PLUG Meeting This Thursday

We have 2 confirmed topics this month and one cancelation: "Alerting and Rhythm" and "DEFCON Report/Discussion"

CANCELLED-"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.

Phil Waclawski: DEFCON Report/Discussion

Biography: Phil Waclawski has been teaching Linux at Mesa Community college for about 15 years. He also teaches Web Development, Javascript, PHP, MySQL and basic Linux internet server set up. He has done summer camps for high school students teaching them the basics of 3D modelling with Blender. He first started in Linux with version 1.0 on Slackware back in 1994, and has been hooked every since.

Various hobbies include leatherwork, blacksmithing, wood work , archery (belongs to the Society for Creative Anachronism) and lately SCUBA. Was happily surprised to find out the Linux based software for his dive computer was written partly by Linus.

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