There Are a Bunch of Members Here, Anyone Up For an Actual Meeting?

[David Schlesinger]

Just wondering. I moved to Bakersfield recently, I do a lot of Linux-related work, and it'd be nice to talk to some folks who are interested in such things...

My web site's at http://mcfate.us, my blog is at http://acme-dot.com

[Douglas James]

I'd be interested in a meet up, it'd be nice to talk Linux without someone glazing over from windows brainwashing lol.

[thatcadguy]

Count me in. We should just start meeting once a month or something, even if there are only a few of us. Talk Linux, programming, tech, etc.

[Tony Sosa]

I'd love come and meet up with you all! Just out of curiosity, has anyone considered creating a local linux fb group?

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[Jason Spivey]

I'm always up for a meeting. 

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[thatcadguy]

Well I'd say 5 is more than a great start. What'd everybody have in mind? Never actually been to a LUG meeting before, but envisioned we could meet at a pizza place or something on a weeknight. I'm pretty open though time/food wise, I'll eat about anything.

On Sunday, January 1, 2017 at 3:48:35 PM UTC-8, David Schlesinger wrote:

[Micheal Kinney]

I'd be interested in a BLUG meetup. I also am part of the JavaScript Meetup group, and they meet at MESH Cowork downtown and they also have classes. There's always a few guys in there familiar with linux.

I just finished setting up a FreeNAS server (running on top of FreeBSD) which I setup as a PDC (Primary Domain Controller) --crap on documentation for this--, Virtualization server (web based/headless using phpvirtualbox), with four NICs in a Load balanced LAGG (for fail-over and more throughput to one IP), and DNS forwarder/server. It's really kind of awesome. I also highly customized the web interface to fit my needs and be a central access point. This is probably my funnest project right now. I love Linux.

WARNING RANT (you can skip this, lol): It's a legit/legal way to have a Domain Controller and manage Windows/Linux/Mac machines (from Linux and/or MS Admin Tools through another Windows box, which can be a VM) at a fraction of the cost.. the cheapest Windows server OS is like $700, then you need CALs for each machine that connects to it, then SA agreements, and a bunch of other hoopla, then you need another server/machine for Virtualization because of how heavy a Windows PDC is (overhead) and get another box if you want a SAN/NAS. FreeNAS is all that and more with low overhead with a web interface (awesome)... it work amazingly. A Dell Poweredge R710 with 2x Xeon Quad Cores, 72GB RAM, 12TB storage (6 drives) with a H310 Raid card cost me $405. That's cheaper than buying the 6x 2TB drives alone. To be even extra cheap, I took out the stock screws from the dell and mounted the bad-boy to a vertical wall mount rack ($30, which is less than it would have costed me for the server rack rails) which is also crazy great on space. I use a VM for VPN connections (instead of a pricey switch with 'less' features), a cheap ($50) TKIP load-balancer/switch (which can bond multiple internet connections together).. FYI: bonding two crappy connections gives you an amazing almost business class connection with amazing reliability (low latency and no single computer can crap out the network--like by simply using YouTube and yes it happens) on the cheapness. The goal of this project was to build the best setup for the least money (minus time). Food for thought for anyone interested. I occasionally rant and for that I apologize. I do love tech.

 

If anyone has an idea on a time and place, let me know.

Thanks,

Micheal

[Micheal Kinney]

Of course you still have to buy the Windows licenses, but OEM works just fine. One caveat is each machine needs to be running Windows Pro or higher (home has no security features and will not join a domain).

[thatcadguy]

Just throwing this out there as a possibility because I don't want to see this die:

Could anyone make Wednesday January 25th at Cubbies Pizza on Hageman? Like 6-6:30 ish?

Again, open to suggestions, just not seeing anyone suggesting a time/place. Hoping some of you guys see this this weekend when you're probably not working.

On Sunday, January 1, 2017 at 3:48:35 PM UTC-8, David Schlesinger wrote:

[Micheal Kinney]

I've never been to Cubbies, but that works for me.. both the time and place, but I'd shoot more for 6:30pm. Unless anything changes, I'll meet you guys there (whoever shows up).

And I'll check with the guys at MESH next time I'm there to see if they'd be okay with making room for the Linux guys.. lol. I go to their monthly JavaScript meetup, also at 6:30 PM every third Thursday.

I'm sure they wouldn't mind expanding out to another technical group of peoples, after all the circles pretty much overlap.

As another thought, it might be worth making a meetup page to handle RSVP's and such.

Thanks.

[Douglas James]

I'd love to go, unfortunately my work schedules me 5 weeks in advance (perma-closer), hopefully there will be another meeting I can attend!

