GSLUG Is Back: September 1st, 2007 Greater Seattle Linux Users Group General Meeting

[Ian Gallagher]

The September 2007, inaugural meeting of the Greater Seattle Linux Users Group
(GSLUG) will be held on Saturday, September 1st, starting promptly at
12:00 PM on the North Seattle Community College campus.

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  We are confirmed to use room IB 3319. (Yes, the same room we've had
in the past)

  Parking is free on weekends.

  For directions and complete details, please visit the meeting's Wiki entry:

      http://wiki.gslug.org/index.php/Meeting_2007-09-01
      (Links to: http://www.northseattle.edu/maps/ for directions)

  Please feel free to forward this announcement as appropriate.

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This will be the first meeting GSLUG has had in quite a while, and
things have changed. The presentation format will be that of Lightning
talks (Several talks from 5-10 minutes in length, with open Q&A
afterwards) instead of the traditional hour or so long presentations.

Following is a quick synopsis of the lightning presentations planned
for September 1st:

 Eric Butler: What's new in Linux?

It's been a while since GSLUG last met, so I'm going to kick things
off by going over some of the things that have changed in the
linux/free software world these past few years, including new
technologies that make both the linux desktop and the linux server
more exciting than ever.

* Steven Reisler: On the recent summary judgment in SCO v Novell and
its implications
Steve gave a talk on the SCO legal scrimmage at the 2004 LinuxFest. He
gave a follow-up talk at the July, 2005 gslug meeting. He will give
this follow-up talk on the latest. He will give another follow-up talk
next year ...

* Elaine: Can a law practice live by Debian alone? or reality Gnu/Linux
I am Steve's IT - he's the attorney.

* Mark Foster: DNS audits using Perl
Scavenge is a perl-based mechanism to discover inactive DNS records.
It is useful to the DNS admin looking to clean up zonefile data. The
script relies heavily on Net::DNS. I will show some examples of usage
and ask for feedback on improving it.

* Eitan Isaacson: Accessibility is good
A brief introduction to accessibility.


We of course hope to see many old faces and many new at this meeting,
please plan on attending and be prepared to learn, share knowledge,
and ask challenging questions!



We have completely transitioned the web site to the Wiki now - please
explore it, in particular the page for this upcoming meeting:
http://wiki.gslug.org/index.php/Meeting_2007-09-01

If you plan on attending, please add yourself to the list of "Who's
coming?" (A great way to get a feel for editing a Wiki page if you
haven't yet!)

Thanks,
-Ian Gallagher


Sorry if this bothers people on any mailing lists, if it does - [list
owner/moderator] please let me know and I won't send announcements to
the list in the future.

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