ALE Mailing List: ale@ale.org
A SPECIAL NOTE that our regular Law School venue was not
available for this month, so we have arranged for an alternate
space in the Emory Psychology And Interdisciplinary Sciences
(PAIS) building, where we will be guests of the CCI / BMI Lab.
The venue is on the west side of the Emory campus, just off of
Oxford Road at 36 Eagle Row, Atlanta, GA 30322.
PLEASE SEE / DOWNLOAD / PRINT / READ
the map and directions PDF at the link below for essential details
on parking and finding our meeting room inside the PAIS building:
ALE AT EMORY PAIS MAP & DIRECTIONS
Once you arrive at our 7:30pm ALE Central meeting for Thursday,
August 15th our featured topic will be
An Informal Presentation on the Ins and Outs of
Computer Refurbishing and Electronics Recycling
with special guests David Brown and Marlon Williams.
– Presentation specifics will include a look at NTI’s recycling process
for electronics and computers, information on changes in environmental
protection laws that will soon affect everyone and details on how ALE
members and associates can recycle their used gear.
– David Brown and Marlon Williams are principles and managers
of NTI Recycling in Norcross, Georgia:
Naibun Trading International LLC o/a as
NTI Recycling
2980 Pacific Dr., Ste C,
Norcross, GA 30071
Toll Free: +1 855 624 7700
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Our meeting time frame is 7:30pm to ~9:30pm
Again, directions to this month’s Emory PAIS venue with maps
and important building details are available in this PDF file:
ALE AT EMORY PAIS MAP & DIRECTIONS
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Post meeting libations and conversation are usually enjoyed at
Melton’s App & Tap
apologies for the late posting – Jim
SUMMARY — Ansible, Configuration Management Made Easy: A play in three acts
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Ansible is a configuration management system similar to Puppet, Chef or CFEngine which radically simplifies deploying configurations to a multitude of systems.
Come learn how to install, configure, and use one of the simplest and easy to use (but still very powerful) Configuration Management tools.
This presentation is a real-world example done in a fun and entertaining format — The Three-Act Play.
PRESENTER BIOS
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“Goozbach” is Derek Carter; a husband, father, woodworking enthusiast, and active participant in the Open Source Community.
He is the part founder of two Linux users groups, and is a regular presenter at various conferences.
He also actively contributes to several Open Source projects, including some of his own.
Derek has worked as a senior Linux systems administrator for a Fortune 500 company.
He has also worked as a consultant to state agencies, and as a QA engineer for a SAN storage company.
As a Linux instructor, Derek has written course ware, proctored certification exams, and taught classes across the globe for such companies as Red Hat, IBM, Novell, HP, and Lockheed Martin, among others.
Derek currently resides in Athens, Georgia with his family and works as a full-time Linux consultant and instructor.
Find out more at his site[1] or his blog[2].
[1]: http://goozbach.com/
[2]: http://blog.friocorte.com/
Thomas Holmquist is a Systems Development Engineer at Georgia Tech. He enjoys planes, trains, automobiles and Linux. Writing Bios are one of his weakpoints.
As always, we will be at our Emory location at 7:30. See the Directions link for, um, directions.
Our ALE Central Meeting for Thursday, March 21, 2013
at 7:30pm will be:
The State of OpenSuSE
presented by Chuck Payne
Synopsis:
– Our resident Geek of the Gecko clan will be providing the latest
news and views on updates and project status for the OpenSuSE
Linux distro and development community.
Bio:
– Chuck Payne is a Linux System Administrator who has been an
an active member of the OpenSUSE community since October,
2009, becoming an Ambassador for OpenSUSE in April, 2009.
He has given talks at Atlanta, Texas and Southeast Linux Fests
to spread the word about OpenSUSE to the masses while
handing out a good bit of “Geeko†swag.
Related Links:
— OpenSUSE.org
— SUSE Studio
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The meeting will be held at Emory Law School in our
usual Gambrel Hall, room 1C venue.
Our meeting time frame is 7:30pm to ~9:30pm
Directions to Emory Law School can be found at
http://ale.org/?page_id=2
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Post meeting libations and banter are usually enjoyed at
Melton’s App & Tap
Our ALE Central Meeting for Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013
at 7:30pm will be:
Dynamically Dueling Distros:
A Multi-Part Compare & Contrast Presentation
featuring:
– RHEL/CentOS – presented by Jim Kinney
– SuSE SLES/SLED – covered by Allen Beddington
– Gentoo – discussed by Lawrence Hamblin
plus, pending travel opportunity,
– Bodhi – with Mike Harrison
THE PLAN is to cover strengths, weaknesses, likes, dislikes,
installation, usage, libraries, package managers, configuration,
security and programming of each distro in 10 minutes.
(Yeah, right!) As distro choice is almost a religious process,
be sure to bring your favorite barbs and jeers as well as your
misty-eyed remembrances. Please: No rotten fruits or other
spoiled vegetation as some of this material will stink enough
already (see gnome3).
– There is still room for a volunteer for Debian or Slackware.
– We may need to do a Ubuntu vs Fedora grudge match later.
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The meeting will be held at Emory Law School in our
usual Gambrel Hall, room 1C venue.
Our meeting time frame is 7:30pm to ~9:30pm
Directions to Emory Law School can be found at
http://ale.org/?page_id=2
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Post meeting libations and banter are usually enjoyed at
Melton’s App & Tap
The feature presentation for our ALE Central Meeting
at 7:30pm on Thursday, Jan. 17, 2013 will be:
“Virtualization Management For The PHB
Using Pretty Screens With Pointy Clicky Interfaces”
with Jim Kinney
Synopsis:
— Jim will go over some nice features of two systems, ovirt
and cloudmin, and demonstrate how they can be used for
both simple and enterprise-scale virtualization management.
Short-failings of each will also be moaned over.
Bio:
–- James (Jim) Kinney became a zealous fan of Linux and
Liberated Open Source Software the first time he saw a
discarded Next Cube running Slackware in 1992. In the
20 years since his introduction to Linux & FLOSS goodness,
James transformed his obsession into a career. First at Emory
University where he taught physics, converted their computer
lab to Linux and helped co-found LUGE, the Linux Users Group
of Emory. Next followed a 10+ year stint as an entrepreneur
Linux & Open Source consultant. Notable projects included
the installation of 40+ Linux servers running 2000+ student
stations in Atlanta public schools, server upgrade work at
Google, systems integration for a travel booking company,
and consulting for Cox Communications
– Currently Jim works with the Internet Security Systems
group of IBM along side some [other] really bright people
who are actively involved in protecting all aspects of
critical path communications (despite any MicroSoft
products in the pavement).
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The meeting will be held at Emory Law School in our
usual Gambrel Hall, room 1C venue.
Our meeting time frame is 7:30pm to ~9:30pm
Directions to Emory Law School can be found at
http://ale.org/?page_id=2