From announce at lists.nycbug.org Tue Dec 1 21:06:54 2009 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements) Date: Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:06:54 -0500 Subject: [announce] NYC*BUG Tomorrow (time change), BSDCan Message-ID: <4B15CBBE.6010502@ceetonetechnology.com> December 02, 2009, Wednesday Holiday Meeting: Your Tips as Presents PLEASE NOTE SLIGHTLY LATER TIME! 7:15 pm, Suspenders Restaurant December`s meeting will be an opportunity for an array of people to illustrate their Unix hacks. In August, Dru Lavigne started a thread on NYCBUG`s talk about "fave BSD tips/tricks?" that brought out some good discussion. We see this meeting as a follow-up, and an opportunity to give your hacks "back to the community" as a holiday gift. Please submit your one page PDF to admin@, with one, two, or even three simple tips. It might be simple and seemingly stupid, but it could save a few minutes a day for another developer or sysadmin in the meeting. It could be a creatively piped set of commands, or a simple script that you run through periodic to prevent headaches. The field is wide open. We will schedule a handful of ten minute or so speakers, and let the crowd take it from there. * * * * From Dan Langille. . . BSDCan 2010 will be held 13-14 May, 2010 in Ottawa at the University of Ottawa. It will be preceded by two days of tutorials on 11-12 May. We are now accepting proposals for talks. The talks should be designed with a very strong technical content bias. Proposals of a business development or marketing nature are not appropriate for this venue. If you are doing something interesting with a BSD operating system, please submit a proposal. Whether you are developing a very complex system using BSD as the foundation, or helping others and have a story to tell about how BSD played a role, we want to hear about your experience. People using BSD as a platform for research are also encouraged to submit a proposal. Possible topics include: * How we manage a giant installation with respect to handling spam. * and/or sysadmin. * and/or networking. From the BSDCan website, the Archives section will allow you to review the wide variety of past BSDCan presentations as further examples. Both users and developers are encouraged to share their experiences. The schedule is: 19 Dec 2009 Proposal acceptance begins 19 Jan 2010 Proposal acceptance ends 19 Feb 2010 Confirmation of accepted proposals See also Instructions for submitting a proposal to BSDCan 2010 are available from: From announce at lists.nycbug.org Mon Dec 21 09:58:34 2009 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements) Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 09:58:34 -0500 Subject: [announce] Community Holiday Party Tonight, Upcoming NYCBUG meetings Message-ID: <4B2F8D1A.1030009@ceetonetechnology.com> A few quick announcements. Better late than never: > TONIGHT - This free event is about drink specials, giveaways, complimentary > food/drink, and an all around holiday-soiree-of-a-good-time with hundreds of > your peers. > > Our mission is to bring together all segments of technology and the business > of technology as one community. > > This event is TONIGHT, Monday, December 21st at 7pm. > > RSVP is MANDATORY and full details, including over two dozen partners and > sponsors, are available online: > > http://www.bootup.io/holiday-party > > Spread the word (internally/co-workers, friends, social media, blogs, etc) - > and if we've forgotten a technical community that you know of, please let me > know. NYCBUG's next meeting will be January 6th. . . we are just finalizing some details. We have a number of great meetings being planned for 2010, including pfSense in the commercial environment, FreeBSD on MIPS and Hadoop. Huge thanks to each and everyone who made a great 2009 possible. We are looking forward to an even better 2010. From announce at lists.nycbug.org Wed Dec 30 12:56:53 2009 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements) Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 12:56:53 -0500 Subject: [announce] NYCBUG Wednesday Jan 6 and more Message-ID: <4B3B9465.90407@ceetonetechnology.com> A bunch of happenings with the new year. . . . and a happy one to all. Next meeting: 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. * * * NYCBUG is now (finally?) on FaceBook. * * * 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. * * * Also, there will be a BSD Certification exam and SME session on February 7. See http://www.bsdcertification.org for more details.