Unigroup (NYC Unix User Group) meeting Thurs 21-June-2012

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UNIGROUP OF NEW YORK - UNIX USERS GROUP - JUNE 2012 ANNOUNCEMENTS
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1. UNIGROUP'S JUNE 2012 MEETING NOTICE
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When: Thursday, June 21st, 2012 (*** 3rd Thursday ***)

Where: The Cooper Union <http://www.cooper.edu>
School of Engineering (*** New Building ***)
41 Cooper Square (3rd Ave @ 7th St, bet. 6th & 7th Sts)
East Village, Manhattan
New York City
Meeting Room: 506_CS (5th Floor)
** Please RSVP ** (Note: Room Changes Month-to-Month)

Time: 6:15 PM - 6:30 PM Registration
6:30 PM - 6:45 PM Ask the Wizard, Questions,
Answers and Current Events
6:45 PM - 7:00 PM Unigroup Business and Announcements
7:00 PM - 9:30 PM Main Presentation

Cost: See the Meeting+Membership Fee Schedule Below.

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Topic: SysAdmin Tools Round Table - Panel Discussion
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Speaker: Panel:
Robert Weiner/Unigroup,
Doug Hughes/LOPSA-NYC,
Justin Lintz/LOPSA-NYC,
and hopefully a few more (awaiting confirmations).

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INTRODUCTION:
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Unigroup's June 2012 meeting will be a panel discussion on tools
(mostly software tools) that a system/network/security administrator
or developer may find useful.

Details to follow, reserve the date!

Unigroup's Meeting Schedule:
21-JUN-2012: SysAdmin Tools Round Table (Panel Discussion).
19-JUL-2012: Relational Database Internals (Alex Scotti).

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SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS:
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Most Unigroup meetings are open to the public!

To REGISTER for this event, please RSVP by using the Unigroup
Registration Page:
http://www.unigroup.org/unigroup-rsvp.html

This will allow us to automate the registration process.
(Registration will also add you to our mailing list.)
Please avoid Emailed RSVPs.

Please continue to check the Unigroup web site and meeting page,
for any last minute updates concerning this meeting. If you
registered for this meeting, please check your Email for any last
minute announcements as the meeting approaches. Also make sure
any anti-spam white-lists are updated to _ALLOW_ Unigroup traffic!
If you block Unigroup Emails, your address will be dropped from
our mailing list.

Also, if you have an interest in Unigroup, be sure to receive
Unigroup information DIRECTLY from Unigroup, via direct receipt
of Emails and by visiting the Unigroup Web Site. NO OTHER SOURCE
provides timely, accurate and complete Unigroup information.

Please RSVP as soon as possible, preferably at least 2-3 days
prior to the meeting date, so we can plan the food order.
RSVP deadline is usually the night before the meeting day.

Note: RSVP is requested for this location to make sure the guard
will let you into the building. RSVP also helps us to
properly plan the meeting (food, drinks, handouts,
seating, etc.) and speed up your sign-in at the meeting.
If you forget to RSVP prior to the meeting day, you may
still be able to show up and attend our meeting, however,
we cannot guarantee what building security will do if
you are "not on the list".

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MAIN PRESENTATION
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Topic: SysAdmin Tools Round Table - Panel Discussion

Introduction & Description of Talk:
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Unigroup's SysAdmin Tools Round Table will be an informal panel
discussion on tools (mostly software tools) that a
system/network/security administrator or developer may find useful,
but perhaps never knew about.

The idea will be to BRIEFLY present a PILE of useful tools at this
meeting (as many as we can fit in)... perhaps tools that are not
found in standard OS distributions, various open source tools,
perhaps some commercial tools, perhaps tools that have been
discussed with great interest in the community (user groups and
conferences). Hopefully we'll hit upon a bunch of useful tools
that many people should know about, but never heard of before.

And please bring a list of your favorite and most useful tools,
and their respective URLs, and we'll try to discuss them as well.
Even if you don't know the details about a particular useful tool,
let us know about it... one goal of this meeting is to simply "get
the word out" to our Unigroup community about these tools.

Detailed Outline:
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Here is a partial list of some of the tools we may be discussing
(to be updated, we are still putting lists of tools together):

bcfg
capistratno
cfengine
chef
dimstat
fileop
filestream
ftrace
ganglia
gerrit
GNS3
graphite
jenkins
mtr
munin
nedi/netdisco
netdot
netflow
OpenTSDB
parallel
puppet
silverpeak
sio
vagrant

References & Web Resources:
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To-be-announced.

