From announce at lists.nycbug.org Tue Apr 3 07:57:08 2012 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements) Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2012 07:57:08 -0400 Subject: [announce] NYC*BUG Wednesday Message-ID: <4F7AE594.2020906@ceetonetechnology.com> 2012-04-04 @ 18:45 - Location: Suspenders http://www.nycbug.org/?action=locations#suspenders The journey from user to contributor, Eitan Adler This will be an open-ended Q&A-style talk covering contributing to FreeBSD. By the end of the talk you should know what makes a good problem report, how to best interact with FreeBSD developers, and how the project handles PRs and anything else that may be relevant. About the speaker: Eitan is a second year student at SUNY Binghamton studying Computer Science. He has been using FreeBSD since 6.2. He is a src and ports committer and is part of the X11 and BugBusting teams. From announce at lists.nycbug.org Fri Apr 20 09:29:03 2012 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements) Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 09:29:03 -0400 Subject: [announce] proposed announce for mirrors Message-ID: <4F91649F.1030403@ceetonetechnology.com> So, we are just waiting on MD sorting out uploading his images with Mark, plus someone hitting the Tor project so they list our Tor mirror. Comments appreciated, inline. * * * The New York City *BSD User Group (NYC*BUG) is proud to announce the launching of multiple mirrors serving the BSD and open source community. The mirrors, hosted in a cabinet donated by New York Internet, include the following official mirrors: * DragonFlyBSD * OpenBSD * m0n0wall, a FreeBSD-based firewall distribution customized for embedded devices * The Tor Project, an open source public anonymity network * BHyVe images, a FreeBSD-based type 2 Hypervisor virtualization created by NetApp developers, with the images maintained by Michael Dexter of Call for Testing (callfortesting.org) The mirrors are located at http://mirrors.nycbug.org, and are accessible over http, ftp and rsync protocols. NYC*BUG looks forward to expanding the mirrors to include other projects relevant to the BSD community in the future. For inquiries, please contact mirror-admin at nycbug.org. The NYC*BUG cabinet hosts a variety of other BSD projects, including a server for the BSD Certification Group, BSD.lv, a build server for FreeBSD's Sparc64 ports in addition to an array of mailing lists. The cabinet is composed of hardware donated by an array of NYC*BUG members. NYC*BUG (http://www.nycbug.org) was launched in 2003 to serve and expand the BSD community in the New York metropolitan area. NYC*BUG hosts monthly meetings, in addition to bi-annual conferences in Manhattan. From announce at lists.nycbug.org Sun Apr 29 21:20:44 2012 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements) Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2012 21:20:44 -0400 Subject: [announce] NYC*BUG: Wednesday May 2nd Meeting Message-ID: <4F9DE8EC.1090602@ceetonetechnology.com> Upcoming Meetings: Wednesday, May 2 2012 At Suspenders http://www.nycbug.org/?action=locations#suspenders The Useless Use of *, Jan Schaumann A brief look at common shell commands and pipelines found in most engineers' scripts, this talk aims to illustrate how the appropriate use of the various flexible unix tools might allow for more efficient execution and argues against the premature dismissal of the shell as a scalable programming environment. Originally given in 2007 at the Southern California Linux Expo, this updated version of the talk will also diverge into the direction of premature optimization and overuse of "the big gun" for simple problems. About the speaker: Jan Schaumann currently works as a Senior Network Security Engineer at Etsy. Prior to that, Jan was a Senior System Administrator, Systems Architect and finally Principal Paranoid at Yahoo! Inc. He is also an adjunct professor of Computer Science at Stevens Institute of Technology, where he teaches classes in System Administration and UNIX Programming. With this unique background in both a small scale academic as well as a massive industry-leader corporate enterprise environment, Jan has over 10 years of extensive real-world experience in the practice and teaching of System Administration. He has given presentations on various topics at both national and international venues. At the moment, Jan is working on a course book on System Administration, to be published by Wiley & Sons in 2013. He lives with his wife and two daughters in New York City, where you may find him riding a large skateboard. You may feel free to buy him a beer anytime. * * * 2012-06-06 @ 18:30 - Location: suspenders Networking by Example with the Packet Construction Set, George Neville-Neil * * * You can catch the New York City *BSD User Group at: * our mailing lists at http://lists.nycbug.org * #nycbug on irc.efnet.org * the web site at http://www.nycbug.org * meetings, on the first Wednesday of each month