From jjhartley at gmail.com Mon Sep 1 13:54:44 2008 From: jjhartley at gmail.com (James Hartley) Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2008 04:54:44 -0700 Subject: September meet Message-ID: For those that want to get together to discuss the upcoming 4.4 release, Tueday at the Metreon is the place. Jim From cba at groundworkopensource.com Tue Sep 2 22:52:55 2008 From: cba at groundworkopensource.com (Chris B. Anderson) Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 13:52:55 -0700 Subject: BayLISA Monitoring SIG: Weds, Sept 10 2008, 7PM Message-ID: (Hi: You're invited to the BayLISA Monitoring SIG, Weds, Sept 10 2008, 7PM. See the meeting announcement pasted below: feel free to post it and/or forward it along to anyone else who might be interested. Many thanks, and hope to see you there!) ================================================= Monitoring SIG XVII: IPV6 Era of Transformation Stephan Baur, Sr. Director, Enterprise Architecture & Technology, Cisco Roger R?ttimann, Director Software Development, GroundWork Open Source Inc. In the near future the internet will run out of available addresses. To fix this problem a new addressing scheme named IPV6 was introduced to supplement the current IPV4 standard. With the benefits of having more addresses available comes the complexity, cost and risks of converting existing functioning systems to IPV6. Should a System Administrator be concerned about upgrading their network to IPV6? What are the benefits? We'll present a high-level view of the challenges IPv6 presents to systems and network operators. We provide a short review of IPv6, what the network landscape will look like for a long time to come and provide some thoughts what IPv6 means for software, systems and network engineers -- tactically and strategically. What: BayLISA Monitoring SIG XVII: IPV6 Era of Transformation Who: Anyone interested in IT monitoring issues and tools (newbies particularly welcome!) When: Wednesday, Sept 10 2008, 7PM Where: GroundWork Open Source, 139 Townsend St., San Francisco How: 139 Townsend St. is very near AT&T Ballpark. It is one and a half blocks from the CalTrain Depot. Take the MUNI N or T or trolley to 2nd and King (ballpark stop) or take the 30 or 45 bus (among others) crosstown. Free evening street parking can probably be found because the Giants are playing an afternoon game that day (vs. Arizona, 12:35 start) and it should be over by the time the SIG starts. There are several fee-based parking garages around in case of parking difficulty. Cost: Free!! Back to school pizza, carbonated and non-carbonated drinks, and healthy (and questionably healthy) snacks provided by GroundWork. We'll open up the doors at 6:30 or so and start the formal part of the meeting promptly at 7PM. 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URL: http://mailman.theapt.org/pipermail/sfobug/attachments/20080902/98caed9c/attachment-0001.html From jim at well.com Wed Sep 10 07:54:38 2008 From: jim at well.com (jim) Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2008 22:54:38 -0700 Subject: BayPIGgies meeting Thursday September 11, 2008: Music and Lights Message-ID: <1221026078.30326.154.camel@ubuntu> BayPIGgies meeting Thursday September 11, 2008: Finger Painting with Planets by Speaker Finger Painting with Planets is an interactive installation using FingerWorks iGesture multitouch pads in a custom-built controller. The installation lets people place objects in space. Gravitational attraction between the objects produces graceful movements that are translated into visuals and sound. Knobs and buttons on the controller are used to adjust parameters. A musical keyboard is used to select notes that will be used in the music. Theater Lighting System by Drew Perttula I'll talk about 3 major new improvements to my theater lighting system since the last presentation in 2005: a midi input device (with python driver); the use of RDF for most of the persistent data; and a new tool for rendering previews of lighting scenes with opengl. The meeting starts with a Newbie Nugget, a short discussion of an essential Python feature, specially for those new to Python. Tonight's Newbie Nugget is... Micro-benchmarking with timeit, presented by Matt Good. Location: Google Campus Building 40, the Seville room (check in at the lobby in bldg 43) bayPIGgies meeting information: http://baypiggies.net/new/plone * Please sign up in advance to have your google access badge ready: http://wiki.python.org/moin/BayPiggiesGoogleMeetings (no later than close of business on Wednesday.) Agenda ..... 7:30 PM ........................... General hubbub, inventory end-of-meeting announcements, any first-minute announcements. ..... 7:35 PM to 7:45 PM ................ Newbie Nugget Benchmarking with timeit by Matt Good ..... 7:45 PM to 8:15 PM ................ Finger Painting with Planets by Tim Thompson ..... 8:15 PM to 8:45 PM ................ Theater Lighting System by Drew Perttula ..... 8:45 PM to 9:00 PM -- After The Talk ................ Mapping and Random Access Mapping is a rapid-fire audience announcement of topics the announcers are interested in. Random Access follows immediately to allow follow up individually on the announcements and other topics of interest.