From announce at lists.nycbug.org Tue Dec 4 10:46:02 2012 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements) Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2012 10:46:02 -0500 Subject: [announce] NYC*BUG Upcoming Events Message-ID: * December 5: the NYC*BUG unHoliday Party * December 11: Joint Holiday Party with NYLUG, LispNYC, PuppetNYC and LOPSA-NY * January 9: John Baldwin on SMPng * * * December 5 @ 18:45 - Location: Suspenders unHoliday Meeting: Be a Grinch about Your Tech Gripe, Various For the past several years, our holiday party has been filled with the notion of giving back to the community: your tips, your hacks, your thoughts. So many people have proved selfless and assisted others that we feel it's time for a change. Let's be honest, we need a time to vent, and there's no reason the holiday season should be immune. What are your gripes in technology? What do you hate dealing with at your job? Is it some high- (or low-) level scripting language? Some clunky and un-Unix-like application? Dealing with an under-documented and buggy non-BSD operating system? Well, here's your chance to let others know how you feel. Prepare a ten minute or so presentation, with maybe a slide or two, and make your case. Be coherent and to-the-point, and maybe others will jump aboard with your argument. Ping admin@ with your idea, and we look forward to having a meeting which let's us vent out very unholiday season gripes. * * * December 11 @ 19:00 - Location: other Another Holiday Party, NYC*BUG has joined with LispNYC, NY Haskell, the New York Linux User Group (NYLUG), PuppetNYC and LOPSA-NY, plus a number of other groups, to hold a holiday party on Tuesday, December 11, 2012 from 7:00 PM until it's over. It will be at the House of Brews (http://www.houseofbrewsny.com/) at 302 W 51st street in the upstairs room. *NOTE* Our unHoliday Meeting is still taking place on December 5th. This is an additional event with the wider technical community in NYC. Some beer and hors d'oeuvres will be provided, as a number of firms have stepped up to sponsor the event. Various registrations via Meetup are posted: http://www.meetup.com/LispNYC/events/67586702/ http://www.meetup.com/nylug-meetings/events/91284032/ http://www.meetup.com/puppetnyc-meetings/events/91818352/ http://www.meetup.com/NY-Haskell/events/92090222/ NYC*BUG doesn't have an RSVP system up for the event, so pick one of the above sites. RSVPs will be given priority if capacity is met, which is possible. If you are interested in sponsoring, or have a lead for one, please ping us offline at admin@ * * * Note that the January meeting will NOT be held on the first Wednesday of the month, but rather the second, on January 9th. From announce at lists.nycbug.org Wed Dec 5 11:32:48 2012 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements) Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2012 11:32:48 -0500 Subject: [announce] NYC*BUG Tonight: The unHoliday Meeting Message-ID: http://www.nycbug.org/?action=home&id=10329 December 5 @ 18:45 - Location: Suspenders http://www.nycbug.org/?action=locations#suspenders * * * unHoliday Meeting: Be a Grinch about Your Tech Gripe, Various For the past several years, our holiday party has been filled with the notion of giving back to the community: your tips, your hacks, your thoughts. So many people have proved selfless and assisted others that we feel it's time for a change. Let's be honest, we need a time to vent, and there's no reason the holiday season should be immune. What are your gripes in technology? What do you hate dealing with at your job? Is it some high- (or low-) level scripting language? Some clunky and un-Unix-like application? Dealing with an underdocumented and buggy non-BSD operating system? Well, here's your chance to let others know how you feel. Prepare a ten minute or so presentation, with maybe a slide or two, and make your case. Be coherent and to-the-point, and maybe others will jump aboard with your argument. We may have space for one more gripe session, so ping admin@ ASAP to be included. From announce at lists.nycbug.org Tue Dec 11 10:21:02 2012 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements) Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 10:21:02 -0500 Subject: [announce] NYC*BUG Party Tonight & BSDCan 2013 Message-ID: User Group-Wide Holiday Party Tonight, House of Brews http://www.nycbug.org/?action=home&id=10331 Another Holiday Party, NYC*BUG has joined with LispNYC, NY Haskell, the New York Linux User Group (NYLUG), PuppetNYC and LOPSA-NY to hold a holiday party on Tuesday, December 11, 2012 from 7:00 PM until it's over. It will be at the House of Brews (http://www.houseofbrewsny.com/) at 302 W 51st street in the upstairs room. There will be complementary beer, wine and hors d'oeuvres for a least a few hours. See the NYCBUG.org page for RSVP sites, which may be required for entry. *** BSDCan 2013 will be held 17-18 May, 2013 in Ottawa at the University of Ottawa. It will be preceded by two days of tutorials on 15-16 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. More information at BSDCan.org