From Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu Wed Jul 13 06:06:22 2016 From: Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu (Michael Paoli) Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2016 06:06:22 -0700 Subject: BALUG: Meeting: Tu 2016-07-19 Elizabeth K. Joseph on: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus"; & other BALUG News Message-ID: <20160713060622.183343urwmw1ykem@webmail.rawbw.com> BALUG: Meeting: Tu 2016-07-19 Elizabeth K. Joseph on: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus"; & other BALUG News ------------------------------ items, details further below: BALUG meeting Tu 2016-07-19: Elizabeth K. Joseph on: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" Shape AT&T Tech Expo July 15 & 16 @ AT&T Park (free with coupon code ...) San Francisco Ubuntu 16.04 Release Party 2016-07-28 giveaways (Books & other titles, CDs/DVDs, ...) Upcoming BALUG list changes?! help BALUG! :-) - volunteering, venue, ... Twitter https://twitter.com/#!/BALUG_org ------------------------------ For our 2016-07-19 meeting, we're proud to present: Elizabeth K. Joseph[1] on: Ubuntu[2] 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus"[3] Ubuntu 16.04 is the latest Long-Term Support (LTS)[4] release from the Ubuntu community[5] and Canonical[6]. This talk will be a tour of new features, including disabling of Amazon search by default, replacement of the Ubuntu Software Center, replacement of init system with systemd[7] (new since the last LTS release), ability to move the Unity launcher to the bottom of the screen, inclusion of ZFS[8] and the introduction of Snappy[9]. An update on the progress of Ubuntu on phones and tablets will also be presented, with a demonstration of the first convergence device on the market, the bq Aquaris M10 Ubuntu edition. Elizabeth K. Joseph is a Senior Automation and Tools Engineer at HPE[10] working on the OpenStack[11] Infrastructure team. She is a former member of the Ubuntu Community Council[12] and is a co-author of the 8th and upcoming 9th editions of The Official Ubuntu Book[13]. Here in San Francisco, she serves on the Board of Directors for Partimus.org[14], a non-profit providing Linux-based computers to area education and low-income housing centers in need. 1. http://princessleia.com/ 2. http://www.ubuntu.com/ 3. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/XenialXerus/ReleaseNotes 4. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LTS 5. http://community.ubuntu.com/ 6. http://www.canonical.com/ 7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemd 8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS 9. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snappy_(package_manager) 10. https://www.hpe.com/ 11. https://www.openstack.org/ 12. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CommunityCouncil 13. http://www.informit.com/store/official-ubuntu-book-9780133905397 14. http://partimus.org/ 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. 6:30pm Tuesday, July 19th, 2016 2016-07-19 Henry's Hunan Restaurant 110 Natoma St. (between 2nd & New Montgomery) San Francisco, CA 94105-3704 1-415-546-4999 http://www.henryshunanrestaurant.com/ Easy Transit/Parking Access: short walk from BART, MUNI, parking Trip planning: http://www.511.org/ Delicious Hunan cuisine and reasonably priced. Meeting Details... 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'll 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. ------------------------------ Shape AT&T Tech Expo July 15 & 16 @ AT&T Park (free with coupon code ...) http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-talk-balug.org/2016-June/000042.html ------------------------------ San Francisco Ubuntu 16.04 Release Party 2016-07-28 http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/ubuntu-california/3398-san-francisco-ubuntu-1604-release-party/ ------------------------------ We typically have various giveaway items at BALUG meetings. We'll likely have at least the below plus additional items. Books and other titles! have a look/read here: https://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=balug:books_and_publications 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). ------------------------------ Upcoming BALUG list changes?! Yes, for the past many years, much of BALUG, including our lists, has been and is still presently hosted on DreamHost.com. We will be changing that in the not-too-horribly-distant-future. (primary volunteer on this has been buried under some other stuff to attend to, so taking a bit longer.) We'll update on status when that's about to change and when it does change. We'll provide more details as we approach and go through that transition, and we'll make it as painless as feasible. ------------------------------ help BALUG! :-) - volunteering, venue ... You can do useful and cool stuff volunteering to help BALUG, e.g. following up on many leads for possible venue, among many other possibilities. 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 venue arrangement (e.g. followup on potential leads on-site coordination/preparations), see also: http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-admin-balug.org/2014-July/001504.html o chief/assistant cat herder o assist on speaker coordination/procurement, etc. o assist on publicity o Linux Systems Administration (e.g. do/assist/learn, with/under some quite experienced and skilled Linux systems administrator(s)). o webmaster, assistant webmaster, designer, graphic artist o archivist/history/retrieval/etc. o and other various/miscellaneous tasks BALUG would like to be doing (also 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 at profarius.com Tue Jul 19 16:55:13 2016 From: michael at profarius.com (Michael Lustfield) Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2016 16:55:13 -0700 Subject: Meeting Tonight Message-ID: Howdy! I'm sorry this is such short