[NBLUG/Announce] General Meeting: (2006/04/11) Splunk

Hi NBLUG, This month's general meeting will be a bit different. First of all, our presenter Patrick McGovern and Splunk have graciously offered to provide pizza for our meeting. Since we want to give Patrick plenty of time to speak, this means we will be opening up the room early for pizza. The plan is to open up around 6:45 and serve pizza between then and 7:30 and then proceed with the rest of the meeting. Secondly, this month we are holding our annual election for the NBLUG board. We plan to hand out paper ballots along with the raffle tickets we normally hand out before the presentation. We will then collect the ballots before the meeting and announce the results of the election. If you would like to run for one of the positions or nominate someone else, there is still time, simply post to the talk list with the subject line NOMINATE and list the board position and person you would like to nominate in the body. To see the current list of positions go here: http://nblug.org/board/election/2006 Here are the meeting details: Start: 2006/04/11 - 7:30pm (6:45 if you want pizza) End: 2006/04/11 - 9:00pm Location: O'Reilly, Sebastopol, CA http://nblug.org/genloc Description: http://www.splunk.com/ Splunk is search software that indexes and links together ALL the IT data generated by ANY system, application or device making it possible to search and navigate your running IT infrastructure. From one place, make sense of logs, configuration files, message queues, JMX notifications, SNMP and database transactions from any system, application or device: * Gain secure access to all your IT data * Perform ad-hoc investigations * Alert on problems spanning multiple tiers * Report on activities across the data center * Tap into a global community of IT experts The speaker, Patrick McGovern is an expert in building thriving online communities. Prior to joining Splunk, he oversaw SourceForge.net, the world's largest Open Source development website, for five years. Patrick grew the site from a few thousand users to over a million registered Open Source developers and 97,000 Open Source software projects. SourceForge.net is now the de facto repository for Open Source software. Splunk is leveraging his experience to build a vibrant community around key Splunk technologies and services. Patrick is a frequent speaker and panelist at key industry conferences. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of San Francisco. We are always looking for speakers, so if you or anyone you know would like to give a presentation to a group of friendly nerds please send an email to speakers(a)nblug.org . Thank you, and I look forward to seeing you all there at the next meeting. -- Kyle Rankin NBLUG President The North Bay Linux Users Group http://nblug.org IRC: greenfly(a)irc.freenode.net #nblug kyle(a)nblug.org