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NYC local meeting: UNIGROUP 16-JUN-2016 (Thu): Solaris 11.3 Kernel Engineers Field-Trip
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Unigroup is this week on Thursday evening...
This will be a Field-Trip meeting to Oracle NYC...
Please RSVP if you will be attending...
=================================================================
UNIGROUP OF NEW YORK - UNIX USERS GROUP - JUNE 2016 ANNOUNCEMENTS
=================================================================
------------------------------------
1. UNIGROUP'S JUNE 2016 GENERAL MEETING
------------------------------------
-------------------------------------------------
Topic: Field Trip: Solaris 11.3 Kernel Engineers Meeting
-------------------------------------------------
Speakers: Solaris 11.3 Kernel Engineers,
Members of the Solaris Software Development Team,
Oracle Solaris <http://www.oracle.com>
When: Thursday, June 16th, 2016 (** Regular 3rd Thursday **)
Where: *** FIELD TRIP LOCATION ***
Oracle NYC Headquarters
120 Park Avenue
(1 block South from Grand Central Station,
Enter at North-West corner of East 41st Street)
Midtown, Manhattan
New York City
Meeting Room: To-be-announced
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.
INTRODUCTION:
-------------
Unigroup's June 2016 meeting will be a special Solaris 11.3
Kernel Engineers Meeting. Oracle Solaris Engineers are in
town this week for a full day Solaris Technical Day Event,
see below for the invite (free daytime NYC event on Tuesday
14-JUN-2016).
Note that our June 2016 meeting will be free to attend, and
open to the public, but we will need RSVPs for building
security.
Unigroup has a couple of interesting meetings in the works on
the following topics: Using Object Storage, The Latest C/C++
Standards, and The State of the C++ Ecosystem.
Stay tuned for those announcements.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS:
---------------------
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 our 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" (note: things tend to work out OK).
-------------------------------------------------------------------
MAIN PRESENTATION
-----------------
Topic: Oracle Solaris 11.3 Kernel Engineers Meeting
Related Topics/Keywords
------------------------
Solaris, Unix, Zones/Containers, ZFS, DTrace,
SPARC and x86 Hardware, Engineered Systems,
Operating System/Kernel Development.
Introduction & Description of Talk:
-----------------------------------
Various Solaris and Oracle/Sun topics, to be determined.
The Unigroup meeting is expected to cover different topics
than what was presented in the Solaris Tech Day presentations.
This special Field-Trip meeting will be free to attend.
Presentation Outline
--------------------
- To-be-determined
References & Web Resources:
---------------------------
Oracle Solaris 11.3:
http://www.oracle.com/solaris
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Speaker Biography
-----------------
To-be-announced.
See the Solaris Tech Day NYC Web Page for some information.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Company Biography
-----------------
To-be-announced.
For information about Oracle and Solaris 11.3, please visit:
http://www.oracle.com/solaris
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Giveaways:
----------
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.
Giveaways: To-be-determined.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Fee Schedule:
-------------
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.
MasterCard, VISA, Discover (since 2013).
! 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!
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Food:
-----
Complimentary Food and Refreshments will be served.
This normally 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.
Food: We expect that Oracle will provide food service for this
meeting, but the details are currently unknown.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Directions:
-----------
*** SPECIAL FIELD TRIP LOCATION ***
Location:
Oracle NYC Headquarters
120 Park Avenue
Midtown, Manhattan
New York City
Meeting Room: ** To-be-announced **
Directions:
Take Subway (4/5/6/7/Times Square Shuttle) to Grand Central Station.
From Grand Central Station,
walk South on Park Avenue for 1 block, to E41st Street.
Enter at the North-West corner of E41st Street.
-----
Please mark this meeting on your calendar and join us!
Please tell your friends about Unigroup!
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
--------------
2. PRIOR MEETINGS
--------------
** 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!
Our thanks goes to The Cooper Union School of Engineering,
and its staff, for hosting our meetings, at our regular location.
Out thanks goes to Oracle for hosting our June 2016 meeting.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
----------------------------
3. LOCAL TRADE SHOWS AND EVENTS
----------------------------
a) Oracle Solaris 11.3 Technical Day NYC (Free)
============================================
Date: Tue, Jun 14, 2016
Time: 08:30am - 06:00pm
Where: Marriott East Side
525 Lexington Avenue @ 49th Street
Midtown, NYC
New York, NY 10017
Room: Astor Room
For information and registration visit:
https://eventreg.oracle.com/profile/web/index.cfm?PKWebId=0x352432fb49
: Subject: NYC Technical Day with Oracle -- Solaris Deep Dive
:
: [Solaris Tech Day NYC]
:
: Join us for a day of technical discussions and exploration.
