First Topic: zsh - Rick Harding

From Wikipedia: "The Z shell (zsh) is a Unix shell that can be used as an interactive login shell and as a powerful command interpreter for shell scripting. Zsh can be thought of as an extended Bourne shell with a large number of improvements, including some features of bash, ksh, and tcsh."

This month, MUG's own Rick Harding will be showing us all kinds of cool features in what has become his favorite shell.

Main Topic: LMMS - Linux Multi-Media Studio

While prepping for a talk about what he used to create music under Linux, Craig fired up a program that he hadn't used in years. What he saw blew his little mind, and now he's on a rampage to share his findings. That program is LMMS, and it will hopefully blow your mind in this presentation.

LMMS is a free cross-platform alternative to commercial programs like FL Studio®, which allow you to produce music with your computer. This includes the creation of melodies and beats, the synthesis and mixing of sounds, and arranging of samples. You can have fun with your MIDI-keyboard and much more; all in a user-friendly and modern interface.

MUG member Craig Maloney will be giving us a thoroughly entertaining and informative presentation on the LMMS project.

Command of the month: ps

In this month's Unix Command Line session, Duane Brown will tell us how he uses ps and seek insights into how you use it. ( rescheduled from last month due to time constraints )

Everything Else
As usual we'll discuss any current happenings in the Linux community, have our book giveaway, and plan on some dinner after the meeting where you can hammer our speakers with the hard hitting questions they deserve.

If you have topics for future meetings you would like us to cover please email the board, thanks.

Where:

The MUG meetings are held at:

Farmington Community Library - Main Branch
32737 W. 12 Mile Rd.
Farmington Hills, MI 48334-3302

Click here for a map of the area.

When:

the meetings are on the 2nd Tuesday of each month.

6:00pm	Doors open, registration
6:30pm	Meeting starts, Mug business
6:45pm	Main presentation
8:15pm	2nd Presentation
8:45pm	Meeting adjourns
9:00pm	Dinner at a local establishment

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Monthly, on the second Tuesday, we get together at the Main Branch of the Farmington Community Library. The meeting consists of a primary topic, a secondary topic, and the Unix/Linux shell command of the month.

Details of the next meeting coming soon

Everything Else
As usual we'll discuss any current happenings in the Linux community, have our book giveaway, and plan on some dinner after the meeting where you can hammer our speakers with the hard hitting questions they deserve.

If you have topics for future meetings you would like us to cover please email the board, thanks.

Where:

The MUG meetings are held at:

Farmington Community Library - Main Branch
32737 W. 12 Mile Rd.
Farmington Hills, MI 48334-3302

Click here for a map of the area.

When:

the meetings are on the 2nd Tuesday of each month.

6:00pm	Doors open, registration
6:30pm	Meeting starts, Mug business
6:45pm	Main presentation
8:15pm	2nd Presentation
8:45pm	Meeting adjourns
9:00pm	Dinner at a local establishment

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Main Topic: LMMS - Linux Multi-Media Studio

While prepping for a talk about what he used to create music under Linux, Craig fired up a program that he hadn't used in years. What he saw blew his little mind, and now he's on a rampage to share his findings. That program is LMMS, and it will hopefully blow your mind in this presentation.

LMMS is a free cross-platform alternative to commercial programs like FL Studio®, which allow you to produce music with your computer. This includes the creation of melodies and beats, the synthesis and mixing of sounds, and arranging of samples. You can have fun with your MIDI-keyboard and much more; all in a user-friendly and modern interface.

MUG member Craig Maloney will be giving us a thoroughly entertaining and informative presentation on the LMMS project.

Secondary Topic: BerkeleyTIP

Gibson Nichols, aka: Gib mentioned Berkeley TIP last month, what is it and why do I care? Gib is going to give us an executive briefing on the Berkeley TIP project.(Gibs outline)

Elections:

Command of the month: ps

In this month's Unix Command Line session, Duane Brown will tell us how he uses ps and seek insights into how you use it. ( rescheduled from last month due to time constraints )

Future meetings - Topics and Speakers needed!

Last month ideas for future meeting topics were flying around. I scribbled some notes, here is what I got, if you have any other ideas please let us know.

• Gib mentioned a web dev tool httrack. An open source package that allows you to copy a web site. http://httrack.com/
• Itil - library of best practices
• encrypted file systems

Everything Else
As usual we'll discuss any current happenings in the Linux community, have our book giveaway, and plan on some dinner after the meeting where you can hammer our speakers with the hard hitting questions they deserve.

If you have topics for future meetings you would like us to cover please email the board, thanks.

Where:

The MUG meetings are held at:

Farmington Community Library - Main Branch
32737 W. 12 Mile Rd.
Farmington Hills, MI 48334-3302

Click here for a map of the area.

When:

the meetings are on the 2nd Tuesday of each month.

6:00pm	Doors open, registration
6:30pm	Meeting starts, Mug business
6:45pm	Main presentation
8:15pm	2nd Presentation
8:45pm	Meeting adjourns
9:00pm	Dinner at a local establishment

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Monthly, on the second Tuesday, we get together at the Main Branch of the Farmington Community Library. The meeting consists of a primary topic, a secondary topic, and the Unix/Linux shell command of the month.

Details of the next meeting coming soon

Everything Else
As usual we'll discuss any current happenings in the Linux community, have our book giveaway, and plan on some dinner after the meeting where you can hammer our speakers with the hard hitting questions they deserve.

If you have topics for future meetings you would like us to cover please email the board, thanks.

Where:

The MUG meetings are held at:

Farmington Community Library - Main Branch
32737 W. 12 Mile Rd.
Farmington Hills, MI 48334-3302

Click here for a map of the area.

When:

the meetings are on the 2nd Tuesday of each month.

6:00pm	Doors open, registration
6:30pm	Meeting starts, Mug business
6:45pm	Main presentation
8:15pm	2nd Presentation
8:45pm	Meeting adjourns
9:00pm	Dinner at a local establishment

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Main Topic: The How and Why of "distributed version control' systems, featuring Git

Wolf, (nee Scott Collins) will be covering the why and how of 'distributed version control' systems, and specifically Git with live demonstration of the personal use case, branching, merging, rebasing, and cooperating with others; and even a brief foray into the mechanics of a Git repository. You will leave this talk ready to use Git for yourself.

Git presentation PDF

Secondary Topic: - LTSP - Past Present and Future

The Linux Terminal Server Project adds thin-client support to Linux servers. LTSP is a flexible, cost effective solution that is empowering schools, businesses, and organizations all over the world to easily install and deploy desktop workstations. A growing number of Linux distributions include LTSP out-of-the-box.

Alex Colcernian is the Director of Marketing and Sales at DisklessWorkstations.com. DisklessWorkstations.com, founded alongside the Linux Terminal Server Project (LTSP) in 1999, provides thin client hardware and solutions. DisklessWorkstations.com is a global leader in LTSP and Open Source deployments, serving businesses, government, non-profits, and schools.

Alex will be showing the following:

• Efficient Usage Of Compute Resources, Running applications on the Server and on the client.
• Multimedia Capabilities - Where Local Applications shine
  • Java
  • Flash
  • Other Applications
• Introduce LTSP Cluster
• Demonstration of thin clients

Command of the month: ps

In this month's Unix Command Line session, Duane Brown will tell us how he uses ps and seek insights into how you use it.

MUG Business

open the floor to nominations for the board of directors. the Election will be during the Feb 9th meeting.

Everything Else
As usual we'll discuss any current happenings in the Linux community, have our book giveaway, and plan on some dinner after the meeting where you can hammer our speakers with the hard hitting questions they deserve.

If you have topics for future meetings you would like us to cover please email the board, thanks.

Where:

The MUG meetings are held at:

Farmington Community Library - Main Branch
32737 W. 12 Mile Rd.
Farmington Hills, MI 48334-3302

Click here for a map of the area.

When:

the meetings are on the 2nd Tuesday of each month.

