From announce at lists.nycbug.org Tue Feb 1 11:07:31 2011 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements) Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2011 11:07:31 -0500 Subject: [announce] NYC*BUG Tomorrow: February 2 Message-ID: <4D482FC3.7070507@ceetonetechnology.com> Tomorrow's meeting is about BSD Networking, reflecting the day-to-day solutions of some NYC*BUG members. February 02, 2011 BSD Networking 6:45 PM, Suspenders Restaurant 111 Broadway in Manhattan http://www.suspendersbar.com/ A number of short topics will be covered, reflecting some of the recent discussion on our Talk list. Topics will include: * lagg/trunk/lacp (FreeBSD/OpenBSD/NetBSD) * sysctl tweaking * bandwidth monitoring with pf tagging This should be a fun meeting covering a small array of BSD networking hacks and tweaks. We encourage all attendees to bring along their solutions, and be prepared to learn more! From announce at lists.nycbug.org Wed Feb 2 14:40:58 2011 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements) Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2011 14:40:58 -0500 Subject: [announce] NYC*BUG Tonight Message-ID: <4D49B34A.6080303@ceetonetechnology.com> Neither sleet, nor rain, nor snow. . . February 02, 2011 BSD Networking 6:45 PM, Suspenders Restaurant 111 Broadway in Manhattan A number of short topics will be covered, reflecting some of the recent discussion on our Talk list. Topics will include: * lagg/trunk * sysctl tweaking * bandwidth monitoring with pf tagging From announce at lists.nycbug.org Wed Feb 16 15:06:55 2011 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements) Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 15:06:55 -0500 Subject: [announce] NYC*BUG Happenings Message-ID: <4D5C2E5F.40909@ceetonetechnology.com> We're half-way between the last meeting and the next one, so a few announcements about upcoming events and opportunities: 1. Cooper Union Interns 2. Upcoming Meetings and Adjustments 3. Upcoming BSD Conferences: AsiaBSDCon and BSDCan 4. Hardware donations for an OpenBSD mirror * * * If your firm is looking for interns for the upcoming summer, we strongly recommend you take a look at Cooper Union. Not only did they host NYCBSDCon 2010, but Cooper students from the ACM and IEEE groups played a huge role in making the conference a success. Cooper Unions students are some of the best and brightest engineering students around New York. If interested, please contact the admin@ list offline for details. * * * The March 2nd meeting will be Dru Lavigne, the well-known BSD author, advocate and BSD Certification founder speaking about Big Blue Button. We are going to table the NetBSD Bugfest planned for April 6th and have a meeting on BSD High-Availability. The topic came up in discussion at the last meeting, and by chance, a BSD hacker from New Zealand will be in NYC and proposed the presentation. We are accepting submissions for brief BSD networking-related topics for the June or July meeting. It was a new approach, and the meeting was dynamic and useful, filled with discussion and questions. * * * AsiaBSDCon (.org) is only one month away. The timetable is up at http://2011.asiabsdcon.org/timetable.html and registration is opening up soon. BSDCan (.org) registration should be opening in the next few weeks, and is planned for May 11-14, including two days of tutorials. Be sure to ping other people on talk@ if you plan to attend either or both conferences if you need to arrange transportation or accommodations. * * * We are aiming to bring up an OpenBSD mirror in our cabinet at New York Internet. We are looking for hardware donations either bundled or piece-meal. 1. 1u or 2u rack-mountable server with rails, nothing super-powered is necessary, but should be a P4 or equivalent at minimum with a decent number of SAS or SATA drive bays. 2. SATA drives, minimum of 120 gig, preferably all the same same of >= 300 gig. We probably need a bare minimum of 600 gig of storage. The more storage the better, so we can provide packages, EOL'd releases, etc. Having a local and robust OpenBSD mirror in NYC will be a huge asset for the BSD community. Contact admin@ offlist to arrange. From announce at lists.nycbug.org Mon Feb 28 16:55:48 2011 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements) Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 16:55:48 -0500 Subject: [announce] NYC*BUG Upcoming: Wednesday on Big Blue Button Message-ID: <4D6C19E4.7040506@ceetonetechnology.com> * This month's meeting on Wednesday will feature well-known author, advocate and sysadmin Dru Lavigne on Big Blue Button. * AsiaBSDCon (.org) is only three weeks away * BSDCan (.org) registration is now open at http://www.bsdcan.org/2011/register.php * * * * March 02, 2011 Dru Lavigne on BigBlueButton 6:45 PM, Suspenders Restaurant backroom 111 Broadway in Manhattan http://www.suspendersbar.com/ This talk will provide an overview and demonstration of BigBlueButton (http://www.bigbluebutton.org/), an open source project that originated at Ottawa`s Carleton University. It was designed to enable universities to deliver a high quality learning experience to remote users, but can be used by any organization looking for an integrated web conferencing system. Features include video conferencing, shared presentations, shared whiteboard, instant chat, auto chat translation, and localization. Speaker Biography Dru Lavigne is the Director of Community Development for the PC-BSD Project where she leads the documentation team, assists new users, helps to find and fix bugs, and reaches out to members of the open source community to discover their needs. She is the current Chair of the BSD Certifiication Group and author of BSD Hacks, The Best of FreeBSD Basics, and The Definitive Guide to PC-BSD.