Ubuntu Utah

I'm happy to announce that we have a topic and a speaker for our February meeting. Trevor Sharpe (Heartsbane) will be presenting on advancements in virtualization technology. This should be an interesting topic as virtualization continues to become more and more mainstream.

Location Details:

February 13th, 2010 : 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: MEB building at the University of Utah
Room: 2555

Map: http://tinyurl.com/2k8px2

See you there!

UPDATE: Clint is not going to be available to present so the topic will just be on GNOME Shell.

Pending any violent feedback from the rest of the team, it has been proposed that we have two presenters this month.

The first will be by Clint Savage (herlo) on the topic of the SCM tool, Git. If you haven't used Git yet, you should check out this presentation and get with the program!

The Ubuntu Utah Loco will be having a release party for Ubuntu 9.10 this weekend. We will have Ubuntu CDs for people who need them and lots of knowledgeable people to help you with any Ubuntu questions you have. Please join us for good friends, good fun, and yummy lamb quesadillas.

I would also like to invite our OpenSUSE and Fedora friends in the area to celebrate their upcoming releases with us.

Date & Time:
Saturday November 7, 2009 – 6:00 PM till 9:00 PM (MST)
Location:
MacCool’s Public House
Salt Lake City – Foothill Village
1400 South Foothill Blvd, #166

Date: September 12, 2009
Time: 6pm - 8pm
Location: MEB building at the University of Utah
Room: 2555
Map: http://tinyurl.com/2k8px2

I almost forgot to announce the July meeting. This came up quick. Didn't we have our last meeting last week? Seems like it.

Anyway, Trevor Sharpe (Heartsbane) will be presenting on basic Linux networking. He'll be covering DHCP, routing and iptables. Same bat time, same bat channel:

Presenter: Trevor Sharpe
Topic: Basic Linux Networking
Date: July 11, 2009
Time: 6pm - 8pm
Location: MEB building at the University of Utah
Room: 2555
Map: http://tinyurl.com/2k8px2

So, unless I missed it, I didn't see much in the way of replies on what we wanted to have for our meeting topic. As such, I figure rather than rush to find someone to present and find a topic, well just have a modest Q&A session. If you have questions about getting something installed, getting something working, configuring a piece of software, or what have you, bring it to the meeting, and we'll try to answer it.

Same bat time, same bat channel.

Presenter: None
Topic: Q&A Session
Date: June 13, 2009
Time: 6pm - 8pm
Location: MEB building at the University of Utah
Room: 2555

This Saturday is our meeting. I'm presenting on partitions, filesystems, LVM and RAID. I have a lot of content prepared, and expect the meeting to last about 2 hours. So, I'm starting right at 6pm, so I can finish by 8. The focus of my topic will by system administration, rather than for new beginners to the distribution, but it will be benificial for them as well learn how to properly work with their filesystems.

So, those wishing to attend, here are the release party details for
today's release:

Date: April 25, 2009
Time: 6pm - when we leave, or close, whichever is sooner
Location: Gourmandise the Bakery, 250 S 300 E, SLC, UT
Map: http://preview.tinyurl.com/ctlvg6

Again, I won't have pressed CDs for a couple more weeks. Hopefully, I'll have them in time for the May meeting on the 9th.

See you there!

Mike Basinger will be presenting on Conky for this meeting. Conky is a lightweight system monitor used for monitory CPU usagen, network bandwidth, memeory consumption, and much more. It's highly customizable and themeable. It's the "hackers" system monitor. Here are the details of the meeting:

Presenter: Mike Basigner (Technoviking)
Topic: Conky: A lightweight system monitor
Date: April 11, 2009
Time: 6pm - 8pm
Location: MEB building at the University of Utah
Room: 2555
Map: http://tinyurl.com/2k8px2

Presenter: Andrew Shafer (andrewshafer)
Topic: Practical Puppet: Systems building systems
Date: March 14, 2009
Time: 6pm - 8pm
Location: MEB building at the University of Utah
Map: http://tinyurl.com/2k8px2

For those who don't know, Andrew Shafer works full time on the Open Source system management framework, Puppet. He brings with him a background in computational science, embedded Linux development, web frameworks and Agile methods. Andrew has been an Open Source user and advocate since the late 90s. He was a speaker at the 2008 Utah Open Source Conference.