Meeting: PLUG on Thurs, April 14th

[PLUG Announcements]

Don't put your taxes off till the last second because we've got at least 
2 presentations for this months meeting.  With the upcoming release of 
Ubuntu 16.04LTS on the 21st many people will be using systemd for the 
first time, Todd Millecam will give us a look inside the controversial 
init daemon.

Ed Nicholson will cover the Atom editor as well as the Electron 
framework that it's built on.

Todd Millecam
Title: Don't fear the system demon - systemd and how it can help

Description:
Overview of PID 1 and its history. Covering the new features of systemd. 
 From init to systemd (all you need to know in 1 minute or less). 
Day-to-day usage of systemd. Dependencies and debugging problems with 
systemd. Creating and monitoring a service inside of systemd.

Biography:
Todd has been working in DevOps for 9 years and use Linux every day. 
He's interested in all aspects of computing, from high performance 
compute clusters to home media servers and services.


Ed Nicholson
Title: Atom and Electron Explainer
Description:
Atom is a desktop editor, like Textmate or Sublime, and it is built on 
the Node.js framework called Electron. This is a tour of Atom's features 
and a look at what Electron can do. We have Github to thank for both of 
these tools and I hope you find them as useful as I do.
Biography:
Ed has been involved with Free Software for some time, and is most 
interested in how people, organizations and populations use, create and 
experience information. Recently, he is 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.

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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.

We go for food/discussion after the meeting, usually to BJs at the 
nearby mall.  There is talk of moving to a different location.

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.

See http://phxlinux.org/meetings/14-east-valley-meeting.html for a map 
and other info.

See you there,
Brian Cluff