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Michael Tanenhaus of Mavenspire will be our guest speaker.
He will comparing virtualization environments (SUSE Enterprise Linux vs Virtual Iron vs XenServer, and others) with a focus on what differentiates them: cost, performance, etc.
The July 2008 meeting of Washington DC Linux user group will take place on Wednesday, July 16 at 7pm. No specific topic, just show-and-tell.
Kevin [One Laptop Per Child DC Learning Club, HacDC founding member and other fame] showed a new SugarLabs LiveCD on the projector and Jerry [perpetual Webnewbie] showed my OLPC XO hardware, and tells some project information with weaknesses/gotchas/development opportunities and further rambled non sensically among other divergent group conversations... Anyone willing to do better reporting or have better memory, please email the DCLUG webmaster, as he/I was busy talking/rambling/running between machines/interrupting instead of listening...
[Blatently lifted from Rich's email:]
Celebrate 17 years of Linux, Open Source [and Free Software]! There is a picnic at the Dunn Loring Park in Vienna Virginia on August 9, 2007 from 12-6pm. The park is within walking distance to/from the Dunn Loring Metro stop. Check out http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/parks/maps/dunnloringmap.htm for directions. You can see what Sunnyvale folks are doing at http://www.linuxpicnic.org/twiki/bin/view/Picnix17/WebHome.
We have a shelter with some grills, basketball and tennis courts for physical activities. I'm looking for folks to help with activities. Someone said he would bring a chess set. We have a volleyball set from last year. I don't believe wifi is available.
Can we get some folks to volunteer to bring various food and drink?
Rich
Impromptu discussion with three members who showed up now despite the late notice cancellation and thunderstorm, heard 'where's your presentations'...
Tangential wanderings include transgender issues, recruiting and mental health. Those interested in eclectic technobabble and more meaningful pursuits, plus Kabob, please appear...
The May 2008 meeting of Washington DC Linux user group will take place on Wednesday, May 21 at 7pm.
After a 2-month hiatus, we meet again to discuss Google Android. Google dominates traditional internet search but they also expand into areas previously not accessible to the 'net: e.g. their book scanning project and their 800-GOOG-411 voice-recognition phone directory. To fully reach into those areas, they need to develop a non-computer hardware platform on which all participants can deliver integrated data, voice, media and location services.
Android is what they came up with: it's an Open Source specification that builds upon a Linux embedded OS running on mobile, wireless hardware. On that base, they layer a communications API that should be shared across carriers and service providers. If their plans pan out, it'll enable as much novelty as TCP/IP and HTTP brought to the traditional Internet.
The meeting dates for 2008 are Jun 18, Jul 16, Aug 20, Sep 17, Oct 15, Nov 19, and Dec 17.
Due to other commitments, our usual group organizer and founder, Przemek is not available again this month, but looks like from a cursory parsing of recent DCLUG email traffic that DCLUG people are going on a 'frield trip' to UMLUG University of Maryland LUG to hear Paul Frields...
What: Meet Paul Frields When: Wed Apr 16 6pm Paul Frields, leader of the Fedora project, will talk about his experiences and life at Red Hat. Where: CMSC 1121 NOTE EARLIER time: 6 PM DIFFERENT LOCATION: See http://www.umlug.umd.edu/ and the dclug email list for more information... Addendum: snipped from an email thread on location for GPS or maps.google.com? Paint Branch Dr @38.989330, -76.936992 maps.google.com or umlug.maps.google.com.html Rumored to be a 15 min walk from College Park MetroRail, 'accessible' from UMD Shuttle busses which are said to not require school ID, though not personally tested on this anniversary of the VA Tech shootings and Pope visit, so precautions may be higher and YMMV...
Please see 200804 dir for raw files until webnewbie gets more time to create a page describing it...
Editorial Aside: Oh, and Free the Penguin on Campuses! Tux/Linux/FOSS/Free software came into campus on a wire/cdr/dvd/etc and gets caged, as does wireless access. If towns/libraries/coffee shops/hotels/malls/etc can have free wireless [i.e. downtown Silver Spring MD and Alexandria, VA used to] why can't publicly funded campuses?
Tux.org is currently looking for volunteers (Wiki http://cyberigor.com/fose/) to help make this another success! Even if you can't join us in the booth, be sure to plan a trip to FOSE and drop by to say hello!
Here are webnewbie's pictures of the FOSE2008 event and following strike taking the backdrop 'booster rockets' out of the convention area and to NOVALUG in Reston that next weekend totalling four days of 'work' like volunteering... FOSE2008 dir
Most people at FOSE mentioned when they saw the XO that they wanted to get an XO One Laptop Per Child but the Give One Get One Program has shutdown already [and OLPC America isn't operational yet], so wondering if there is interest in putting together a Give Many Get Many? order of 100 laptops ($30k?), perhaps with a partner church, or LUG in a Least Developed Country and splitting local machines with getting kids with mentors/partners to learn cross culturally between one of the most affluent areas (Washington DC suburbs, though not everyone is enjoying the wealth/'quality of live' equally here) and doing a project...
