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General meeting TONIGHT at 7: Infrastructure as Code

by Allan Cecil

Topic: Infrastructure as Code When: Tuesday October 8th, 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM Speaker: Robert Thille Location: Sonic, 2260 Apollo Way Santa Rosa, CA 95407 through metal gate, arrive by 7 and see http://nblug.org/locations for more information Talk description: Ever had a system die and then have to piece together what was running on it? Have need to setup a new system in the cloud, or locally that’s just like (or only similar to) an existing system? You have a need for “Infrastructure as Code”. Robert Thille will give an overview of the various software systems for managing a few or a fleet of systems and focus on using Ansible for managing a system or two for personal use.

4 years, 7 months

SELinux talk

by E Frank Ball

General Meeting Topic: SELinux When: Tuesday September 13th, 2019 07:00 PM to 08:30 PM Speaker: Mike Ely Location: Sonic.net SELinux setenforce enforcing: what SELinux is, why you should use it, and how to make it go.

4 years, 8 months

Tonight's Meeting: Lightning Talks & Hackfest

by E Frank Ball

General Meeting: Lightning Talks & Hackfest When: Tue August 13, 2019 07:00 PM to 08:30 PM Speaker: Everyone Location: Sonic Lightning Talks: Have something you would like to present, but dont have enough material for a full talk? Heres your chance. Talk about anything Linux related. Hackfest: Bring your hardware or software project to get help with it or just to show it off. A mix of free tech support, show-and-tell, and idle chat.

4 years, 9 months

Tue July 16, 7 PM: You Don't Know JACK 2019 edition

by Allan Cecil

Topic: You Don't Know JACK 2019 edition When: Tuesday July 16thth, 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM Speaker: Allan Cecil Location: Sonic, 2260 Apollo Way Santa Rosa, CA 95407 through metal gate, arrive by 7 and see http://nblug.org/locations for more information Description: Yes, this title has been used before but it's probably still true; JACK is something that most people honestly *don't* know but have possibly heard about. Think of JACK as the most powerful audio routing tool you've ever seen. When combined with other tools like Ardour it can be a powerful multitrack recording companion. You can connect MIDI devices in unique ways and make a virtual piano with QSynth. This talk is specifically targeted at users who are unfamiliar with JACK and Digital Audio Workstations but includes some fun advanced topics as I'll be bringing an 18 channel Behringer XR18 sound board and some other fun toys to show off how it works with JACK. This talk will primarily be focused on a live demo with ample Q&A opportunities.

4 years, 10 months

General Meeting: NixOS

by E Frank Ball

General Meeting Topic: NixOS When: Tue June 11, 2019 07:00 PM to 08:30 PM Speaker: William Tracy Location: Sonic.net NixOS is a fully declarative Linux distribution. All system state is precisely described by a handful of configuration files that can be easily backed up or duplicated across machines. The packaging system features fully atomic upgrades and rollbacks, and allows multiple versions of a package to coexist.

4 years, 11 months

Speaker ill at last minute, lightning talks and hackfest tonight instead

by Allan Cecil

Topic: Lightning talks and hackfest When: Tuesday May 14th, 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM Speaker: Everyone Location: Sonic, 2260 Apollo Way Santa Rosa, CA 95407 through metal gate, arrive by 7 and see http://nblug.org/locations for more information Description: A fantastic talk from a local speaker was just on the cusp of being announced when the speaker fell ill. What to do? Why, come hang out and chit chat in the lunch room instead of course - our old standby lightning talks and hackfest returns for a second month in a row out of necessity. Stay tuned for next month's talk announcement which should be solid and thanks for the flexibility. Lightning Talks: Have something you would like to present, but don't have enough material for a full talk? Here's your chance. Talk about anything Linux related. Hackfest: Bring your hardware or software project to get help with it or just to show it off. A mix of free tech support, show-and-tell, and idle chat. Directions to Sonic / Sonic.com / Sonic.net at 2260 Apollo Way, Santa Rosa, CA 95407: By car: From the US-101/CA-12 junction in central Santa Rosa, take CA-12 westbound 1 mile to the second exit, exiting left (south) onto Stony Point Road, proceeding one long block to turn right (west) onto Sebastopol Road. Proceed 1/2 mile to turn left (south) onto Corporate Center Pkwy. Proceed 1/3 mile (4 blocks) to turn left (east) onto Apollo Way. Sonic is on the right. Please note that signs may not make it tonight due to folks being unavailable.

5 years

Meeting at Sonic at 7 tonight: Hackfest and lightning talks

by Allan Cecil

Topic: Hackfest and lightning talks When: Tuesday April 9th, 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM Speaker: Everyone Location: Sonic, 2260 Apollo Way Santa Rosa, CA 95407 through metal gate, arrive by 7 and see http://nblug.org/locations for more information Description: Lightning Talks: Have something you would like to present, but don't have enough material for a full talk? Here's your chance. Talk about anything Linux related. Hackfest: Bring your hardware or software project to get help with it or just to show it off. A mix of free tech support, show-and-tell, and idle chat. Directions to Sonic / Sonic.com / Sonic.net at 2260 Apollo Way, Santa Rosa, CA 95407: By car: From the US-101/CA-12 junction in central Santa Rosa, take CA-12 westbound 1 mile to the second exit, exiting left (south) onto Stony Point Road, proceeding one long block to turn right (west) onto Sebastopol Road. Proceed 1/2 mile to turn left (south) onto Corporate Center Pkwy. Proceed 1/3 mile (4 blocks) to turn left (east) onto Apollo Way. Sonic is on the right. We've practically given up trying to explain how to find the metal gate you have to go through. We're working out better signage and there should be at least one NBLUG sign with an arrow this time.