: Spend the day with our engineering team.
:
: Oracle Solaris 11.3 is the world's most advanced enterprise operating
: system comes with ten new features to reduce complexity and allow
: faster, more secure, application deployments - whether on premises or
: in a private or public cloud.
:
: Hear from the engineering team who build it.
:
: Markus Flierl, VP of Software Development, and his team will host
: and deliver a deep dive on our flagship OS. Join us as they zoom
: deep into Solaris 11.3.
:
: We'll take you in to the trenches of OpenStack, Unified Archives,
: Oracle Solaris Zones and Kernel Zones, and give you the tools to
: understand and implement Elastic Virtual Switch, compliance
: monitoring and reporting.
:
: During this event you will learn how to:
: * Build compliant, secure, and efficient clouds simply
: * Lock down hypervisor and guest environments.
: Stop malware before it gets in.
: * Incorporate a complete OpenStack distribution, bringing
: OpenStack functionality to enterprise environments
: * Deliver unique innovation and optimization for Oracle
: Database, Middleware and application deployments
:
: This event is intended for end-users
: (Server-Storage-Database-Administrators, Enterprise Architects,
: Data Center Managers and Developers) as well as Oracle partners.
:
: Attending this event is free of charge.
:
: Share this information
: If you think this event could also be of any interest for one or
: more of your colleagues, please don't hesitate to share this
: email with them.
:
: For questions about this event you can send an email to:
: Ann James <ann.james [-at-] oracle.com>
:
: Register Now
: https://eventreg.oracle.com/profile/web/index.cfm?PKWebId=0x352432fb49
:
: [Calendar]
: Tuesday, June 14, 2016
: 8:30 AM - 6:00 PM
:
: New York Marriott East Side
: 525 Lexington Avenue at 49th Street
: New York, NY 10017
: Astor Room
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-----------------
4. UPCOMING MEETINGS
-----------------
We have a series of meetings in the works:
- 2016????: Using Object Storage.
- 2016????: What's new in the latest C/C++ Standards.
- 2016????: The State of the C++ Ecosystem.
- Planning: Popular Linux Distribution Round-Up and Comparison
(aka: Are there too many Linux Distributions?)
- Planning: Building a Data Server with Oracle/Sun ZFS
- Planning: Virtualization: KVM, Xen/XenServer, VirtualBox
- Planning: DNS / Dynamic DNS
- Planning: Fibrechannel and iSCSI Storage
- Planning: IPsec and VPNs (possibly 2 meetings)
- Planning: Cloud and Grid Computing
- Planning: Unix/Linux Authentication
- Planning: NO SPAM!
- Planning: Crypto / PKI / GPG-PGP
- Planning: The latest on *BSD (FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD)
- Planning: The latest on Solaris
- Planning: Anti-Virus
- Unix/Linux/BSD Clusters and Clustered Databases
- Patching and Updating Unix/Linux/BSD (rpm. yum, yast, apt, etc.)
- Building Custom Kernels Unix/Linux/BSD
- 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
- Java and/or JavaScript Programming
- Web Development Frameworks
** 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.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
--------------------
5. UNIGROUP INFORMATION
--------------------
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 the
Unix/Linux/BSD Operating Systems and User Communities. Unigroup
meetings tend to be focused towards System Administrators, Network
Administrators, and Software Developers.
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):
06/16/2016, 07/??/2016, 09/15/2016, 10/20/2016, 11/17/2016...
Also watch for Special Event meetings and "Field Trips" to the
facilities of local hardware and software vendors.
=========================================================================
= For Unigroup Information, Events and Meeting Announcements be sure to =
= visit our World Wide Web Home Page: =
= http://www.unigroup.org =
=========================================================================
For further information or to get on the Unigroup Electronic Mail Mailing
List send an EMail message to:
unilist (-a_t-) unigroup.org
To contact the Board of Directors of Unigroup, send an EMail message to:
uniboard (-a_t-) unigroup.org
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!
