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[NBLUG] General Meeting Announcement; The Legalities of Open Source and Linux

by Eric Eisenhart

Well, it's starting to look like September is going to be a busy month for NBLUG... WHAT: NBLUG General Meeting TOPIC: The Legalities of Open Source and Linux; Q&A SPEAKER: Larry Rosen of Open Source Initiative and ROSENLAW.COM LLP WHERE: O'Reilly and Associates, Sebastopol http://nblug.org/directions.cgi http://ora.com/oreilly/seb_directions.html WHEN: Tuesday, September 10th @ 7:30PM This is our normal monthly meeting at the normal scheduled time and place. Our speaker this month is an expert on legal issues relating to open source software and intellectual property; instead of a specific pre-planned formal presentation, we've decided to do a Q&A session, so read up, think of some questions (interesting, hard, you're just curious, whatever...) and bring them to the meeting with you. Or you can email legal-questions(a)nblug.org and we can ask your questions for you. Larry Rosen is the founding partner of ROSENLAW.COM LLP, a law firm that specializes in intellectual property matters for large and small companies and individuals. He is also the general counsel and executive director of Open Source Initiative, an organization that reviews and approves licenses for open source software. His articles on legal issues relating to open source appear monthly in Linux Journal. Before he became an attorney, Larry taught computer programming and managed several computer departments at Stanford University. He then worked in private industry, managing computer and applications development. At one large firm he guided the design, implementation, manufacturing and marketing of successful products for data and voice communications. http://www.opensource.org/ http://www.rosenlaw.com/html/lawrenceerosen.html http://www.linuxjournal.com/search.php?author=LawrenceRosen OTHER UPCOMING NBLUG EVENTS: September 17th: Revolution OS showing at SSU library September 21st: InstallFest; http://nblug.org/installfest/ October 8th: PHP November 11th: TBA -- Eric Eisenhart NBLUG Co-Founder & President Pro Tempore for Life The North Bay Linux Users Group http://nblug.org/ eric(a)nblug.org

22 years, 3 months

[NBLUG] September InstallFest Announcement

by InstallFest Coordinator

Please note that this InstallFest is >>NOT<< at O'Reilly and Associates. It will instead be at Sonoma State University in Rohnert Park. Please see below for information on the exact location and directions. WHEN: Saturday, September 21st, 2001 - 10:30AM - 5:00PM PDT WHERE: Sonoma State Campus, Schulz Info Center, Room 1121 (see below for specifics) WHO: Anyone wanting help in installing Linux onto their computer URL: http://nblug.org/installfest/ WHAT DO I DO: Go to http://www.nblug.org/installfest/ to signup!!!! What is an InstallFest and who can come? Instead of putting all of the usual "what is an InstallFest" info in this and future announcements, we have a link up on our website as to what a NBLUG InstallFest entails and how to participate. If you point your browser of choice to http://www.nblug.org/installfest/, you'll be presented with all the info you ever wanted to know about what goes on at an InstallFest, and how you can get the most out of attending one. Anyone is more than welcome to attend. If you need help or just want to hang out and talk, you are more than welcome to show up. They are always totally free; you might want to bring a few dollars for pizza, however. How do I sign up? We will again be taking signups for this InstallFest, so please be sure to visit that URL if you plan on attending. People who signup and reserve a time slot, are first in line. We've found that by taking signups, we can help more people in a timely fashion. We can also make sure that enough helpers are available for those wanting help. If you need help at the last minute, you can still just show up and we'll probably be able to help you, but it really helps us if you register first; preferably a week or more in advance so we have a chance to beg for more helpers if we need them. What if I want to offer to help? If you're interested in helping out, please contact installfest(a)nblug.org; if you've successfully installed RedHat (or Mandrake or SuSE or Debian or FreeBSD or OpenBSD or YellowDog or ...) before, you can probably help out. We can even use a bit of help from somebody helping people bring their heavy equipment in. Besides, it's fun to come hang out with all the geeks. ;) For helpers, the schedule is a little different: 8:00AM - Breakfast (optional) at an undisclosed (undecided) location. 10:00AM - Room open to helpers for setup 10:30AM - Installs begin (event start) 5:00PM - Installs should be done by now. 5:30PM - Installs must be done by now. 6:00PM - Room closed; alarms go off, doors lock, police show up. We always need helpers, and we can usually use more helpers than we get. It's a good way to "give back" to NBLUG and it's a geeky good time. (If you're interested in helping out but can't do an InstallFest, please consider giving a presentation in December or January or consider taking over as President; contact speakers(a)nblug.org about speaking or president(a)nblug.org about taking over as President) >> Location and Directions << The InstallFest will take place on Sonoma State's campus. We will be using room Schulz 1121, which is in the Schulz Information Center (aka, the Library). Directions and information on parking follow. Here are some maps and directions that SSU makes available on their site: http://www.sonoma.edu/university/maps.html -- Master index of all interesting direction-related info. http://www.sonoma.edu/university/maps/schulzinfoctr.html -- Nice map of the campus with the library (Info Center) highlighted Parking tips from Mike & Dustin: http://www.nblug.org/schulz-library.gif -- Similar to the map above, but Mike has highlighted the parking areas, and also drawn a path to get to the right part of the library from Cotati Ave. Parking on Saturday is free. You may park in either Lot D or Lot J. Note that any lot that is marked as residence parking is OFF LIMITS at all times unless you have a proper parking permit. If you need to park close to the building to bring your equipment in, there is 30 minute parking on the West side of Schulz and on the East side of Schulz there are two 15 minute spots. Once you drop your equipment off, you should move your car to one of the other lots mentioned above. Handicapped parking is available in the reserved lot areas, and on the West side of the library near the library loading zone. Handicapped parking is labeled. Other upcoming NBLUG Events: August 13th Augie Schwer will be talking about Database Administration with MySQL and PostgreSQL September 10th Larry Rosen will talk about Open Source and law September 21st we're having an InstallFest at SSU; details following shortly. October 8th, Mark Linford will talk about PHP. Next InstallFest: probably early January, maybe December. - Eric -- Eric Eisenhart NBLUG Co-Founder & President Pro Tempore for Life The North Bay Linux Users' Group http://nblug.org/ eric(a)nblug.org

