Thought everyone might be interested... Joseph M. Gaffney aka CuCullin ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: [nylug-announce] [Fwd: UNIGROUP 19-JAN-2006 (Thu): OpenSUSE Linux Field Trip to Novell] Date: Monday 16 January 2006 00:51 From: Ron Guerin <info@nylug.org> To: NYLUG Announcements <nylug-announce@nylug.org> Please see the fee schedule below. You must RSVP to attend this Unigroup meeting. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: UNIGROUP 19-JAN-2006 (Thu): OpenSUSE Linux Field Trip to Novell Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 23:49:32 -0500 (EST) From: Unigroup_of_NY <unilist@unigroup.org> To: rguerin@nylug.org Unigroup's OpenSUSE Field Trip to Novell is THIS Thursday! RSVP is Required... ==================================================================== UNIGROUP OF NEW YORK - UNIX USERS GROUP - JANUARY 2006 ANNOUNCEMENTS ==================================================================== ---------------------------------------------------- 1. UNIGROUP'S JANUARY 2006 GENERAL MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT ---------------------------------------------------- When: THURSDAY, January 19th, 2006 (3rd Thursday) Where: ** FIELD TRIP to Novell ** Novell NYC Office 1177 Sixth Avenue, 35th Floor (between 45th & 46th streets) Midtown, New York City ** RSVP is Mandatory! ** Time: 6:15 PM - 6:25 PM Registration 6:25 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 -------------- Topic: OpenSuSE Linux -------------- Speaker: Ross E. Brunson, Linux Solutions Specialist, Novell, Inc. INTRODUCTION: ------------- Happy New Year to all! As previously discussed and announced, we pleased to say that our Field Trip to Novell, to learn about OpenSuSE Linux, is finally happening this month... in fact, this week! (Sorry for the short notice, on this holiday shortened week.) Based on our speaker's bio (see below), this should be an interesting meeting! Our speaker has a pile of credentials including: author, speaker and cross-platform trainer. ------------------------------------------------------------------- SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS: --------------------- 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, if at all possible. 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! Please try to RSVP as soon as possible. RSVP IS MANDATORY for this location. ------------------------------------------------------------------- MAIN PRESENTATION OUTLINE: -------------------------- OpenSuSE Linux (stay tuned for more details) ------------------------------------------------------------------- Web Resources: -------------- Novell SuSE Linux http://www.suse.com OpenSUSE Linux http://www.opensuse.com ------------------------------------------------------------------- Speaker Biography: ------------------ Ross Brunson: Linux Solutions Specialist with Novell, Inc. CNI, NCLP, LPIC1, SCSA, LCI, LCA, Inet+, Linux+, CCNA, MCSA, MCP, MCP+I, MCSE4 Ross is currently a Linux Solutions Specialist for Novell Inc.'s North East Division based in Albany NY. He serves on the Advisory Council for the Linux Professional Institute and has authored three books, including the best-selling LPIC Level 1 Exam Cram. He began his IT career in the US Army in the early 1980's working with battlefield simulation systems running on Unix platforms, and quickly graduated to working with databases and network operating systems. Ross began his formal training and consulting career in the late 80's teaching Unix and NT Integration classes to government and industry customers both in education centers and onsite. He quickly became the technical editor and eventually the author for his courses, soon achieving the organization's second highest scores for an instructor. After a number of years conducting TCP/IP, UNIX, Linux and Networking courses for Learning Tree, Mastering Computers of Scottsdale and other training companies, he took a courseware development and instructor position with Computer Associates developing and delivering Windows 2000 and Linux courses for delivery to many USA and International companies. Ross then took a position with Thomson Learning's SAIR Linux certification and courseware division as the Director of Courseware Development and Instruction. He built an excellent instructor force spanning 13 countries and 110 instructors in little over a year. Ross and his team conducted certification seminars at 4 consecutive Linuxworld shows, with over 2500 people attending and testing as a result of his team's efforts. For the last 3 years, Ross has performed many Linux and Open Source training events for various vendors in the Open Source training industry, including The Training Camp with attendees drawn from a who's-who of the technical industry. After 3+ years of conducting Linux, Solaris and Cisco boot camps, he joined Novell/SuSE's Advanced Technical Training Team as as the ATT Linux team's development lead and Senior Technical Training Engineer focusing on large industry and Fortune 100/500 customer training needs where his clients included IBM, Intel, Merck and many other industry giants. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Giveaways: ---------- We hope to be able to give away copies of OpenSUSE at this meeting. Details still have to be finalized with Novell. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Fee Schedule: Yearly Membership (includes all meetings): $ 50.00 Non-Member Single Meeting: $ 20.00 Student Yearly Membership: $ 20.00 Non-Member Student Single Meeting (with ID): $ 5.00 Payment Methods: Cash, Check, American Express. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Complimentary Food and Refreshments will be served. We believe Novell will be sponsoring the food service for this meeting. Details still have to be finalized with Novell. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Directions: ** FIELD TRIP LOCATION ** Novell NYC Office 1177 Sixth Avenue, 35th Floor (between 45th & 46th streets) Midtown, New York City ----- Please mark this meeting on your calendar and join us! Please tell your friends about Unigroup! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------- 2. UPCOMING MEETINGS ----------------- We have a series of meetings in the works: - Field Trip to Novell - SuSE/OpenSuSE Linux - NO SPAM! (know any speakers?) - Asterix / VoIP - Field Trip to HP - Invited - Are there too many Linux Distributions? - Unix 35th Birthday Celebration (Sun has offered to host this!) - IPsec and IPv6 - Samba - DNS - Unix Clusters and Clustered Databases - Linux Clustering Part 3: Beowulf version 2 - Building a Firewall using FreeBSD and Linux - High Performance Internet Servers / Web Acceleration - Unix Office Tools: Word Processors, Spreadsheets, Accounting Packages. - PKI - GNU Development Environments - iSCSI, Serial ATA, and other new peripheral technologies Please let us know about any other meeting topics that you may be interested in. Potential speakers on Unix related technology topics should contact the Unigroup Board. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- 3. PRIOR MEETINGS -------------- November 2005: Time Management for SysAdmins -------------------------------------------- Unigroup would like to thank Tom Limoncelli from Cibernet Corp. for his presentation of "Time Management for System Administrators." Tom presented tips from his new book, "Time Management for System Administrators," published by O'Reilly, and he had provided us with discount coupons for pre-ordering his book. Tom also brought in some t-shirts and books to raffle off to our meeting attendees. The discussion at this meeting was lively and interesting, and the audience participated by sharing some of their own tips for time management. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------- 4. 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 Unix and the Unix User Community. Unigroup is/was also the Greater NYC Regional Area Affiliate of UniForum - an International Unix Users Group. 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 new downtown meeting location. Recently, we have been holding meetings on a more monthly basis. Planned regular meeting dates are: 1/19/2006, 3/16/2006, 5/18/2006, ... Watch for our Special Event meetings at the various trade shows in NYC as well as "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 (at) unigroup.org To contact the Board of Directors of Unigroup, send an EMail message to: uniboard (at) 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! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- I hope to see you all at our next meeting! -Rob Weiner Unigroup Executive Director unilist (at) unigroup.org http://www.unigroup.org ______________________________________________________________________ Hire expert Linux talent by posting jobs here :: http://jobs.nylug.org nylug-announce mailing list nylug-announce@nylug.org http://nylug.org/mailman/listinfo/nylug-announce -------------------------------------------------------