CPLUG

Please note that, right now, AccuWeather is forecasting another 3 – 8″ of heavy snow mixed with sleet for Tuesday night. If that’s the case, the upcoming meeting may be canceled due to bad weather.

The cancellation announcement will be posted here and on the mailing list. Be sure to check the mailing list and blog before driving over to ITT. :)

Say goodbye to tables and say hello to document-oriented databases… this month’s meeting topic will be CouchDB, presented by Vikram Dighe!

Apache CouchDB, commonly referred to as CouchDB, is a free and open source document-oriented database written in the Erlang programming language. It is designed for local replication and to scale vertically along a wide range of devices.

The meeting will be (weather permitting) on Tuesday, February 9 at 6:30 PM as usual.

Feel free to RSVP on the Central PA Linux Meetup page if you are planning to attend!

Our next meeting will be on Tuesday, February 9, 2010. As usual, we’ll be meeting at 6:30 PM at ITT in Harrisburg.

We have a speaker (details to be announced), but could still use one or two short (5-minute) lightning talks if anyone is interested. Either post a comment or email the mailing list if you’d like to help out.

Quick reminder that the next CPLUG meeting will be at 6:30 PM on Tuesday, 1/12/2010.

This month, Bill Hathaway will be talking about ZFS, a combined file system and logical volume manager designed by Sun Microsystems. After that, Nathan Powell will be doing a lighting talk on using OpenSolaris as a desktop.

See you there!

It’s December… so this month we’ll be doing our annual “installfest” and social extravaganza on Tuesday, 12/8/09 at 6:30 PM.

Please bring some food to share — snacks, deserts, and similar goodies would be great. We’ll still order pizza too.

If you have any Linux/OSS questions, please feel free to bring them. If you’d like to bring your laptop or desktop to get help with something, you are welcome to do so!

And if you don’t need help with anything, no problem! You can either help other folks, or just hang out and talk about geeky things and eat yummy food. :)

Check out the Meetings page for directions, and see you there!

CPLUG’s November meeting was a triple-header with presentations on Asterisk PBX (Dennis), Dropbox and Ubuntu One (John M.), and cloud computing with Rackspace and Amazon EC2 (John P.).

The next meeting will be December 9, 2009 at 6:30 PM.

CPOSC 2009 is just 25 days away… October 17. It’ll be a day full of open source goodness, including three conference tracks and over twenty speakers.

If you register for the conference by tomorrow (Wednesday, 9/23) we’ll make sure you get a cool, official CPOSC 2009 t-shirt!

You can register online via Eventbrite at cposc.eventbrite.com! Just hit the link… and don’t forget to fill in your shirt size! :)

Here’s a link to Lon’s slides from Tuesday night (PDF):

Enjoy!

We’re going to be exploring a bit of the BSD world at tonight’s meeting with two talks.

In the first talk, Brian will be going over his first impressions of OpenBSD 4.5.

Lon will be doing the second talk, going into both the history and usage of Apple’s OS X operating system.

See you tonight at 6:30 PM!

We’re gearing up for this year’s Central PA Open Source Conference (CPOSC), which will be held on Saturday, October 17th at Harrisburg University. Tickets include include access to all three tracks including 21 awesome speakers, breakfast, lunch, an afternoon snack break… and official CPOSC 2009 t-shirts for those who register by September 22!

The number of tickets available is limited based on the size of our venue, and last year tickets were sold out before the conference. So before the big announcements are made next week, we’re giving CPLUG members and friends a chance to register right now!

So, head on over to cposc.eventbright.com to register, and we’ll see you in October! :)