ALE-NE March Meeting – June 1, 2006 7:30PM – Puppy Linux
We will be showing Puppy Linux. It is a bootable linux distro that uses multi-session cd-r
magic to keep session history.
The feature presentation for ALE’s
June 8, 2006 Central Meeting will be
Python Programming —
As Applied to a Small Web Service Project
with world renowned ubergeek,
Charles Shapiro
The Esteemed Mr. Charles Shapiro, currently languishing
in an All-Windoze Shoppe, will attempt to elucidate the
Crunchy Goodness of Object-Oriented Design and the Python
language.
The presentation will feature a simple web-based Python
application which does surprising yet ultimately silly
transformations on solved sudoku puzzles. We’ll look at
some source code and discuss design issues, in hopes that your
humble speaker can learn what he did wrong on this project
before moving on to the next.
You can currently play with the application at:
http://tomshiro.org/sudoku-grinder
bio:
Charles Shapiro is a fan of fencing, juggling, gadgetry and most everything
‘geek’. Consistent to this calling he has been a professional programmer for
over 10 years, specializing in C and unix with a couple years of C++, Perl and
Python in the mix. He can also type faster than most people can talk, is a
Linux Lunacy Cruise alumnae, and has been a happy Linux zealot since 1996.
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Meeting time is 7:30pm to ~9:30pm
Directions to Emory Law School are at the
Central Meeting link on the side bar.
The feature presentation for ALE’s
May 11, 2006 Central Meeting will be
“An Introduction to the Xen of Virtualization”
with Andrew Cathrow,
Red Hat Solutions Architect
The presentation will be a brief introduction to virtualization,
from business drivers through to the technical implementation.
Various virtualization technologies will be covered, such as
VMware, Bochs and QEMU, but the concentration will be on
the newer open source project, Xen, a Paravirtualizing
Hypervisor. We’ll discuss the technical implementation details
of Xen with features and benefits comparisons to traditional
approaches. The finish will be a demo with shameless plugs for
Fedora and Red Hat.
About the presenter:
Andrew Cathrow is a Solutions Architect for Red Hat working
out of Atlanta. He has been working with Linux for 9 years,
RHCE certified for 7 years. Born and bred in the UK, he moved to
the US around 5 years ago – which, he suggests, might explain his
spelling!
— 2006.05.18 —
Slides from the Xen presentation (pdf)
are now availble at:
ftp.ale.org/meetings/central/2006-05
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Meeting time is 7:30pm to ~9:30pm
Directions to Emory Law School are at the
Central Meeting link on the side bar.
Hey Folks:
Emory School of Laws has been kind enough to donate a room for the “Build-In .”
DATE: 4/22/2006
TIME: 9:00 – 5:00 PM
WHERE: Emory University School of Law ( directions )
ROOM: Gambrell Hall — Third Floor: 303 Agnor
Please do not confuse this event with ALE Central’s meeting on the topic of MythTV to be held on Thursday, April 13th.
Stay tuned! More details to follow.
Directions:
The Northwest ALE meeting will be held at the offices of The Weather Channel in the Windy Hill area.
Address: 300 Interstate North Parkway, Atlanta, GA 30339
Maps:
Google Maps
Mapquest
Parking:
There is plenty of parking throughout the lot, feel free to park anywhere that is not marked as “reserved”.
Ingress/Egress:
The offices of The Weather Channel are under high security. As such, we will need to meet in the lobby and sign in. I have spoken with our security officer, and he is looking for an attendee list only, so he is comfortable with a number entering and leaving, and what their name is.
We will need to gather as a group in the lobby, and I will escort everyone to the meeting area. If there are any late arrivals, just let the guard know you are there for the meeting, and I will be paged to come and get you.
Similarly, after some amount of “hobnobbing”, we will need to leave as a group. There are many restaurants & bars in the area to continue conversations at, and I for one wholeheartedly endorse doing so…I’m sure we’ll be hungry by then.
Time:
The reservation for the room is “7:30 – 9:00” but I am told we can stay later if conversation/lecture requires it. I will be staying after work, so I will be there if you arrive early, however the group will need to enter together, so come around 7:15 – 7:30 for convenience’s sake.
Topic:
I have no idea. :)
If we are still without topic right now, I can give a brief presentation about how we employ Linux at TWCi, but it would be a broad, general overview. Please be thinking about presenting if you have a topic to share. To make the ALE< =>Twci relationship successful, we need to keep the talks interesting, lively, and profitable.
Facilities:
We are in the 6th floor corporate conference room. It has a full wall-sized screen and several LCD panels around the room. It is run by a PC/LCD projector combo that I will be obtaining information about using. More specifically, I will be inquiring about putting a Mac or Linux system on the projector instead, that we might be able to demonstrate straight for our platform of topic.
I am also meeting this week with the network infrastructure manager. As of right now, we are going to have some sort of access. Wired access will be easy. I have also requested a wireless connection, and should have information regarding that request soon.
Refreshments:
I’m told there’ll be some lite snacks available in the meeting room.
More information as it becomes available.
Jerald M. Sheets
Systems Administrator
The Weather Channel Interactive.