PLUG Meeting for Aug 8th

We'll have 2 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