From Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu Sat Jul 12 10:31:42 2008 From: Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu (Michael Paoli) Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2008 10:31:42 -0700 Subject: [oak perl] BALUG 2008-07-15!: Mike Linksvayer (Creative Commons); and other BALUG News Message-ID: <1215883902.4878ea7e12934@webmail.rawbw.com> BALUG 2008-07-15!: Mike Linksvayer (Creative Commons); and other BALUG News Contents: * BALUG 2008-07-15!: Mike Linksvayer (Creative Commons) * LinuxWorld, BALUG & SF-LUG, Installfest, etc. * upcoming BALUG meetings * Contacts, etc. ------------------------------ For the BALUG[0] 2008-07-15 meeting we are proud to present: Mike Linksvayer[1], Vice President of Creative Commons 2008-07-15 [16]Mike Linksvayer, Vice President, [2]Creative Commons Mike Linksvayer is Vice President of Creative Commons, having joined Creative Commons as CTO in April 2003. Previously he co-founded [3]Bitzi. He has over ten years experience as an enterprise software, web, and multimedia developer and consultant and holds a B.A. in economics from the [4]University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Creative Commons (CC) Share, Remix, Reuse. Legally. Creative Commons provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry. You can use CC to change your copyright terms from "All Rights Reserved" to "Some Rights Reserved." Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization. Everything Creative Commons does, including the software created by Creative Commons, is free. Time, location, cost (if you want dinner), etc., please see: http://www.balug.org/#Meetings%20(general) If you intend to come, please RSVP to: rsvp at balug.org Why RSVP? Well, we probably wouldn't turn you away, but the RSVPs really help the Four Seas Restaurant plan settings/food/staffing and help ensure that we're able to eat upstairs in the private banquet room. 0. http://www.balug.org/ 1. http://creativecommons.org/about/people#21 2. http://creativecommons.org/ 3. http://bitzi.com/ 4. http://www.uiuc.edu/ ------------------------------ LinuxWorld[5], BALUG & SF-LUG, Installfest, etc. LinuxWorld Conference & Expo[5] is coming soon to San Francisco. BALUG, SF-LUG[6], and some additional [L]UGs will be sharing a combined/shared [L]UG "booth" at LinuxWorld Conference & Expo, so ... come by, say "hi", tell folks to come check us out. To volunteer to help out / coordinate etc. ... take a look at the BALUG "talk"[7] list or archive thereof - there should be some significant updates on that within the week. Installfest for Schools[8] Alameda County Computer Resource Center (ACCRC)[9] will supply hardware for massive Installfest for Schools, to donate open source (Ubuntu[10]) computers to schools in need. The event is organized by Untangle[11] and GES[12]. LinuxWorld attendees are encouraged to join the installfest by installing Ubuntu, hacking older hardware, or donating unwanted computers. For more information see: http://www.untangle.com/installfest 5. http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/ 6. http://www.sf-lug.org/ 7. http://lists.balug.org/listinfo.cgi/balug-talk-balug.org 8. http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/ehall//SN264817 9. http://www.accrc.org/ 10. http://www.ubuntu.com/ 11. http://www.untangle.com/ 12. http://www.ges.com/ ------------------------------ upcoming BALUG meetings ... mark your calendars :-): * 2008-07-15 Mike Linksvayer, Vice President, Creative Commons * 2008-08-19 Chris Dibona * 2008-09-16[13] Ian Murdock, founder of Debian * ... BALUG generally meets the third Tuesday of the month. Subscribe to our low volume "announce"[14] list to be sure and hear about upcoming meetings and speakers/presentations. 13. This meeting will occur at a different venue; watch for updates. 14. http://lists.balug.org/listinfo.cgi/balug-announce-balug.org ------------------------------ Contacting BALUG: http://www.new.balug.org/#Contact 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 From afife at untangle.com Thu Jul 24 12:57:52 2008 From: afife at untangle.com (Andrew Fife) Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:57:52 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [oak perl] Installfest for Schools Message-ID: <01ab01c8edc7$8eff4cf0$acfde6d0$@com> Hi Folks: I'm very pleased to announce that Untangle & ACCRC have teamed up with LinuxWorld (Aug 5-7) for our second Installfest for Schools. The first ACCRC/Untangle Installfest for Schools in March refurbished 350 Ubuntu computers for schools[1]. This time we've gotten a large booth on the expo floor and will have workstations setup