[PLUG-announce]Aug2003 meetings

Thu, 21 Aug 2003 03:48:45 -0700 (MST)

moin, moin,

See bottom for summaries and bios.

EAST SIDE MEETING, rescheduled

The August east side meeting at Sequoia was rescheduled to Thursday, the
21st.

When: Thursday, the 21st of August, 19:00
Where: Sequoia Charter School, 1460 S Horne in Mesa
Topic: 10 years of debian
Presenter: der.hans

WEST SIDE MEETING

The August west side meeting will be "Customizing Knoppix" from Austin
Godber. '10 years of debian' was scheduled, but it has been pushed back to
September.

When: Tuesday, the 26th of August, 19:00
Where: Glendale Community College, 6000 W. Olive Ave., Glendale
Topic: Customizing Knoppix
Presenter: Austin Godber

***SPECIAL EVENT***: Introduction to GNU Enterprise

Derek Neighbors, project leader for GNU Enterprise, will give a 6 hour
introduction to the GNU Enterprise Applications Framework and its
components.

http://www.GNUe.org/~dneighbo/gnue/workshop.html

When: Saturday, the 30th of August, 10:00 to 17:00
Where: Elite PC, 1335 S. McClintock in Tempe
Topic: GNU Enterprise
Presenter: Derek Neighbors
Register: derek@gnue.org
Sponsors: AZOTO, http://www.AZOTO.org; Elite PC , http://www.elitepc.com/

September:

The East side meeting at Sequoia will be "Customizing Knoppix" by Austin
Godber. on Thursday, the 11th of September.

The west side meeting at GCC will be "10 years of debian" on Tuesday, the
23rd of September.

There's also the GNU/Linux Stammtisch at Bandersnatch on Tuesday, the 16th.

Planned upcoming topics: MythOS, fwbuilder

All general meetings start at 19:00. The GNU Enterprise workshop starts at
10:00.

There is no charge for general meetings and they are open to the public.

Summary - 10 years of debian
--

  debian turned 10 on 16Aug2003. The presentation will cover a short
  historical perspective on debian and a guide to the current start of the
  art.

  When it was released debian was meant to be maintained as a Free Software
  project. To that end debian has spent 10 years as a distribution built and
  maintained by a worldwide community of volunteers. It started as a small
  group, but now has 1,100 'debian developers' with another 200 people being
  processed.

  debian now has 12,000 packages and is officially available for 11
  different hardware platforms. It is also available for 4 different
  kernels.

  debian is also the base distribution for Knoppix, a Live-on-CD GNU/Linux
  distribution, and Tucson's Open Source Educcation Foundation's Knoppix for
  Kids, a Live-on-CD GNU/Linux distributoin meant for kids, parents, and
  teachers.

Bio
--

  der.hans is a Free Software consultant specializing in training and
  GNU/Linux. He has been using UNIX for 10 years and GNU/Linux for 8. He is
  on the steering committee for PLUG and gives presentations for multiple
  computer organizations in Arizona.

  He is also CEO for AZOTO, http://www.AZOTO.org/, a non-profit dedicated to
  promoting Free Software and Open Standards in the state of Arizona.

  Hans is currently investigating starting a business that offers support
  contracts for Free Software.

  https://www.LuftHans.com/

Summary - Customizing Knoppix
--

  Knoppix is a Debian based Live-on-CD Linux distribution. Just pop it in a
  CD drive, reboot, and you have a fully functional Linux demo, rescue disk,
  backup server or Linux Workstation. Anyone can make a custom Knoppix CD to
  suit their needs. All you need is at least 6GB of hardrive space and about
  1GB total RAM (physical + swap). A Knoppix disc can also be "branded" to
  promote your LUG, company or product. A simple branding would only modify
  the images and HTML on the original Knoppix disc.

  This presentation will address the issues involved in making a Custom
  Knoppix CD as well as branding Knoppix. I will also release some helpful
  scripts that will aid in these tasks. In fact, to date, I have scripts
  that enable me to brand a Knoppix disc just by running three scripts on a
  Knoppix ISO (assuming you have the images prepared).

  Check http://uberhip.com/people/godber/plug/ for updates.

Bio
--

  Austin is a Faculty Research Associate in the Distributed Operating
  Systems group at Arizona State University. He has published work on
  802.11b network security and continues to work in the field among other
  things. He graduated from ASU in 2000 with a BS in Physics where he
  received an award for research in nuclear physics.

  He has used Linux since 1995 (Linux Counter #29452) where he started off
  with Slackware, moved to Redhat and now has largely switched to Debian
  (via Knoppix), but is friend to all distributions, editors, progamming
  languages ... and of course ladies ;).

  Yes, all of the above is true and only slightly exaggerated.

Summary - GNU Enterprise workshop
--

  This exciting six hour workshop will introduce the GNU Enterprise
  Application Framework and its components. It will provide a foundation for
  business application developers to rapidly build cross-platform database
  neutral business applications.

  Existing knowledge of relational database technologies is helpful, but not
  required. No prior programming experience is necessary, but prior software
  development with any language and platform is beneficial.

  There is absolutely no charge to attend this workshop. It is offerred on
  a first come, first server basis. Feedback will strongly be encourages
  as more formal course work and possibly certification classes are in the
  works.

  You can register by emailing derek@gnue.org.

http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/

Maps and more information about meeting locations:

http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/modules.php?op=modload&name=FAQ&file=index&myfaq=yes&id_cat=1&categories=General+Plug+Questions&parent_id=0#3

ciao,

der.hans
-- 
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#  Science is magic explained. - der.hans