaborative approach to systems administration for the project infrastructure. Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph is an Automation and Tools Engineer at HP[2] working on the OpenStack Infrastructure[3] team. She is also a member of the Ubuntu Community Council[4] and on the Board of Directors for Partimus[5], a non-profit in the San Francisco Bay Area providing Linux-based computers to schools in need. 1. http://www.princessleia.com/ 2. http://www.hp.com/ 3. http://ci.openstack.org/ 4. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CommunityCouncil 5. http://partimus.org/ ------------------------------ We typically have various giveaway items at BALUG meetings. We'll likely have at least the below plus additional items, quite possibly including some more electronics. CDs/DVDs/ISOs, etc. - have a peek here: http://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=balug:cds_and_images_etc We may also be able to "burn" images per request or copy to USB flash, etc. Donations of blank or +-RW media, USB flash, or funding thereof, also appreciated. See the above URL for details. Book(s)!: Oracle Solaris 11 System Administration Thanks to Pearson's User Group program for providing these review copies. For details see: http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-talk-balug.org/2013-July/005034.html Pearson User Group member page (member discounts: 35% off print, 45% off eBook): http://www.informit.com/usergroupwelcome ------------------------------ volunteering to help BALUG (and add to your resume/experience) Not only can you do useful and cool stuff volunteering to help BALUG, but it can also be a way to gain useful and practical experience, and could also be something to add to or round out one's resume. There a quite a variety of opportunities to help BALUG. Come talk to us at a meeting and/or drop us a note at: balug-contact at balug.org These opportunities may include, among other possibilities: o assist on speaker coordination/procurement, etc. o assist on publicity o chief/assistant cat herder o Linux Systems Administration (e.g. do/assist/learn, with/under some quite experienced and skilled Linux systems administrators). o webmaster, assistant webmaster, designer, graphic artist o archivist/history/retrieval/etc. o and other various/miscellaneous tasks BALUG "ought" to be doing or would be good to do (feel free to suggest ideas!) ------------------------------ Twitter - you can also follow BALUG on Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/BALUG_org ------------------------------ Feedback on our publicity/announcements (e.g. contacts or lists where we should get our information out that we're not presently reaching, or things we should do differently): publicity-feedback at balug.org ------------------------------ http://www.balug.org/