From lyz at princessleia.com Fri Oct 3 16:41:56 2014 From: lyz at princessleia.com (Elizabeth K. Joseph) Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2014 16:41:56 -0700 Subject: ANNOUNCEMENT: Bay Area Debian meeting at Henry's Hunan Restaurant (SOMA location), SF, October 8th @ 7PM Message-ID: Hi everyone, On Wednesday, October 8th at 7PM we'll be having a casual Bay Area Debian dinner meeting at: Henry's Hunan Restaurant 110 Natoma Street (between Mission and Howard off of New Montgomery) San Francisco, CA 94105 415-546-4999 This is the SOMA location where we have had past meetings (there are several other locations in the city). Reservations will be made under "Bay Area Debian" on our table we'll have little stuffed Wheezy (penguin) and Jessie (cowgirl) toys. And we'll have some Debian stickers. The location is wheelchair accessible, beer and wine are available, as are vegetarian options. When we have larger groups we each ordered a plate or two and enjoyed the meal family-style sharing (with some adaptations for dietary restrictions). We request that you bring cash to simplify settling the bill, but they do accept Visa/Mastercard and they've been willing to charge to separate cards in the past. This will be following the monthly 6-7PM "Ubuntu Hour" at the nearby Starbucks at 74 New Montgomery St, next to The Palace Hotel, if you're interested in coming to that too (or you just arrive early and want some company!) information is available here: http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/ubuntu-california/2909-ubuntu-hour-san-francisco/ Local street map (thanks to Michael Paoli): http://princessleia.com/images/debian/bad.2011.map.png It's just a couple blocks from BART, MUNI and the temporary transbay terminal. More direction information can be found in the announcement from our December 2011 meeting (thanks to Rick Moen): http://bad.debian.net/list/2011-December/003470.html Feel free to let me know if you have any questions. Hope to see you there! -- Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph || Lyz || pleia2 http://www.princessleia.com From daniel at pocock.pro Fri Oct 17 17:20:22 2014 From: daniel at pocock.pro (Daniel Pocock) Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2014 02:20:22 +0200 Subject: Bay area visit, Ganglia/DevOps meeting Message-ID: <5441B246.3020406@pocock.pro> Some DDs and many other free software developers are coming to the bay area for the GSoC summit/reunion next weekend (24-26 October) I'll be at a Ganglia meetup in SF on Tuesday night, food and beer generously provided by Quantcast. If any local Debian people are interested in meeting up there, keysigning, etc, please feel free to get in touch with me and register through eventbrite: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/ganglia-monitoring-and-devops-get-together-tickets-13774378537 If anybody knows about any other interesting events or things to do in the area then I'd be very grateful for any feedback. We just arrived today and stay until the 29th, many of the other visitors are also arriving some days in advance or staying on for a few days after the summit. Regards, Daniel From Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu Mon Oct 20 13:57:05 2014 From: Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu (Michael Paoli) Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 13:57:05 -0700 Subject: BALUG: TOMORROW Tu 2014-10-21 New Venue! - Henry's Hunan - 110 Natoma St. Message-ID: <20141020135705.380054x8a7yyif40@webmail.rawbw.com> BALUG: TOMORROW Tu 2014-10-21 New Venue! - Henry's Hunan - 110 Natoma St. ------------------------------ items, details further below: 2014-10-21 BALUG meeting: New venue! - Henry's Hunan - 110 Natoma St. giveaways (CDs/DVDs, ...) Got venue? (projector/screen ...) volunteering to help BALUG (and add to your experience & resume!) Twitter https://twitter.com/#!/BALUG_org ------------------------------ For our 2014-10-21 BALUG meeting: NEW VENUE!: Henry's Hunan Restaurant 110 Natoma St. (between 2nd & New Montgomery) San Francisco, CA 94105-3704 1-415-546-4999 http://www.henryshunanrestaurant.com/ Delicious Hunan cuisine and reasonably priced. At least presently we don't have a specific speaker/presentation lined up for this meeting, but that doesn't prevent us from having interesting and exciting meetings and discussions. Sometimes we also manage to secure/confirm a speaker too late for us to announce or fully publicize the speaker (that's happened at least twice in the past). Got questions, answers, and/or opinions? We typically have some expert(s) and/or relative expert(s) present to cover Linux and related topic areas. Want to hear some interesting discussions on LINUX and other topics? Show up at the meeting, and feel free to bring an agenda if you wish. Want to help ensure BALUG has speakers/presentations lined up for future meetings? Help refer speakers to us and/or volunteer to be one of the speaker coordinators. Great food and people, and interesting conversations to be had. So, if you'd like to join us please RSVP to: rsvp at balug.org **Why RSVP??