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Speaker Biography:
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To-be-announced.

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Company Biography:
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To-be-announced.

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Giveaways:
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Addison-Wesley Professional/Prentice Hall PTR, and O'Reilly have
been kind enough to provide us with review copies of some of their
books, which we will continue to raffle off as giveaways at our
meetings. The publishers always ask that the persons receiving
the books provide a review and/or feedback about their books.

Unigroup would like to thank both companies for the support
provided by their User Group programs.

As always, all of the books will be available for review at the
start of the meeting.

Note: Our supply of books is low right now, we hope to resolve
that soon.

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Fee Schedule:
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Unigroup is a Professional Technical Organization and User Group,
and its members pay a yearly membership fee. For Unigroup members,
there is usually no additional charges (ie. no meeting fees) during
their membership year. Non-members who wish to attend Unigroup
meetings are usually required to pay a "Single Meeting Fee".

Yearly Membership (includes all meetings): $ 50.00
Student Yearly Membership (with current! ID): $ 25.00
Non-Member Single Meeting Fee: $ 20.00
Non-Member Student Single Meeting (with! ID): $ 5.00

* Payment Methods: Cash, Check, American Express.

! Students: We are looking for proof that you are
currently enrolled in classes (rather than working
full-time), and as such, your Student ID should show
a CURRENT date. We have been presented Student IDs
containing NO dates whatsoever, and in the
current environment, perpetual/non-expiring access
to university facilities just does not feel right.
If your ID contains no date, please bring
additional proof of current enrollment. Thanks,

NOTE: Simply receiving Unigroup Email Announcements does
NOT indicate membership in Unigroup.

Members: Remember to bring your Unigroup membership card with
you to the meeting, to confirm your yearly renewal date!

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Food:
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Complimentary Food and Refreshments will be served. This
includes "wraps" such as turkey, roast beef, chicken, tuna
and grilled vegetables as well as assorted salads (potato,
tossed, pasta, etc), cookies, brownies, bottled water and
assorted SOFT beverages.

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Directions:
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The Cooper Union <http://www.cooper.edu>
School of Engineering (*** New Building ***)
41 Cooper Square (3rd Avenue @ 7th St, between 6th & 7th Streets)
East Village, Manhattan
New York City, 10003
Meeting Room: ** (See Above, Room Changes Month-to-Month)

Located on the East side of Cooper Square. Look for the
new building with the non-traditional appearance.
Entrance is at the corner of 3rd Avenue and 7 Street.

Building lobby sign-in is required at the guard's desk.
Enter the building, check in with the guard at the lobby for
directions to Unigroup (the room varies from month-to-month).

Nearest mass transit stations are:
'6' to Astor Place (stops right at The Cooper Union),
then walk 1 block East and 1 block South.
'R' to 8th Street, then walk about 2 blocks East
then 1 block South.
'4/5/6/R/N/Q' to Union Square, then walk South and East.
'B/D/F/V' to Broadway-Lafayette, then walk North and East.

Free street parking in the area becomes available at 6pm.

There are also parking lots on Broadway, at (or just south of)
Astor Place (8th Street).

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Please mark this meeting on your calendar and join us!
Please tell your friends about Unigroup!

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2. PRIOR MEETINGS
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** Formal Thank You's to our previous speakers will appear
in an upcoming announcement. Unigroup issues a "Thank You"
to all our speakers and sponsors!

