[Acm] Fw: UNIGROUP February 2008 Announcements

[Matt]

Hi all -

FYI on a large UNIX user group here in town.

Matt

>Subject: UNIGROUP February 2008 Announcements
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>UNIGROUP OF NEW YORK - UNIX USERS GROUP - FEBRUARY 2008 ANNOUNCEMENTS
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>Just some quick announcements:
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>1. UNIGROUP'S NEXT MEETING
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>   Note: The next Unigroup general meeting is scheduled for 20-MAR-2008
>   (3rd Thursday).  Meeting topic to be announced.
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>2. NYC OpenSolaris User Group Meeting - Tonight (Wed)
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>   Sorry for the late forward... this meeting is happening TODAY.
>   Be careful about the RSVP deadline and Building Security issues.
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>: Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 18:47:04 -0500
>: From: "Isaac R."
>: Subject: NY OpenSolaris User Group meeting - February'08
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>: Greetings everyone,
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>: The New York OpenSolaris User's Group (NYCOSUG) will be holding it's
>: next monthly meeting on Wednesday, February 20th at the Sun office in
>: midtown, New York City.
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>: We'll get started with refreshments @ 6pm.
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>: The featured topic will be a discussion of Dtrace and its
>: applicability to solving interesting and challenging problems.
>: We are honored to have, as the featured speaker, Brendan Gregg,
>: who is a key OpenSolaris contributor and a core OpenSolaris developer.
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>: Brendan is notably known for creating and delivering the DTrace Toolkit,
>: http://www.brendangregg.com/dtrace.html (among other things), is a
>: co-author of a Dtrace techniques book, and is one of Fishworks
>: developers - http://blogs.sun.com/brendan/)
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>: Please take a look at the agenda, venue, and please don't forget to
>: click & RSVP ...
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>: Do it all at:   http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/nycosug/events/6/
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>: ...We'll have some fun with raffles, too!
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>: Looking forward to a fun event. Hope you can make it!
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>: /If you're not a regular participant (or a subscriber) on our NYCOSUG
>: mailing list,
>: you may not have seen a copy of this announcement going out earlier.
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>: To be kept up-to-date in the future, please consider subscribing at:
>: http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/ug-nycosug
>: /
>: Regards,
>: Isaac
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>3. NYC PowerAIX/Linux User Group Meeting - Tomorrow (Thu)
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>   Sorry for the late forward... this meeting is happening TOMORROW.
>   Unigroup members were officially invited to participate!
>   Be careful about the RSVP deadline and Building Security issues.
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>: From: NY Metro POWER-AIX/Linux Users Group
>: Date: Feb 20, 2008 6:53 AM
>: Subject: Final reminder/speaker bios/revised agenda
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>: This will be our final reminder. NY Metro POWER-AIX/Linux meets again, this
>: Thursday, Feb 21st. We now have 24 people officially registered, but we were
>: going to order food for 40. I will ask you again, please if you intend to
>: come, it's really important that you register today, because building
>: security requires me to provide a list by COB today.
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>: To reiterate, Infinity Systems, our new corporate sponsor is providing as a
>: grand prize, an iPod, as well as real dinner food!!!!! They'll be lots of
>: other giveaways as well, including IBM polo shirts, BP tea shirts, different
>: kinds of pens, magazines, etc, etc...... Tell all your friends and
>: colleagues!
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>: Furthermore, we are going to have 2 new technical speakers, (both from IBM
>: engineering) presenting (Linux and AIX). Their bios are below
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>: Bios:
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>: Ron Gordon
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>: Ron Gordon has worked for IBM for over 40 years in various positions,
>: including development. Ron has been working with Linux and Linux on POWER
>: within the System p brand for 5 years and has a background in web serving,
>: office systems, database, mobile computing, AIX, and Virtualization. Ron
>: lives in Montana with his wife.
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>: Grover Neuman
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>: Grover Neuman has been with IBM for over 30 years, primarily in software
>: development. He has spent most of the last twenty years on file system
>: development and has worked on AIX since its earliest days. Grover and his
>: family live in Austin, Texas.
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>: Meeting Details below:
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>: Date: Feb 21st, 2008
>: Meeting time: 6:00 PM
>: Meeting location: IBM Headquarters NYC -- 590 Madison Ave.
>:   conference room 1219
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>: Meeting topics: AIX JFS2 internals, Linux on Power (LoP) & PowerVM Lx86,
>:   and PowerVM.
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>: Summary:
>: A technical discussion of JFS2 and Journaled filesystems. Deep Dive into
>: Linux on Power (LoP) and PowerVM Lx86. Brief discussion of PowerVM - the
>: new face of Advanced Power Virtualization.
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>: Agenda:Approximate times
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>: 1. Food/refreshments ~ 6:00 pm to 6:15 pm
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>: 2. Introduction of NY Metro POWER-AIX/Linux group; goals, etc ~ 6:15 pm to
>: 6:30 pm
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>: 3. AIX Journal Filesystem (JFS2) Technical Review/deep-dive 6:30 pm ~V 7:00
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>: 4. PowerVM - The new face of Advanced Power Virtualization. What it is
>: exactly and a description of its offerings ~ 7:00 pm - 7:15 pm
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>: 5. Deep Dive into Linux (Red Hat and SUSE) on Power (LoP) and PowerVM Lx86
>: (System p AVE) ~ 7:15 pm to 8:30 pm
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>: 6. Q/A 8:30 ~V 8:45 pm - ~E~E
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>: 7. Grand Prize Raffle (iPod)!!!!
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>NY Metro POWER-AIX/Linux Group
>  http://www.poweraix.org/groups?groupid=19
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>And... Watch out for the Total Lunar Eclipse happening tonight!
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>-Rob Weiner
> Unigroup Executive Director
> unilist (-a_t-) unigroup.org
> http://www.unigroup.org
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