moin moin, see below. ciao, der.hans -- # https://www.LuftHans.com/ http://www.CiscoLearning.org/ # Join the League of Professional System Administrators! https://LOPSA.org/ # Schließlich verteidigt Amerika Freiheit. Und Freiheit beginnt mit dem Wort. # -- Gunter Grass ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2006 17:57:40 -0700 (MST) From: plug-announce@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us To: PLUG-announce@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us Subject: [PLUG-announce] Apr Events moin moin, This month we have presentations on Firefox and XUL as well as GNU/Linux on the enterprise desktop at Google. Next month we've already lined up a report on the Desktop Linux Summit taking place this month and a presentation on fighting spam with greylisting. When: Thursday, 06Apr2006, 19:00, PLUG Devel Where: Adtron Corporation, 4415 E. Cotton Center Blvd, Ste. 100, Tempe Speaker: Jonathon Arney, Shamrock Foods Topic: An introduction to XPCOM, XUL, and SVG under Firefox Network: wired and wireless Recurring: the first Thursday of every month Details: An introduction to XPCOM, XUL, and SVG under Firefox Speaker Bio: Jonathan Arney has worked as a software engineer for 12 years and been a Linux user/programmer for 10. Jon's software development experience has been mainly C and C++ working with distribution and logistics systems. Jon now works for Shamrock Foods leading the Linux software development team. When: Thursday, 13Apr2006, 19:00, PLUG East Side Where: Sequoia Charter School, 1460 S Horne, Room 804, Mesa Speaker: Vince Busam, Google Topic: Linux Desktop in the Enterprise Network: wired and wireless Recurring: the second Thursday of every month Details: Linux Desktop in the Enterprise - This will cover aspects of Google's internal enterprise environment. This encompasses rolling out and maintaining thousands of Desktop Linux machines, the changes and bug fixes necessary in our environment, how Google works with the Linux community to incorporate our fixes upstream, and a look at some of the remaining unsolved problems hurting Linux installations. Speaker Bio: Vince Busam is a Systems Engineer at Google, where he works on deploying and improving Linux on the enterprise desktop. He previously worked for Los Angeles based PhatNoise developing embedded Linux applications for in-car multimedia entertainment systems. Before that, he founded Los Angeles based Scour, a leading multimedia search engine. Notes: Vince is based out of our Santa Monica, CA office. PLUG thanks Google for flying Vince in specifically for the presentation and thanks Pat Eugenis at Google for arranging the presentation. PLUG also thanks Google for the many giveaways Google is supplying for the meeting: a lava lamp; 2 USB drives (thumb drives); 2 travel mugs; 2 tins of Google Goo; 2 Google caps; 2 license plate frames. When: Tuesday, 18Apr2006, 19:00, GNU/Linux Stammtisch Where: Plaid Eatery, 1044 S Terrace Road, Tempe Network: wireless Recurring: the third Tuesday of every month Details: The GNU/Linux Stammtisch is a social environment for Linux, *BSD and Free Software enthusiasts. When: Saturday, 29Apr2006, 10:00 to 16:00, InstallFest Where: University of Advancing Technology (UAT), 2625 West Baseline Rd, Tempe Network: wired Recurring: the LAST Saturday of every month Details: Bring your computer system down to have PLUG voluteers install a full working Linux distribution. We can also help solve configuration problems or other issues. Please RSVP to InstallFest@PLUG.phoenix.az.us describing what you would like done prior to coming. That way we can be sure to have people with the right knowledge and experience there to help. Announcements: PLUG is happy to announce a new mailing list directed at Free Software application use on any operating system. The mailing list was inspired by a request from the East Valley Associations' LUG, EVALUG, for something more desktop oriented. Please see the PLUG web site to sign up for any of our mailing lists. May: When: Thursday, 11May2006, 19:00, PLUG East Side Where: Sequoia Charter School, 1460 S Horne, Room 804, Mesa Speaker: Scott Ruecker Topic: Desktop Linux Summit report Speaker: Darrin Chandler Topic: Fighting SPAM using greylisting with OpenBSD's spamd Network: wired and wireless Recurring: the second Thursday of every month Details: The 4th Annual Desktop Linux Summit is on the 24th and 25th of April in San Diego. Scott will be attending and will give PLUG a report about what he saw at DLS 2006. Speaker Bio: Scott Ruecker aka "sharkscott" lives in Phoenix, Arizona. Is a Special Education Major at Arizona State University and claims to have taken way too many history classes. He works as a sales rep for a large OEM, tries to pronounce "Linux" correctly and plays Drums in a rock-n-roll band every Saturday night. First exposed to OSS when he heard about "This Linux Thing" in 2002. Got his start on the Fedora Cores, Ku-Ubuntu and then to SuSE. Has used SuSE since 9.1 and thinks he likes it. Details: Fighting spam using greylisting with OpenBSD's spamd, plus other assorted tools. It's worked wonders for Darrin's current employer's email and his personal domains. Greylisting fights spam by initially giving a temporary failure message to unknown mail servers, causing them to queue for later delivery. Most spammers don't retry, so greylisting effectively blocks spam at the mail server. Speaker Bio: Darrin Chandler has been a computer professional for 20 years in the roles of software developer and system administrator. Darrin has been using Linux since 1996, and has administered Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD systems for small company servers and ISPs. ciao, der.hans -- # https://www.LuftHans.com/ http://www.CiscoLearning.org/ # Join the League of Professional System Administrators! https://LOPSA.org/ # History is nothing but a collection of fables and useless trifles, # cluttered up with a mass of unnecessary figures and proper names. # -- Leo Tolstoy _______________________________________________ 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