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<h1 align="center">PLUG Meeting This Thursday<br>
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<p>We have 2 confirmed topics this month. We should have a 3rd
topic before meeting night, and I'll post an update when we know
more, but until then the 2 topics that we currently know about
are: "Alerting and Rhythm" and "Eddystone Bluetooth Beacons Intro"<br>
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<p><b>Chris Cowan: Alerting and Rhythm</b><b><br>
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<p><b>Description</b>: Chris will be running a demo of the new (not
yet released) projects he is working on with Alerting and Rhythm
(a server metrics UI).<b><br>
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<p><b>Biography</b>: Chris Cowan is an engineer for Elastic who
works on Kibana. In a past life, he was a world champion minivan
driver with an affinity for changing diapers and swaddling babies.<br>
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<hr size="2" width="100%"><b>Ed Nicholson: Eddystone Bluetooth
Beacons Intro</b><b><br>
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Description</b>: A brief introduction to and demonstration of BLE
Beacons based on the open (!free) Eddystone protocols from Google.
While many IoT and Beacon vendors provide proprietary management
portals, there is a free (BSD-3) management application in
development in addition to libraries and beacon scanners.<b><br>
<br>
Biography</b>: I have been involved with Free Software for some
time, and am most interested in how people, organizations and
populations use, create and experience information. Recently, I am
enjoying The Prescott National Forest as my "personal office" and
The Valley of The Sun as a home away from home. Personal systems run
either Fedora, CoreOS, Android or OpenBSD.
<hr size="2" width="100%">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.<br>
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<td valign="top"><b>Meeting Location</b>:<br>
Desert Breeze Substation<br>
251 North Desert Breeze Blvd<br>
Chandler, AZ 85226<br>
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The Desert Breeze Substation is on Chandler Blvd and Desert
Breeze Blvd, which is half way between McClintock and
Rural. It is very close<br>
to both the south 202 and 101 freeways. Public
transportation is<br>
available into the late hours.<br>
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<p>We go for food/discussion after the meeting, usually to BJs at
the nearby mall. <br>
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See <a
href="http://phxlinux.org/meetings/14-east-valley-meeting.html">the
meeting information on our web site</a> for more information.<br>
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See you there,<br>
Brian Cluff<br>
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