[Justin Brown]

Is this a family friendly event? 

On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 3:59 PM, Douglas James <douglas...@gmail.com> wrote:

I'd love to go,  unfortunately my work schedules me 5 weeks in advance (perma-closer),  hopefully there will be another meeting I can attend!

[thatcadguy]

Hi Justin, I don't see why not. Cubbie's is a pretty standard pizza joint and we'll just be talking tech/computers etc. I was planning on having a beer or two but won't get rowdy or anything. I wasn't going to bring my wife though if that's what you mean.

On Tuesday, January 17, 2017 at 9:39:35 AM UTC-8, Justin Brown wrote:

Is this a family friendly event? 

On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 3:59 PM, Douglas James <douglas...@gmail.com> wrote:

I'd love to go,  unfortunately my work schedules me 5 weeks in advance (perma-closer),  hopefully there will be another meeting I can attend!

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[Micheal Kinney]

Looks pretty family friendly me, but I wont be bringing my wife either.. she'd be kind of out of her element and board with Linux and geek speak but she'd probably be appreciative if I brought home a Calzone Pizza or something for her.

[Jake]

Yup, that's a big ditto here, my wife would be bored out of her mind.

On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 10:02 AM, Micheal Kinney <micheal.l...@gmail.com> wrote:

Looks pretty family friendly me, but I wont be bringing my wife either.. she'd be kind of out of her element and board with Linux and geek speak but she'd probably be appreciative if I brought home a Calzone Pizza or something for her.

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[Justin Brown]

Thanks for the response. I will probably be there. 

 

[Stone Mirror]

I'll have to see whether I can get a ride there and back, I can only rely on having a car on Saturdays at the moment...

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[Micheal Kinney]

Send me an email with your address and I can probably give you a ride. My email is micheal.l.c.kinney @ gmail.com and I can give you my phone number over email (for spam/security reasons). I live pretty central to Bakersfield.

[Jason Spivey]

Any consensus of when the meet up will be? I would prefer the weekend anytime. 

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Send me an email with your address and I can probably give you a ride. My email is micheal.l.c.kinney @ gmail.com and I can give you my phone number over email (for spam/security reasons). I live pretty central to Bakersfield.

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[Jake]

Hi Jason, we had planned for 6:30PM at Cubbies pizza this coming Wednesday. Would like to keep that since a few have agreed to come, but in future if people would rather meet on the weekends, that's fine by me. I just threw out a date/time/place so that we could have an initial meeting.

If the others (Michael, Justin) would like to postpone the meeting to next weekend (instead of Wednesday), we could do that. Really don't care, have a very open schedule outside of normal work hours. Like I said, just wanted to get some sort of arrangement out there so we could actually get together.

On Sat, Jan 21, 2017 at 2:37 PM, Jason Spivey <spiv...@gmail.com> wrote:

Any consensus of when the meet up will be? I would prefer the weekend anytime. 

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On Jan 19, 2017, at 15:13, Micheal Kinney <micheal.l...@gmail.com> wrote:

Send me an email with your address and I can probably give you a ride. My email is micheal.l.c.kinney @ gmail.com and I can give you my phone number over email (for spam/security reasons). I live pretty central to Bakersfield.

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[Jason Spivey]

Wednesday is good for me. Just throwing it out there. I wasn't sure if there was anything solid. 

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[thatcadguy]

Friendly reminder, meeting tonight at 6:30PM at Cubbies Pizza (https://goo.gl/maps/8vazbXVuJkB2)

[huero]

So how did the meeting go?   I'd be interested in attending but I don't drive and it's a ways away from me I'm in Farmersville.  If there are future meetings and I can find another Linux user around here that would like to go I'll definately come too.  I am a real newbie as far as linux goes well maybe a little bit more knowledgeable than a newbie but still don't know alot even though I've been using it for a few years..

Thanks!

[Jake]

Hi Huero, there were 3 of us, and we just talked about Linux and projects, work, for a bit. Would like to get another meeting going but it seems like interest has really died, haven't seen anyone else email for a bit besides Michael.

On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 11:19 PM, huero <garw...@gmail.com> wrote:

So how did the meeting go?   I'd be interested in attending but I don't drive and it's a ways away from me I'm in Farmersville.  If there are future meetings and I can find another Linux user around here that would like to go I'll definately come too.  I am a real newbie as far as linux goes well maybe a little bit more knowledgeable than a newbie but still don't know alot even though I've been using it for a few years..

Thanks!

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[Jason Spivey]

I always read, just not respond quickly. I am always willing to go if it is not too late. 

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