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UNIGROUP OF NEW YORK SEPTEMBER 2002 ANNOUNCEMENTS
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1. UNIGROUP'S SEPTEMBER 2002 GENERAL MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT
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When: Thursday, September 19, 2002
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NOTE: NEW MEETING LOCATION!
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Where: The Chase Manhattan Bank
One Chase Manhattan Plaza (1CMP) <== ** NEW LOCATION! **
Conference Center, 28th Floor
Downtown, NYC
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YOU MUST RSVP TO GET PAST SECURITY, SEE BELOW!
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Time: 6:15 PM - 6:30 PM Registration
6:30 PM - 6:40 PM Ask the Wizard,
Questions, Answers and Current Events
6:40 PM - 6:50 PM Unigroup Business
6:50 PM - 9:30 PM Main Presentation
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Topic: Japple,
A Rapid Web Application Development Environment
built on Java2/J2EE/JSP.
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Speaker: William Thompson,
Patrick Larmore,
John Shimer,
Saucon Technologies
Introduction:
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Sorry for the late notice for this meeting. We had a confirmed
speaker on a topic of True64/HPUX Futures, but as of last week,
a new series of layoffs happened, and just like last year, they
essentially eliminated our planned meeting.
Our friends from Saucon Technologies were able to fill in on short
notice with what should be a great topic: Japple.
Japple is an enterprise-class middleware platform released under
the GNU Lesser General Public License.
Japple was originally created by Saucon Technologies for use in
their client projects. It is written in Java and has been
successfully used in enterprise class applications. Japple has
been successfully deployed on a variety of hardware and software
platforms including Jakarta Tomcat, iPlanet, IBM WebSphere, and
BEA Weblogic.
On January 31, 2002 at this year's LinuxWorld Expo at the Javits
Center, Saucon announced the first Open Source release,
Japple 2.0, which can be combined with Apache, Tomcat, Java and
Mozilla to provide an end-to-end Open Source Web application
solution.
Keep an eye out for our upcoming meeting on Zope which is another
Web development technology.
SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS:
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First off, Chase has found us a NEW location to hold our meetings.
Note our NEW meeting location listed above! We are now a few
blocks North from where we used to meet.
This is the SECOND time we will be meeting at this new location,
please be patient with any meeting problems that we may
experience.
* IN ORDER TO PASS THROUGH SECURITY AT CHASE, WE NEED YOU TO RSVP
* PRIOR TO THE MEETING DAY, SO WE CAN GET YOUR NAME ON THE ATTENDEE
* LIST. ADVANCE REGISTRATION AND PHOTO ID ARE REQUIRED!
* RSVP DEADLINE 18-SEP-2002 13:00. <<<< PAY ATTENTION, DEADLINE!
Please RSVP if you know you are attending or if you think you may
be attending. This will help us arrange for a letter to security
for all of Unigroup. It will also help us to determine the correct
amount of food and refreshments.
To REGISTER for this event, please RSVP by:
a) If at all possible, please use the Unigroup Registration Page:
http://www.unigroup.org/unigroup-rsvp.html
This will allow us to have some automation in the RSVP process.
b) If you must Email us, send an EMail containing the FIRST and
LAST NAMEs of the persons attending to the Unigroup RSVP address:
unigroup-rsvp@unigroup.org
The Email subject should start with "RSVP".
You may optionally include your contact phone number (that day)
or other current information.
DO NOT simply reply to this email, sending us back the entire
announcement (we already have it); leaving the subject as it
was, and NOT containing the phrase "RSVP" as requested. In
that case, your message just looks like failed mail and it
makes it impossible to automate the RSVP process and get
you registered for our event.
Please continue to check the Unigroup web site:
http://www.unigroup.org
for any last minute updates concerning this meeting. Please
check your email for any last minute announcements prior to the
meeting. Note that only the Attendee First and Last Names will
be provided to Chase Security.
Description of Talk:
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This presentation will provide a high-level overview of features,
techniques and architecture of the Japple project as well demo
specific Japple applications and features such as:
* Japple Templates
* Japple Data Access
* Japple Schemas (Automatic client-side validations)
* Japple Services
(Keep an eye on our web page for updates to this outline.)
Web Resources:
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1. Japple http://www.japple.org
Giveaways:
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Caldera supplied a box of OpenLinux Server and Workstation CD-ROMS
as well as a pile of Caldera Baseball Caps.
Speaker Biography:
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Bill Thompson is a senior developer at Saucon Technologies and
Chief Japple Evangelist. He introduced the Japple team to
"Smarter JSP development using XML templates and DOM" which led to
the creation of Japple Templates.
