Meeting 2008-09-13

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[edit] Saturday September 13th, 2008

We're currently planning a meeting for this day, from 12:00pm to 4:00pm.

[edit] Venue Information

This month's venue is sponsored by Speakeasy! Thank you for supporting the local linux community!

Some confusion regarding this meeting, last update at 4:30 on Wednesday is the meeting will be taking place at Speakeasy.

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This is a secured building, so let someone in the lobby know that you're looking for the GSLUG meeting and they will show you up.

  • Our contact at Speakeasy this month is Lori Barry - 206.265.3360. Call if you're locked out or would like to use the bike storage room.

[edit] Directions by bus

Any bus that goes to downtown Seattle will get you well within walking distance. Use Metro's Trip Planner or Google Transit to find your closest bus and departure time.

[edit] Directions by car

If you absolutely must drive, don't - take the bus. If you still absolutely must drive, here is driving directions and parking information.

Traveling South on I-5

Take the Union Street exit (Union is a one-way street). Follow Union Street to 2nd Avenue and take a LEFT. Continue on 2nd Avenue to Madison and take a RIGHT. At Western Avenue turn RIGHT. We are located at 1201 Western Avenue between Seneca and University.

Traveling North on I-5

Take the Madison Street exit and turn LEFT onto Madison St. and follow it down to Western Avenue. Turn RIGHT and follow to 1201 Western Avenue. We are located between Seneca and University.

Traveling West on I-90

Take the 1-5 North exit and follow the directions "Traveling North on I-5."

Traveling West on Highway 520

Take the I-5 South exit and follow the directions "Traveling South on I-5."


Parking

There are paid lots in the immediate area as well as the Harbor Steps parking garage. If you are parking in the Harbor Steps garage, continue on Madison to Western Avenue and turn RIGHT onto Western. Continue for 2 ½ blocks to the parking garage, located between Seneca and University Streets.


Motorcycle Parking

There is a labeled Speakeasy space for motorcycle parking at the rear of the building, the side that faces the viaduct, that is free.

[edit] Speakers & Schedule

[edit] 12:00 PM: Arrive, get settled, food and mingling

Silicon Mechanics *IS* sponsoring pizza this month. Please RSVP below if you'd like to eat!

[edit] 5-minute Lighting Talks

lightning talks are usually around 5 minutes each. There will be lots of time later in the day for everyone to break into groups and learn more about each topic.

If you're interested in presenting, add yourself below. If you'd like more than 5 minutes, just send a quick email off to Eric Butler <eric@extremeboredom.net>. The goal of having short talks is to encourage everyone to participate, but if you'd like to go more in-depth on a topic, we'd love to have you as well.

[edit] 12:30 PM: Adapting Debian to a very small machine - Duncan Smith

I recently installed Debian Etch on a 486 with one gigabyte of disk storage and 40 megabytes of RAM. I'll go through some of the steps that can be taken to slim down a desktop distribution without losing much functionality.

[edit] 12:40 PM: Ubuntu Desktop Training course, Chapter 2: Exploring the Ubuntu Desktop - Jack Mudge

I will present the second chapter of the Ubuntu Desktop Training course. A PDF version of chapter 2 will be provided online or in printed form.

[edit] 12:45 PM: Life within screen - Robert Long

[edit] 12:50 PM: OSS virtualization infrastructure with uvb, kvm and libvirt - Bryan McLellan

Tying together tools to build infrastructure quickly using ubuntu-vm-builder, kvm and libvirt

[edit] 1:00 PM: Provisioning machines with Cobbler - Garrett Honeycutt

Building on last meeting's kickstart talk to demonstrate an easy to use and scalable installation system. If you install Linux on multiple machines with a CD or a golden image, you need this.

[edit] 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM: Workshop, etc Freeform chat

The rest of the day will be open for people to chat (sorry no raffle/quiz this time), learn more about what they heard in the lighting talks, and get hands-on support with your hardware. Got a busted up Windows install on your computer that you need help getting rid of? Bring it along!

[edit] Who's Coming? - PLEASE RSVP HERE, ESPECIALLY IF YOU WANT FOOD

Planning to attend? Please add your name below (Meat/Veg pref too!):

  1. Robert Long / Veg
  2. Brian Luft / Meat
  3. Duncan Smith / Meat & Cheese
  4. Aaron Appelbaum / Veg
  5. Greg Bartell / Meatatarian
  6. Bryan McLellan / Veg
  7. William Hale / Meat
  8. Jack Mudge / Omni
  9. Josh Benner / Meat
  10. Matthew Dunn / Meat
  11. Rob Ponsler / Cheese
  12. Javantea / Veg
  13. Chris Allen / Omni
  14. Paul Bartell / Meat
  15. Bob Woodbury / Meat
  16. Brian Bassett / Meat
  17. Ian Gallagher / Vegetarianistically inclined
  18. Tom Stec / Meat
  19. Ryan Corder / see Ian Gallagher
  20. Garrett Honeycutt
  21. Marc Provitt
  22. Chris Ragazzi
  23. Nate Sullivan
  24. harvey / selective omnivore
  25. Eric Butler / Vegi
  26. dust / veg
  27. Andrew Gray / omni
  28. Eric Heydrick / Meat
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