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Contents 1 Saturday September 11, 2010 1.1 Venue Information 1.2 Topic 1.3 Schedule 1.3.1 12:00 PM: Arrive, setup tables/chairs get settled, mingling 1.3.2 12:15 PM: Welcome & announcements 1.3.3 12:30 PM: Talks 1.3.3.1 Talk Title - Your Name (~5 minutes) 1.3.3.2 Linux-HA - Mark Foster (~20 minutes) 1.3.3.3 Intro to Cron - William Hale (~5 minutes) 1.3.4 ~2:00 PM Break 1.3.4.1 Talk Title - Your Name (~10 minutes) 1.3.5 ~2:30 PM GSLUG Trivia & Door prizes 1.3.6 ~2:45 PM - 4:00 PM: Workshops, chatting etc. 1.4 Who's Coming? - PLEASE RSVP HERE 1.5 Next month's topic 1.6 Post meeting

Saturday September 11, 2010

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

Venue Information

Google in Fremont

Topic

This months topic is Servers. Talks will be focused on server hardware, applications, LAMP and such.

Schedule

12:00 PM: Arrive, setup tables/chairs get settled, mingling

12:15 PM: Welcome & announcements

• Venue details (where is the bathroom?)
• Introductions
• Announcements such as (for example) upcoming events, jobs, new distro releases
  • Amazon Technology Open House -- learn about elastic compute cloud and other cloud computing technologies
    • September 28, 2010
    • Van Vorst Building
    • 426 Terry Avenue North
    • Seattle, WA 98109
• Upcoming events!?

12:30 PM: Talks

The first hour (give-or-take) is reserved for talks & presentations of varying length. GSLUG encourages open sharing and speakers of all skill levels are encouraged to share, discuss, learn and grow. Tell us about a project you're involved in, a nasty problem solved, etc.

lightning talks go about 5 minutes each plus time for questions. Regular talks are usually 15 minutes +. Please keep the length under 30 minutes without prior consent from the organizers.

If you're interested in presenting, copy/paste the next two lines to add yourself and change the details.

Talk Title - Your Name (~5 minutes)

Short description of what your talk is about.

Linux-HA - Mark Foster (~20 minutes)

I will show how to setup highly-available (HA) services in Linux, using drbd, heartbeat and keepalived.

Intro to Cron - William Hale (~5 minutes)

I will be going over some basic uses of Cron.

~2:00 PM Break

Talk Title - Your Name (~10 minutes)

Short description of what your talk is about.

~2:30 PM GSLUG Trivia & Door prizes

(Tentative)...Trivia questions & Prizes

~2:45 PM - 4:00 PM: Workshops, chatting etc.

The rest of the meeting is open format for the following types of activities.

• Chatting
• Learning more about what you heard in the talks
• Working together on projects
• Getting support... for instance, you want to install Linux on your computer and need some assistance
• Fixing bugs - see Bug Jam & participate in the triaging and fixing bugs.
• Swap stuff - bring your surplus gear, back-issues or books read and swap/trade with others
• PGP key-signing
• Google Wave: Anyone have invites to share for this service? Anyone want invites? Set that up here.

Who's Coming? - PLEASE RSVP HERE

Planning to attend? Please add your name below

1. Will Fong - First time to a meeting! :-)
2. Christopher Martin - Willing to car pool from Olympia
3. Alan O'Dannel
4. Devon L - Another first-timer.
5. Yong Huang - first-timer; recruiting Sr. Support Engineers for Amazon.com
6. Michael McInerny - newbie to gSLUG
7. Andrew Gray - I think it's pronounced GLAMP, not LAMP.
8. Jason Self - The "G" is indeed very important, because everyone knows that a penguin can't hardly function at all without a gnu.
9. Brandon O'Connor - A first-timer transplant from Vancouver's Ubuntu loco.
10. Michael Evans - Guess there's another Michael now?
11. Mark Foster is bringing some actual server hardware for people to gawk at
12. harvey
13. William Hale

Next month's topic

We took a vote and decided that next month's topic is Distro wars. Dissent of this topic was expressed, and duly noted.

Post meeting

There's a coffee shop not very far away that can be a rendezvous for those interested.(Map)