{"id":93,"date":"2009-04-13T17:19:08","date_gmt":"2009-04-13T21:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mail.ale.org\/?p=93"},"modified":"2009-04-13T17:19:08","modified_gmt":"2009-04-13T21:19:08","slug":"ale-central-mtg-for-thurs-april-16-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ale.org\/?p=93","title":{"rendered":"ALE Central Mtg. for Thurs., April 16, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nOur ALE Central Meeting on Thursday, Aprl 16, 2009,
\n7:30pm, at Emory Law School (Gambrell Hall Room 1C)
\nwill feature two topical presentations:
\n
\n“A Demo of the Opensuse Build Service (OBS)”
\n<\/font> with Greg Freemyer
\n
\n— plus —
\n
\n“A Premier of the ALE OSPREX Deck”
\n<\/font> with Stephen R. Blevins <\/p>\n

Synopses:
\n<\/strong>
\n— Opensuse Build Service:<\/strong>
\nThe OBS is distro agnostic and can be used to build rpms and debian
\npackages without requiring the user to install the various distros. It is
\ntargeted at people packaging projects for publishing. The following
\ndistros are currently supported: Fedora, Red Hat, Debian, OpenSUSE,
\nMandriva, xUbuntu. Intel (32bit and 64bit) and PPC builds are fully
\nsupported. ARM support is being introduced now, with other embedded
\ncpu architectures to follow.<\/p>\n

The build service is leveraged by the opensuse studio service to allow
\ncustom opensuse live CDs \/ bootable USB images to be created via
\nthe web.
\n
\n— The ALE OSPREX Deck:<\/strong>
\nOSPREX (for Open Source OS Presentation) is the working project
\nname for an effort by several ALE volunteers to create a consistent,
\nportable presentation package targeting general public audiences
\nthat concisely and effectively promotes the numerous profound
\nadvantages of GNU Linux OS and FFOSS software alternatives.<\/p>\n

Stephen Blevins has taken the lead in this effort by locating and
\nadapting a distributable presentation slide deck that can serve as
\nan aid to Linux evangelists for delivering a brief but informative
\ntalk on the various FFOSS topics. Stephen vetted the OSPREX
\nDeck at a recent ALE organizational meeting and, having
\nincorporated those suggestions for enhancement, is anxious to
\npresent the OSPREX Deck to the general ALE membership.<\/p>\n

Bio Info:
\n<\/strong>
\n— Greg Freemyer<\/strong> is currently employed as the CTO of The Norcross
\nGroup. He has been involved with UNIX since 1983 and with Linux
\nsince 1996. Greg served as a Senior Internet Engineer on several
\nmajor projects for international corporations such as Siemens and
\nFord Motor Company. His current job focuses on Computer Forensics
\nand eDiscovery, but he continues to work with Linux systems for both
\nwork and pleasure. His use of the OBS evolved out of trying to connect
\na linux PC up to a weather station.<\/p>\n

— Stephen R. Blevins<\/strong> has been an I.T. professional for over 20 years,
\nincluding 15 years working with various UNIX systems (AT&T 5.2.2,
\nSVR4, HPUX, SunOS, Solaris). In 2003 he became a philosophical
\nconvert to GNU Linux and Open Source software due to the influences
\nof Pamela Jones, of GROKLAW fame. He currently runs a triple-boot
\ncomputer system that can wake up as an MS XP box, or greet the world
\nas a secure and functional CentOS or Ubuntu Linux system. Slowly,
\nbut surely, Stephen’s wife, his wife’s son, and his own son are
\nbecoming Linux converts as well (and not just in philosophical sense)!<\/p>\n

============================
\nOur meeting time frame is 7:30pm to ~9:30pm
\nDirections to Emory Law School can be found
\nHERE<\/a><\/strong> (or via the side bar link).
\n=====================<\/p>\n

[POSTING NOTE: My apologies for delays in posting this
\nmonths meeting notice, but BOTH of the presenters
\nwe had originally lined up for this month had to cancel
\non short notice (for very valid reasons). Big THANKS to
\nGreg and Stephen for filling the voids!]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our ALE Central Meeting on Thursday, Aprl 16, 2009, 7:30pm, at Emory Law School (Gambrell Hall Room 1C) will feature two topical presentations: “A Demo of the Opensuse Build Service (OBS)” with Greg Freemyer — plus — “A Premier of the ALE OSPREX Deck” with Stephen R. Blevins Synopses: — Opensuse Build Service: The OBS […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ale.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93","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=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ale.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ale.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ale.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ale.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}