PLUG Meeting for August 9th
We'll be having 2
presentations this month from Ed Nicholson and der.hans.
For more info,
Meeting time and location see:
We'll be
having 2 presentations this month from Ed Nicholson and
der.hans.
Ed Nicholson - Technical Debts and Digital Assets
Description
Exploring the analogy of debt and real world financial
obligations, as
a context for a software's or system's life cycle.
Debt and Software are both fundamentally types of Intangible
Assets.
This talk is an exploration of how the much older asset class,
Debt,
may be usefully applied in understanding the relative newcomers,
Software and Systems.
About Ed:
I support Free Software and how people, organizations and
populations use, create and experience information. I enjoy The
Prescott National Forest as my "office" and The Valley of The
Sun as a home away from home. Personal systems run either
Fedora, Project Atomic, Android or OpenBSD.
der.hans - Introduction to /etc/alterntives
Description:
/etc/alternatives allows choosing among many programs to provide
a certain functionality.
For instance, editor can point the locally preferred text
editor. alternatives will also make sure man-pages also match.
Attendees will learn:
What is /etc/alternatives
Why is /etc/alternatives
How to configure /etc/alternatives
How to use helper scripts
About der.hans:
der.hans is a Free Software community veteran, presenter and
author. He is the founder of the Free Software Stammtisch, BoF
organizer for the Southern California Linux Expo (SCaLE) and
chairman of the Phoenix Linux User Group (PLUG).
As a technology and entrepreneurial veteran, roles have included
director of engineering, engineering manager, IS manager, system
administrator, community college instructor, developer and DBA.
He presents regularly at large community-led conferences (SCaLE,
SeaGL, LibrePlanet, LFNW, Tübix) and many local groups.
The meeting will start at 7pm at The Desert Breeze
Substation. People start arriving as early as 6pm, so if you would
like to help setup and/or chat for a while, arrive a little early.
We will go for food to BJs at the Chandler Fashion Center Mall
after the meeting so we can chat with each other comfortably.
Please feel free to join us. Please come even if you aren't
hungry, the food is not mandatory.
See you there,
Brian Cluff