** Well, don't worry we won't turn you away, but the RSVPs really help BALUG and our venue plan for the meeting and accommodations, so please let us know. Meeting Details... 6:30pm Tuesday, October 21st, 2014 2014-10-21 Henry's Hunan Restaurant 110 Natoma St. (between 2nd & New Montgomery) San Francisco, CA 94105-3704 Easy Transit/Parking Access: short walk from BART, MUNI, parking Trip planning: http://www.511.org/ Cost/Dining: The meetings are always free, but dinner is not (unless you are our guest speaker, in which case we also treat you to dinner). For Henry's Hunan Restaurant, if folks are agreeable, we may share and dine "family" style, and split up the costs, and typical cost per person including tax and tip (but not including beverages beyond complementary tea) would be in the $13.00 to $17.50 range, and commonly around $15.00 to $16.50. Cash may be preferred to ease splitting up the check. One can also specifically order the dish(es) one needs/prefers (e.g. for dietary considerations) - and we also commonly order some dish(es) that may meet various dietary considerations) (e.g. vegetarian, non-pork, ...). Please arrive by 7:00 P.M., we expect to order entrees at that time, and may order appetizer(s) and/or soup(s) anytime after 6:30 P.M. ------------------------------ We typically have various giveaway items at BALUG meetings. We'll likely have at least the below plus additional items. CDs/DVDs/ISOs, etc. - have a peek here: http://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=balug:cds_and_images_etc We may also be able to "burn" images per request or copy to USB flash, etc. Donations of blank or +-RW media, USB flash, or funding thereof, also appreciated. See the above URL for details (and the inventory (qty.) of what we specifically have "burned" and available on-hand does also frequently change). ------------------------------ Got venue? We can certainly use your help on leads for venue! Certainly feel free to discus on our "talk[1]" list. See also the earlier item[2] on our admin list that gives fair overview of what we're hopefully looking to find as for venue. We could certainly use a venue that works well for speakers/presenters (e.g. projector & screen), can handle fair sized crowds (to 30 or more, ideally to over 100 as we sometimes have), is reasonably economical and consistent across varying attendance sizes (e.g. same location or very close in part of same facility), and where dinner/food/beverages are either available at such a presentation facility, or very close by. IF YOU HAVE LEADS ON SPECIFIC VENUE(s) BE SURE TO DROP US A NOTE!: balug-contact at balug.org - and can of course also mention/discuss it on our "talk[1]" list. And much thanks for leads/contacts, useful ideas, etc. that will get us to our future venue(s)! Henry's Hunan Restaurant - 110 Natoma St. can handle us well in most regards for dining and up to fair size crowd, but we have no screen/projector nor PA capabilities there, so for talks/presentations, only the less formal, smaller, and without projected "slides" would work there. (But in the meantime, the food there is really yummy!) We also expect to announce any and all venue changes not later than at the BALUG meeting prior, so folks have reasonable time to prepare/adjust and aren't (too) "surprised" and so folks don't have last minute changes sprung on them. The Four Seas Restaurant lost their lease. So their last day of business there was 2014-09-27, and our last meeting there was 2014-09-16. 