22 years, 4 months

[NBLUG] General Meeting Announcement; DB Admin; MySQL; PostgreSQL

by Eric Eisenhart

WHAT: NBLUG General Meeting TOPIC: Database Administration with MySQL and PostgreSQL SPEAKER: Augie Schwer WHERE: O'Reilly and Associates, Sebastopol http://nblug.org/directions.cgi http://ora.com/oreilly/seb_directions.html WHEN: Tuesday, August 13th, 2002 @ 7:30PM This is our normal monthly meeting at the normal scheduled time and place. Augie will be covering both PostgreSQL Database Administration and MySQL Database Administration. So if you've just been dying to set up a database or you have one of these databases and aren't quite sure how to configure it or add users or just don't quite know what to do with it, come to the meeting with your brains ready. We're hoping some of you will be coming with questions ready so that Augie can be properly grilled. MySQL and PostgreSQL are the two leading open source SQL Relational DataBase Management Systems (RDBMS); both run on Linux as well as a variety of other platforms, mostly *nix. They are used to power many websites, including slashdot.org, freshmeat.net, SourceForge.net, quickfacts.census.gov, finance.yahoo.com, mail-abuse.org, and more projects than you can shake a stick at. MySQL is a lightweight database engine that does most of what you want; PostgreSQL is a bit heftier but also provides all of what's in the ANSI SQL92 standard. Both can be used from C, C++, Perl, PHP, Java, ODBC and Python. Augie is a regularly attending member of NBLUG who is currently majoring in Computer Science at Sonoma State University and working for the Sonoma County Water Agency, primarily doing web and database development. OTHER UPCOMING NBLUG EVENTS: September 10th Larry Rosen will talk about Open Source and law September 21st we're having an InstallFest at SSU; details following shortly. October 8th, Mark Linford will talk about PHP. -- Eric Eisenhart NBLUG Co-Founder & President Pro Tempore for Life The North Bay Linux Users' Group http://nblug.org/ eric(a)nblug.org

22 years, 4 months

[Fwd: Announcing a beta release of Red Hat Linux: Limbo]

by John F. Kohler

beta from Red Hat...

