[PLUG-announce] Apr Events

Mon Apr 3 17:57:40 MST 2006

moin moin,

This month we have presentations on Firefox and XUL as well as GNU/Linux
on the enterprise desktop at Google.

Next month we've already lined up a report on the Desktop Linux Summit
taking place this month and a presentation on fighting spam with
greylisting.

When: Thursday, 06Apr2006, 19:00, PLUG Devel
Where: Adtron Corporation, 4415 E. Cotton Center Blvd, Ste. 100, Tempe
Speaker: Jonathon Arney, Shamrock Foods
Topic: An introduction to XPCOM, XUL, and SVG under Firefox
Network: wired and wireless
Recurring: the first Thursday of every month

Details: An introduction to XPCOM, XUL, and SVG under Firefox

Speaker Bio: Jonathan Arney has worked as a software engineer for 12 years
and been a Linux user/programmer for 10. Jon's software development
experience has been mainly C and C++ working with distribution and
logistics systems. Jon now works for Shamrock Foods leading the Linux
software development team.

When: Thursday, 13Apr2006, 19:00, PLUG East Side
Where: Sequoia Charter School, 1460 S Horne, Room 804, Mesa
Speaker: Vince Busam, Google
Topic: Linux Desktop in the Enterprise
Network: wired and wireless
Recurring: the second Thursday of every month

Details: Linux Desktop in the Enterprise - This will cover aspects of
Google's internal enterprise environment. This encompasses rolling out and
maintaining thousands of Desktop Linux machines, the changes and bug fixes
necessary in our environment, how Google works with the Linux community
to incorporate our fixes upstream, and a look at some of the remaining
unsolved problems hurting Linux installations.

Speaker Bio: Vince Busam is a Systems Engineer at Google, where he
works on deploying and improving Linux on the enterprise desktop. He
previously worked for Los Angeles based PhatNoise developing embedded
Linux applications for in-car multimedia entertainment systems.  Before
that, he founded Los Angeles based Scour, a leading multimedia search
engine.

Notes: Vince is based out of our Santa Monica, CA office. PLUG thanks
Google for flying Vince in specifically for the presentation and thanks
Pat Eugenis at Google for arranging the presentation. PLUG also thanks
Google for the many giveaways Google is supplying for the meeting: a lava
lamp; 2 USB drives (thumb drives); 2 travel mugs; 2 tins of Google Goo; 2
Google caps; 2 license plate frames.

When: Tuesday, 18Apr2006, 19:00, GNU/Linux Stammtisch
Where: Plaid Eatery, 1044 S Terrace Road, Tempe
Network: wireless
Recurring: the third Tuesday of every month

Details: The GNU/Linux Stammtisch is a social environment for Linux, *BSD
and Free Software enthusiasts.

When: Saturday, 29Apr2006, 10:00 to 16:00, InstallFest
Where: University of Advancing Technology (UAT), 2625 West Baseline Rd,
Tempe
Network: wired
Recurring: the LAST Saturday of every month

Details: Bring your computer system down to have PLUG voluteers install
a full working Linux distribution. We can also help solve configuration
problems or other issues. Please RSVP to InstallFest at PLUG.phoenix.az.us
describing what you would like done prior to coming. That way we can be
sure to have people with the right knowledge and experience there to help.

Announcements:

PLUG is happy to announce a new mailing list directed at Free Software
application use on any operating system. The mailing list was inspired by
a request from the East Valley Associations' LUG, EVALUG, for something
more desktop oriented. Please see the PLUG web site to sign up for any of
our mailing lists.

May:

When: Thursday, 11May2006, 19:00, PLUG East Side
Where: Sequoia Charter School, 1460 S Horne, Room 804, Mesa
Speaker: Scott Ruecker
Topic: Desktop Linux Summit report
Speaker: Darrin Chandler
Topic: Fighting SPAM using greylisting with OpenBSD's spamd
Network: wired and wireless
Recurring: the second Thursday of every month

Details: The 4th Annual Desktop Linux Summit is on the 24th and 25th of
April in San Diego. Scott will be attending and will give PLUG a report
about what he saw at DLS 2006.

Speaker Bio: Scott Ruecker aka "sharkscott" lives in Phoenix, Arizona. Is
a Special Education Major at Arizona State University and claims to have
taken way too many history classes. He works as a sales rep for a large
OEM, tries to pronounce "Linux" correctly and plays Drums in a rock-n-roll
band every Saturday night.

First exposed to OSS when he heard about "This Linux Thing" in 2002.
Got his start on the Fedora Cores, Ku-Ubuntu and then to SuSE. Has
used SuSE since 9.1 and thinks he likes it.

Details: Fighting spam using greylisting with OpenBSD's spamd, plus other
assorted tools. It's worked wonders for Darrin's current employer's email
and his personal domains. Greylisting fights spam by initially giving a
temporary failure message to unknown mail servers, causing them to queue
for later delivery. Most spammers don't retry, so greylisting effectively
blocks spam at the mail server.

Speaker Bio: Darrin Chandler has been a computer professional for 20
years in the roles of software developer and system administrator. Darrin
has been using Linux since 1996, and has administered Linux, FreeBSD and
OpenBSD systems for small company servers and ISPs.

ciao,

der.hans
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