From announce at lists.nycbug.org Sun Nov 4 19:13:21 2012 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements) Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2012 19:13:21 -0500 Subject: [announce] NYC*BUG: After Sandy Message-ID: Greetings. We hope this email finds you in decent shape after superstorm Sandy. The NYC*BUG talk@ list and efnet #nycbug were filled with discussions around the affects, as our data center managed to stay up without missing a beat at NYI. We have a few upcoming events and happenings to announce, but first regarding this week's meeting: * Due to the storm, John Baldwin's meeting is following the path of the Marathon, and will be held next year. In January 2013, that is. Since it's short notice, and so many people are scrambling at this point, we are going to hold the meeting, but we'll keep it an informal discussion. talk@ and IRC were filled with storm-related discussion, and we can pick those topics up in person, and whatever else seems relevant at the moment. One topic to discuss would be EuroBSDCon which was held October 21-22 in Warsaw, if any meeting attendees were there. * The delivery of the BeagleBone boards was understandably delayed. FedEx has them sitting in their facility in East Elmhurst, but we should have them for the meeting on Wednesday. Pre-buyers will be notified of the delievery. Remember to bring $2 for shipping per board ordered. This year's holiday meeting has been posted, and it's sure to tickle anyone not particularly in the holiday mood this year, and looking for a productive outlet: * unHoliday Meeting: Be a Grinch about Your Tech Gripe 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 to twenty minute presentation, with maybe a few slides, 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 unholiday season gripes. From announce at lists.nycbug.org Wed Nov 7 09:33:19 2012 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements) Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2012 09:33:19 -0500 Subject: [announce] NYC*BUG Tonight Message-ID: * Tonight's meeting will be an informal discussion, plus (very likely!) a distribution of the BeagleBones that a number of people ordered. We'll be in the backroom, and a likely theme will be preparing infrastructure for Sandy-like events. * John Baldwin's meeting on SMP will be held in January. * The December unHoliday Meeting: Be a Grinch about Your Tech Gripe 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 to twenty minute presentation, with maybe a few slides, 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 unholiday season gripes. From announce at lists.nycbug.org Tue Nov 27 09:34:39 2012 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements) Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 09:34:39 -0500 Subject: [announce] NYC*BUG unHoliday Meeting, Upcoming Message-ID: * December 5: unHoliday Meeting: Be a Grinch about Your Tech Gripe * January 4: How SMPng Works and Why It Doesn't Work The Way You Think, John Baldwin http://www.nycbug.org/?action=home&id=10327 * ARM and BeagleBones: Upcoming Order and Hackfest *** December 5 2012 @ 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 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. We have a few interesting submissions, and have space for a few more, so contact us as soon as possible. *** A number of people ordered BeagleBone ARM boards at a discounted rate. We *may* make another order. The FreeBSD build is operational although not quite production-ready, while work is continuing from NetBSD, and we know of at least one person (in NYC*BUG) may be starting on an OpenBSD porting. If *interested* in ordering a BeagleBone at the discounted rate, please ping admin at . But to actually get an order in, it will be necessary to pre-pay for the board when a time/date/place is specified. Let's open a discussion about what type of meeting to have on ARM. A basic walk-through with Tim Kientzle's github repository from https://github.com/kientzle/freebsd-beaglebone ? A grab-bag of implementation possibilities by a few different people? The more people we have in NYC*BUG hacking on ARM, the better meeting(s) we can have. From announce at lists.nycbug.org Wed Nov 28 10:05:33 2012 From: announce at lists.nycbug.org (NYC*BUG Announcements) Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 10:05:33 -0500 Subject: [announce] Another Holiday Party Event Message-ID: 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. *NOTE* Our unHoliday Meeting is still taking place on December 5th. This is an additional event with the wider technical community in NYC. There are some sponsors, and we're querying some additional ones, so some beer and hors d'oeuvres will be provided. 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@ Details are in flux, but we are sure this will be a great social and networking event.