6:00pm	Doors open, registration
6:30pm	Meeting starts, Mug business
6:45pm	Main presentation
8:15pm	2nd Presentation
8:45pm	Meeting adjourns
9:00pm	Dinner at a local establishment

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Monthly, on the second Tuesday, we get together at the Main Branch of the Farmington Community Library. The meeting consists of a primary topic, a secondary topic, and the Unix/Linux shell command of the month.

Details of the next meeting coming soon

Everything Else
As usual we'll discuss any current happenings in the Linux community, have our book giveaway, and plan on some dinner after the meeting where you can hammer our speakers with the hard hitting questions they deserve.

If you have topics for future meetings you would like us to cover please email the board, thanks.

Where:

The MUG meetings are held at:

Farmington Community Library - Main Branch
32737 W. 12 Mile Rd.
Farmington Hills, MI 48334-3302

Click here for a map of the area.

When:

the meetings are on the 2nd Tuesday of each month.

6:00pm	Doors open, registration
6:30pm	Meeting starts, Mug business
6:45pm	Main presentation
8:15pm	2nd Presentation
8:45pm	Meeting adjourns
9:00pm	Dinner at a local establishment

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Main Topic: Open Data

Our speaker is: David J. Scholl

The software wars are not over, ...

but we are in the transition from GandhiCon 3 to GandhiCon 4, and the outcome is a forgone conclusion. Microsoft is flailing, desperately trying to patch the leaks that let more and more air out of its business model, and appears no longer even able to buy innovative companies. Oracle is battling with all the considerable energy that their CEO can bring to bear, but in buying Sun and MySQL they are merely building their own Maginot Line of relational databases, and new database technology is making an end run around it. Meanwhile, the cost per terabyte of data storage continues to drop, with no fundamental physical limits in sight. People all over the world are generating data of vast scope and considerable value, from Facebook pages, to questions and answers on StackOverflow, to forum postings, to internet searches, blogs, comments on blogs, wikis, tweets, and whatever comes next. In addition to these online conversations, there are coordinated efforts to build information storehouses online, such as Wikipedia, arxiv.org and Open Street Map. Who owns this information, who controls access to it, who can use it for what purposes?

The growing, highly decentralized, Open Data movement is hoping to do for data what RMS did for software. Data is the new software, Google is the new Microsoft, and we are back to GandhiCon 1.

Secondary Topic: OpenPandora

Our presenter is: Scott Smith

OpenPandora is a mixture between a PC and a gaming console. That's why it has gaming controls (Buttons, DPad and analogue nubs). It is fast enough to emulate many other systems, run a full desktop, access the internet via FireFox and play games such as Quake3. However, it is not as big as a netbook. Believe it or not, it will fit in your pocket. It's a bit bigger than the Nintendo DS. The screen is an impressive 800*480 resolution LCD and the battery life is a sensational 10+ hours.

Scott is involved with the project, porting applications, helping to develop the operating system and testing hardware. He'll be here to give us an overview of the project.

Command of the month: "nice"

Craig Maloney will be giving a quick presentation on the nice utility titled: Naughty or Nice. Craig has given us many awesome presentations and this one should be lots of fun.

Everything Else
As usual we'll discuss any current happenings in the Linux community, have our book giveaway, and plan on some dinner after the meeting where you can hammer our speakers with the hard hitting questions they deserve.

If you have topics for future meetings you would like us to cover please email the board, thanks.

Where:

The MUG meetings are held at:

Farmington Community Library - Main Branch
32737 W. 12 Mile Rd.
Farmington Hills, MI 48334-3302

Click here for a map of the area.

When:

the meetings are on the 2nd Tuesday of each month.

6:00pm	Doors open, registration
6:30pm	Meeting starts, Mug business
6:45pm	Main presentation
8:15pm	2nd Presentation
8:45pm	Meeting adjourns
9:00pm	Dinner at a local establishment

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Topic 1: Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)

Cloud computing seems to be all the rage. Scott Moser Will give us an introduction to Cloud computing with the Amazon EC2 service.

Topic 2: Ubuntu 9.10 is here

There's a new release of Linux from Ubuntu and Mug member/Canonical employee Jorge Castro will tell us all about the Karmic Koala.

Topic 3: Hulu Linux Client

Hulu.com is a website where you can watch an amazing number of current and past TV shows and some movies. The Hulu LABS has released a desktop player for Linux. This gives some advantages over the web-based player. Mug member Jim McQuillan will show how to get it and demo the player.

Topic 4: Command of the month: kill

Sometimes you just really feel like killing a user, but alas, killing their processes will have to be good enough. In this month's Unix Command Line session, Craig Maloney will tell us all about the kill command.

Everything Else
As usual we'll discuss any current happenings in the Linux community, have our book giveaway, and plan on some dinner after the meeting where you can hammer our speakers with the hard hitting questions they deserve.

If you have topics for future meetings you would like us to cover please email the board, thanks.

Where:

The MUG meetings are held at:

Farmington Community Library - Main Branch
32737 W. 12 Mile Rd.
Farmington Hills, MI 48334-3302

Click here for a map of the area.

When:

the meetings are on the 2nd Tuesday of each month.

6:00pm	Doors open, registration
6:30pm	Meeting starts, Mug business
6:45pm	Main presentation
8:15pm	2nd Presentation
8:45pm	Meeting adjourns
9:00pm	Dinner at a local establishment

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Search Engine Technology

Everybody uses a search engine. In fact, what would life be like if we didn't have them.

This month, we'll have a discussion about Search Engines.

Heading up the discussion, we'll have Wolf (nee Scott Collins, Former Mozilla engineer). Wolf will show us a bit of behind the scenes information about how search engines perform their magic.

• Google, Yahoo, Ask, Bing, wolfram-alphra, NorthernLight
• Searches, how to specify your search so the search engines will return better results
• Bring your search challenges and tips
• How does the Google search engine find your results

Command of the month: wget

This month's Unix Command Line session is by Brad McMahon

Everything Else
As usual we'll discuss any current happenings in the Linux community, have our book giveaway, and plan on some dinner after the meeting where you can hammer our speakers with the hard hitting questions they deserve.

If you have topics for future meetings you would like us to cover please email the board, thanks.

Where:

The MUG meetings are held at:

Farmington Community Library - Main Branch
32737 W. 12 Mile Rd.
Farmington Hills, MI 48334-3302

Click here for a map of the area.

When:

the meetings are on the 2nd Tuesday of each month.

6:00pm	Doors open, registration
6:30pm	Meeting starts, Mug business
6:45pm	Main presentation
8:15pm	2nd Presentation
8:45pm	Meeting adjourns
9:00pm	Dinner at a local establishment

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Main Topic: FreeBSD

Matthew Hagerty has been programming computers since 1983, starting with BASIC, then moving to Assembly and C. In 1996 he started an Internet Service Provider where he began learning Unix system administration and running Internet services such as web and email servers. In 1997 he began using PHP and relational databases to build database-driven dynamic web applications for businesses. Since 2006 Matthew has been employed by EDS (recently purchased by HP) working in a C / Unix (Solaris) / Oracle environment writing programs to support State Medicaid implementations. Aside from writing code, Matthew enjoys spending time with his family, tinkering with electronics and microcontrollers, reading, teaching, and is a hovercraft enthusiast.

1. Introduction
   • How I met Jim Glutting (penguicon Rasmus Lerdor talks)
   • Here to talk about FreeBSD
2. Intro to FreeBSD
   • FreeBSD vs. Linux
   • Why FBSD
3. Setting up a LAMP development box on FreeBSD
   • FreeBSD Install from CD
   • Intro to ports and packages and the difference
   • Handbook is a great resource
   • Install required packages
   • Necessary configuration
   • Install from source
   • Demo small working app
4. Q and A

Command of the month: lftp - Sophisticated file transfer program

Everything Else
As usual we'll discuss any current happenings in the Linux community, have our book giveaway, and plan on some dinner after the meeting where you can hammer our speakers with the hard hitting questions they deserve.

