Vancouver Linux Users Group

Vancouver Linux Users Group
http://www.vanlug.bc.ca

** Monday, June 21, 2010 **
** 7:00pm - 9:00pm **

Room 102 (Lecture Theatre)
Michael Smith Laboratories
University of British Columbia
2185 East Mall
Vancouver, British Columbia
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Topic: A review of cloud computing services and technologies

About the presenter: Alex Dawson is a senior technical analyst with
the University of British Columbia, responsible for operations of
UBC's centrally provided server and storage clouds. Alex has ten years
experience with University IT operations management, both here and in
Australia.

Kim Kulak
VanLUG Secretary

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Annual General Meeting
of the Vancouver Linux Users Group Society will be held on
Monday 17 May 2010 at 7.30 pm at Room 4675, Building SW3, BCIT Burnaby campus.

The agenda for the evening is:
A) AGM
- The Year in Review
- Financial Report
- Membership Dues Review
- Board Elections

B) Presentation of the VanLUG Dave Michelson Award.

C) Evening Social: food and beverages at Prof. Mugs pub at BCIT.

All interested people are invited to attend our AGM but only paid
members may vote. Memberships will be available for purchase before
the meeting at the current price of $10.00.

All VanLUG members are eligible to run for the board of directors and
nominations for all positions are accepted from the floor. Board
positions include: Chair, Vice Chair, Treasurer, Secretary, Membership
Secretary, and any number of member-at-large positions.

Please do come out and show support for your user group.

Vancouver Linux Users Group
http://www.vanlug.bc.ca

Mon, 19 April 2010 7:30 - 9:00 pm
BCIT, SA Conference Room

There are a few things that we should talk about before the AGM in
May. Everyone who cares about the future of VanLUG should attend this
meeting and join in the discussion.

1. Probably not first in importance but on the top of my mind is that
we need someone to take over as Chair of VanLUG. I've been Chair for
two terms, given it my best shot, and it's time to give the position
to someone else.

2. The attendance at the monthly meetings has not been great. We get a
speaker as distinguished as Bruce Byfield to come to the group, and
six people show up. That's tragic. Although Bruce was very good about it.

From what I'm being told the face-to-face meetings are much less
important that they used to be, although the email list is still
important. Shall we stop the monthly meetings completely, hold them
only on special occasions, change the format and contents of the
meetings to something more relevant? We need an open and frank
discussion about this.

Vancouver Linux Users Group
http://www.vanlug.bc.ca

Mon, 15 March 2010 7:30 - 9:00 pm
** BCIT, Building SW1 Room 1025 **

_Join us for the second half of Andrew's Presentation_

Andrew Daviel: IPv6 Networking

The Internet Protocol, version 6 (IPv6), is designed as a replacement
for the familiar version 4. I will talk about the basic addressing
concepts,and show some common tools (ping, traceroute, Wireshark)
running on an IPv6 network. While IPv6 is largely transparent to the
end user, there are significant implications for network
administrators, security managers, and application programmers.

About our speaker:

Andrew Daviel is the Network Security Manager at TRIUMF, where he also
has responsibilities for videoconferencing, email, PKI and DNS. He
graduated in Physics+Electronics at the University of Manchester when
they still used punch cards, and worked on computer-assisted sonar in
the UK before moving to Canada in 1981. He built his first home
computer in 1978 and has been a Linux user since 1994.

Vancouver Linux Users Group
http://www.vanlug.bc.ca

Mon, 15 February 2010 7:30 - 9:00 pm
** BCIT, Building SW1 Room 1025 **

_A special two meeting presentation!_

Andrew Daviel: Introduction to IPv6

The Internet Protocol, version 4 (IPv4), with its familiar dotted-quad
addresses, is 30 years old. It works fairly well, but there's a
problem - there are not enough addresses, and within a couple of years
they will run out. A new version of the protocol (IPv6) was introduced
in 1995, which has a vastly larger address space, but it is
incompatible and implementation has been slow. I will talk about the
basic concepts, and business case for IPv6 deployment.

Vancouver Linux Users Group
http://www.vanlug.bc.ca

Mon, 18 January 2010 7:30 - 9:30 pm
** BCIT, Building SW1 Room 1025 **

Bruce Byfield: Sexism in the FOSS Community?