From announce at lists.nycbug.org Sun Jan 2 22:50:32 2011 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements) Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2011 22:50:32 -0500 Subject: [announce] NYC*BUG Announcements Message-ID: <4D214788.8050509@ceetonetechnology.com> A few things coming up, including the January meeting. First, the first series of videos will be released in the next week from NYCBSDCon 2010. Stay tuned for the official announce. * * * January 05, 2011 Introduction to WebDAV 6:45 PM, Suspenders Restaurant 111 Broadway in Manhattan WebDAV is an HTTP-based protocol designed to turn the Web into a writable media. The major web server vendors provide compliant implementations and most OSes come with built-in clients. The presentation will describe in detail how it works by providing example programs and it will discuss some usage scenarios. Ivan Ivanov met WebDAV for the first time as a service by a web hosting provider. He built a software repository with a WebDAV backend at a previous job and he implemented dependency management and deployment tracking based on it From announce at lists.nycbug.org Wed Jan 5 11:12:54 2011 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements) Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2011 11:12:54 -0500 Subject: [announce] NYC*BUG Tonight Message-ID: <4D249886.8060201@ceetonetechnology.com> January 05, 2011 Ivan Ivanov on an Introduction to WebDAV 6:45 PM, Suspenders Restaurant http://www.suspendersbar.com/ 111 Broadway in Manhattan WebDAV is an HTTP-based protocol designed to turn the Web into a writable media. The major web server vendors provide compliant implementations and most OSes come with built-in clients. The presentation will describe how it works and why it is a viable alternative for web publishing. Biography Ivan Ivanov met WebDAV for the first time as a service by a web hosting provider. He built a software repository with a WebDAV backend at a previous job and he implemented dependency management and deployment tracking based on it. From announce at lists.nycbug.org Tue Jan 11 07:48:43 2011 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements) Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 07:48:43 -0500 Subject: [announce] Fwd: BSDCan 2011 - call for papers - reminder Message-ID: <4D2C51AB.4070409@ceetonetechnology.com> BSDCan is coming up in May. Here's the call for papers. We strongly encourage submissions. * * * * A reminder about BSDCan 2011; the deadline is 19 January 2011. BSDCan 2011 will be held 13-14 May, 2011 in Ottawa at the University of Ottawa. It will be preceded by two days of tutorials on 11-12 May. NOTE: This will be Fri/Sat with tutorials on Wed/Thu. 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: 1 Dec 2010 Proposal acceptance begins 19 Jan 2011 Proposal acceptance ends 19 Feb 2011 Confirmation of accepted proposals See also Instructions for submitting a proposal to BSDCan 2011 are available from: -- Dan Langille - http://langille.org/ From announce at lists.nycbug.org Tue Jan 11 10:43:25 2011 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements) Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 10:43:25 -0500 Subject: [announce] NYCBSDCon 2010 Final and Profits Distributed Message-ID: <4D2C7A9D.4080308@ceetonetechnology.com> The organizers of NYCBSDCon 2010 are proud to announce the final closing of the books for the November conference at Cooper Union. The profits are being evenly distributed among the four BSD projects--DragonFly BSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD--with each check totaling $3600. Most of the projects have already received their checks. This is an enormous accomplishment for an open source conference, and signifies the commitment of a broad range of organizers from the New York City *BSD User Group and beyond. The conference, the fourth one held since 2005, attracted a wide array of attendees, in addition to generous sponsors including About.com, New York Internet, Isilon Systems, Marvell and iXsystems. The fiscal backing of BSD Fund, a 501(c)(3) organization, provided accounting transparency to the conference. The organizers would like to thank each and every participant in the conference, from the speakers and attendees, to the sponsors and the students and staff of Cooper Union for making the event a success. We look forward to NYCBSDCon 2012, and hope to build on the successes of the 2010 conference. From announce at lists.nycbug.org Wed Jan 26 19:19:18 2011 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements) Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 19:19:18 -0500 Subject: [announce] NYC*BUG Upcoming Message-ID: <4D40BA06.90500@ceetonetechnology.com> Next week's meeting on February 2nd is a series of short presentations on various BSD networking topics: from CARP to trunk/lagg, maybe some pf optimization and more. If anyone's interested in participating, let admin@ know. Nothing extensive, just some insights for others to benefit from for any of the BSDs. The March 2nd meeting will feature Dru Lavigne--the well-known BSD advocate, writer, educator--presenting on BlueButton (http://www.bigbluebutton.org/), "open source web conferencing for distance learning." Dru's blog is at http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/bsd-guru/. Several more meetings are in the works after March, including a NetBSD Bugfest, in which NYC*BUG meeting attendees get directly involved in finding and documenting bugs in NetBSD. Do you have an idea for a meeting? Particularly a topic that would help your fellow sysadmins and developers around NYC*BUG? Ping us at admin@ and give us your thoughts. * * * AsiaBSDCon (.org) is around the corner in March. BSDCan (.org) is coming in May. If you're going to either conference, make sure you ping others on the talk@ list to discuss travel arrangements, etc. * * * For those who haven't heard yet, NYCBSDCon 2010 raised over $14,000. A remarkable feat for an open source conference. Better yet, that profit meant that four checks of $3600 each went to DragonFly BSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD. Our impact on the community goes beyond mere monthly meetings, and such an accomplishment illustrates that most clearly.