If you have topics for future meetings you would like us to cover please email the board, thanks.

Where:

The MUG meetings are held at:

Farmington Community Library - Main Branch
32737 W. 12 Mile Rd.
Farmington Hills, MI 48334-3302

Click here for a map of the area.

When:

the meetings are on the 2nd Tuesday of each month.

6:00pm	Doors open, registration
6:30pm	Meeting starts, Mug business
6:45pm	Main presentation
8:15pm	2nd Presentation
8:45pm	Meeting adjourns
9:00pm	Dinner at a local establishment

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Main Topic: Android Developers Kit

Dave Satwicz

Dave Satwicz will present a session on Google's Android Environment and developing applications for it. Android is a complete open source operating environment primarily for mobile devices like cell phones. The mobile computing world, which includes Apple iPhone, Blackberry, Palm, and others, is already huge. Some think that because Android is open that it will become one of the leading mobile platforms.

Secondary Topic: open street maps

Dick Williams

Recently Dick attended the Open Street Maps meetup he'll give us an introduction to OpenStreetMap, a quick demo in correcting street level aberrations, adding poi (points of interest) and cyclemap route planning.

Command of the month: wget

In this month's Unix Command Line session, Brad McMahon will show wget, the free utility for non-interactive download of files from the Web.

Everything Else
As usual we'll discuss any current happenings in the Linux community, have our book giveaway, and plan on some dinner after the meeting where you can hammer our speakers with the hard hitting questions they deserve.

If you have topics for future meetings you would like us to cover please email the board, thanks.

Where:

The MUG meetings are held at:

Farmington Community Library - Main Branch
32737 W. 12 Mile Rd.
Farmington Hills, MI 48334-3302

Click here for a map of the area.

When:

the meetings are on the 2nd Tuesday of each month.

6:00pm	Doors open, registration
6:30pm	Meeting starts, Mug business
6:45pm	Main presentation
8:15pm	2nd Presentation
8:45pm	Meeting adjourns
9:00pm	Dinner at a local establishment

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This month, we've got an awesome jam-packed array of presentations. In fact, you'll want to make sure you show up on time, because we need to get this meeting rolling as early as possible, so that we can fit it all in.

Main Topic: Virtualization

• Tom Edgar will start with a presentation on the general concept of virtualization. He's been researching virtualization for quite a while, and worked with several different types. He's got a lot to show us. Should be very interesting.   Tom's VM Presentation

• Scott Moser has some interesting stuff to show us about something called OVF (Open Virtualization Format). It describes how a "virtual appliance" is packaged so that a user can easily use it. OVF has been submitted to the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) to be approved as a standard for delivery of virtual appliances.

• John Sivak will give us a presentation on Virtual Box which is an open source virtualization product that is being developed by Sun Microsystems.

Secondary Topic: Hosted apps on Source Forge

Craig Maloney is working as a software engineer for Source Forge. He's involved in something called "Hosted Apps" and he'll show us all about it.

Command of the month: tput

In this month's Unix Command Line session, Raymond McLaughlin will show us the tput utility that uses the terminfo database to make terminal-dependent capabilities and information available to the shell. With this your shell scripts can initialize or reset the terminal, hide the cursor, set bold, underline, color and even blinking of the text on the screen.

Everything Else
As usual we'll discuss any current happenings in the Linux community, have our book giveaway, and plan on some dinner after the meeting where you can hammer our speakers with the hard hitting questions they deserve.

If you have topics for future meetings you would like us to cover please email the board, thanks.

Where:

The MUG meetings are held at:

Farmington Community Library - Main Branch
32737 W. 12 Mile Rd.
Farmington Hills, MI 48334-3302

Click here for a map of the area.

When:

the meetings are on the 2nd Tuesday of each month.

6:00pm	Doors open, registration
6:30pm	Meeting starts, Mug business
6:45pm	Main presentation
8:15pm	2nd Presentation
8:45pm	Meeting adjourns
9:00pm	Dinner at a local establishment

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Main Topic: Ann Arbor Parking Availability and the DDA

Edward Vielmetti and Fred Posner

Fred Posner and Edward Vielmetti are going to give us a presention on the development of a telephone based parking information system in Ann Arbor, and the technical and political challenges they overcame in building it.

Fred tells the story of rapid system development using Asterisk and Perl;
Ed tells the story of a slow and sometimes hostile reaction to innovation with public data.

You can read a write up over at the "VoIP Tech Chat" blog A2DDA Blocks Asterisk Parking Data

Fred is a Network Engineer / VoIP Consultant with Team Forrest. Fred recently moved to Ann Arbor and misses Florida winters.

Ed has been designing and building internet-enabled information systems in one form or another since 1985 from Ann Arbor, MI.

Book Exchange

A couple members have books they are willing to part with. If you have books you want to pass on or exchange bring them.

Everything Else
As usual we'll discuss any current happenings in the Linux community, have our book giveaway, and plan on some dinner after the meeting where you can hammer our speakers with the hard hitting questions they deserve.

If you have topics for future meetings you would like us to cover please email the board, thanks.

Where:

The MUG meetings are held at:

Farmington Community Library - Main Branch
32737 W. 12 Mile Rd.
Farmington Hills, MI 48334-3302

Click here for a map of the area.

When:

the meetings are on the 2nd Tuesday of each month.

6:00pm	Doors open, registration
6:30pm	Meeting starts, Mug business
6:45pm	Main presentation
8:15pm	2nd Presentation
8:45pm	Meeting adjourns
9:00pm	Dinner at a local establishment

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Main Topic: The Creative Commons License

The slide show Greg's presentation and the movie.

Greg currently works part time for Creative Commons as a Community Assistant liaising with the Free/Open Source Software community. His time is spent helping developers learn about and implement new features using software developed by Creative Commons. Greg also works part time with the Open.Michigan project at the University of Michigan where he manages student workers to create Open Education Resources that are put online available for all to use and remix. Most importantly, Greg finished his graduate degree from the University of Michigan this semester with a Masters of Science in Information.

Greg will be giving a presentation that will answer these questions:

• What is Creative Commons?
• Why do I care about Creative Commons? and
• What is the relationship between Creative Commons and Free/Open Source Software?

Second Topic: Ubuntu 9.04 - What's new

Jorge will be showing us some of the cool new features of the latest release of Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty) and also we can probe him about upcoming features in the next release (9.10 - Karmic Koala)

Command of the month: rsync

In this month's Unix Command Line session, Duane Brown will tell us how he is using rsync for backup, and wants to know what you use rsync for.

Everything Else
As usual we'll discuss any current happenings in the Linux community, have our book giveaway, and plan on some dinner after the meeting where you can hammer our speakers with the hard hitting questions they deserve.

If you have topics for future meetings you would like us to cover please email the board, thanks.

Where:

The MUG meetings are held at:

Farmington Community Library - Main Branch
32737 W. 12 Mile Rd.
Farmington Hills, MI 48334-3302

Click here for a map of the area.

When:

the meetings are on the 2nd Tuesday of each month.

6:00pm	Doors open, registration
6:30pm	Meeting starts, Mug business
6:45pm	Main presentation
8:15pm	2nd Presentation
8:45pm	Meeting adjourns
9:00pm	Dinner at a local establishment

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Main Topic: Foo MUG - the unmeeting

We are going to do a different kind of meeting this month, the UNMEETING, in the style of O'Reilly's Foo Camp or Unconference as it is also called. This will be a loosely organized series of simultaneous break out sessions on whatever the people in attendance decide.

Mug member and seasoned Unconference organizer, Mark Ramm, will be on hand to lead us through how this type of meeting works. In his words, the people who show up at the meeting are the "right people" and the topics that are discussed are the "right topics". It's a meeting for the attendees, by the attendees.

Command of the month: rsync

In this month's Unix Command Line session, Duane Brown will tell us how he is using rsync for backup, and wants to know what you use rsync for.

