The feature presentation for the ALE Central Meeting of
Thursday, April 15th, 7:30pm will be:
“An Overview of the CentOS Cluster Server”
presented by Ryan Matty of Prefetch Technologies
Synopsis:
— This presentation is geared to providing an introduction to clustering
and the CentOS cluster server by demonstrating the process of setting
up a basic 2-node cluster that utilizes GFS.
Bio:
— Ryan Matteson is a long time Linux user, and has been a member
of ALE for close to 9 years. He has also been a regular ALE presenter
on a variety of Linux topics, last year providing talks on UDEV and KVM.
In addition to hacking code, Ryan thoroughly enjoys evaluating new
technology and sharing his findings with the world through his blog
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We will be meeting at our usual venue, Emory Law School,
Gambrel Hall, rm 1C. Meeting time frame is 7:30pm to ~9:30pm
Directions to Emory Law School can be found at
[http://ale.org/?page_id=2].
The feature presentation at the ALE Central Meeting
for 7:30pm on Thursday, March 18th, 2010 will be:
Literate Programming:
Source Code for Human Beings
(Because geeks are people too!)
with Larry Felton Johnson
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Synopsis:
— Whether you’re writing a full fledged application or a short utility
shell script, really understanding the code and being able to modify
and maintain it (sometimes years after it was originally written) is
an important part of authoring a program. With the rise of group
coding environments, thorough and comprehensible documentation
of program code has become all the more important.
One of the most interesting systems for ensuring robust documentation,
and the quality code which that supports, is the Literate Programming
approach first proposed by Donald Knuth in a 1983 book of that name.
This presentation will be describing the Literate Programming system
and demonstrating some support utilities I’ve written using a combination
of perl and XSL. It will also look at some of the tools available on linux
systems which support Literate Programming.
Bio:
— Larry Felton Johnson has been a Linux user since early 1995, when
he downloaded an SLS distribution sufficient to fill 50 high density floppy
disks. He’s been a sysadmin for the past 15 years, mostly on Solaris, but
with a significant toe in the Red Hat waters. His great love is doing utility
programming in perl, particularly in the general categories known as
“scraping” (web, terminal, etc) and “data munging”.
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We will be meeting at Emory Law School in our
usual Gambrel Hall, room 1C venue.
Meeting time frame is 7:30pm to ~9:30pm
Directions to Emory Law School can be found
via the side bar link.
On SATURDAY, MARCH 6th, from 9am to 7pm,
we need any and all volunteers who can donate
some time and talent to
THE LINUX LAPTOPS FOR
HONDURAS PROJECT
hosted at the Railroad Earth Studios,
1467 Oxford Road NE, Atlanta, 30307
(RRE is the large gray stone house about 4 buildings
South of the entrance to Emory University at North
Decatur Road. Parking in the neighboring Saba lot
is fine, _except_ in front of the computer repair shop).
The goal of the day is to perform triage and light repairs
to recover as many working laptops as possible from a stack
of about 100 used units. Any systems that can be revived
to a functional state (hopefully 50 or more) will be installed
with a Linux OS Distro and packed up for shipment to South
America.
Volunteers are welcome to arrive and leave any time during
the day, but should be ready to volunteer for a minimum 2 hr.
shift. ANY AND ALL SKILL LEVELS of Linux use, Linux
configuration and hardware repair are welcome. Volunteers
with language skills in Espanol may be especially helpful.
Pizza lunch and soft drinks will be provided around 1pm,
BYOA (bring your own Ale) adult beverages are OK as well.
If interested in volunteering for this worthwhile charity
project, please RSVP to ArxAaron[at]gmail.com
On SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27, from 9am to 5pm,
we invite you to join us for
ALE & Source Freedom Linux Fest
at ITT Technical College
A Freedom Friendly, Linux Installation and Education Event
cooperatively sponsored by ITT Tech, Source Freedom(.com)
and the Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts (ALE.org)
The event is being hosted at the new ITT Tech facilities at:
485 Oak Place, Atlanta, GA 30349
(Location is South Atlanta near I-75 @ I-285,
corner of Atlanta South Parkway and Oak Place.
Once inside the building, follow signs to the lab.)
• Free Linux Discs and a variety of Linux Distros including
Ubuntu, SUSE, Fedora, CentOS, Puppy Linux, DSL and more.
• Free Expert Help Installing and Configuring Linux on your own machine.
• Seminars by Experts on Various Topics (see wiki.sourcefreedom.com)
• Free WiFi Available
• Free Soft Drinks, Snacks and Pizza Lunch Provided By ITT Tech!
• Techs@Heart support info and More!!!
If you want to get involved as a presenter, a contributor or some
other way, email mhalton[at]itt-tech.edu
We invite everyone to promote this event where ever
possible and appropriate! A printable PDF poster for
is available here.
The feature presentation at the ALE Central Meeting
for 7:30pm on Thursday, Feb. 18th, 2010 will be:
Native Linux Virtualization:
An Overview of KVM Installation and Management
with Damon Chesser
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Synopsis:
— An overview of the Kernel Virtual Machine with consideration of the
advantages and disadvantages compared to technologies like Xen. The
talk will cover basic installation and configuration, then look at several
KVM management and monitoring tools including virt-manager, virsh,
oVirt and Proxmox VE.
Bio:
— Damon’s career has been nothing if not diverse. Formally, he has
worked as (in order) a Navy Electronics Tech, a Self Employed Window
Cleaner, a Furniture mover, and a Furniture Sales Man. Then one day he
woke up and decided to be a computer tech. As his wife, a commercial
programmer, would not let him run any unlicensed software, so he turned
to the freedom of Open Source and learned Linux. As a self taught
computer aficionado, he made a career out of being a drop in support
tech. Along the way, he was hired by Dell to be an Enterprise Support
Analyst and opened up the support center in OKC. While there he
became a founding member of the “Alt OS Queue”, Dell-Speak for
anything NOT Windows, including VMware products. After moving to the
Atlanta area to be close to his wife’s family, he connected with a startup
company that allowed him to experiment with Linux virtualization.
He rolled out a few new product offerings based off of KVM, but due
to poor structuring, the company did not survive. He is currently
weighing his options for continuing to work professionally in Linux:
“I always look at technology from a practical view: Yes, that’s cool,
but what can it do for me?”
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We will be meeting at Emory Law School in our
usual Gambrel Hall, room 1C venue.
Meeting time frame is 7:30pm to ~9:30pm
Directions to Emory Law School can be found
via the side bar link.