for volunteers to refurbish recycled computers with Ubuntu and GnewSense. We particularly need help with the following: 1)Installing Ubuntu and/or gNewSense 2)Hacking older hardware and identifying good/bad components You can signup for a work station here: http://www.untangle.com/installfest Also, if you know of a school in need of computers that's willing to try GNU/Linux please nominate them here: http://www.untangle.com/index.php?option=com_collect&task=installfestNomin ate&Itemid=1426 And if you have an older computer that you want to donate or recycle, please bring it to LinuxWorld. ACCRC will have a collection booth setup and can provide tax deductable receipts. PIII and newer systems will be refurbished with Ubuntu for schools. Older systems will be recycled properly by the ACCRC. Lastly, we are always looking for help getting the word out. If you want to give the event some love on your blog, Digg, StumbleUpon, Slashdot, or some crazy forum please link to the main installfest page, which is http://www.untangle.com/installfest Thanks so much for your help! -Andrew P.S. The LinuxWorld Expo free if you register before the conference starts here: https://register.rcsreg.com/regos-1.0/lnsf2008/ga/index2.html References: [1]Here is a writeup of the first event: http://lwn.net/Articles/273770/ and here are some pictures: http://www.untangle.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=355&Item id=139 -- Andrew Fife Untangle - The Open Source Network Gateway www.untangle.com/download 650.425.3327 desk 415.806.6028 cell -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cba at groundworkopensource.com Mon Jul 28 16:53:35 2008 From: cba at groundworkopensource.com (Chris B. Anderson) Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:53:35 -0700 Subject: [oak perl] Monitoring SIG LinuxWorld Week Festivities -- Next Week! Message-ID: Hi: The BayLISA Monitoring SIG is proud to offer this fantastic lineup of activities in conjunction with LinuxWorld Expo August 4-8 (that's next week!) Register for a free exhibits pass in advance (to avoid long lines) at: http://linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/register//SN335015 (Use GroundWork Open Source's Priority Code VPL712 to see if that gets you anything extra.) ================================================================== The activities are: 1) Tuesday, Aug 5, 11:30-12:30: Conference Session on IT Monitoring ("Just Add Water...") 2) Wednesday, Aug 6, 6PM IT Monitoring BoF (BoF 17) 3) Wednesday, Aug 6, 7:30PM Meet-n-Greet Reception and Dinner at Henry's Hunan, 110 Natoma 4) All Week: Cacti "Project in Residence" at GroundWork Open Source Here are details of the events: ================================================================== 1) Conference Session on IT Monitoring: Just Add Water: Tips to Managing, Monitoring and Scaling the Wild and Wooly IT Environment Tuesday, August 5 2008, 11:30 am - 12:30 pm (Caution: You may need a full conference registration to attend this session.) ================================================================== 2) IT Monitoring BoF Wednesday, 6PM (BOF17) BOF17: Common Mistakes when Installing or Configuring OSS Monitoring Tools Wednesday, Aug 6 2007, 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM (Notes: 1) You only need a free exhibits pass to attend this BoF 2) This BoF is immediately followed by (3) below) ================================================================== 3) What: BayLISA Monitoring SIG XVI: LinuxWorld Meet-n-Greet Reception featuring 1) Special Guests Cacti Development Team and 2) Ganglia Project "We're Almost There..." v 3.1 Pre-release Celebration Who: Anyone interested in IT monitoring issues and tools (newbies particularly welcome!) When: Wednesday, August 6, 7:30 PM Where: Henry's Hunan Chinese Restaurant, 110 Natoma St. (Between 2nd and New Montgomery -- Near Moscone) (415) 546-4999 How: Consider making a day of it by signing up for a free exhibit hall pass for LinuxWorld at: http://linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/register//SN335015 You can get into the exhibits hall, attend the GroundWork BoF from 6-7, and then come to the reception. Cost: Free, but RSVP mandatory (see below) RSVP: Email Peter Mui, pmui at groundworkopensource.com ================================================================== 4) All Week: Cacti "Project in Residence" at GroundWork Open Source The Cacti Team will be the "Project in Residence" at GroundWork Open Souce LinuxWorld week: they'll be fixing bugs, assessing feature requests, and setting priorities for the direction of Cacti. 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