Everything Else
As usual we'll discuss any current happenings in the Linux community, have our book giveaway, and plan on some dinner after the meeting where you can hammer our speakers with the hard hitting questions they deserve.

If you have topics for future meetings you would like us to cover please email the board, thanks.

Where:

The MUG meetings are held at:

Farmington Community Library - Main Branch
32737 W. 12 Mile Rd.
Farmington Hills, MI 48334-3302

Click here for a map of the area.

When:

the meetings are on the 2nd Tuesday of each month.

6:00pm	Doors open, registration
6:30pm	Meeting starts, Mug business
6:45pm	Main presentation
8:15pm	2nd Presentation
8:45pm	Meeting adjourns
9:00pm	Dinner at a local establishment

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Command of the month: find

The find command has a vast array of options that control what it does. Steve will be giving us a look at some of those options, which could make find one of the most useful tools in your toolbox.

Meeting Main Topic: Managing Your Career

Dennis Sarafa, a member of Variant Partners since 1999, works extensively with technology-based clients. As a previous IT professional and after 9.5 years recruiting IT professionals, Dennis had developed some key insights on how to actively manage your career.

He is going to share those thoughts with us and provide time for us to ask questions about career management.

Some thoughts for the Q&A session

• what is the current state of the local job market?
• what areas is the market is better?
• are there still jobs to be filled?
• what skills are in demand?
• what are salaries doing?
• should I consider moving to another city/state?
• how can I market myself better?

Everything Else
As usual we'll discuss any current happenings in the Linux community, have our book giveaway, and plan on some dinner after the meeting where you can hammer our speakers with the hard hitting questions they deserve.

If you have topics for future meetings you would like us to cover please email the board, thanks.

Where:

The MUG meetings are held at:

Farmington Community Library - Main Branch
32737 W. 12 Mile Rd.
Farmington Hills, MI 48334-3302

Click here for a map of the area.

When:

the meetings are on the 2nd Tuesday of each month.

6:00pm	Doors open, registration
6:30pm	Meeting starts, Mug business
6:45pm	Main presentation
8:15pm	2nd Presentation
8:45pm	Meeting adjourns
9:00pm	Dinner at a local establishment

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Official results of the Election for the Board of Directors

The Michigan User Group is managed by a group of people we call the Board of Directors. As of February 10, 2009 the following people have been elected:

    Brown, Duane
    Glutting, Jim
    Hice, James
    McQuillan, Jim
    Satwicz, Dave
    Williams, Dick

Each year, MUG Members have the opportunity to cast their votes for the 6 people we'd like to see on the board. It is your chance to either run for a position on the board, or vote for the people you would most like to see on the board.

The nomination period is open in December of the current year and will remain open until just before the election on Tuesday evening of the February MUG meeting. If you would like to nominate someone, including yourself, please send an email to board@mug.org stating who you'd like to nominate.

If you have topics for future meetings you would like us to cover please email the board, thanks.

Where:

The MUG meetings are held at:

Farmington Community Library - Main Branch
32737 W. 12 Mile Rd.
Farmington Hills, MI 48334-3302

Click here for a map of the area.

When:

the meetings are on the 2nd Tuesday of each month.

6:00pm	Doors open, registration
6:30pm	Meeting starts, Mug business
6:45pm	Main presentation
8:15pm	2nd Presentation
8:45pm	Meeting adjourns
9:00pm	Dinner at a local establishment

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Election for the Board of Directors

The Michigan User Group is managed by a group of people we call the Board of Directors. Each year, MUG Members have the opportunity to cast their votes for the 6 people we'd like to see on the board. This is your chance to either run for a position on the board, or vote for the people you would most like to see on the board.

At this time, the following people have been nominated(in alphabetical order):

    Brown, Duane       Accepted
    Glutting, Jim      Accepted
    Harding, Rick      Declined
    Hice, James        Accepted
    McQuillan, Jim     Accepted
    Satwicz, Dave      Accepted
    Williams, Dick     Accepted

The nomination period is still open and will remain open until just before the election on Tuesday evening, Feb 10, 2009. If you would like to nominate someone, including yourself, please send an email to board@mug.org stating who you'd like to nominate.

Command of the month: diff

In this month's Unix Command Line session, Bill Allie will explain what's the diff and why you might care.

Main Topic: twitter, identi.ca and microblogging WHAT the heck are these things

Jorge Castro

Jorge will introduce us to twitter, identi.ca and microblogging with audience participation. Jorge is a former member of the Board of Directors of MUG and currently works for the UBUNTU guys formally known as Canonical Inc.

Following Jorge's introduction we'll be opening up the discussion to similar tools.

Everything Else
As usual we'll discuss any current happenings in the Linux community, have our book giveaway, and plan on some dinner after the meeting where you can hammer our speakers with the hard hitting questions they deserve.

If you have topics for future meetings you would like us to cover please email the board, thanks.

Where:

The MUG meetings are held at:

Farmington Community Library - Main Branch
32737 W. 12 Mile Rd.
Farmington Hills, MI 48334-3302

Click here for a map of the area.

When:

the meetings are on the 2nd Tuesday of each month.

6:00pm	Doors open, registration
6:30pm	Meeting starts, Mug business
6:45pm	Main presentation
8:15pm	2nd Presentation
8:45pm	Meeting adjourns
9:00pm	Dinner at a local establishment

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Main Topic: Tiling Window Managers

Adam will be talking about tiling window managers, focusing on four in particular: stumpwm, dwm, awesome, and larswm. Tilers have some surprising features that might make your everyday computing easier and faster. Learn about why you might want to try one, how to try one, and common issues and their solutions.

Adam is a post-doctoral researcher and adjunct faculty for Wayne State University's Department of Physics and Astronomy. He's been a full time Linux user for over 5 years, and worked for a short period doing server maintenance, zimbra installs and asterisk deployments. He co-founded the Wayne State University LUG, now serves as its advisor, and is an active member of the Ubuntu Michigan Local Community Team. He's a terminal lover, hates the mouse, and loves sending patches to obscure projects that nobody else seems to care about.

Secondary Topic: Productivity/Organizational tools

It's a new year! Time to get organized and start the year off with more productivity, right? But what's out there to help you be more organized and productive? Craig will give us a brief look at some of the tools that are out there to help get you organized like JPilot, and Tracks, and discuss how to apply the Getting Things Done methodology with these tools. We'll also look at what makes a good organizational tool, and how to rethink the tools you're using to get the most out of them.

Craig currently works for Sourceforge.net. He has been using Linux since a friend of his gave him a Transameritech Slackware CD back in 1994. He enjoys juggling, playing drums, playing video games, and programming.

Command of the month: screen

Everything Else
As usual we'll discuss any current happenings in the Linux community, have our book giveaway, and plan on some dinner after the meeting where you can hammer our speakers with the hard hitting questions they deserve.

If you have topics for future meetings you would like us to cover please email the board, thanks.

Where:

The MUG meetings are held at:

Farmington Community Library - Main Branch
32737 W. 12 Mile Rd.
Farmington Hills, MI 48334-3302

Click here for a map of the area.

When:

the meetings are on the 2nd Tuesday of each month.

6:00pm	Doors open, registration
6:30pm	Meeting starts, Mug business
6:45pm	Main presentation
8:15pm	2nd Presentation
8:45pm	Meeting adjourns
9:00pm	Dinner at a local establishment

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Main Topic: Large Linux Deployment - A Case Study

This month, we have a special guest from Porto Alegre, Brazil. Marlon Dutra, a Brazilian entrepreneur, has worked with information technology, especially Linux, since 1996, when the first commercial Internet service providers started operating in Brazil. Since then, he has worked with Linux/Unix servers, corporate network planning, security and IP telephony.

Marlon is a founding director at Propus Informática Ltda, a company specializing in corporate servers and IP telephony-related services. Marlon served two years as the president of FISL (International Free Software Forum), held every year in Porto Alegre, Brazil, today one of greatest free software conferences in the world.