22 years, 5 months

[NBLUG] General Meeting Announcement

by Eric Eisenhart

WHAT: NBLUG General Meeting TOPIC: Can the Embedded Linux Consortium help Embedded Linux Dominate the Universe? SPEAKERS: Murry Shohat of the Embedded Linux Consortium Rick Lehrbaum of LinuxDevices.com WHERE: O'Reilly and Associates, Sebastopol WHEN: July 9th, 2002 @ 7:30PM This is our normal monthly meeting at the normal scheduled time and place. Yes, that's less than a week away and some of you just came to a meeting last night. How did LinuxDevices.com and the Embedded Linux Consortium come to be? What plethora of devices have come (and gone) in the embedded Linux world, and what's expected in the future? And embedded Linux's "Holy Grail": a unified technical specification. Murry Shohat helped organized the Embedded Linux Consortium and serves as Executive Director, trade show manager, and janitor. Murry has enjoyed working as both a technology journalist covering Silicon Valley and as a marketing consultant, helping young and mature firms introduce new projects. His background is concentrated in embedded computing Rick Lehrbaum is the founder and executive editor of the LinuxDevices.com "embedded Linux portal," which is widely associated as the foremost resource for Embedded Linux related news and information. Rick has worked in the field of embedded systems since 1979. He co-founded Ampro Computers, founded the PC/104 Consortium, and was instrumental in creating the ELC. OTHER UPCOMING EVENTS: August 13th we're having Augie talk about database administration with PostgresQL and MySQL September 10th Larry Rosen will talk about Open Source and law. October 8th, Mark Linford will talk about PHP (we're likely to have an InstallFest sometime in September, too; once it's figured out we'll post an announcement) -- Eric Eisenhart <eric(a)nblug.org> Co-Founder and President Pro Tempore North Bay Linux Users' Group http://nblug.org/ IRC: freiheit(a)irc.nblug.org AIM: falsch freiheit ICQ: 48217244

22 years, 5 months

[NBLUG] July 2nd meeting full!

by Dustin Mollo

Greetings all, This is just a quick announcement to let you know that the meeting for tomorrow night, July 2nd with Hans Reiser is full. We seem to have had a late rush to RSVP and we've filled up the space available at O'Reilly and Associates. If you did not RSVP, we appologize for this. Hans will be speaking at LUGOD (Linux Users Group of Davis) on July 15. You can find more info about this meeting at their site: http://www.lugod.org/. -Dustin -- Founder & President Emeritus The North Bay Linux Users' Group http://www.nblug.org/ dustin(a)nblug.org

22 years, 5 months

[NBLUG] Meeting reminder - July 2nd, Hans Reiser

by Dustin Mollo

Hello all, This is just a quick reminder that we've got a special meeting lined up for next Tuesday, July 2nd at 7:30PM. Hans Reiser will be speaking about ReiserFS. More information can be found below. If you are planning on attending and have not already registered, please take a moment to visit http://www.nblug.org/rsvp/ to register - we'd greatly appreciate it. An email announcement about our regular July meeting on July 9th should be heading your way shortly. See you all on the 2nd! -Dustin >>> SEE INFORMATION NEAR THE BOTTOM OF THIS MESSAGE ABOUT RSVP'ing <<< WHAT: NBLUG SPECIAL EVENT TOPIC: ReiserFS with special guest Hans Reiser WHERE: O'Reilly and Associates, Sebastopol WHEN: July 2nd, 2002 @ 7:30PM RSVP: http://www.nblug.org/rsvp/ ---- Hi there, everyone! We've got a very special meeting just added to our calendar. We're very lucky and happy to have Hans Reiser, who is the primary architect, the project manager and a programmer for the ReiserFS Project, coming to speak on July 2nd. This meeting falls outside of our normal meeting time (the 2nd is the first Tuesday, rather than the second Tuesday), which means we'll have two meetings in the month of July! For those who may not be completely familiar with ReiserFS, check out http://www.reiserfs.org/. Here is a short synopsis I grabbed from their website: ReiserFS has fast journaling, which means that you don't spend your life waiting for fsck every time your laptop battery dies, or the UPS for your mission critical server gets its batteries disconnected accidentally by the UPS company's service crew, or your kernel was not as ready for prime time as you hoped, or the silly thing decides you mounted it too many times today. ReiserFS is based on fast balanced trees. Balanced trees are more robust in their performance, and are a more sophisticated algorithmic foundation for a filesystem. When we started our project, there was a consensus in the industry that balanced trees were too slow for filesystem usage patterns. We proved that if you just do them right they are better--take a look at the benchmarks. We have fewer worst case performance scenarios than other filesystems and generally better overall performance. If you put 100,000 files in one directory, we think its fine; many other filesystems try to tell you that you are wrong to want to do it. ReiserFS is more space efficient. If you write 100 byte files, we pack many of them into one block. Other filesystems put each of them into their own block. We don't have fixed space allocation for inodes. That saves 6% of your disk. Due to the potential popularity of this meeting, we're asking folks to RSVP to let us know how many are coming. If we get enough folks, we might have to move the meeting to a larger facility (possibly SSU), so please, PLEASE RSVP as soon as you can. You can RSVP at http://www.nblug.org/rsvp/ Thanks...looking forward to seeing you all tonight and next month! -Dustin -- Founder & President The North Bay Linux Users' Group http://www.nblug.org/ dustin(a)nblug.org