Anyway, if enough people are interested among the Tux.org LUGS, DCLoco and XO Users Groups OLPCLearningClub.org [http://olpclearningclub.org/meetings/summer-blockbusters-at-gallaudet/], and local communities, etc, maybe we can create a project? Wanted to float it on the lists, but many FOSE attendees might not have subscribed. Email webnewbie on DCLUG contacts page, attend local LUG meetings, ask people you know (including corporate/other nonprofit sponsors? if interested) or join the lists to discuss this please... Otherwise, does M$ borg that project as well?
Note: the XO opinions and ideas expressed here are those of Webnewbie, not necessarily those of the entire tux.org, i.e. this fool only embarasses himself, please...
No formal announcement, though a discussion was ongoing that day on the email list, but webnewbie was typically disconnected to participate for those of you without DCLUG list email...
The February 2008 meeting of Washington DC Linux user group will take place on Wednesday, Feb 20 at 7pm.
We have been using microcomputers that cost several hundred dollars and consume hundred watts. How about a computer that costs ten bucks and runs on a milliwatt? It won't play FPS games yet, but runs at a respectable 70 MHz, and has a lot of interesting peripherals: timers, USB/serial ports, accelerometers, thermometers, A/D converters... The recent generation of powerful yet inexpensive ARM microcontrollers is supported by a familiar GCC toolchain; Przemek Klosowski will talk about how to develop for them on the Linux platform.
The January 2008 meeting of Washington DC Linux user group will take place on Wednesday, Jan 16 at 7pm.
This month, Serge Wroclawski will talk about Asterisk, the Free Software PBX for computer telephony. He will discuss installation and configuration of Asterisk on an NSLU2. This talk will cover basic Asterisk concepts and configuration. Next month Serge will continue the Asterisk talk, demonstrating some of Asterisk's capabilities and giving recipies for some of Asterisk's more powerful features.
The meeting dates for 2008 are Jan 16, Feb 20, Mar 19, Apr 16, May 21, Jun 18, Jul 16, Aug 20, Sep 17, Oct 15, Nov 19, and Dec 17.
As of 12 noon on meeting day 20071219, webnewbie has no announcement to put up and webnewbie is probably going offline for the rest of the day. For dclug newbies, this is not the first time, and we are a late binding group, so check dclug list email, and we usually meet anyway, as like Linux 'it just works'...
Four people showed up, mumbled 'where's your presentation?' and went to Kabob. Happy holidays and may the New Year bring tux.com, tux.net, more robust applications*, and a better dclug home page ;-}
The November 2007 meeting of Washington DC Linux user group will take place on Wednesday, November 21, 2007 at 7pm.
This month we'll continue the series on minicontrollers. Peter May will talk about programming, controlling and debugging PIC microcontrollers. PICs are cheap, capable, ubiquitous and well supported under Linux. There is a ton of hardware and software support available on the Net.
The remaining meeting date for 2007 is Dec 19.
The October 2007 meeting of Washington DC Linux user group will take place on Wednesday, October 17, 2007 at 7pm.
This month we'll look at developing software under Linux for tiny computers. For every PC there are dozens of 4-,8- and 16-bit computers running everything from watches to washing machines. These microcontrollers can use amazingly small quantities of power, and last for years on a single button battery, while controlling the environment around them. Recently, their capabilities and speed have been making amazing strides, while the cost remains around a dollar a piece. With few kilobytes of memory they won't run Linux anytime soon, but it's very convenient and quite inexpensive to play with them in Linux. Przemek Klosowski will demonstrate developing software for TI MSP430 using the $20 TI USB programmer/controller.
The meeting dates for the rest of 2007 are Nov 21 and Dec 19.
The September 2007 meeting of Washington DC Linux user group will take place on Wednesday, September 19, 2007 at 7pm.
This month we will learn about system-level data encryption in Linux: how to set up an entire disk partition or filesystem for transparent, automatic encryption. Several recent high profile data loss incidents resulted in increased interest in reliable methods of protecting data stored on laptops and various external media; the technology to accomplish this in an easy, almost painless way has been slowly creeping into mainstream distributions and is currently available to anyone. Przemek Klosowski will discuss two most important cryptographic mechanisms in Linux: crypto device mapper and ecryptfs file system.
The meeting dates for the rest of 2007 are Oct 17, Nov 21 and Dec 19.
The August 2007 meeting of Washington DC Linux user group will take place on Wednesday, August 15, 2007 at 7pm.