1. http://lists.balug.org/listinfo.cgi/balug-talk-balug.org 2. http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-admin-balug.org/2014-July/001504.html ------------------------------ volunteering to help BALUG (and add to your resume/experience) Not only can you do useful and cool stuff volunteering to help BALUG, but it can also be a way to gain useful and practical experience, and could also be something to add to or round out one's resume. There a quite a variety of opportunities to help BALUG. Come talk to us at a meeting and/or drop us a note at: balug-contact at balug.org These opportunities may include, among other possibilities: o assist on speaker coordination/procurement, etc. o assist on publicity o chief/assistant cat herder o Linux Systems Administration (e.g. do/assist/learn, with/under some quite experienced and skilled Linux systems administrators). o webmaster, assistant webmaster, designer, graphic artist o archivist/history/retrieval/etc. o and other various/miscellaneous tasks BALUG "ought" to be doing or would be good to do (feel free to suggest ideas!) ------------------------------ Twitter - you can also follow BALUG on Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/BALUG_org ------------------------------ Feedback on our publicity/announcements (e.g. contacts or lists where we should get our information out that we're not presently reaching, or things we should do differently): publicity-feedback at balug.org ------------------------------ From Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu Mon Oct 20 15:00:55 2014 From: Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu (Michael Paoli) Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 15:00:55 -0700 Subject: Bay area visit, Ganglia/DevOps meeting In-Reply-To: <5441B246.3020406@pocock.pro> References: <5441B246.3020406@pocock.pro> Message-ID: <20141020150055.20943dw6pbui9we8@webmail.rawbw.com> I didn't get around to mentioning earlier (been busy, oops), but you may also want to have a look at: https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=caj9iea2ol69b7n2uqdek4ocso%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America/Los_Angeles Not everything on there is necessarily "active" - generally good idea to poke around the web site(s) and/or list for signs of activity ... but too, some (L)UGs are rather to quite active with little to no web site or list activity. E.g. BUUG.org meets quite regularly and keeps chugging along ... and the website is mostly updated by script, and sometimes there are bursts or traces of activity on the list ... and sometimes not, for quite a while. Can also ask/inquire on the relevant list(s) or with their contact information if it's not otherwise clear. Or ask around - various Linux / Open Source locals can probably also rather well describe what the various typically meetings are like, about how large, and if they're active, etc. http://www.linuxmafia.com/bale/ also has/had a great list, but is presently (still) down. > From: "Daniel Pocock" > Subject: Bay area visit, Ganglia/DevOps meeting > Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2014 02:20:22 +0200 > > Some DDs and many other free software developers are coming to the bay > area for the GSoC summit/reunion next weekend (24-26 October) > > I'll be at a Ganglia meetup in SF on Tuesday night, food and beer > generously provided by Quantcast. If any local Debian people are > interested in meeting up there, keysigning, etc, please feel free to get > in touch with me and register through eventbrite: > > > http://www.eventbrite.com/e/ganglia-monitoring-and-devops-get-together-tickets-13774378537 > > If anybody knows about any other interesting events or things to do in > the area then I'd be very grateful for any feedback. We just arrived > today and stay until the 29th, many of the other visitors are also > arriving some days in advance or staying on for a few days after the summit. > > Regards, > > Daniel > -- > bad mailing list > bad at bad.debian.net > http://bad.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/bad From Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu Wed Oct 22 12:04:20 2014 From: Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu (Michael Paoli) Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 12:04:20 -0700 Subject: Ubuntu Release party, SF this Th; & SF Bay Area Open Source/Linux Events Message-ID: <20141022120420.15214x16irq3wc2s@webmail.rawbw.com> Ubuntu Release Party - San Francisco, Th evening Strongly recommended to RSVP if one wants to attend (and be fed!): http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/ubuntu-california/2912-san-francisco-utopic-release-party/ I'll also remind folks, there is: SF Bay Area Open Source/Linux Events https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=caj9iea2ol69b7n2uqdek4ocso%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America/Los_Angeles That may continue to be especially useful while: The BALE -- Bay Area Linux Events http://www.linuxmafia.com/bale/ is still unavailable https://web.archive.org/web/20140719065945/http://linuxmafia.com/bale/