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-Rob Weiner
Unigroup Executive Director
unilist (-a_t-) unigroup.org
http://www.unigroup.org
This will be a Field-Trip meeting to Oracle NYC...
Please RSVP if you will be attending...
=================================================================
UNIGROUP OF NEW YORK - UNIX USERS GROUP - JUNE 2016 ANNOUNCEMENTS
=================================================================
------------------------------------
1. UNIGROUP'S JUNE 2016 GENERAL MEETING
------------------------------------
-------------------------------------------------
Topic: Field Trip: Solaris 11.3 Kernel Engineers Meeting
-------------------------------------------------
Speakers: Solaris 11.3 Kernel Engineers,
Members of the Solaris Software Development Team,
Oracle Solaris <http://www.oracle.com>
When: Thursday, June 16th, 2016 (** Regular 3rd Thursday **)
Where: *** FIELD TRIP LOCATION ***
Oracle NYC Headquarters
120 Park Avenue
(1 block South from Grand Central Station,
Enter at North-West corner of East 41st Street)
Midtown, Manhattan
New York City
Meeting Room: To-be-announced
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.
INTRODUCTION:
-------------
Unigroup's June 2016 meeting will be a special Solaris 11.3
Kernel Engineers Meeting. Oracle Solaris Engineers are in
town this week for a full day Solaris Technical Day Event,
see below for the invite (free daytime NYC event on Tuesday
14-JUN-2016).
Note that our June 2016 meeting will be free to attend, and
open to the public, but we will need RSVPs for building
security.
Unigroup has a couple of interesting meetings in the works on
the following topics: Using Object Storage, The Latest C/C++
Standards, and The State of the C++ Ecosystem.
Stay tuned for those announcements.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS:
---------------------
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 our 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" (note: things tend to work out OK).
-------------------------------------------------------------------
MAIN PRESENTATION
-----------------
Topic: Oracle Solaris 11.3 Kernel Engineers Meeting
Related Topics/Keywords
------------------------
Solaris, Unix, Zones/Containers, ZFS, DTrace,
SPARC and x86 Hardware, Engineered Systems,
Operating System/Kernel Development.
Introduction & Description of Talk:
-----------------------------------
Various Solaris and Oracle/Sun topics, to be determined.
The Unigroup meeting is expected to cover different topics
than what was presented in the Solaris Tech Day presentations.
This special Field-Trip meeting will be free to attend.
Presentation Outline
--------------------
- To-be-determined
References & Web Resources:
---------------------------
Oracle Solaris 11.3:
http://www.oracle.com/solaris
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Speaker Biography
-----------------
To-be-announced.
See the Solaris Tech Day NYC Web Page for some information.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Company Biography
-----------------
To-be-announced.
For information about Oracle and Solaris 11.3, please visit:
http://www.oracle.com/solaris
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Giveaways:
----------
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.
Giveaways: To-be-determined.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Fee Schedule:
-------------
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.
MasterCard, VISA, Discover (since 2013).
! 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!
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Food:
-----
Complimentary Food and Refreshments will be served.
This normally 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.
Food: We expect that Oracle will provide food service for this
meeting, but the details are currently unknown.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Directions:
-----------
*** SPECIAL FIELD TRIP LOCATION ***
Location:
Oracle NYC Headquarters
120 Park Avenue
Midtown, Manhattan
New York City
Meeting Room: ** To-be-announced **
Directions:
Take Subway (4/5/6/7/Times Square Shuttle) to Grand Central Station.
From Grand Central Station,
walk South on Park Avenue for 1 block, to E41st Street.
Enter at the North-West corner of E41st Street.
-----
Please mark this meeting on your calendar and join us!
Please tell your friends about Unigroup!
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
--------------
2. PRIOR MEETINGS
--------------
** 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!
Our thanks goes to The Cooper Union School of Engineering,
and its staff, for hosting our meetings, at our regular location.
Out thanks goes to Oracle for hosting our June 2016 meeting.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
----------------------------
3. LOCAL TRADE SHOWS AND EVENTS
----------------------------
a) Oracle Solaris 11.3 Technical Day NYC (Free)
============================================
Date: Tue, Jun 14, 2016
Time: 08:30am - 06:00pm
Where: Marriott East Side
525 Lexington Avenue @ 49th Street
Midtown, NYC
New York, NY 10017
Room: Astor Room
For information and registration visit:
https://eventreg.oracle.com/profile/web/index.cfm?PKWebId=0x352432fb49
: Subject: NYC Technical Day with Oracle -- Solaris Deep Dive
:
: [Solaris Tech Day NYC]
:
: Join us for a day of technical discussions and exploration.