Marlon will talk about a case study of Uninorte, the largest private university in Northern Brazil, with 23,000 students. Uninorte has about 90% of its infra-structure based on Linux, using LTSP (Linux Terminal Server Project), with about 1500 thin clients, coming from 11 different buildings in the city, booting from a centralized Linux cluster, designed and implemented by Propus and specially tailored for LTSP.

100% of Uninorte's telephony is based on voice over IP, a project implemented by Propus in 2007. The solution is entirely based on the open source software Asterisk. This installation has 500+ extensions in 11 facilities, all connected through a gigabit fiber network.

Command of the month: diff

In this month's Unix Command Line session, Bill Allie will explain what's the diff and why you might care.

Everything Else
As usual we'll discuss any current happenings in the Linux community, have our book giveaway, and plan on some dinner after the meeting where you can hammer our speakers with the hard hitting questions they deserve.

If you have topics for future meetings you would like us to cover please email the board, thanks.

Where:

The MUG meetings are held at:

Farmington Community Library - Main Branch
32737 W. 12 Mile Rd.
Farmington Hills, MI 48334-3302

Click here for a map of the area.

When:

the meetings are on the 2nd Tuesday of each month.

6:00pm	Doors open, registration
6:30pm	Meeting starts, Mug business
6:45pm	Main presentation
8:15pm	2nd Presentation
8:45pm	Meeting adjourns
9:00pm	Dinner at a local establishment

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Get the November meeting announcement in Open Office format and PDF Format

Command of the month: less vs more

KDE4, Kubuntu, and Fun Galore, A Evening With Richard Johnson

KDE4
Richard Johnson is going to show off the latest that the KDE project has to offer. It's definitely different, new APIs, new applications, and it all adds up to a whole new KDE. Come find out why you just might want to K­ify your desktop.

Kubuntu Project
In case you hadn't heard, there's more to the world of Ubuntu, than Ubuntu. A whole series of Ubuntu­based distros are out there. Last month we talked about Medibuntu last month. Richard can share some insights on the kubutu project.

Everything Else
As usual we'll discuss any current happenings in the Linux community, have our book giveaway, and plan on some dinner after the meeting where you can hammer our speakers with the hard hitting questions they deserve.

About the Speaker
Rich Johnson is a long­term member and contributor to the Ubuntu and Kubuntu project from Chicago, Illinois. In 1994, while serving in the U.S. Navy, he purchased a computer at the base PX. Upon starting it up later that day, Rich noticed the immediate issues with the modem as well as the sound card. The next day at work, he searched the Internet on "How to fix Microsoft Windows." One of the first results was the Slackware Linux distribution, at which time he downloaded to numerous floppy disks to install later at home. Now Rich hacks on Kubuntu, Edubuntu, Ubuntu, and Debian GNU/Linux operating systems, as well as the award­winning K Desktop Environment (KDE). He enjoys spending a vast majority of his free time hacking on, and spreading, freedom.

If you have topics for future meetings you would like us to cover please email the board, thanks.

Where:

The MUG meetings are held at:

Farmington Community Library - Main Branch
32737 W. 12 Mile Rd.
Farmington Hills, MI 48334-3302

Click here for a map of the area.

When:

the meetings are on the 2nd Tuesday of each month.

6:00pm	Doors open, registration
6:30pm	Meeting starts, Mug business
6:45pm	Main presentation
8:15pm	2nd Presentation
8:45pm	Meeting adjourns
9:00pm	Dinner at a local establishment

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sed - a powerful friend on the command line

Ubuntu Studio

Using Ubuntu Studio as his desktop computer, He'll give us an overview of Ubuntu Studio with the history and the purpose. He'll also share his experiences with Ubuntu Studio and his suggestions if you are interested in using it. He'll also give us a demonstration of the desktop look and how to setup standard Ubuntu to look and work like Studio by installing the extra studio packages.

If you have topics for future meetings you would like us to cover please email the board, thanks.

Where:

The MUG meetings are held at:

Farmington Community Library - Main Branch
32737 W. 12 Mile Rd.
Farmington Hills, MI 48334-3302

Click here for a map of the area.

When:

the meetings are on the 2nd Tuesday of each month.

6:00pm	Doors open, registration
6:30pm	Meeting starts, Mug business
6:45pm	Main presentation
8:15pm	2nd Presentation
8:45pm	Meeting adjourns
9:00pm	Dinner at a local establishment

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Main Topic: Regular Expressions

If you look at the following:

/[A-Za-z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Za-z0-9.-]+\.[A-Za-z]{2,4}/

And think it looks like line noise, then you'll definitely want to come to the meeting to learn how to read this and other regular expressions.

On the other hand, if you look at that above regex and easily see that it's checking for a valid email address (for some definition of valid), then you should also come to the meeting. In fact, we need a few more people to help out.

We'd like to have 5 people talk about various aspects of regular expressions, from the intro level all the way to advanced level regex's.

We've already got 3 people lined up, and we're looking for 2 more. If you think you have something to share in regard to regular expressions, whether you are using sed, grep, perl, python or something else, please consider spending 10-15 minutes with the group, to show what you know.

We're expecting this to be a very interactive meeting, where everybody will learn something.

Please let us know if you can help out by sending an email to board@mug.org

debconf

Jorge Castro will be filling us in on what happened at the annual Debian Developer Conference.

grep

What is a discussion of regular expression without one of it friends along? Chris will give us a glimpse of grep.

If you have topics for future meetings you would like us to cover please email the board, thanks.

Where:

The MUG meetings are held at:

Farmington Community Library - Main Branch
32737 W. 12 Mile Rd.
Farmington Hills, MI 48334-3302

Click here for a map of the area.

When:

the meetings are on the 2nd Tuesday of each month.

6:00pm	Doors open, registration
6:30pm	Meeting starts, Mug business
6:45pm	Main presentation
8:15pm	2nd Presentation
8:45pm	Meeting adjourns
9:00pm	Dinner at a local establishment

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For the August meeting, we've got several great topics that we'll be covering.

Get the meeting announcement in Open Office format and PFD format

Unix command line

NAS - rsync, nfs, smbfs

LSB announcement

Freegeek

Book giveaway

If you have topics for future meetings you would like us to cover please email the board, thanks.

Where:

The MUG meetings are held at:

Farmington Community Library - Main Branch
32737 W. 12 Mile Rd.
Farmington Hills, MI 48334-3302

Click here for a map of the area.

When:

the meetings are on the 2nd Tuesday of each month.

6:00pm	Doors open, registration
6:30pm	Meeting starts, Mug business
6:45pm	Main presentation
8:15pm	2nd Presentation
8:45pm	Meeting adjourns
9:00pm	Dinner at a local establishment

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Main Topic: MythTV

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If you have topics for future meetings you would like us to cover please email the board, thanks.

Where:

The MUG meetings are held at:

Farmington Community Library - Main Branch
32737 W. 12 Mile Rd.
Farmington Hills, MI 48334-3302

Click here for a map of the area.

When:

the meetings are on the 2nd Tuesday of each month.

6:00pm	Doors open, registration
6:30pm	Meeting starts, Mug business
6:45pm	Main presentation
8:15pm	2nd Presentation
8:45pm	Meeting adjourns
9:00pm	Dinner at a local establishment

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Main Topic: Editors

• vi/vim tricks, tips and "I didn't know you could do that"
• Emacs

If you have topics for future meetings you would like us to cover please email the board, thanks.

Where:

The MUG meetings are held at:

Farmington Community Library - Main Branch
32737 W. 12 Mile Rd.
Farmington Hills, MI 48334-3302

Click here for a map of the area.

When:

the meetings are on the 2nd Tuesday of each month.

