Wow, this should be HOT ! <br><br>FreeBSD 7 Launch Meeting at Unigroup NEXT THURSDAY.<br><br><br>-Forest Mars<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><br>
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UNIGROUP OF NEW YORK - UNIX USERS GROUP - MARCH 2008 ANNOUNCEMENTS<br>
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Here is a quick notice, the full announcement will follow...<br>
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1. UNIGROUP'S MARCH 2008 MEETING CHANGE/NOTICE<br>
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Unigroup has moved our March 2008 meeting one week earlier than<br>
usual to 13-MAR-2008 (2nd Thursday). This allows us to avoid<br>
a holiday on the next week AND have the following meeting and<br>
speaker...<br>
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When: THURSDAY, March 13, 2008 (** SPECIAL 2nd Thursday **)<br>
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Where: Alliance for Downtown NY Conference Facility<br>
Downtown Center<br>
104 Washington Street<br>
South West Corner of Wall Street Area<br>
Downtown, New York City<br>
** Please RSVP (not mandatory) **<br>
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Time: 6:15 PM - 6:25 PM Registration<br>
6:25 PM - 6:45 PM Ask the Wizard, Questions,<br>
Answers and Current Events<br>
6:45 PM - 7:00 PM Unigroup Business and Announcements<br>
7:00 PM - 9:30 PM Main Presentation<br>
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Topic: FreeBSD 7 Launch Meeting<br>
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Speaker: George Neville-Neil,<br>
The FreeBSD Project Team <<a href="http://www.freebsd.org" target="_blank">www.freebsd.org</a>><br>
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FreeBSD version 7 was released within the past two weeks<br>
(CD-ROM images are dated 24-FEB-2008). We hope to learn as<br>
much as we can about the latest in FreeBSD from our speaker<br>
George Neville-Neil, a member of the FreeBSD Project Team.<br>
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From the FreeBSD 7 Release Announcement:<br>
FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE is now available for the amd64, i386, ia64,<br>
pc98, and powerpc architectures. The version for the sparc64<br>
architecture will become available in a few days.<br>
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FreeBSD 7 Links:<br>
<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/" target="_blank">http://www.FreeBSD.org/</a><br>
<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/7.0R/relnotes.html" target="_blank">http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/7.0R/relnotes.html</a><br>
<a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/7.0R/errata.html" target="_blank">http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/7.0R/errata.html</a><br>
<a href="http://torrents.freebsd.org:8080/" target="_blank">http://torrents.freebsd.org:8080/</a><br>
<a href="ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/" target="_blank">ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/</a><br>
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To REGISTER for this event, please RSVP by using the Unigroup<br>
Registration Page:<br>
<a href="http://www.unigroup.org/unigroup-rsvp.html" target="_blank">http://www.unigroup.org/unigroup-rsvp.html</a><br>
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Giveaways:<br>
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O'Reilly has been kind enough to provide us with some of their<br>
books, which we will continue to raffle off as giveaways at our<br>
meetings.<br>
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Addison-Wesley Professional/Prentice Hall PTR has been kind<br>
enough to provide us with some of their books, which we will<br>
continue to raffle off as giveaways at our meetings.<br>
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Unigroup would like to thank both companies for the support<br>
provided by their User Group programs.<br>
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Note: The chances tend to be about 1 in 5, that any attendee of<br>
our meeting will walk away with a fairly valuable giveaway<br>
(ie. most books are valued between $30 and $60)!<br>
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** Thanks to our friends at Sun Microsystems, Unigroup also has<br>
some Solaris 10 DVDs to raffle off.<br>
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Fee Schedule:<br>
Yearly Membership (includes all meetings): $ 50.00<br>
Non-Member Single Meeting: $ 20.00<br>
Student Yearly Membership: $ 20.00<br>
Non-Member Student Single Meeting (with ID): $ 5.00<br>
Payment Methods: Cash, Check, American Express.<br>
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Complimentary Food and Refreshments will be served. This includes<br>
"wraps" such as turkey, roast beef, chicken, tuna and grilled<br>
vegetables as well as assorted salads (potato, tossed,<br>
pasta, etc), cookies, brownies, bottled water and assorted beverages.<br>
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Directions:<br>
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Alliance for Downtown NY Conference Facility<br>
Downtown Center<br>
104 Washington Street<br>
Wall Street Area<br>
Downtown, New York City<br>
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This building is located on the West side of the street, the<br>
second building north of Rector Street. Cross Streets:<br>
Between Rector (South) and Carlisle (North) Streets.<br>
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Our meeting location is in the Lower West Corner of Downtown,<br>
North of the Battery Tunnel, South of the Downtown Hotel,<br>
East of West Street, and West of Greenwich Street. Walking West<br>
on Rector Street from Broadway, you pass Church, Greenwich then<br>
Washington Streets.<br>
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There are multiple blocks of parking lots right there, between<br>
Washington and Greenwich Streets, starting at the Battery Tunnel<br>
and extending North for a number of blocks.<br>
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Nearest mass transit stations, in order, are the '1/9' (Rector<br>
Street), 'R/W' (Rector Street) and the '4/5' (Wall Street).<br>
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Please mark this meeting on your calendar and join us!<br>
Please tell your friends about Unigroup!<br>
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-Rob Weiner<br>
Unigroup Executive Director<br>
unilist (-a_t-) <a href="http://unigroup.org" target="_blank">unigroup.org</a><br>
<a href="http://www.unigroup.org" target="_blank">http://www.unigroup.org</a><br>
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