PLUG Meeting for August 9^th ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **We'll be having 2 presentations this month from Ed Nicholson and der.hans.****** ** *For more info, Meeting time and location see:* ** *http://phxlinux.org/index.php/meetings/14-east-valley-meeting.html** * ** **** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **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. *Meeting Location*: Desert Breeze Substation 251 North Desert Breeze Blvd West Chandler, AZ 85226 The Desert Breeze Substation is on Chandler Blvd and Desert Breeze Blvd, which is half way between McClintock and Rural.  It is very close to both the south 202 and 101 freeways.  Public transportation is available into the late hours. For more information see the meeting information on our web site Contact PLUG: Email: https://phxlinux.org/index.php/email-lists.html IRC: https://phxlinux.org/index.php/chat.html Google+: https://plus.google.com/+PhxlinuxOrg Meetup: http://www.meetup.com/Phoenix-Linux-Users-Group/ 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