6:00pm	Doors open, registration
6:30pm	Meeting starts, Mug business
6:45pm	Main presentation
8:15pm	2nd Presentation
8:45pm	Meeting adjourns
9:00pm	Dinner at a local establishment

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Main Topic: The Economics of Open Source Software pdf --or-- "Show Me the Money"

Abstract

Now that we smell the smoke, our next task is to locate the fire. It simply can't be the routine legal and regulatory hassles that appear with such frequency in the news media. Microsoft has given comfortable proof, for years now, that the profits to be accrued from disreputable corporate behavior far exceed the costs of such behavior in fines, adverse judgments, and settlements. Fortunately for us, a European economist with expertise in non-monetary transactions, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh, has been uncovering and explaining fundamental structural changes now underway in the software economy. By "showing us the money", and the new ways that economic value is flowing through the software industry, Professor Ghosh's work locates the fire that is causing such visible distress for Microsoft's management team, and that promises transformative change for creators and users of software.

Secondary Topic: UBUNTU 8.04

Jorge has yet again agreed to do a presentation. This month he will be talking about the just released Ubuntu 8.04. As always I'm sure Jorge will amaze us with a multitude of cool features.

If you have topics for future meetings you would like us to cover please email the board, thanks.

Where:

The MUG meetings are held at:

Farmington Community Library - Main Branch
32737 W. 12 Mile Rd.
Farmington Hills, MI 48334-3302

Click here for a map of the area.

When:

the meetings are on the 2nd Tuesday of each month.

6:00pm	Doors open, registration
6:30pm	Meeting starts, Mug business
6:45pm	Main presentation
8:15pm	2nd Presentation
8:45pm	Meeting adjourns
9:00pm	Dinner at a local establishment

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Lightning talks

• Jorge - Banshee Alpha Hotness, music to your ears
• Ken - Vim tricks/Hacks
• Rick - Gnome Do, launcher and beyond
• Jim McQ - awk tricks/hacks
• Jay Wren - Boo as a Python-like language on Mono/.Net
• Mark Ramm - TBD (Something cool/Pythonic)
• Jim Glutting - scripting your system with PHP

If you have topics for future meetings you would like us to cover please email the board, thanks.

Where:

The MUG meetings are held at:

Farmington Community Library - Main Branch
32737 W. 12 Mile Rd.
Farmington Hills, MI 48334-3302

Click here for a map of the area.

When:

the meetings are on the 2nd Tuesday of each month.

6:00pm	Doors open, registration
6:30pm	Meeting starts, Mug business
6:45pm	Main presentation
8:15pm	2nd Presentation
8:45pm	Meeting adjourns
9:00pm	Dinner at a local establishment

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User Group Business - Elections for the Board

The Michigan User Group is managed by a group of people we call the Board of Directors. Each year, MUG Members have the opportunity to cast their votes for the 6 people we'd like to see on the board. This is your chance to either run for a position on the board, or vote for the people you would most like to see on the board.

At this time, the following people have been nominated(in alphabetical order):

    Brown, Duane       Accepted
    Glutting, Jim      Accepted
    Harding, Rick      Accepted
    McQuillan, Jim     Accepted
    Nichols, Gibson    Accepted   New
    Satwicz, Dave      Accepted
    Williams, Dick     Accepted

The nomination period is still open and will remain open until just before the election on Tuesday evening, Feb 12, 2008. If you would like to nominate someone, including yourself, please send an email to board@mug.org stating who you'd like to nominate.

Main Topic: LaunchPad

Jorge will be discussing Launchpad, the free software hosting and development website. Topics will range from how to use Launchpad as a user for development of your own project in Launchpad, all the way from the source code control level to bug tracking, release management, translations, and building packages.

If you have topics for future meetings you would like us to cover please email the board, thanks.

Where:

The MUG meetings are held at:

Farmington Community Library - Main Branch
32737 W. 12 Mile Rd.
Farmington Hills, MI 48334-3302

Click here for a map of the area.

When:

the meetings are on the 2nd Tuesday of each month.

6:00pm	Doors open, registration
6:30pm	Meeting starts, Mug business
6:45pm	Main presentation
8:15pm	2nd Presentation
8:45pm	Meeting adjourns
9:00pm	Dinner at a local establishment

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Election for the Board of Directors

The Michigan User Group is managed by a group of people we call the Board of Directors. Each year, MUG Members have the opportunity to cast their votes for the 6 people we'd like to see on the board. This is your chance to either run for a position on the board, or vote for the people you would most like to see on the board.

At this time, the following people have been nominated(in alphabetical order):

    Brown, Duane       Accepted
    Glutting, Jim      Accepted
    Harding, Rick      Accepted
    McQuillan, Jim     Accepted
    Nichols, Gibson    Accepted   New
    Satwicz, Dave      Accepted
    Williams, Dick     Accepted

The nomination period is still open and will remain open until just before the election on Tuesday evening, Feb 12, 2008. If you would like to nominate someone, including yourself, please send an email to board@mug.org stating who you'd like to nominate.

Main Topic: PostgreSQL 8.3 & pgsql

There's lots of exciting things happening the world of relational databases in the Open source world. This month, We'll have Aaron Thul showing us some of the awesome new features in PostgreSQL 8.3, which was just released on Feb 4th.

Where:

The MUG meetings are held at:

Farmington Community Library - Main Branch
32737 W. 12 Mile Rd.
Farmington Hills, MI 48334-3302

Click here for a map of the area.

When:

the meetings are on the 2nd Tuesday of each month.

6:00pm	Doors open, registration
6:30pm	Meeting starts, Mug business
6:45pm	Main presentation
8:15pm	2nd Presentation
8:45pm	Meeting adjourns
9:00pm	Dinner at a local establishment

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Topic: Lightening Talks

• RSS
  • Rick Harding

• WiMax
  • Gib (Gibson Nichols)

• MythTV
  • Chris

• something
  • Mark Ramm

• ... I received my ... xo computer. ... I would be delighted to do a small session...
  • Dave Satwitz
  • Jim Gluting also has one he might be bring it also

• cellular internet
  • tell us your experiences

• LaunchPad
  • Rick Harding may be standing in for Jorge Castro as Jorge is out of town

• in place Upgrading your Ubuntu
  • Duane reports his experience on going from 6.06LTS to 7.10 on his desktop and laptop

• State of the art personal media devices
  • Duane can tell us about his Archos 605 with wifi
  • looking for other spokespersons

If you have topics for future meetings you would like us to cover please email the board, thanks.

Where:

The MUG meetings are held at:

Farmington Community Library - Main Branch
32737 W. 12 Mile Rd.
Farmington Hills, MI 48334-3302

Click here for a map of the area.

When:

the meetings are on the 2nd Tuesday of each month.

6:00pm	Doors open, registration
6:30pm	Meeting starts, Mug business
6:45pm	Main presentation
8:15pm	2nd Presentation
8:45pm	Meeting adjourns
9:00pm	Dinner at a local establishment

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Main Topic: OpenVPN

The man, the myth, the legend will fill us in on OpenVPN. OpenVPN is a full-featured SSL VPN solution which can accomodate a wide range of configurations, including remote access, site-to-site VPNs, WiFi security, and enterprise-scale remote access solutions with load balancing, failover, and fine-grained access-controls.

Additional Topic: LaTex

If you have topics for future meetings you would like us to cover please email the board, thanks.

Where:

The MUG meetings are held at:

Farmington Community Library - Main Branch
32737 W. 12 Mile Rd.
Farmington Hills, MI 48334-3302

Click here for a map of the area.

When:

the meetings are on the 2nd Tuesday of each month.

6:00pm	Doors open, registration
6:30pm	Meeting starts, Mug business
6:45pm	Main presentation
8:15pm	2nd Presentation
8:45pm	Meeting adjourns
9:00pm	Dinner at a local establishment

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Main Topic: One Laptop Per Child (OLPC)

Ivan Krstić - Director of Security Architecture for the OLPC project

Ivan's Google Tech Talk from April 12, 2007

This month we have a fantastic opportunity to see what OLPC is all about from a member of the OLPC team.

