WNYLUG will be holding our next meeting : July 8th 2009 at The PCA Group, 455 Cayuga Rd, Suite 200, Buffalo NY 14225 (Near the Airport) from 6:30pm to 9:00pm

Meeting Agenda:

Presentations: Presented by : Brian Jacobs

1. An overview of POP, SMTP, IMAP, and HTTP protocols, including a walkthrough of example command sessions using telnet. I’d also discuss FTP, although it is harder to do a full session with telnet. But I could walk through the FTP control codes some.
2. An overview of networking, IP, TCP vs UDP vs ICMP, port numbers.
3. A discussion of DNS and its role.
4. IP4 versus IP6
5. Networking over LANs, MAC addresses, Carrier Sense Multiple Access/Collision Detection, DHCP
6. LAN vs WAN

Announcements

Open Floor

Our June meeting has come and gone, around 28 people came. Brian did a great job presenting on Zen and KVM.

Brian created a very detailed presentation which will be posted here. We will also get the minutes posted soon.

Here is a picture from this months meeting showing the untamed excitement that is the WNYLUG.

Brian presenting his Zen/KVM presentation

Attached is the presentation from the April Meeting. “Command Line Tips and Tricks” as well as the notes from the May presentation Parallels and VirtualBox.

Sorry for not posting these earlier.

frank_presentation

command_line

The WNYLug will be holding our next meeting on June 10th 2009 from 6:30pm to 9:00pm.

The meeting will take place at 455 Cayuga Rd Suite 200, Buffalo, NY 14225.

Food and drink will be provided (Pizza and Wings)

Meeting Agenda:

- Presentations

• XEN Virtualization - Presented by Brian Powell
• KVM Virtualization - Presented by Brian Powell
• Clustered Virtualization Demo - Presented by Brian Powell

- Announcements

- Open Floor

We have a few things planned for the upcoming month of May.

Our next few meetings will be focusing on Virtualization as it seems to be of interest throughout the group.

May 13 2009 - WNYLUG Monthly Meeting

Agenda:

- Presentations

• VirtualBox and Parallels - Presented by Frank Pirrone
• VMware - Presented by Neal Chapman (Time permitting)

- Announcements

- Open Floor

May 16 2009 - WNYLUG Workshop / Open House (9:00am to 3:00pm)

This open house event is being held to assist with Linux issues and to review topics we discussed at previous meeting

If you have issues with Linux bring in your laptop or desktop (monitors, keyboards and mice will be provided so you can leave yours at home) and we can take a look at it.

Installs can also be performed if you want to try linux out. (We are offering installations of Ubuntu and Fedora distros)

Break-out groups covering various topics of interest will be held by individual members with something to share.

Donuts and Coffee will be provided in the morning and Pizza and Pop will be provided around lunch time.

The WNYLug will be holding our next meeting on April 8th 2009 from
6:30pm to 9:00pm.

The meeting will take place at 455 Cayuga Rd Suite 200, Buffalo, NY 14225.

Food and drink will be provided (Pizza and Wings)

Meeting Agenda:

• “Got Shell??” - Continuation of the last segment of our 3 month series of installing and using Ubuntu and Fedora with a detailed focus on command line usage.
• Command line tips and tricks
• Open Floor

Here are the slides from the Linux Command Line Tools presentation reviewed in March and April.

Linux Command Line Tools

Also, slides from the Fedora F10 presentation.

Fedora F10

I wanted to share this, as it was posted to our mailing list.

The deadline is looming for this project, so please feel free to pass on to other FOSS mailing lists.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Professors_Open_Source_Summer_Experience

POSSE is a program of Fedora and Red Hat that will immerse professors in Open Source projects so that they can better teach Open Source development techniques to their students.

Those selected to participate will have their living costs covered for the week.

My own take on this…As FOSS community members we’re beginning to see more personal and corporate adoption of Open Source Software.  It’s becoming more mainstream all the time.  Students who aren’t already learning Open Source development techniques are missing the boat.

This is an excellent opportunity for educators to learn FOSS Development from experts. So please pass this on.