From Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu Thu Sep 10 07:33:09 2009 From: Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu (Michael Paoli) Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 07:33:09 -0700 Subject: [oak perl] BALUG: Tu 2009-09-15 Christian Einfeldt on: Linux in schools: Help yourself by helping the underdog Message-ID: <20090910073309.20973hlvcjguip8g@webmail.rawbw.com> BALUG: Tu 2009-09-15 Christian Einfeldt on: Linux in schools: Help yourself by helping the underdog BALUG: Tu 2009-09-15 Christian Einfeldt on: Linux in schools: Help yourself by helping the underdog Bay Area Linux User Group (BALUG) Tuesday 6:30 P.M. 2009-09-15 Please RSVP if you're planning to come (see further below). For our 2009-09-15 BALUG meeting, we're excited to present: Christian Einfeldt on: Linux in schools: Help yourself by helping the underdog Schools and Linux should really fit together hand-in-hand. Schools need robust, low cost infrastructure, and the Linux community needs more widespread adoption to avoid marginalization on the desktop. Schools offer the potential to become channels for distribution and socialization for Linux. Christian Einfeldt is a community organizer who has worked for more than 5 years to bring Linux to two local public schools, and will draw on this experience to talk about what schools need to go further with Linux, and how schools can help create greater mindshare for Linux. Christian Einfeldt has been using GNU-Linux in his law practice since late 2000. Einfeldt is a relatively simple end user who runs whichever distro is favored by the guru helping him. Currently, that means regular old brown Ubuntu (GNOME), but in the past has included openSUSE (KDE). Einfeldt is also fond of Xubuntu, as it runs quite well and installs easily on dead badgers and other odd ball legacy hardware that he and others are adminning at two local school FOSS projects supported by Bay Area GNUsters and Penguinistas. You know who you are. So, if you'd like to join us please RSVP: rsvp at balug.org **Why RSVP??** Well, don't worry we won't turn you away, but the RSVPs really help the Four Seas Restaurant plan the meal and they help ensure that we'll be able to eat upstairs in the private banquet room. Meeting Details... 6:30pm Tuesday, September 15th, 2009 2009-09-15 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 dinner is $13 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 Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu Wed Sep 30 23:16:44 2009 From: Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu (Michael Paoli) Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 23:16:44 -0700 Subject: [oak perl] BALUG: Tu 2009-10-20 Understanding the Power of Hybrid Hosting: Dedicated Plus Clouds by Paul Lancaster of GoGrid/ServePath Message-ID: <20090930231644.162551u79x0d9joc@webmail.rawbw.com> BALUG: Tu 2009-10-20 Understanding the Power of Hybrid Hosting: Dedicated Plus Clouds by Paul Lancaster of GoGrid/ServePath Bay Area Linux User Group (BALUG) Tuesday 6:30 P.M. 2009-10-20 Please RSVP if you're planning to come (see further below). For our 2009-10-20 BALUG meeting, we're excited to present: Understanding the Power of Hybrid Hosting: Dedicated Plus Clouds by Paul Lancaster of GoGrid[1]/ServePath[2] Cloud Computing isn't for everyone, neither is leasing dedicated server environments. However, when you combine the two, the end result is a hosting solution that will make your business successful. We call it Hybrid Hosting. Capitalizing on the dynamic, scalability of GoGrid's Cloud Hosting and the robust, high I/O throughput of dedicated infrastructure, Hybrid Hosting is a way to manage complex, high-availability infrastructures that meet demand, performance and cost concerns. Paul Lancaster is one of the founding employees of ServePath/GoGrid and leads Business Development. Paul has been in the Internet industry for the past 15 years working for software and services companies in technical and business roles. Paul enjoys playing guitar when he is not at his keyboard or spending time with his 6 year old daughter. GoGrid[1]: Blog[3] Wiki[4] Twitter[5] 1. http://www.gogrid.com/ 2. http://www.servepath.com/ 3. http://blog.gogrid.com/ 4. http://wiki.gogrid.com/ 5. http://twitter.com/gogrid So, if you'd like to join us please RSVP: rsvp at balug.org **Why RSVP??** Well, don't worry we won't turn you away, but the RSVPs really help the Four Seas Restaurant plan the meal and they help ensure that we'll be able to eat upstairs in the private banquet room. Meeting Details... 6:30pm Tuesday, October 20th, 2009 2009-10-20 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 dinner is $13 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/