Jay Hart will talk about APCUPSD and running Uninterruptible Power Supplies from Linux. As the UPS gear gets cheaper and cheaper, and more of our infrastructure depends on line power (computers, telephones, television), uninterruptible power transitions from an exotic data center feature to a domestic utility. Add more bateries, more power and some solar cells, and we may start saving the planet.
Slides:
200708/apcupsd.sxi
Partial audio (ironically recorder's battery low):
200708/APCUPSDJay1.mp3
200708/APCUPSDJay2.mp3
Movie clip with some slides:
200708/DSCN6413.MOV
Stills:
200708/DSCN6417.JPG
200708/DSCN6418.JPG
200708/DSCN6419.JPG
The July 2007 meeting of Washington DC Linux user group will take place on Wednesday, July 18, 2007 at 7pm.
This month we'll finally feature Sid Wilroy's talk about running dissimilar OSes in a hypervisor-based virtual machine, specifically Linux in a Solaris containter. It's another interesting implementation flavor of the VM technology, useful to anyone trying to make Linux and Open Solaris coexist, including our new Tux.Org infrastructure.
The meeting dates for the rest of the year 2007 are: Aug 15, Sep 19, Oct 17, Nov 21 and Dec 19.
[Webnewbie posts announcements almost as is, with formatting, i.e. this is not a duplicate webnewbie error but a reschedule from May...]The June 2007 meeting of Washington DC Linux user group will take place on Wednesday, June 20, 2007 at 7pm.
This month we'll have an informal meet-and-talk.
[FYI/dog ate announcement ;-}: late notice for webnewbie]
The May 2007 meeting of Washington DC Linux user group will take place on Wednesday, May 16, 2007 at 7pm.
Sid Wilroy will talk about running dissimilar OSes in a hypervisor-based virtual machine, specifically Linux in a Solaris containter. It's another interesting implementation flavor of the VM technology, useful to anyone trying to make Linux and Open Solaris coexist, including our new Tux.Org infrastructure.
The April 2007 meeting of Washington DC Linux user group will take place on Wednesday, April 18, 2007 at 7pm.
We'll discuss OpenID and other web authentication schemes.
See Meeting Details at the bottom of this page and elsewhere for more info on Where.
The March 2007 meeting of Washington DC Linux user group will take place on Wednesday, March 21, 2007 at 7pm.
Andrew Oliver from buni.org will talk about their Linux groupware software "Meldware Communication Suite". He'll discuss front-end and back-end issues, and do a quick tour of installation and features, and discusses integrating their software with popular ogranizer tools such as webcal and Thunderbird. Under duress, Andrew will break and admit that they even integrate with Outlook.
While slides have not (yet) arrived personal audio was done by webnewbie...
200703/dclug200703announce.mp3 1.2 MB (see DC ACM Kernighan talk details on dclug_events.html page)
200703/dclug200703main.mp3 51 MB
While webnewbie's iRiver personal audio device plays ogg, it records this in mono mp3... Anyone wishing to convert it to ogg/etc can send a link to webnewbie... And there are Easter Eggs in the audio, for those willing to listen/hunt for them without slides... ;-}
The February 2007 meeting of Washington DC Linux user group will take place on Wednesday, February 21, 2007 at 7pm.
Andy Fenselau from the Symantec Data Center Management Group (formerly Veritas) will discuss evolving Linux workloads in the data center and their needs for storage virtualization. Topics will include different architectural approaches, use cases and deployment best practices, performance optimization, dynamic storage tiering, and some sneak previews of Symantec's coming integration of its volume manger, file system, and multipathing technologies into Xen-based workloads.
Raw XML:
http://dclug.tux.org/200702/PC_2006.xml
OpenOffice 2 Calc:
http://dclug.tux.org/200702/PC_2006.oocalc.ods
M$ .xls:
http://dclug.tux.org/200702/PC_2006.oocalc.xls (webnewbie note: if we expect M$ to acknowledge Linux, maybe we do the same? admittedly sacrilege...)
Our ZenOSS presenter requested slides to be hosted on their server...
http://www.zenoss.com/product/resources/Zenoss-DCLUG-Jan-17-2007.pdf
The meeting location is our usual 2025 M street, NW in downtown DC. There will be signs in front of the building. The location is within 3 nearby Metro stops, both on the red (Dupont, Farragut North) and blue/orange (Farragut West, Foggy Bottom [a bit of a hike]) lines.
Parking in the area is available for approximately $5; there's even parking in the building itself. Street parking is free after 6:30pm, but scarce. There's a parking lot at 23rd St. between M and L that is not enforced after 7pm (people have successfully parked there for years---no one we know was ticketed or towed yet, but it could happen).
The DCLUG meeting dates for 2007 are: Feb 21, Mar 21, Apr 18, May 16,
Jun 20, Jul 18, Aug 15, Sep 19, Oct 17, Nov 21 and Dec 19.
Detailed directions can be found here.
