{"id":102,"date":"2009-08-02T00:42:37","date_gmt":"2009-08-02T04:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mail.ale.org\/?p=102"},"modified":"2009-08-02T21:43:51","modified_gmt":"2009-08-03T01:43:51","slug":"ale-central-mtg-for-thurs-aug-20th-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ale.org\/?p=102","title":{"rendered":"ALE CENTRAL MTG. for Thurs., Aug. 20th, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nThe feature presentation at the ALE Central Meeting
\nat 7:30pm on Thursday, Aug. 20th, 2009 will be: <\/p>\n

“Open SUSE: The State of the Disavowed Distro”<\/font><\/strong>
\nwith Chuck Payne, Atlanta regional OpenSUSE Ambassador
\n==<\/p>\n

Synopsis:
\n— Despite extensive concerns and criticisms from the Free Software
\ncommunity regarding SUSE’s partnership deals with Novel and the
\ndangerous precedents of their concessions to the extortionist FUD
\ncampaigns of MicroSoft, the OpenSUSE project has continued to be
\nan important contributing developer in the global GNU Linux and
\nOpen Source arenas. SUSE’s recently appointed volunteer ambassador
\nfor our region, Chuck Payne, will bring us up to date on the features
\nand strengths of current OpenSUSE 11.1 offering and talk about
\nenhancements scheduled for the pending 11.2 release.<\/p>\n

Bio:
\n— Chuck “PUP” Payne has been working with computers since
\nhis parents gave him an Atari 130XE for his 16th birthday
\n[ed – (: presumably misunderstanding his actual requests for
\na Commodore Amiga :) ]. He has since worked with personal
\ncomputer platforms ranging from Atari and Apple to Mac and
\nPC, and has explored various operating environments including
\nLinux, BeOS, Solaris, FreeBSD and others. He has been
\nworking with GNU Linux since 1998, when he bought a book on
\nSlackware ’96. After Slackware he tried out Red Hat, then
\nmoved to openSUSE with their 1998 5.3 release and he has
\nstayed with the SUSE choice since.<\/p>\n

Computers also became central to Chuck’s career, and he has
\nworked as a System Administrator since 1998. He is currently
\nemployed by Travel Channel Media as a Unix Systems Admin,
\nwhere day to day tasks include managing TCM’s DNS, 70+ Red
\nHat Linux Servers, 20 Solaris Servers, and a handful of Mac
\nXServers. He also helps out with web development in the areas
\nof Apache and JBOSS administration.<\/p>\n

In April 2009 Chuck’s application to be a regional volunteer
\nambassador for OpenSUSE was accepted, facilitating his goals
\nof helping people discover the benefits of Free Software,
\nGNU\/Linux and the OpenSUSE distributions. In his free time he
\nbolsters his geek cred by writing bash scripts or php code,
\nhacking hardware in his home gadget lab, and watching any
\nand all Zombie flicks that cross his path.<\/p>\n

Related Links:
\n— OpenSUSE.org<\/a><\/p>\n

=============
\nWe will be meeting at Emory Law School in our
\nusual Gambrel Hall, room 1C venue.
\nMeeting time frame is 7:30pm to ~9:30pm
\nDirections to Emory Law School can be found
\nvia the side bar link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The feature presentation at the ALE Central Meeting at 7:30pm on Thursday, Aug. 20th, 2009 will be: “Open SUSE: The State of the Disavowed Distro” with Chuck Payne, Atlanta regional OpenSUSE Ambassador == Synopsis: — Despite extensive concerns and criticisms from the Free Software community regarding SUSE’s partnership deals with Novel and the dangerous precedents […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ale-central","category-announcements","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ale.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ale.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ale.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ale.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ale.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ale.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ale.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ale.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ale.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}