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3. LOCAL TRADE SHOWS AND EVENTS
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a) NYLUG Meeting 14-JUN-2012
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: From: NYLUG Announcements
: Subject: [nylug-announce] NYLUG Presents: 6/14 @ 6:30PM Roberto Sanchez on An
: Introduction to Easy iptables Management with Shorewall
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: Thursday, June 14, 2012
: 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
: Chelsea Market Office
: 75 Ninth Ave, 2nd Floor
: NY, NY 10011
: *** RSVP Closes at 4:30 PM the day of the meeting (sharp!) ***
: Please RSVP for EVERY meeting at this time.
: Register at http://rsvp.nylug.org/ or
: http://www.meetup.com/nylug-meetings/events/46911322/
:
: Roberto Sanchez
: - on -
: An Introduction to Easy
: iptables Management with Shorewall
:
: Shorewall is a gateway/firewall configuration tool for GNU/Linux. This
: talk will cover the basics of getting and installing Shorewall along with
: some of the more straightforward and common configurations (e.g., using
: Shorewall on a gateway system to provide firewalling services between your
: LAN and the Internet). The emphasis is on the easy nature of Shorewall
: configuration and how Shorewall assists the administrator. A very brief
: overview will also be provided of some Shorewall's more advanced features.
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: More Information:
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: * Shorewall
: http://www.shorewall.net/
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: * Netfilter (iptables)
: http://www.netfilter.org/
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: * Linux Advanced Routing and Traffic Control Howto
: http://lartc.org/
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: About Roberto Sanchez:
: Roberto became a Debian user in 2002 while taking a graduate-level software
: engineering class; eventually becoming a Debian Developer in 2007. In 2006
: he started Connexer, Ltd., a one-man show providing IT consulting services
: specializing in open source. Since then he has continued as an active
: contributor to Debian in various capacities (and currently maintains 51
: packages in Debian) and provides consulting services to clients in a wide
: variety of market sectors.

b) High Performance Computing for Wall Street 2012
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Date: Wed, Sep 19, 2012

Where: Roosevelt Hotel, NYC

For information and complimentary online registration visit:
http://www.flaggmgmt.com/hpc

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4. UPCOMING MEETINGS
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We have a series of meetings in the works:

- Planning: AMD Processor Roadmap
- Planning: DNS / Dynamic DNS
- Planning: Building a Data Server with Oracle/Sun ZFS
- Planning: Oracle/Sun VirtualBox
- Planning: IPsec and VPNs (possibly 2 meetings)
- Planning: Trading with the FIX Protocol
- Planning: Real-Time Hardware Acceleration: FPGAs, DSPs and GPUs
- Planning: Cloud and Grid Computing
- Planning: Fibrechannel and Infiniband
- Planning: Unix/Linux Authentication
- Planning: NO SPAM!
- Planning: Crypto / PKI / GPG-PGP
- Planning: Anti-Virus
- Planning: The latest on *BSD (FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD)
- Unix/Linux/BSD Clusters and Clustered Databases
- Patching and Updating Unix/Linux/BSD (rpm. yum, yast, etc.)
- Building Custom Kernels Unix/Linux/BSD
- Linux Clustering Part 3: Beowulf
- Building a Firewall using FreeBSD and Linux
- LAMP Part 2 - PHP/Python
- Unix 40th+ Birthday Celebration
- Samba
- High Performance Internet Servers / Web Acceleration
- Unix Office Tools: Word Processors, Spreadsheets, Accounting Packages.
- GNU Development Environments
- iSCSI, and other new peripheral technologies
- Java and/or JavaScript Programming

** Unigroup Needs Speakers!!
Please let us know about any other meeting topics that you may be
interested in. Potential speakers on Unix/Linux/BSD related
technology topics should please contact the Unigroup Board.

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5. UNIGROUP INFORMATION
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Unigroup is one of the oldest and largest Unix User's Groups serving
the Greater New York City Regional Area since the early 1980s.
Unigroup is a not-for-profit, vendor-neutral and member funded
volunteer organization. Unigroup holds regular and special event
meetings throughout the year on technical topics relating to Unix
and the Unix/Linux/BSD User Community.

Unigroup holds regular meetings planned for (at a minimum) the Third
THURSDAY of Odd Months. We generally try to hold Field Trip or
Vendor Specific Meetings on the Even Months, although we do have the
ability to hold monthly meetings at our regular meeting location.

Planned regular meeting dates are (usually 3rd Thursdays):
6/21/2012, 7/19/2012, 9/20/2012, 11/15/2012, ...
Also watch for Special Event meetings and "Field Trips" to the
facilities of local hardware and software vendors.

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If you have recently attended a meeting and you are not receiving
Email announcements, please send us an Email and we will make
corrections to our lists.

Please Email the Board with any suggestions, especially potential
meeting topics and speakers. Unigroup welcomes contributions and
content suggestions for our newsletter. Unigroup is a volunteer
organization and we need your assistance! Please let us know if you
can help!

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-Rob Weiner
Unigroup Executive Director
unilist (-a_t-) unigroup.org
http://www.unigroup.org

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