> BALUG: 2012-02-21: OpenPhoto Project - Jaisen Mathai; & other BALUG news
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> items, details further below:
> 2012-02-21: OpenPhoto Project - Jaisen Mathai
> 2012-03-20: Double-Take Availability for Linux by Vision Solutions
> book(s), CDs, and other "door prizes", etc.
> BALUG system upgrades & volunteering to help BALUG
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> BALUG is proud to announce, for our 2012-02-21 meeting we have:
> Data portability, the next frontier, and The OpenPhoto Project[1], by
> Jaisen Mathai[2]
> Putting users in control of their data means separating data storage
> from application logic. Doing so opens up possibilities which were
> previously impossible. Open data will do for the Internet what open
> source did for computing.
> Jaisen Mathai[2] is the founder of The OpenPhoto Project[1]: an
> open source, decentralized and federated photo platform. Prior to
> starting the project Jaisen was an engineer at [3]Yahoo! and
> before that he co-founded a photo startup.
> The OpenPhoto Project was accepted into Mozilla[4]'s WebFWD[8] program.
> Prior to joining WebFWD the project raised $25,000 on Kickstarter[9].
> All of the source code is available on Github[10].
> You can find more information about:
> The OpenPhoto Project at:
> http://theopenphotoproject.**org/ <http://theopenphotoproject.org/>
> and Jaisen Mathai at:
> http://www.jaisenmathai.com/
> 1. http://theopenphotoproject.**org/ <http://theopenphotoproject.org/>
> 2. http://www.jaisenmathai.com/
> 3. http://www.yahoo.com/
> 4. http://www.mozilla.org/
> 8. https://webfwd.org/
> 9. http://www.kickstarter.com/
> 10. https://github.com/
> So, if you'd like to join us please RSVP to:
> r...@balug.org
> **Why RSVP??**
> Well, don't worry we won't turn you away, but the RSVPs really help
> BALUG and the Four Seas Restaurant plan the meal and meeting, and with
> sufficient attendance, they also help ensure that we'll be able to eat
> upstairs in the private banquet room.
> Meeting Details...
> 6:30pm
> Tuesday, February 21st, 2012 2012-02-21
> Four Seas Restaurant http://www.fourseasr.com/
> 731 Grant Ave.
> San Francisco, CA 94108
> Easy PARKING:
> Portsmouth Square Garage at 733 Kearny:
> http://www.sfpsg.com/
> Cost: The meetings are always free, but for dinner, for your gift of $13
> cash, we give you a gift of dinner - joining us for a yummy
> family-style Chinese dinner - tax and tip included (your gift
> also helps in our patronizing the restaurant venue).
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> BALUG is proud to announce, for our 2012-03-20 meeting we have:
> A technical presentation by Vision Solutions[1] on Double-Take
> Availability for Linux[2].
> Double-Take Availability for Linux is a continuous, byte-level
> replication and failover software product. As it can monitor changes
> to any data files, it can protect any application - DB or others.
> The replication is from source to target server. Each server is
> licensed and has the software installed. Configuration of what data to
> replicate and what failover parameters are to be used is accomplished
> by a universal console that can run on any Windows platform - PC,
> laptop, server, etc. The console doesn't need to run on the servers
> being protected. Source and target servers can be in the same room or
> across any geographic distance - over any TCP/IP network.
> As Availability is considered a high availability product, RPOs are
> typically in the near-zero range because the data changes are captured
> and transmitted continuously. RTO (or failover) is typically in the
> seconds to minutes range.
> Vision Solutions currently supports most releases of RHEL, Oracle
> Linux, CentOS, SUSE with the Ext and XFS file systems. These
> distributions are supported on physical and virtual environments.
> Here is a short data sheet on the product:
> http://pdf.visionsolutions.**com/pdfs/us-double-take-**
> availability-for-linux.pdf<http://pdf.visionsolutions.com/pdfs/us-double-take-availability-for-l...>
> and website has several white papers also:
> http://www.visionsolutions.**com/Popular-Resources/**Whitepapers.aspx<http://www.visionsolutions.com/Popular-Resources/Whitepapers.aspx>
> 1. http://www.visionsolutions.**com/ <http://www.visionsolutions.com/>
> 2. http://www.visionsolutions.**com/Products/DT-Avail-Lin.aspx<http://www.visionsolutions.com/Products/DT-Avail-Lin.aspx>
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> book(s), CDs, and other "door prizes", etc.
> Book(s) - from No Starch Press, we received for review:
> _The Linux Command Line_
> A Complete Introduction
> by William E. Shotts, Jr.
> January 2012, 480 pp.
> ISBN: 978-1-59327-389-7
> http://www.nostarch.com/tlcl.**htm <http://www.nostarch.com/tlcl.htm>
> Additional goodies we'll have at the meeting (at least the following):
> CDs, etc. - have a peek here:
> http://www.wiki.balug.org/**wiki/doku.php?id=balug:cds_**and_images_etc<http://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=balug:cds_and_images_etc>
> We do also have some additional give-away items, and may have
> "door prizes".
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> BALUG system upgrades & volunteering to help BALUG
> BALUG has some system upgrades (mostly operating system upgrades) coming
> in its future.
> For most of the information on that, have a look at posts on or after
> 2012-01-22 on the SF-LUG[1] list[2]
> with the string:
> SF-LUG & BALUG: System OS upgrades
> in the Subject: header
> Want to volunteer to help out BALUG? (quite a variety of opportunities
> exist, including the above) Drop us a note at:
> balug-cont...@balug.org
> Or come talk to us at a BALUG meeting.
> 1. http://www.sf-lug.com/ http://www.sf-lug.org/
> 2. http://linuxmafia.com/mailman/**listinfo/sf-lug<http://linuxmafia.com/mailman/listinfo/sf-lug>
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> should get our information out that we're not presently reaching, or
> things we should do differently): publicity-feedb...@balug.org
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