5 years, 1 month

Meeting at Sonic at 7 Tuesday March 12: Kyle Rankin - The Cloud is Just Another Sun

by Allan Cecil

Topic: The Cloud is Just Another Sun When: Tuesday March 12th, 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM Speaker: Kyle Rankin Location: Sonic, 2260 Apollo Way Santa Rosa, CA 95407 through metal gate, arrive by 7 and see http://nblug.org/locations for more information Description: You could reasonably call cloud services the crowning achievement in the world of Free and Open Source software. Linux and Free and Open Source software killed proprietary UNIXes in bare metal data centers and went on to dominate cloud services to such a point that it has even caused Microsoft to completely change their stance and embrace Linux and Free and Open Source software or risk the future of Azure and arguably the future of their company. Yet in many ways, this dominance has also bred complacence in the community. On top of all of those Linux instances are many proprietary services, abstraction layers and APIs that make cloud services easy to use for developers, but also turn them into the largest-scale proprietary operating system on the planet, where the network is the computer. Left unchecked, this proprietary operating system has the potential to undo the achievements Open Source software has made in the past two decades. The FOSS community has seen this "network is the computer" pattern before with Sun Microsystems and Solaris--a proprietary UNIX operating system that administrators ultimately loaded up with GNU software and free software services before deploying to the data center. Instead of Linux images running your dynamic Rails application or Docker container you ran CGIs in Apache and portable Java apps in Tomcat. Instead of disposable instances you had hot-swappable CPUs and RAM. Instead of S3 you had NFS. Expert users would use well-documented but proprietary CLI tools and libraries to interact with the OS and manage their free software processes. Yet in the end, administrators were subject to the roadmaps, whims, pricing structures, expensive hardware, and overall vendor lock-in from Sun. For all of Sun's talented engineers and sophisticated hardware and software, the freedom and values from Linux and Free and Open Source software combined with low-price commodity hardware ultimately dominated the server room. This keynote is part history lesson and part rallying cry. Proprietary OSes and services aren't dead, they just morphed into the cloud. By remembering why Linux was important in the age of Solaris, we can apply those lessons to cloud services before their proprietary APIs and vendor lock-in risk undoing the freedom, open standards, and overall progress our community has made over the last 20 years. Directions to Sonic / Sonic.com / Sonic.net at 2260 Apollo Way, Santa Rosa, CA 95407: By car: From the US-101/CA-12 junction in central Santa Rosa, take CA-12 westbound 1 mile to the second exit, exiting left (south) onto Stony Point Road, proceeding one long block to turn right (west) onto Sebastopol Road. Proceed 1/2 mile to turn left (south) onto Corporate Center Pkwy. Proceed 1/3 mile (4 blocks) to turn left (east) onto Apollo Way. Sonic is on the right. You're looking for a metal gate at the end of a small-ish parking lot facing the road. Note: We're working out signage but it may not yet be in place for the March meeting so we'll probably have someone loitering out there until 7. If you arrive late you won't be able to get through the gate. If you suspect you may be late please contact one of us by email ahead of time. We'll work out a better system for future meetings.

5 years, 2 months

New meeting place and time, Sonic at 7 Tuesday Feb 12 - Docker: What Is It? by Tom Most

by Allan Cecil

Topic: Docker: What Is It? When: Tuesday February 12th, 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM Speaker: Tom Most Location: Sonic, 2260 Apollo Way Santa Rosa, CA 95407 at west (back) entrance, NBLUG signs by NW corner gate (http://nblug.org/locations) Description: You may have heard of Docker — it's a popular tool for building containers. But what's a container, and why would you want one? We'll survey the landscape, disambiguate the terminology, and discuss some use cases. Join us as we ascend the slope of enlightenment. Directions to Sonic / Sonic.com / Sonic.net at 2260 Apollo Way, Santa Rosa, CA 95407: By car: From the US-101/CA-12 junction in central Santa Rosa, take CA-12 westbound 1 mile to the second exit, exiting left (south) onto Stony Point Road, proceeding one long block to turn right (west) onto Sebastopol Road. Proceed 1/2 mile to turn left (south) onto Corporate Center Pkwy. Proceed 1/3 mile (4 blocks) to turn left (east) onto Apollo Way. Sonic is on the right. Look for NBLUG signage - the entrance is on the West side of the building ("the back"), not the normal office entrance. Enter by the gate at the northwest corner (from the direction of Apollo Way). Google Maps Link: http://tinyurl.com/ya9mz4hh Overhead building map: http://i67.tinypic.com/11brsm0.jpg Static street map: http://oi63.tinypic.com/xbese8.jpg

5 years, 3 months

2018-01-08 General Meeting. NOTE: New Location!

by Robert Patrick Thille

NOTE: New Location and Time. See below. Topic: General discussion of Linux in our new meeting space. When: Tuesday January 8th, **7:00** PM to 8:30PM Location: Sonic.com <http://sonic.com/>: 2260 Apollo Way, Santa Rosa, CA 95407 Look for signs, but entrance is on the West side of the building ("the back"), not the normal office entrance. Google Maps Link: http://tinyurl.com/ya9mz4hh <http://tinyurl.com/ya9mz4hh> Descriptive Images: http://oi63.tinypic.com/xbese8.jpg <http://oi63.tinypic.com/xbese8.jpg> and http://i67.tinypic.com/11brsm0.jpg <http://i67.tinypic.com/11brsm0.jpg> Description: Get familiar with the new meeting space, talk about general Linux topics. -- Robert Thille 1228 Moss Rock Court; Santa Rosa, CA 95404 Cell: 707.217.7544 Other: 707.780.1560 rthille(a)rangat.org IRC/IM:rthille http://www.rangat.org/

5 years, 4 months

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