moin, moin, See bottom for summaries and bios. EAST SIDE MEETING, rescheduled The August east side meeting at Sequoia was rescheduled to Thursday, the 21st. When: Thursday, the 21st of August, 19:00 Where: Sequoia Charter School, 1460 S Horne in Mesa Topic: 10 years of debian Presenter: der.hans WEST SIDE MEETING The August west side meeting will be "Customizing Knoppix" from Austin Godber. '10 years of debian' was scheduled, but it has been pushed back to September. When: Tuesday, the 26th of August, 19:00 Where: Glendale Community College, 6000 W. Olive Ave., Glendale Topic: Customizing Knoppix Presenter: Austin Godber ***SPECIAL EVENT***: Introduction to GNU Enterprise Derek Neighbors, project leader for GNU Enterprise, will give a 6 hour introduction to the GNU Enterprise Applications Framework and its components. http://www.GNUe.org/~dneighbo/gnue/workshop.html When: Saturday, the 30th of August, 10:00 to 17:00 Where: Elite PC, 1335 S. McClintock in Tempe Topic: GNU Enterprise Presenter: Derek Neighbors Register: derek@gnue.org Sponsors: AZOTO, http://www.AZOTO.org; Elite PC , http://www.elitepc.com/ September: The East side meeting at Sequoia will be "Customizing Knoppix" by Austin Godber. on Thursday, the 11th of September. The west side meeting at GCC will be "10 years of debian" on Tuesday, the 23rd of September. There's also the GNU/Linux Stammtisch at Bandersnatch on Tuesday, the 16th. Planned upcoming topics: MythOS, fwbuilder All general meetings start at 19:00. The GNU Enterprise workshop starts at 10:00. There is no charge for general meetings and they are open to the public. Summary - 10 years of debian -- debian turned 10 on 16Aug2003. The presentation will cover a short historical perspective on debian and a guide to the current start of the art. When it was released debian was meant to be maintained as a Free Software project. To that end debian has spent 10 years as a distribution built and maintained by a worldwide community of volunteers. It started as a small group, but now has 1,100 'debian developers' with another 200 people being processed. debian now has 12,000 packages and is officially available for 11 different hardware platforms. It is also available for 4 different kernels. debian is also the base distribution for Knoppix, a Live-on-CD GNU/Linux distribution, and Tucson's Open Source Educcation Foundation's Knoppix for Kids, a Live-on-CD GNU/Linux distributoin meant for kids, parents, and teachers. Bio -- der.hans is a Free Software consultant specializing in training and GNU/Linux. He has been using UNIX for 10 years and GNU/Linux for 8. He is on the steering committee for PLUG and gives presentations for multiple computer organizations in Arizona. He is also CEO for AZOTO, http://www.AZOTO.org/, a non-profit dedicated to promoting Free Software and Open Standards in the state of Arizona. Hans is currently investigating starting a business that offers support contracts for Free Software. https://www.LuftHans.com/ Summary - Customizing Knoppix -- Knoppix is a Debian based Live-on-CD Linux distribution. Just pop it in a CD drive, reboot, and you have a fully functional Linux demo, rescue disk, backup server or Linux Workstation. Anyone can make a custom Knoppix CD to suit their needs. All you need is at least 6GB of hardrive space and about 1GB total RAM (physical + swap). A Knoppix disc can also be "branded" to promote your LUG, company or product. A simple branding would only modify the images and HTML on the original Knoppix disc. This presentation will address the issues involved in making a Custom Knoppix CD as well as branding Knoppix. I will also release some helpful scripts that will aid in these tasks. In fact, to date, I have scripts that enable me to brand a Knoppix disc just by running three scripts on a Knoppix ISO (assuming you have the images prepared). Check http://uberhip.com/people/godber/plug/ for updates. Bio -- Austin is a Faculty Research Associate in the Distributed Operating Systems group at Arizona State University. He has published work on 802.11b network security and continues to work in the field among other things. He graduated from ASU in 2000 with a BS in Physics where he received an award for research in nuclear physics. He has used Linux since 1995 (Linux Counter #29452) where he started off with Slackware, moved to Redhat and now has largely switched to Debian (via Knoppix), but is friend to all distributions, editors, progamming languages ... and of course ladies ;). Yes, all of the above is true and only slightly exaggerated. Summary - GNU Enterprise workshop -- This exciting six hour workshop will introduce the GNU Enterprise Application Framework and its components. It will provide a foundation for business application developers to rapidly build cross-platform database neutral business applications. Existing knowledge of relational database technologies is helpful, but not required. No prior programming experience is necessary, but prior software development with any language and platform is beneficial. There is absolutely no charge to attend this workshop. It is offerred on a first come, first server basis. Feedback will strongly be encourages as more formal course work and possibly certification classes are in the works. You can register by emailing derek@gnue.org. http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/ Maps and more information about meeting locations: http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/modules.php?op=modload&name=FAQ&file=index&myfaq=yes&id_cat=1&categories=General+Plug+Questions&parent_id=0#3 ciao, der.hans -- # https://www.LuftHans.com/ http://www.AZOTO.org/ # Science is magic explained. - der.hans _______________________________________________ PLUG-announce mailing list - PLUG-announce@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce PLUG Website at http://plug.phoenix.az.us