22 years, 5 months

[NBLUG] Special meeting - July 2nd

by Dustin Mollo

>>> SEE INFORMATION NEAR THE BOTTOM OF THIS MESSAGE ABOUT RSVP'ing <<< WHAT: NBLUG SPECIAL EVENT TOPIC: ReiserFS with special guest Hans Reiser WHERE: O'Reilly and Associates, Sebastopol WHEN: July 2nd, 2002 @ 7:30PM RSVP: http://www.nblug.org/rsvp/ ---- Hi there, everyone! We've got a very special meeting just added to our calendar. We're very lucky and happy to have Hans Reiser, who is the primary architect, the project manager and a programmer for the ReiserFS Project, coming to speak on July 2nd. This meeting falls outside of our normal meeting time (the 2nd is the first Tuesday, rather than the second Tuesday), which means we'll have two meetings in the month of July! For those who may not be completely familiar with ReiserFS, check out http://www.reiserfs.org/. Here is a short synopsis I grabbed from their website: ReiserFS has fast journaling, which means that you don't spend your life waiting for fsck every time your laptop battery dies, or the UPS for your mission critical server gets its batteries disconnected accidentally by the UPS company's service crew, or your kernel was not as ready for prime time as you hoped, or the silly thing decides you mounted it too many times today. ReiserFS is based on fast balanced trees. Balanced trees are more robust in their performance, and are a more sophisticated algorithmic foundation for a filesystem. When we started our project, there was a consensus in the industry that balanced trees were too slow for filesystem usage patterns. We proved that if you just do them right they are better--take a look at the benchmarks. We have fewer worst case performance scenarios than other filesystems and generally better overall performance. If you put 100,000 files in one directory, we think its fine; many other filesystems try to tell you that you are wrong to want to do it. ReiserFS is more space efficient. If you write 100 byte files, we pack many of them into one block. Other filesystems put each of them into their own block. We don't have fixed space allocation for inodes. That saves 6% of your disk. Due to the potential popularity of this meeting, we're asking folks to RSVP to let us know how many are coming. If we get enough folks, we might have to move the meeting to a larger facility (possibly SSU), so please, PLEASE RSVP as soon as you can. You can RSVP at http://www.nblug.org/rsvp/ Thanks...looking forward to seeing you all tonight and next month! -Dustin -- Founder & President The North Bay Linux Users' Group http://www.nblug.org/ dustin(a)nblug.org

22 years, 6 months

[NBLUG] General Meeting Announcement

by Eric Eisenhart

WHAT: NBLUG General Meeting TOPIC: RedHat vs. Debian (or: Stupid Package Management Tricks) with Brad and Eric. WHERE: O'Reilly and Associates, Sebastopol WHEN: June 11th, 2002 @ 7:30PM ---- The "RedHat vs. Debian" talk originated from some discussions on the talk list comparing the two distributions. We'll be primarily concentrating on differences in the package management (RPM/up2date vs. deb/apt-get) systems with a little bit of other differences between the two. As usual, show up before 7:30 and you'll get a raffle ticket for the free prize drawing. ---- We'll probably also have a brief period of time during the meeting to discuss NBLUG's organization, future topics, etc. -Eric -- Co-Founder and President Pro Tempore North Bay Linux Users' Group http://nblug.org/ eric(a)nblug.org IRC: Freiheit(a)irc.nblug.org

22 years, 6 months

Installfest June 8

by bm

NBLUG Install Fest ------------------ DATE: Saturday June 8, 2002 TIME: 10:00AM - Room open to helpers for setup 10:30AM - Installs begin 3:30PM - Cleanup and windup any installs in process 4:00PM - Room closed PLACE: Sonoma State University URL: www.nblug.org The North Bay Linux User Group (NBLUG) is having an Installfest Saturday June 8 at Sonoma State University. There is no charge for this installfest. Parking is also free (in legal parking places) on Saturday. Information about what the installfest is, what you need to do to participate, how you get there, and campus parking rules can be found on our web site: www.nblug.org. Thank you, -- Bill Marlin

22 years, 6 months

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