From announce at lists.nycbug.org Mon Mar 2 10:17:28 2009 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements) Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 10:17:28 -0500 Subject: [announce] NYC*BUG Wednesday & AsiaBSDCon, BSDCan Message-ID: <49ABF888.6090709@ceetonetechnology.com> March 04, 2009 What's your biggest Time Management problem? 6:45 pm, Suspenders Restaurant http://www.suspendersbar.com/location.php Tom Limoncelli is a FreeBSD user and the author of the O`Reilly book,"Time Management for System Administrators". He`ll be giving a brief presentation with highlights from his book then will take questions from the audience. Whether you are a system administrator, a developer (or even a Linux user) this presentation will help you with something more precious a quad-processor AMD box. * * * AsiaBSDCon is being held March 12-15 in Tokyo. http://2009.asiabsdcon.org/ * * * BSDCan is set for May 8th and 9th in Ottawa, Canada. Tutorials will be held May 6th and 7th. Registration will be open by March 17. http://www.bsdcan.org From announce at lists.nycbug.org Wed Mar 4 13:08:14 2009 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements) Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2009 13:08:14 -0500 Subject: [announce] NYC*BUG Tonight Message-ID: <49AEC38E.1050800@ceetonetechnology.com> March 04, 2009 What's your biggest Time Management problem? 6:45 pm, Suspenders Restaurant http://www.suspendersbar.com/location.php Tom Limoncelli is a FreeBSD user and the author of the O`Reilly book,"Time Management for System Administrators". He`ll be giving a brief presentation with highlights from his book then will take questions from the audience. Whether you are a system administrator, a developer (or even a Linux user) this presentation will help you with something more precious a quad-processor AMD box. * * * AsiaBSDCon is being held March 12-15 in Tokyo. http://2009.asiabsdcon.org/ * * * BSDCan is set for May 8th and 9th in Ottawa, Canada. Tutorials will be held May 6th and 7th. Registration will be open by March 17. http://www.bsdcan.org From announce at lists.nycbug.org Sat Mar 28 19:21:01 2009 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements) Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 19:21:01 -0400 Subject: [announce] NYCBUG Wednesday, April 1 plus BSDCan and BSDCert Message-ID: <49CEB0DD.7090208@ceetonetechnology.com> Git: A Case Study In Distributed Version Control Wednesday, April 1 (really :) 6:45 pm, Suspenders Restaurant http://www.suspendersbar.com/location.php Brian Cully will speak on Git: A Case Study In Distributed Version Control. This talk will go over what distributed version control systems (dVCS) mean, and how git applies itself to its problems. bjc has been involved in open source since the mid 90s, contributing to the BSDs and Linux at various points. He once worked at Panix, and now works at Junction Networks. Wherever he goes he seems to end up working on the version control system, and is now using git exclusively. (pls note later meeting time. We recommend that you arrive early in event you plan to have dinner) * * * BSDCan's (bsdcan.org) preliminary schedule has been released at http://www.bsdcan.org/2009/schedule/ Be sure to register at http://www.bsdcan.org/2009/register.php and to make your travel plans sooner than later! * * * A BSD Certification Group Press Release states. . . March 4, 2009 - Nominations Open for 3 Board of Directors Positions Press Release English Nominations Open for 3 Board of Directors Positions The BSD Certification Group will be accepting nominations for three Board of Directors positions starting March 4. These positions are for a two year term starting at the end of the election process. Nominees can be anyone from the general BSD community as well as any interested organization or company. The board of directors will be expanded to five members with Dru Lavigne and Jim Brown continuing their terms until 2010. Responsibilities may include participating in monthly meetings and helping set the direction of the BSD Certification Group. Nominations may be emailed (nominations at bsdcertification.org) until April 3, 2009. Please consider carbon copying the person being nominated on the email. The non-voting chair, Phil Nelson from the NetBSD community, will acknowledge receipt of each nomination and confirm the nominees. The names of the confirmed nominees along with the number of nominations received by each will be published by mid April. The eligible BSDCG members will hold an internal vote and the public announcement of the new Directors should be announced by mid May, 2009. For more details, see the BSDCG bylaws at http://www.bsdcertification.org/BSDCG/bylaws.html. About the BSD Certification Group The BSD Certification Group (BSDCG) at (http://www.bsdcertification.org/) is a non-profit organization committed to creating and maintaining a global certification standard for system administration on BSD based operating systems. The BSDCG works with the BSD and sysadmin communities in order to provide a practical and relevant certification. From announce at lists.nycbug.org Tue Mar 31 08:34:38 2009 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements) Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 08:34:38 -0400 Subject: [announce] NYC*BUG Tomorrow, plus BSDCan and BSDCert News Message-ID: <49D20DDE.5020102@ceetonetechnology.com> Git: A Case Study In Distributed Version Control Wednesday, April 1 6:45 pm, Suspenders Restaurant http://www.suspendersbar.com/location.php Brian Cully will speak on Git: A Case Study In Distributed Version Control. This talk will go over what distributed version control systems (dVCS) mean, and how git applies itself to its problems. bjc has been involved in open source since the mid 90s, contributing to the BSDs and Linux at various points. He once worked at Panix, and now works at Junction Networks. Wherever he goes he seems to end up working on the version control system, and is now using git exclusively. (pls note later meeting time. We recommend that you arrive early in event you plan to have dinner) * * * BSDCan's (bsdcan.org) preliminary schedule has been released at http://www.bsdcan.org/2009/schedule/ Be sure to register at http://www.bsdcan.org/2009/register.php and to make your travel plans sooner than later! * * * A BSD Certification Group Press Release states. . . March 4, 2009 - Nominations Open for 3 Board of Directors Positions Press Release English Nominations Open for 3 Board of Directors Positions The BSD Certification Group will be accepting nominations for three Board of Directors positions starting March 4. These positions are for a two year term starting at the end of the election process. Nominees can be anyone from the general BSD community as well as any interested organization or company. The board of directors will be expanded to five members with Dru Lavigne and Jim Brown continuing their terms until 2010. Responsibilities may include participating in monthly meetings and helping set the direction of the BSD Certification Group. Nominations may be emailed (nominations at bsdcertification.org) until April 3, 2009. Please consider carbon copying the person being nominated on the email. The non-voting chair, Phil Nelson from the NetBSD community, will acknowledge receipt of each nomination and confirm the nominees. The names of the confirmed nominees along with the number of nominations received by each will be published by mid April. The eligible BSDCG members will hold an internal vote and the public announcement of the new Directors should be announced by mid May, 2009. For more details, see the BSDCG bylaws at http://www.bsdcertification.org/BSDCG/bylaws.html. About the BSD Certification Group The BSD Certification Group (BSDCG) at (http://www.bsdcertification.org/) is a non-profit organization committed to creating and maintaining a global certification standard for system administration on BSD based operating systems. The BSDCG works with the BSD and sysadmin communities in order to provide a practical and relevant certification.