From announce at lists.nycbug.org  Tue Mar  6 11:42:28 2012
From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements)
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2012 11:42:28 -0500
Subject: [announce] NYC*BUG Wednesday: Tcl
Message-ID: <4F563E74.3080603@ceetonetechnology.com>

Additionally, the BSDCan schedule has been posted!  http://www.bsdcan.org.

March 07, 2012

Tcl

7 PM, Suspenders Restaurant backroom
111 Broadway in Manhattan

(note later meeting time!)


Tcl is a language that is well handy to know and a very good choice for 
a system admin to know. It has the following things going for it:

*  Simple to learn and very stable over time
*  embedded in Cisco IOS
*  expect, all of your command line is belonging to me
*  start kits, or how to deploy fat multi-platform binaries
*  helpful community
*  Code is data so you can do very powerful things
*  Unicode since 8.0, long time ago
*  TK
*  you can create your own control structures
*  very consistent language things work pretty much the same everywhere
*  Did I mention the event loop?

Speaker Biography

Marc Spitzer has been working as a system administrator on Unix systems 
for long enough that he does not want to think about it. He likes things 
that quietly work allowing him to do other stuff, FreeBSD comes to mind 
here. He is also rather fond of good bourbon and rye whiskey. Since he 
does not like self promotion, he shall stop now.


From announce at lists.nycbug.org  Wed Mar 28 09:04:02 2012
From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements)
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 09:04:02 -0400
Subject: [announce] Upcoming NYC*BUG Meetings
Message-ID: <4F730C42.3070308@ceetonetechnology.com>

NYC*BUG web site is located at http://www.nycbug.org
NYC*BUG Mailing Lists are located at http://lists.nycbug.org
NYC*BUG on IRC: irc.efnet.org, #nycbug

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Wednesday, April 4

The journey from user to contributor, Eitan Adler

Suspenders
http://www.nycbug.org/?action=locations#suspenders

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.

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Wednesday, May 5

The Useless Use of *, Jan Schaumann

Suspenders
http://www.nycbug.org/?action=locations#suspenders

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Registration is open for BSDCan (.org).

The conference is less than 2 months away, so register soon.

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LOPSA PICC

Registration is open for the 2012 LOPSA PICC conference, May 11-12, 2012 
at the Hyatt Regency hotel in New Brunswick, NJ.  Sysadmins and IT 
workers from Maine to Virginia are expected to attend the most talked 
about, community-driven, sysadmin conference of 2012!  We're excited to 
announce our slate of speakers and world-class tutorials for 2012. 
Complete details at http://picconf.org.