Patrick Larmore is the lead architect at Saucon Technologies where he
created the original architecture and code that became Japple 1.0.
Patrick continues to refine and enhance the Japple architecture and
plays a key role in the direction of the project.
Company Biography:
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Saucon Technologies is an eBusiness service provider that specializes
in end-to-end web-based workflow and business intelligence solutions
for enterprise business clients. Saucon Technologies' mission is to
rapidly solve the problems businesses face integrating disparate
systems, data and processes with highly scalable, open standard,
component-based web applications and services. Founded in 1997,
Saucon Technologies employs over 50 employees in its Bridgewater NJ,
Lehigh Valley PA, and Dublin, Ireland locations. For more information
please visit www.saucontech.com.
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Complimentary Food and Refreshments will be served. This includes
sandwiches such as turkey, roast beef, chicken, tuna and grilled
eggplant. Chase also provided us a very nice spread of treats
including brownies, cookies, popcorn, bottled water and assorted
beverages.
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Directions:
The 1CMP building is situated: South of Liberty Street, North of
Pine Street, East of Broad/Nassau Street and West of William Street.
The building is one block east of Broadway, right behind 140 Broadway.
The closest entrance to the conference center is from Nassau Street,
first elevator bank from the Nassau Street entrance.
The building is on a raised platform. Walk up the outside stairs at
Nassau Street and head for the guard's station at the south-west
corner of the building. Tell the guards you are heading for Unigroup.
They will inspect your ID and carry-ins and direct you to the meeting
facility assuming you are on the Unigroup RSVP list.
Once you get upstairs, enter the conference facility through its main
doors. There is a bank of large monitors to the left of the entrance
which should direct you to the Unigroup meeting room (the room may
vary from month to month). To the right of the main entrance is the
concierge's desk, ask for help there if you need anything. The
conference facility has two levels, keep in mind that the Unigroup
meeting may be up the staircase on its upper level.
As always, also look out for Unigroup signs marking the path to the
meeting room. Also note, if you come early, we may not have
our own signs in place yet (we have to commute there too).
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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
Cash, Check, American Express.
* Employees of Chase (with ID) can attend general meetings
at NO CHARGE.
==> Unigroup is the Greater NYC Regional Area Affiliate
of UniForum - an International Unix Users Group.
Our Joint Membership Program with UniForum is currently
on hold due to circumstances at UniForum.
For information about UniForum visit http://www.uniforum.org.
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Please mark this meeting on your calendar and join us!
Please tell your friends about Unigroup!
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2. UPCOMING MEETINGS
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We have a series of meetings in the works:
- Zope (Web Page Development)
- Unix Clusters and Clustered Databases
- High Performance Internet Servers / Web Acceleration
- Unix 30th Birthday Celebration
- IPsec and IPv6
- Linux Clustering Part 3: Beowulf version 2
- Building a Firewall using FreeBSD and Linux
- Unix Office Tools: Word Processors, Spreadsheets, Accounting Packages.
- Emacs
- PKI
- GNU Development Environments
- Meetings on a variety of Sun/Solaris/Java topics
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 at uniboard@unigroup.org.
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3. PRIOR MEETINGS
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Unigroup would like to thank our July 2002 speaker, Tamar Newberger
from Tarantella, Inc., for her presentaion on Building a Virutal
Workplace. Aspects of where the industry is going, remote access
problems including security and session management, cross-platform
connectivity, and the efficiency of protocols typically used for
remote access were discussed.
Tarantella performed a product demonstration which wow-ed the audience:
A Wireless PDA device (which supports web, java and high speed wireless
networking) was used to remotely access (with full security and full
X-session graphics) a Solaris server situated about 10 blocks south
of our location. While the display was a bit small on the PDA, the
color graphical desktop was usable in Point-n-Click fashion.
Tarantella also provided a series of giveaways including retractable
telco cords (for notebooks), t-shits, pens and demo CD-ROMS.
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4. UNIGROUP INFORMATION
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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 also the Greater NYC Regional Area Affiliate
of UniForum - an International Unix Users Group.
Thanks to Chase, Unigroup holds regular meetings planned for the Third
THURSDAY of Odd Months at The Chase Manhattan Bank, 1CMP, NYC.
Chase has been a long time sponsor of Unigroup, allowing us the use of
a meeting room and presentation equipment.
Planned meeting dates are: 9/19/2002, 11/21/2002, 1/16/2003, ...
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.
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editor@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!
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I hope to see you all at our next meeting!
-Rob Weiner
Unigroup Executive Director
unilist@unigroup.org
http://www.unigroup.org
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