From announce-nycbug at lists.nycbug.org  Tue Aug  2 09:46:16 2005
From: announce-nycbug at lists.nycbug.org (announce-nycbug at lists.nycbug.org)
Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2005 09:46:16 -0400
Subject: [Announce-NYCBUG] August 3rd NYCBUG Meeting
Message-ID: <42EF7928.3000607@sddi.net>

The New York City *BSD User Group Presents:

August 03, 2005

Hildo Biersma: Challenges of large Unix environment

6 pm, Soho Apple Store at 103 Prince Street

Hildo Biersma has worked at a large Wall Street firm since 2000 and uses 
open-source tools to manage commercial software products such as IBM 
MQSeries and DB2. Before 2000, he was a perl/Unix/C++ trainer and web 
consultant.

The firm I work at has a large Unix environment (over 5,000 servers) 
that are kept as identical as possible through the use of networked file 
systems to hold programs, combined with centralized large-scale 
administration tools.

The presentation will provide a minimal introduction of the environment, 
then focus on the challenges that this environment poses when 
integrating software, new hardware, or new operating systems. It will 
highlight both the pros and cons of open source software and OSes.

I expect a lively discussion of why *BSD and the ports system are not 
suitable, in their current form, to replace the Linux systems in use at 
our firm.


From announce-nycbug at lists.nycbug.org  Mon Aug 15 21:41:31 2005
From: announce-nycbug at lists.nycbug.org (announce-nycbug at lists.nycbug.org)
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 21:41:31 -0400
Subject: [Announce-NYCBUG] NYCBSDCon 2005
Message-ID: <4301444B.407@sddi.net>

NYCBSDCon Set for September 17th at Manhattan's Columbia University


New York City BSD Conference (NYCBSDCon), a one day technical
conference hosted by the New York City *BSD User Group
(www.nycbug.org), will be held on Saturday, September 17th at Columbia
University.

The all day conference will include a variety of speakers representing
the BSD projects and the open source community.  Highlighted speakers
include:

Marshall Kirk McKusick, an original member of the University of
California at Berkley's BSD Unix developer group.

Dru Lavigne, a well-known BSD advocate, educator and author whose most
recent works include "BSD Hacks."  Dru is also chair of the BSD
Certification Group (www.bsdcertification.org).

Bruce Momjian, co-founder of the PostgreSQL global developer group and
has worked on PostgreSQL since 1996.  He works for Software Research
Associates (SRA) in their PostgreSQL support division.

Michael Lucas, a long-time BSD user and author of "Absolute BSD" and
"Absolute OpenBSD."

Jason Dixon - As the principal of DixonGroup Consulting LLC, Jason Dixon
focuses on solving real-world security and infrastructure challenges
with free and open source software.

Phillip Moore, formerly of Morgan Stanley, where he was Executive 
Director of UNIX Engineering as a senior architect.

NYCBSDCon is organized by NYC*BUG, a technical user group that formed
in December 2003 that has evolved into a fundamental part of the BSD
Community.  Besides their regular monthly meetings at the Soho Apple
Store, NYC*BUG has done fundraising for the BSD projects and
contributed a number of useful online applications such as
"BSDTracker" and "dmesgd."

Additional sponsors include USENIX, New York Internet and SRA America.

Members of the press are also invited to attend.

Coffee and snacks will be provided throughout the day.

An evening party in cooperation with OrgCom, organizers of the New
York Technical Community Holiday Party 2004, is planned at a local
establishment.  The event will be open to the public, and attendees
are encouraged to network and meet with the New York technical
community.

   Who: Developers, systems administrators, end-users of the BSD
        operating systems and related open source projects

  When: Saturday, September 17th, 2005
        registration opens at 8:30 am

  Cost: $20 pre-registration online until September 10th
        $40 day of the conference
        * all conference attendees will pay during the morning of the
        event as the conference fee is not high, only cash will be
        accepted

Where: Columbia University at Broadway and 116th Street
        1/9 train to 116th Street


To register and to learn more, please visit http://www.nycbsdcon.org