From announce at lists.nycbug.org Wed Jul 2 10:37:37 2008 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements) Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:37:37 -0400 Subject: [announce] NYCBUG Tonight on cfengine Message-ID: <486B92B1.8030406@ceetonetechnology.com> Wednesday, July 02, 2008 Configuration Management with Cfengine 6:30pm, Suspenders Restaurant http://www.suspendersbar.com/location.php Cfengine is a policy-based configuration management system. Its primary function is to provide automated configuration and maintenance of computers, from a policy specification. The cfengine project was started in 1993 as a reaction to the complexity and non-portability of shell scripting for Unix configuration management, and continues today. The aim was to absorb frequently used coding paradigms into a declarative, domain-specific language that would offer self-documenting configuration. about the speaker: Steven Kreuzer has been working with Open Source technologies since as long as he can remember, starting out with a 486 salvaged from a dumpster behind his neighborhood computer store. In his spare time he enjoys doing things with technology that have absolutely no redeeming social value.