notice. I sent an email a month ago but didn't realize it was dropped. That explains why I got no response! I'm a Debian Maintainer looking for GPG signatures and was wondering if there's any chance that I would be able to meet up with a DD and get my key signed. I'm planning on being at the meet up ... in less than two hours. From Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu Tue Jul 19 17:19:06 2016 From: Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu (Michael Paoli) Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2016 17:19:06 -0700 Subject: Meeting Tonight In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20160719171906.9411542dq7nz00w0@webmail.rawbw.com> BALUG (http://www.balug.org/) meets tonight, BAD (http://bad.debian.net/) meets 2nd Wednesdays (when it meets) "the meet up"? There's meetup.com - it even has some Linux and other stuff on it. I'm really unsure where you'll be in less than 2 hours, but I hope you have fun, and get GPG signature(s) ... and even from DD(s). Tonight I'll be at the BALUG meeting. > From: "Michael Lustfield" > Subject: Meeting Tonight > To: bad at bad.debian.net > Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2016 16:55:13 -0700 > Howdy! I'm sorry this is such short notice. I sent an email a month > ago but didn't realize it was dropped. That explains why I got no > response! > > I'm a Debian Maintainer looking for GPG signatures and was wondering > if there's any chance that I would be able to meet up with a DD and > get my key signed. I'm planning on being at the meet up ... in less > than two hours. > -- > bad mailing list > bad at bad.debian.net > http://bad.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/bad From nhandler at debian.org Tue Jul 19 16:58:09 2016 From: nhandler at debian.org (Nathan Handler) Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2016 16:58:09 -0700 Subject: Meeting Tonight In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hello Michael, I am planning on attending the dinner tonight, and I would be more than happy to sign your key. See you soon, Nathan On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 4:55 PM, Michael Lustfield wrote: > Howdy! I'm sorry this is such short notice. I sent an email a month > ago but didn't realize it was dropped. That explains why I got no > response! > > I'm a Debian Maintainer looking for GPG signatures and was wondering > if there's any chance that I would be able to meet up with a DD and > get my key signed. I'm planning on being at the meet up ... in less > than two hours. > -- > bad mailing list > bad at bad.debian.net > http://bad.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/bad From Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu Tue Jul 19 17:56:23 2016 From: Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu (Michael Paoli) Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2016 17:56:23 -0700 Subject: Meeting Tonight In-Reply-To: References: <20160719171906.9411542dq7nz00w0@webmail.rawbw.com> Message-ID: <20160719175623.91373a53rhihd0ds@webmail.rawbw.com> Yes, very true, same venue can potentially add to confusion or possibility/probability of such or error. BALUG would be my guess too, but not mentioning the BALUG meeting, using the BAD list, not mentioning BAD (other than the use of the list itself), and referring to the meeting as "the meet up" can lead to lots of confusing. Many venues have various meetings that happen there - some even overlapping or quite matching in time spans. Generally not an issue if the specific meeting is named/referenced, especially when context is otherwise ambiguous. Heck, venue wasn't even stated - and even BALUG isn't the only Linux related event that excludes all others from meeting on the 3rd Tuesdays even for just San Francisco (e.g. there's OpenLate on meetup.com, which meets on various (approximately alternating?) Tuesdays - and in SF at that ... but a distinct venue (but also, venue wasn't mentioned either). As I sometimes tell coworkers on specifications/requests, "You need to disambiguate." :-) And yes, disambiguate is a word. I had two coworkers, one that quite thought it wasn't a legitimate word. Another, a not native English speaker, had absolutely no difficultly determining what it meant, from it's logical construction. And ... when I ran across a printed book that used it thrice within, I showed the print examples to the more skeptical coworker. :-) Okay, so maybe it appeared in an O'Reilly book before some Webster's dictionary, but I know which I'd think to be the more definitive and generally more technically correct reference. ;-) > From: "Nathan Handler" > Subject: Re: Meeting Tonight > Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2016 17:24:14 -0700 > I assumed he was referring to the BALUG meeting tonight. It can > definitely get a bit confusing having the same venue. > > Nathan > > On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 5:19 PM, Michael Paoli > wrote: >> BALUG (http://www.balug.org/) meets tonight, >> BAD (http://bad.debian.net/) meets 2nd Wednesdays (when it meets) >> "the meet up"? There's meetup.com - it even has some Linux and >> other stuff on it. I'm really unsure where you'll be in less than >> 2 hours, but I hope you have fun, and get GPG signature(s) ... and >> even from DD(s). >> >> Tonight I'll be at the BALUG meeting. >> >> >>> From: "Michael Lustfield" >>> Subject: Meeting Tonight >>> To: bad at bad.debian.net >>> Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2016 16:55:13 -0700 >> >> >>> Howdy! I'm sorry this is such short notice. I sent an email a month >>> ago but didn't realize it was dropped. That explains why I got no >>> response! >>> >>> I'm a Debian Maintainer looking for GPG signatures and was wondering >>> if there's any chance that I would be able to meet up with a DD and >>> get my key signed. I'm planning on being at the meet up ... in less >>> than two hours.