From announce at lists.nycbug.org Thu Jul 1 16:40:56 2010 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements) Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2010 16:40:56 -0400 Subject: [announce] NYCBSDCon 2010 Call for Presentations Message-ID: <4C2CFD58.6000903@ceetonetechnology.com> The New York City BSD Conference (NYCBSDCon) is the main technical conference on the US East Coast for the BSD community to get together to share and gain knowledge, to network with like-minded people, and to have fun. This event is organized by members of the New York City *BSD Users Group (NYC*BUG). The NYCBSDCon program committee is accepting submissions for imaginative, embryonic and energizing presentations surrounding the BSD operating systems. We are looking to attract a wide range of speakers and attendees; therefore, topics of interest range from the esoteric to development to practical, everyday sysadmin life. Of course, original topics are preferred in most cases. Each talk is expected to be 45-50 minutes, including a few minutes for questions and answers. All presentations will be recorded for audio and video. Presenters will have audio/visual and network connectivity. Abstracts for presentations are due July 31, 2010. Authors of accepted submissions should be able to provide the full presentation for publication on NYCBSDCon sponsored mediums. Further instructions will follow notification of acceptance. Submissions accompanied by a non-disclosure agreement or a product advertisement will be rejected. Abstract submissions should be emailed to cfp at nycbsdcon.org in text, ps or pdf format. Conference Location: Cooper Union, New York, NY Conference Dates: November 12-14, 2010 Important Milestones: Jul 01 CFP Released Jul 31 CFP Deadline Aug 15 Notification of Accepted and Rejected Presentations Do not let travel and accommodation concerns get in the way of your submissions; we may have some opportunities to subsidize speakers, but it is too early to provide any definitive answers. We encourage you to join the public mailing list at http://lists.nycbug.org/mailman/listinfo/nycbsdcon to keep abreast of conference happenings. For questions, concerns or comments, please contact us here: info at nycbsdcon.org. From announce at lists.nycbug.org Mon Jul 5 16:22:24 2010 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements) Date: Mon, 05 Jul 2010 16:22:24 -0400 Subject: [announce] NYC*BUG upcoming Message-ID: <4C323F00.8080608@ceetonetechnology.com> * Upcoming meetings: Go on 7/7, OpenSSL on 8/4, Email Infrastructure on 9/1 * NYCBSDCon 2010 Call for Presentations * * * * July 07, 2010 The Go Programming Language 6:45 PM, Suspenders Restaurant http://www.suspendersbar.com/location.php Go is ? ? simple package main import "fmt" func main() { fmt.Printf("Hello, ??n") } ? fast Go compilers produce fast code fast. Typical builds take a fraction of a second yet the resulting programs run nearly as quickly as comparable C or C++ code. ? safe Go is type safe and memory safe. Go has pointers but no pointer arithmetic. For random access, use slices, which know their limits. ? concurrent Go promotes writing systems and servers as sets of lightweight communicating processes, called goroutines, with strong support from the language. Run thousands of goroutines if you want?and say good-bye to stack overflows. ? fun Go has fast builds, clean syntax, garbage collection, methods for any type, and run-time reflection. It feels like a dynamic language but has the speed and safety of a static language. It`s a joy to use. ? open source Mark Chu-Carroll is a software engineer at Google, who is utterly obsessed with programming languages. He?s been working on software development tools for close to 20 years. In his free time, he writes the blog Good Math/Bad Math at scienceblogs.com. August 4th - Ivan Ivanov on Examples in Cryptography with OpenSSL September 1st - Bruno Scap on Building Email Infrastructure * * * * The NYCBSDCon 2010 Call for Papers has been announced. http://www.nycbsdcon.org/2010/cfp.html The CFP closes on July 31. Conference is set for November 12-14, 2010 at Cooper Union. We are extremely excited about the conference this year. From announce at lists.nycbug.org Wed Jul 7 11:20:03 2010 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements) Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2010 11:20:03 -0400 Subject: [announce] NYC*BUG tonight Message-ID: <4C349B23.8020603@ceetonetechnology.com> July 07, 2010, Wednesday The Go Programming Language 6:45 PM, Suspenders Restaurant 111 Broadway in Manhattan Go is ? ? simple package main import "fmt" func main() { fmt.Printf("Hello, ??n") } ? fast Go compilers produce fast code fast. Typical builds take a fraction of a second yet the resulting programs run nearly as quickly as comparable C or C++ code. ? safe Go is type safe and memory safe. Go has pointers but no pointer arithmetic. For random access, use slices, which know their limits. ? concurrent Go promotes writing systems and servers as sets of lightweight communicating processes, called goroutines, with strong support from the language. Run thousands of goroutines if you want?and say good-bye to stack overflows. ? fun Go has fast builds, clean syntax, garbage collection, methods for any type, and run-time reflection. It feels like a dynamic language but has the speed and safety of a static language. It`s a joy to use. ? open source Mark Chu-Carroll is a software engineer at Google, who is utterly obsessed with programming languages. He?s been working on software development tools for close to 20 years. In his free time, he writes the blog Good Math/Bad Math at scienceblogs.com. From announce at lists.nycbug.org Fri Jul 16 10:25:14 2010 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements) Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 10:25:14 -0400 Subject: [announce] NYCBSDCon 2010 Organizing Meeting Message-ID: <4C406BCA.7090106@ceetonetechnology.com> Reminder: For anyone interested in organizing NYCBSDCon 2010, we are having a meeting on Monday, July 19th, 645 PM in the backroom of Suspenders. Topics to be covered include publicity and getting sponsorships. From announce at lists.nycbug.org Sun Jul 25 16:30:40 2010 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements) Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2010 16:30:40 -0400 Subject: [announce] NYCBUG Upcoming Message-ID: <4C4C9EF0.6060303@ceetonetechnology.com> A whole number of things to note with NYCBUG. 1. Upcoming meetings: OpenSSL, Building Email Infrastructure 2. Call for Presentations for NYCBSDCon 2010 closes on August 1 3. the BSD Certification Group's BSD Professional Exam Objectives is nearing it final draft. . . * * * 1. August 4th: Ivan Ivanov on Examples in Cryptography with OpenSSL September 1st: Bruno Scap on Building Email Infrastructure 2. CFP for NYCBSDCon 2010 closes August 1st http://www.nycbsdcon.org/2010/cfp.html 3. BSDP Exam Objectives Nearing Final Draft Jim Brown writes: The BSD Professional Exam Objectives are nearing final draft. The objectives are maintained on a wiki at http://bsdwiki.reedmedia.net/wiki/BSDP.html If you want to contribute by writing or editing some of the objectives, please take the time to do so soon. We are targeting the end of July to get the objectives finished so that we can begin developing the exam content. As you read the objectives, you will notice some text markers (XXX,@@@, etc.) and some initials and comments. These are "inline notes" to help keep track of comments, changes, and ideas. They will be removed before the final publication of the exam objectives. Even if you don't want to contribute, please take a look at the objectives and let us know your thoughts here on the mailing list. This will be an important milestone in the exam development and we're aiming at producing a high quality exam. Your voice is important! Let us know what you think. NYCBUG continues to strongly support the BSD Certification Group through a number of ways. We encourage announce readers to take a look at the BSDP objectives and provide input.