Greetings all! For those interested in the nitty-gritty, here it is. Read further for the gory deatils. The short of it: WHO: Steve Giles of OpenNMS.org WHHERE: O'Reilly & Associates WHEN: November 14th, 2000 - 7:30PM PST SHARP!! The long of it: It's that time again. The NBLUG General Meeting is almost here. This month we have a very special guest. His name is Steven Giles from OpenNMS.org. OpenNMS.org is a company that is working on an Open Source network management platform. The idea is to eventually end up with an Open Source product similar to HP's OpenView. OpenView allows a network administrator to configure SNMP capable devices, track network statistics and stay informed of network events such as machine crashes, bandwidth problems and security incidents. This event should appeal to a lot of folks - not just those running Linux. The OpenNMS.org software runs on several platforms since it's written in Java. So, if you know folks interested in networking and network management, be sure to pass on this announcement to them. One of NBLUG's promises to the OpenNMS.org folks was that we'd have a good sized crowd. Seeing as how we have a lot of people on this announcement list, that shouldn't be a difficult task. If you passed this on to at least one other person you think may be interested, that would ensure a great turnout. Steve will be flying out from the East Coast just to talk to us. I do believe this is the furthest someone has travelled to meet with us. Directions, as always, are on our website. I look forward to seeing you all there! Remember, be sure to get to the meeting early, as we stop handing out tickets for our door prize drawing once the meeting has started! We also ask that people who have won at the previous meeting to NOT take a ticket so that we can get goodies to as many folks as possible. -Dustin -- Founder & President The North Bay Linux Users' Group http://www.nblug.org/ dustin(a)nblug.org