PLUG Meeting This Thursday

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"

Chris Cowan: Alerting and Rhythm

Description: 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).

Biography: 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.

Ed Nicholson: Eddystone Bluetooth Beacons Intro

Description: 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.

Biography: 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.
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
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.

We go for food/discussion after the meeting, usually to BJs at the nearby mall.

See the meeting information on our web site for more information.

See you there,
Brian Cluff