Ivan is a software architect and researcher currently on leave from Harvard University. Prior to joining OLPC, he served as director of research at the Medical Informatics Laboratory at Zagreb Children's Hospital, developing software infrastructure for wide-scale digital healthcare. He is deeply involved in open-source and free software, notably as an administrator of the Ubuntu Server Team and co-author of the best-selling Official Ubuntu Book, and specializes in architecture and security of large distributed systems. He has consulted on both matters for some of the largest websites on the Internet.

Ivan will share with us insights into the OLPC project that you just can't get anywhere else. He's prepared to tell us about the technology, security, science and anything else we want to know about the project.

Ivan is traveling from Cambridge, MA to Detroit specifically to be at our meeting. This is our chance fill the auditorium and show Ivan how strong the open source community is in south east Michigan.

If you have topics for future meetings you would like us to cover please email the board, thanks.

Where:

The MUG meetings are held at:

Farmington Community Library - Main Branch
32737 W. 12 Mile Rd.
Farmington Hills, MI 48334-3302

Click here for a map of the area.

When:

the meetings are on the 2nd Tuesday of each month.

6:00pm	Doors open, registration
6:30pm	Meeting starts, Mug business
6:45pm	Main presentation
8:15pm	2nd Presentation
8:45pm	Meeting adjourns
9:00pm	Dinner at a local establishment

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For our October meeting, we've got two awesome speakers lined up. Each an expert in their field. It should prove to be one of the best meetings yet. Read on for the details.

First Topic: Security

David will briefly discuss the scope of Information Assurance (IA), and how it relates to our ever changing environment in Information Technologies (IT) and business. He will lay down a foundation and stress the importance of how IA is all around us every day and used to protect us, and our data. This will be a higher level presentation to point out some of the various layers and obstacles we all need to look out for in order to protect our data. David will then journey into the final frontier of host-based hardening to discuss the common pitfalls and best practices that we can follow as hobbyists and professionals in securing UNIX, and Microsoft Windows operating systems. During the presentation, he will point out some free tools/procedures that can be used to help us audit/benchmark, and lock down host-based systems to help your computers to live long and prosperous lives while staying free of any bad cling-ons.

David Schaefer is a Desktop Support Supervisor at Oakland Community College. David has over 9 years of experience in the education industry, and has held the roles from Desktop Support Specialist to Network Information Systems Professional. David has an MBA with a specialization of Information Assurance (IA) and a BBA with a concentration in Computer Information Systems (CIS) from Walsh College.

Second Topic: DRM -- A Fiasco, Stuffed in a Debacle, and Wrapped up in a Blunder

The Internet, as a collective machine composed of millions of computers interconnected for high-speed data transfer, can copy and distribute text, audio, and video on a scale that would have been unimaginable even half a century ago. Thanks to this modern-day genie, writers, musicians, and actors in even the narrowest of artistic niches can maintain a world-wide fan base, making and distributing digital copies of their work at negligible cost. Unfortunately, just as wishes granted by genies in ancient fables had unintended consequences, so too does this gift from the modern-day genie. Copyright infringement, the making of an illegal copy of an artistic work without payment to or permission from the owner, is now as easy as a click-and-drag with a mouse. In fact, the ease and near-anonymity of such copying has led to widespread tolerance toward copyright infringement in our society. In response, the corporations who profit from selling digital copies of artistic works are trying to use technical measures known as Digital Rights Management (DRM) to put the Internet genie halfway back into its bottle. The talk will review the most spectacular DRM-related failure ever to occur in the recording industry, the technical reasons why DRM has never worked and almost certainly never will, and how the industry's current obsession with DRM is actually hastening its deterioration in the entertainment marketplace. Finally, there will be speculation about upcoming developments in DRM, which might lead to either (unlikely) the ultimate victory for DRM, or (probably) the end of DRM in our lifetime.

Bio:
Dave Scholl holds a BA in Physics from Rice University, and an MA in Chemistry from Stanford University. Mr. Scholl worked in Thin-film physics at IBM Almaden Research Laboratory, and since 1991 has been at Ford Scientific Research Laboratory working on surface physics, nanotribology, combustion diagnostics, sound quality, and vehicle emissions. He has been a Linux user since Red Hat 4.2, a decade ago, and is an Open Source news junkie.

If you have topics for future meetings you would like us to cover please email the board, thanks.

Where:

The MUG meetings are held at:

Farmington Community Library - Main Branch
32737 W. 12 Mile Rd.
Farmington Hills, MI 48334-3302

Click here for a map of the area.

When:

the meetings are on the 2nd Tuesday of each month.

6:00pm	Doors open, registration
6:30pm	Meeting starts, Mug business
6:45pm	Main presentation
8:15pm	2nd Presentation
8:45pm	Meeting adjourns
9:00pm	Dinner at a local establishment

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Main Topic: RPATH Makes Appliances Easy

The September meeting is shaping up quite nicely. rPath, using the Conary build system is a very hot technology and we've got a couple of the actual engineers that designed it to fly from their offices in North Carolina to spend some time with us, to show us what it's all about and to answer any questions we might have. This is a meeting you shouldn't miss, and please tell all your friends about it too. -Jim McQuillan-

Michael K. Johnson and Ken VanDine will present rPath's technology, from top to bottom. They will demonstrate building an appliance, and then explain how you can build and maintain your own complete OS -- as well as why you might want to!

They will describe and demonstrate how the tools work, both from a developer and from an end-user perspective. They will describe how the tools that rPath has created make it possible first to easily create a small operating system image that supports an application -- and then make updates to that operating system robust, and ongoing maintenance easy.

They encourage questions, and will be happy to spend time afterwards going into even more detail after they exceed their allotted one and a half hours.

Michael K. Johnson was one of the original Linux hackers. He cut his kernel chops re-writing the parallel port driver and turning the /proc filesystem into something capable of supporting all the features of ps -- and then some. He managed the tsx-11.mit.edu FTP site, built low-level tools for kernel interfaces, and ported Emacs to Linux before he learned to love vi. He was the editor of Linux Journal for its first two years. He then joined Red Hat as a member of the operating system development team, where he wrote configuration tools and maintained many packages, then ran Red Hat's kernel team until he founded the Fedora project and guided it through its first release.

In 2004, Michael left Red Hat, joining with Matt Wilson and Erik Troan to design the Conary software management system that is the core of all rPath technology. At rPath, he is responsible for the development of Conary and rPath Linux.

Ken VanDine, now an Engineering Lead at rPath, was the founder (in 2005) and is the project leader of the Foresight Linux Project. His work with the Foresight Linux Project and Conary software management system led Ken to work for rPath, based in Raleigh, N.C.

Ken has been involved with Open Source technology as an avid Linux user and Systems Administrator since 1993. He worked with Linux while enlisted in the United States Air Force and while employed by software companies and a few dot-coms. During those years he gained extensive experience packaging, maintaining, and deploying software for Linux. After working with a number of package management systems, Ken started using Conary, which solved many of challenges he previously experienced with legacy package management technologies.

As a member of the GNOME Marketing team, Ken has written articles for the GNOME Journal (http://www.gnomejournal.org) and is now the maintainer of the GNOME LiveCD, based on Foresight Linux and available at http://torrents.gnome.org

If you have topics for future meetings you would like us to cover please email the board, thanks.

Where:

The MUG meetings are held at:

Farmington Community Library - Main Branch
32737 W. 12 Mile Rd.
Farmington Hills, MI 48334-3302

Click here for a map of the area.

When:

the meetings are on the 2nd Tuesday of each month.

6:00pm	Doors open, registration
6:30pm	Meeting starts, Mug business
6:45pm	Main presentation
8:15pm	2nd Presentation
8:45pm	Meeting adjourns
9:00pm	Dinner at a local establishment

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Main Topic: Open Document Format

For the August 14th meeting the Michigan User Group is visiting the Southeastern Michigan IEEE in Dearborn who is having a very important meeting on the Open Document Format.

