PLUG Meeting for Aug 8^th ------------------------------------------------------------------------ We'll have2 presenters this month Dhruva Lokegaonkar: Shell Scripting for everyone and Austin Godber: Stream Processing with Python and Kafka For more info, Meeting time and location see:* http://phxlinux.org/index.php/meetings/14-east-valley-meeting.html** * ** ******* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ** **Dhruva Lokegaonkar: Shell Scripting for everyone * *Description*: An introduction to Shell scripting. - The basics of stringing together various commands - Pipes and Parallelization - Conditionals and Loops - How to use these things to create useful scripts, like creating basic website generators, background switches, keyboard hotkeys, etc. *Biography*: Dhruva is a ASU Computer Science Freshman. He's been using Linux for the past 5 Years. He's been involved with the Indian Linux Users Group Bombay (ILUG-BOM) in their mission to introduce Linux to High School and College students by making it a default in the Indian Curriculum. *Austin Godber: Stream Processing with Python and Kafka * *Description*: A quick intro to Kafka, a distributed log system, and how to interact with it using Python. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 (usually 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