From announce at lists.nycbug.org  Tue Jan  5 22:31:24 2010
From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements)
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2010 22:31:24 -0500
Subject: [announce] NYC*BUG Tomorrow, other announcements
Message-ID: <4B44040C.4040902@ceetonetechnology.com>

A bunch of things for all to know. . . read on at any rate, kind public.

Note that NYCBUG is (finally) on:

Facebook http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=264110491163
Linkedin

And on IRC, #nycbug has been moved to efnet

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This month's meeting is. . .

January 06, 2010
Hadoop a Worldwind Tour

6:45 PM, Suspenders Restaurant
http://www.suspendersbar.com/location.php

This presentation gives a brief high level overview of Hadoop. Next, we
hit the ground running with a quick practical example of how Hadoop
solves a "big data" problem. We also discuss how the demonstrated Hadoop
processing model scales out to terabytes of data and hundreds or even
thousands of computers.

slides are at http://www.nycbug.org/files/meeting_2010-01.pdf

Edward Capriolo, works at About.com System Operations. When not in
break-fix mode, he researches high/traffic high-availability and
scalable solutions. Edward is a committer to the Apache Hadoop Hive sub
project.

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February will be Aidan Cully on Systems Programming on a Chip

March will be Professor Ike Levy on pfSense in a Commercial Environment, 
or it's not just for kids anymore

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Note that BSDCan is moving full steam ahead.

http://www.bsdcan.org/2010/

It will be held May 13-14, with two days of tutorials beforehand.

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Also, there will be a BSD Certification exam and SME session on February 7.

See http://www.bsdcertification.org for more details.

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And if you've made it this far in the email, then the easter egg is. . .

NYCBSDCon 2010 will be happening in late October.


From announce at lists.nycbug.org  Sun Jan 31 13:29:19 2010
From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements)
Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 13:29:19 -0500
Subject: [announce] NYCBUG Upcoming
Message-ID: <4B65CBFF.6000609@ceetonetechnology.com>

Several important events upcoming, including this week's meeting.

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February 3rd, 645 pm, Wednesday, Suspenders Restaurant backroom

http://www.suspendersbar.com/location.php

Aidan Cully on Systems Programming On A System On A Chip

Embedded software is characterized by a tight coupling to its
associated hardware.  This means that there is an ability to reduce
the hardware and software footprint to the barest version that can
possibly support the intended applications of the embedded system.  In
turn, this means that many libraries written for full-featured
operating systems are not well suited to run in the embedded
environment, as they often assume a range of system features available
in common desktop platforms, but unavailable to many embedded systems.

This talk will emphasize techniques developers can use to make their
software more suitable for embedded systems.  I will also discuss
debugging embedded applications, as well as the process of
co-developing custom hardware, and its associated software drivers.

Aidan Cully is a software engineer at Arkados, a fabless semiconductor
manufacturer in Piscataway, NJ.

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There will be a BSD Certification exam and SME session Sunday, February 7th.

https://register.bsdcertification.org//register/events/nycbug-1

Please contact us for more details.

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BSDCan will be held in May in Ottawa, Canada.

http://www.bsdcan.org/2010/

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The March NYCBUG meeting will be Ike Levy on pfSense.