The official tittle of the presentation is: "ODF: How a Digital Document Format is Threatening a Multibillion-Dollar Monopoly”.
SE MI IEEE announcement, meeting location, schedule

Presented by: Dave Scholl, Ford Motor Company

Time: 5:30 PM Please pre-register for this free event online

We're encouraging everyone to come with us to the meeting. This would be a great time to pull that MUG shirt out of the closet and show up in force at a great meeting put on with another group. Pay SPECIAL attention to the time change for this meeting.

PFD flyer for the meeting announcement

This is a ONE TIME change of venue. In September, we'll be back at the Farmington Community Library when the topic will be RPATH - Ken VanDine and/or Michael K. Johnson.

If you have topics for future meetings you would like us to cover please email the board, thanks.

eDiscovery, Intrusion detection, and stories from an FBI Special Agent

Our speaker is: Richard Rytman Managing director of Technical Services and Legal Counsel at Veritas Global.

Mr. Rytman will talk to us about something called eDiscovery and changes in the law, where it is going, how it will effect corporate compliance and/or document retention policies as it relates to electronically stored information (ESI), and the problems that will naturally be associated with the rule. He'll offer recommendations on how to avoid the pitfalls, or at least minimize the nuisance level, caused by the rule and its implementation by lawyers and judges with little to no IT background.

Additionally, He'll cover computer intrusion crimes, or hacking, including best practices for defending against a hacker/virus/worm etc. He'll ask (and hopefully answer) the following questions:

• If your system is hacked, do you know what to do?
• What procedures and policies are in place to deal with the situation that will best minimize loss but also preserve evidence at the same time?
• Under what circumstances should you contact law enforcement (which one and who) and what to expect if you do (i.e., the whole legal process involved from A to Z).
• Do you have a duty to report a hacker?

Finally, if there's still time at the end, he'll share some war stories from his time with the FBI and give us a chance to ask some questions.

About the speaker:

Mr. Rytman is a former Special Agent with the FBI. He is a certified Technical Trained Agent (TTA), a small select group of highly trained agents whose responsibilities include supporting case agents in the field through the use and deployment of a variety of sensitive electronic surveillance equipment and methods via covert technical operations.

Prior to being selected for the TTA program, Mr. Rytman was the lead investigator for the Cyber Crimes Squad in the State of Michigan. His primary areas of responsibility included investigating federal computer intrusion crimes and presenting to various computer security groups, business executives and system administrators on the topic of computer security and related legal issues. He helped form the first cyber crime squad in Detroit and successfully investigated many complex computer intrusion crimes on both a national and international level.

While at the FBI Mr. Rytman was also a member of the Joint Terrorism Task Force, where he was responsible for gathering intelligence and building complex criminal cases against various terrorist organizations operating within the United States.

Mr. Rytman was also a certified legal advisor and firearms instructor for the FBI and has served as a member of the Detroit FBI SWAT Team. He also served in the United States Navy in the intelligence arena as well as in the United States Army Reserves as a Combat Engineer Platoon Leader.

Prior to joining the FBI, Mr. Rytman was an Assistant District Attorney. He is a member of both the Wisconsin and Michigan State Bar.

That's an awful lot of stuff to cover in one meeting, so we'll need to make sure we get started on time. I think this is a unique opportunity for us to get an inside look at the legalities and intricacies of the industry that we're all a part of, from someone who's got the experience to talk about it.

If you have topics for future meetings you would like us to cover please email the board, thanks.

Where:

The MUG meetings are held at:

Farmington Community Library - Main Branch
32737 W. 12 Mile Rd.
Farmington Hills, MI 48334-3302

Click here for a map of the area.

When:

the meetings are on the 2nd Tuesday of each month.

6:00pm	Doors open, registration
6:30pm	Meeting starts, Mug business
6:45pm	Main presentation
8:15pm	2nd Presentation
8:45pm	Meeting adjourns
9:00pm	Dinner at a local establishment

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John Terpstra

For this meeting, we're bringing in special guest John Terpstra.

John H Terpstra works with AMD in the cross platform group focusing on digital media solutions. His key interest is to enable the delivery of delightful media entertainment on open source platforms.

John is a well known contributor and visionary in the open source community who has an active commercial focus. He is co-founder of the Samba-Team, and a member of the Open Source Software Institute Advisory Board. He has worked with the LSB, Li18nux (now OpenI18N.Org), is a best selling author of "The Official Samba-3 HOWTO and Reference Guide", "Samba-3 by Example", "Hardening Linux" and has other books in production.

Prior to joining AMD John worked with The SCO Group (previously Caldera Inc.), and TurboLinux Inc., in VP level positions.

John will be with us for the whole evening, and he's agreed to give us 2 presentations:

1. Samba3 Update: Recent changes and their impact, reviewing the changes in 3.0.20 through 3.0.25. How to take advantage of recent developments.

2. Demonstration of an AMD multi-media concept platform. The machine that he will demonstrate is a concept model for future technology developments. John mentioned that this hardware was "rough around the edges", so it should be loads of fun. A brief overview will be given of the challenges that are being addressed to create new entertainment experiences.

Jim's note: I've known John for a long time, and I've seen him speak on numerous occasions. He's really a great speaker. He's extremely knowledgeable in both topics and he's able to share with us his passion for the technology. You really shouldn't miss this meeting.

If you have topics for future meetings you would like us to cover please email the board, thanks.

Where:

The MUG meetings are held at:

Farmington Community Library - Main Branch
32737 W. 12 Mile Rd.
Farmington Hills, MI 48334-3302

Click here for a map of the area.

When:

the meetings are on the 2nd Tuesday of each month.

6:00pm	Doors open, registration
6:30pm	Meeting starts, Mug business
6:45pm	Main presentation
8:15pm	2nd Presentation
8:45pm	Meeting adjourns
9:00pm	Dinner at a local establishment

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Main Topic: Mark Shuttleworth

Jim McQuillan will be in Seville, Spain From May 2nd through the 12th, for the Ubuntu Education Summit (UES) and the Ubuntu Developer Summit (UDS). We'll be doing a live remote MUG presentation from Seville. This will be live 2-way interactive Audio AND Video. We've worked out the technology and we're pretty sure that we are ready to give this a try.

Mark Shuttleworth (Ubuntu founder and Cosmonaut) has agreed to take part in this presentation. He'll talk about Ubuntu, Space and whatever else he pleases. This'll be a great chance to ask him some questions.

In addition to Mark, we'll have some other Ubuntu developers, and we'll pick their brains about what's coming up in the next release of Ubuntu, the process that the Ubuntu team uses to create a release, and maybe they'll tell us a bit about the deal with Dell agreeing to bundle Ubuntu Linux on some of their desktop and laptop computers.

Keep in mind that Spain is 6 hours ahead of Detroit, so it'll be very late there when we hook up and do the presentation. We hope to get Mark's part of the session going quickly, so please try to be at the meeting BEFORE 6:30pm next Tuesday.

This will be the first time we've tried doing a remote session with video. It's impossible to tell how the audio and video quality will be, until we actually get there and do it. We'll be testing the connection very well before the meeting, so hopefully, we'll have it all tuned up perfectly, and everything will come out great.

This should be a great meeting and it will give us a chance to show that the Metro Detroit area has a strong technological group. One that we can all be proud of.

Additional Topic: PostgreSQL 8.2 what's new

Bill has given many MUG presentations over the years, this month we're happy to have him give us a review of what is new in PostgreSQL 8.2.

If you have topics for future meetings you would like us to cover please email the board, thanks.

Where:

The MUG meetings are held at:

Farmington Community Library - Main Branch
32737 W. 12 Mile Rd.
Farmington Hills, MI 48334-3302

Click here for a map of the area.

When:

the meetings are on the 2nd Tuesday of each month.

6:00pm	Doors open, registration
6:30pm	Meeting starts, Mug business
6:45pm	Main presentation
8:15pm	2nd Presentation
8:45pm	Meeting adjourns
9:00pm	Dinner at a local establishment

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