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UNIGROUP GENERAL MEETING
MEETING INTRODUCTION
Unigroup wishes you a Happy New Year 2015!
Our speaker for January 2015 is John Baldwin from the FreeBSD
Project. John gave a presentation at NYCBUG
Unigroup Elections: Unigroup holds Board of Director Elections
every January. If you are a Unigroup Member and would like to
run for the Unigroup Board, please contact us on or before our
January meeting. Board members are expected to regularly
attend Unigroup General and Board Meetings, and basically help
the rest of the board run Unigroup. If you would like to help
out Unigroup, but not join the board officially, please let us
know. Unigroup needs your help! Unigroup is a not-for-profit
volunteer organization, and has been serving the Greater NYC
Metro Unix Users Community for over 30 years!
Note: We are working to reschedule our planned talk on
The Open Compute Hardware Platform (Penguin Computer).
DIRECTIONS
PRESENTATION OUTLINE
Topic: FreeBSD Kernel Debugging (using the Bhyve Hypervisor)
Introduction & Description of Talk:
Kernel Debugging and Virtual Machines:
An important component of the software running on most systems is the
operating system kernel. Examining the state of a kernel is a key task
when adding new features or investigating bugs in the kernel. FreeBSD
provides several tools that can be used to debug FreeBSD kernels. We
will walk through an overview of several of these tools.
Virtual machine hypervisors allow for a richer kernel development
environment within a single host. We will cover some of these benefits
and walk through a short demo.
Presentation Outline:
References & Web Resources:
SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY
To-be-announced.
COMPANY BIOGRAPHY
To-be-announced.
GIVEAWAYS
Addison-Wesley Professional/Prentice Hall PTR/Pearson, and O'Reilly
have been kind enough to provide us with review copies of some of
their books, which we will continue to raffle off as giveaways at
our meetings. The publishers always ask that the persons receiving
the books provide a review and/or feedback about their books.
Unigroup would like to thank both publishing companies for the support
provided by their User Group programs.
As always, all of the books will be available for review at the
start of the meeting.
FEE SCHEDULE
Unigroup is a Professional Technical Organization and User Group, and
its members pay a yearly membership fee.
For Unigroup members, there is usually no additional charges
(ie. no meeting fees) during their membership year.
Non-members who wish to attend Unigroup meetings are usually required to
pay a "Single Meeting Fee".
NOTE: Simply receiving Unigroup Email Announcements does NOT indicate
membership in Unigroup.
Members: Remember to bring your membership card with you to
the meeting, to confirm your yearly renewal date!
FOOD AND REFRESHMENTS
Complimentary Food and Refreshments will be served. This includes
"wraps" such as turkey, roast beef, chicken, tuna and grilled
vegetables as well as assorted salads (potato, tossed,
pasta, etc), cookies, brownies, bottled water and assorted beverages.
Our thanks go to BittWare for sponsoring the food service for this meeting!
Please join us for this meeting, you won't want to miss it!
SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS:
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prior to the meeting date, so we can plan the food order.
RSVP deadline is usually the night before the meeting day.
Note: RSVP is requested for this location to make sure the guard
will let you into the building. RSVP also helps us to
properly plan the meeting (food, drinks, handouts,
seating, etc.) and speed up your sign-in at the meeting.
If you forget to RSVP prior to the meeting day, you may
still be able to show up and attend our meeting, however,
we cannot guarantee what building security will do if
you are "not on the list".
Location:
The Cooper Union (http://www.cooper.edu)
School of Engineering (*** New Building ***)
41 Cooper Square (3rd Avenue @ 7th Street, between 6th & 7th Streets)
East Village, Manhattan
New York City, 10003
Meeting Room: ** (See Above, Room May Change Month-to-Month)
Located on the East side of Cooper Square. Look for the
new building with the non-traditional appearance.
Entrance is at the corner of 3rd Avenue and 7th Street.
Building lobby sign-in is required at the guard's desk.
Enter the building, check in with the guard at the lobby for
directions to the Unigroup Meeting Room.
Nearest mass transit stations are:
'6' to Astor Place (stops right at The Cooper Union),
then walk 1 block East and 1 block South.
'R' to 8th Street, then walk about 2 blocks East
then 1 block South.
'4/5/N/Q' to Union Square, then walk South and East.
or transfer to the downtown '6' to Astor Place.
'B/D/F/V' to Broadway-Lafayette, then walk North and East.
or transfer to the uptown '6' to Astor Place.
Free street parking in the area becomes available at 6pm.
There are parking lots on Broadway, at (or just South of) 8th
Street, across from the West side of Cooper Square, as well
as various others in the area.
The FreeBSD Project:
http://www.freebsd.org
The BHyve Hypervisor:
http://www.bhyve.org
The FreeBSD Test Suite:
http://wiki.freebsd.org/TestSuite
John Baldwin's Unigroup FreeBSD Kernel Debugging Presentation Slides (pdf):
https://people.freebsd.org/~jhb/papers/unigroup_kernel_debug/slides.pdf
Yearly Membership (includes all meetings): $ 50.00
Student Yearly Membership (with current! ID): $ 25.00
Non-Member Single Meeting: $ 20.00
Non-Member Student Single Meeting (with! ID): $ 5.00
* Payment Methods: Cash, Check, American Express.
MasterCard, VISA, Discover (since 2013).
! Students: We are looking for proof that you are
currently enrolled in classes (rather than working
full-time), and as such, your Student ID should show
a CURRENT date. We have been presented Student IDs
containing NO dates whatsoever, and in the
current environment, perpetual/non-expiring access
to university facilities just does not feel right.
If your ID contains no date, please bring
additional proof of current enrollment. Thanks.
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