: Spend the day with our engineering team.
:
: Oracle Solaris 11.3 is the world's most advanced enterprise operating
: system comes with ten new features to reduce complexity and allow
: faster, more secure, application deployments - whether on premises or
: in a private or public cloud.
:
: Hear from the engineering team who build it.
:
: Markus Flierl, VP of Software Development, and his team will host
: and deliver a deep dive on our flagship OS. Join us as they zoom
: deep into Solaris 11.3.
:
: We'll take you in to the trenches of OpenStack, Unified Archives,
: Oracle Solaris Zones and Kernel Zones, and give you the tools to
: understand and implement Elastic Virtual Switch, compliance
: monitoring and reporting.
:
: During this event you will learn how to:
: * Build compliant, secure, and efficient clouds simply
: * Lock down hypervisor and guest environments.
: Stop malware before it gets in.
: * Incorporate a complete OpenStack distribution, bringing
: OpenStack functionality to enterprise environments
: * Deliver unique innovation and optimization for Oracle
: Database, Middleware and application deployments
:
: This event is intended for end-users
: (Server-Storage-Database-Administrators, Enterprise Architects,
: Data Center Managers and Developers) as well as Oracle partners.
:
: Attending this event is free of charge.
:
: Share this information
: If you think this event could also be of any interest for one or
: more of your colleagues, please don't hesitate to share this
: email with them.
:
: For questions about this event you can send an email to:
: Ann James <ann.james [-at-] oracle.com>
:
: Register Now
: https://eventreg.oracle.com/profile/web/index.cfm?PKWebId=0x352432fb49
:
: [Calendar]
: Tuesday, June 14, 2016
: 8:30 AM - 6:00 PM
:
: New York Marriott East Side
: 525 Lexington Avenue at 49th Street
: New York, NY 10017
: Astor Room
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-----------------
4. UPCOMING MEETINGS
-----------------
We have a series of meetings in the works:
- 2016????: Using Object Storage.
- 2016????: What's new in the latest C/C++ Standards.
- 2016????: The State of the C++ Ecosystem.
- Planning: Popular Linux Distribution Round-Up and Comparison
(aka: Are there too many Linux Distributions?)
- Planning: Building a Data Server with Oracle/Sun ZFS
- Planning: Virtualization: KVM, Xen/XenServer, VirtualBox
- Planning: DNS / Dynamic DNS
- Planning: Fibrechannel and iSCSI Storage
- Planning: IPsec and VPNs (possibly 2 meetings)
- Planning: Cloud and Grid Computing
- Planning: Unix/Linux Authentication
- Planning: NO SPAM!
- Planning: Crypto / PKI / GPG-PGP
- Planning: The latest on *BSD (FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD)
- Planning: The latest on Solaris
- Planning: Anti-Virus
- Unix/Linux/BSD Clusters and Clustered Databases
- Patching and Updating Unix/Linux/BSD (rpm. yum, yast, apt, etc.)
- Building Custom Kernels Unix/Linux/BSD
- 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
- Java and/or JavaScript Programming
- Web Development Frameworks
** 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.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
--------------------
5. UNIGROUP INFORMATION
--------------------
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 the
Unix/Linux/BSD Operating Systems and User Communities. Unigroup
meetings tend to be focused towards System Administrators, Network
Administrators, and Software Developers.
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):
06/16/2016, 07/??/2016, 09/15/2016, 10/20/2016, 11/17/2016...
Also watch for Special Event meetings and "Field Trips" to the
facilities of local hardware and software vendors.
=========================================================================
= For Unigroup Information, Events and Meeting Announcements be sure to =
= visit our World Wide Web Home Page: =
= http://www.unigroup.org =
=========================================================================
For further information or to get on the Unigroup Electronic Mail Mailing
List send an EMail message to:
unilist (-a_t-) unigroup.org
To contact the Board of Directors of Unigroup, send an EMail message to:
uniboard (-a_t-) unigroup.org
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!
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-Rob Weiner
Unigroup Executive Director
unilist (-a_t-) unigroup.org
http://www.unigroup.org
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