Ubuntu Utah

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.

February's meeting is being pulled back a week to the 7th, as the 14th is Valentine's Day, and I don't think all the significant others want us to hold a computer meeting on the Day of Love. Also, the 21st is SCaLE, and many have shown an interest in attending, so the 7th it is. Details below:

Presenter: Will Smith (undertakingyou)
Topic: OpenVPN
Date: February 7, 2009
Time: 6pm - 8pm
Location: MEB building at the University of Utah
Map: http://tinyurl.com/2k8px2

James VanTassel (fizz) is discussing NFS and SMB with Ubuntu. He'll talk about setting up servers as well as access them as a client. Should be a good presentation. See you all there!

Presenter: James VanTassel (fizz)
Topic: NFS and Samba
Date: January 10, 2009
Time: 6pm - 8pm
Location: MEB building at the University of Utah
Map: http://tinyurl.com/2k8px2

As with our standard meetings, this one will be held at the University of Utah at 6pm. Aaron Toponce will be discussing the IRC client Irssi, starting with beginning to advanced. This will be a good evening for the "hacker".

Presenter: Aaron Toponce (eightyeight)
Topic: Beginning to advanced Irssi
Date: December 13, 2008
Time: 6pm - 8pm
Location: MEB building at the University of Utah
Map: http://tinyurl.com/2k8px2

As you are probably aware, Ubuntu 8.10 ships tomorrow. So, a release party is on the schedule for our regularly scheduled meeting:

Date: Nov 8th, 2008
Time: 6pm-8pm
Place: Bakery at Gourmandie's
Address: 300 East 250 South, SLC

Reliable wireless is provided, and there is plenty of seating for those who have been there. The food is great and the deserts even more so. They know we are coming, I only ask that we keep the party to a low roar, as to not disturb the rest of the patrons.