From announce-nycbug at lists.nycbug.org Wed Dec 1 09:46:43 2004 From: announce-nycbug at lists.nycbug.org (announce-nycbug at lists.nycbug.org) Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 09:46:43 -0500 Subject: [Announce-nycbug] REMINDER: Tonight's NYC*BUG meeting canceled Message-ID: Tonight's monthly NYC*BUG meeting has been cancelled as we are cosponsoring the New York Technical Community Holiday Party on December 15th with New York PHP. It is critical that everyone attending the NYTCHP RSVP asap at http://www.nytchp.org/. Walk-ins will NOT be admitted in. The location will be disclosed in the week before the event to those who have RSVP'd. The RSVP list will be closed in the next few days. The current sponsors include CMP Publishing, USENIX, New York Internet, Pilosoft, O'Reilly, Wiley, Zend, Biz Integrators/Loftmail, TechVenue.com, NYC Wireless, Bacardi and more. It will be a night of networking, presentations, good music and fun. Our next meeting will be January 5th with Manos Megagiannis on "Anatomy of a Hack" at the Apple Store from 6-8 pm. Feel free to email me off-list with any questions. From announce-nycbug at lists.nycbug.org Wed Dec 15 09:22:10 2004 From: announce-nycbug at lists.nycbug.org (announce-nycbug at lists.nycbug.org) Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 09:22:10 -0500 Subject: [Announce-nycbug] NYTCHP Tonight Message-ID: The New York Technical Community Holiday Party is this evening from 6:30-10:30 pm. It will be a great opportunity to network with other NYC techs, speak with a good number of NYC-area vendors and to meet others involved in NYC*BUG. As everyone will be filling out their own name tags upon entry, I'd like to recommend that besides your normal firm/organization, please additionally state "NYC*BUG" on your name tag to assist in networking with other NYC*BUG members. Tonight will be a great event, and the first step in building a better technical community in New York City. George From announce-nycbug at lists.nycbug.org Thu Dec 23 08:20:11 2004 From: announce-nycbug at lists.nycbug.org (announce-nycbug at lists.nycbug.org) Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 08:20:11 -0500 Subject: [Announce-nycbug] Happy Holidays Message-ID: <5F7F79DC-54E5-11D9-98A8-000D9328615E@sddi.net> We would like to wish all happy holidays and a great new year. NYC*BUG has a lot of plans for the new year. First, along with New York PHP, we'll continue organizing some city-wide events that bring together the best and the brightest of the New York technical community. For those who attended the NYTC Holiday Party, they know what that means. Photos are here: http://nyphp.org/content/gallery/ Some of our planned meetings include: Jan: Manos on Anatomy of a Hack, along with some possible VERY special guests Feb: Jan on NetBSD's pkgsrc There's a number of others that are tentative, but our second year of NYC*BUG will sure to be as exciting as the first. Also keep in mind that BSDCan will be held in Ottawa in May, and it's not to be missed. You can get more information at BSDCan.org. The Request for Papers is still open. We are also having a collection for the OpenBSD Hackathon being held in May. It's the Hackathon that has created or improved brilliant development such as PF, CARP, and so on. Bring some cash to the next meeting for the hat. One expatriate member of NYC*BUG, the endeared Pete Wright now residing in Los Angeles, and a current list member in Albany have or are launching BUG talk lists for their region. It's a great step in NYC*BUG propagating the its model as a general *BSD advocacy and educational forum. We wish both Pete and Jonathan Franks (of CD*BUG) luck in their current (or future) endeavor. If you're in another city or region, and want to have NYC*BUG host your local talk list, contact me off list. Finally, Dru Lavigne and others from NYC*BUG have initiated a quest to create a BSD Certification. It could be a vital element in thrusting the BSDs into respectability with management in certain sectors of the business world. Check out lists.nycbug.org to join BSDCert. And don't forget the slow down around the holidays is a great time to build-up the documentation on the website. Whether a short and simple how-to, a software or book review, or a more comprehensive white paper, let's continue keeping NYC*BUG a vital part of the global *BSD community, in the way that the dmesg application has. Special thanks to all those that made NYC*BUG a huge success in its first year. It could not have been better. George