**NOTE: SPECIAL FIELD TRIP MEETING, AND ON A SPECIAL DATE...
**NOTE: SPECIAL FIELD TRIP MEETING, AND ON A SPECIAL DATE...
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UNIGROUP OF NEW YORK APRIL 2003 ANNOUNCEMENTS
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1. UNIGROUP'S APRIL 2003 GENERAL MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT
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When: Thursday, May 1st, 2003 (Yes, April Meeting on May 1st)
Where: Hewlett Packard
NY Metro Office
2 Penn Plaza <==(ONE-TIME FIELD TRIP MEETING)
On 7th Ave, Spanning 31st to 33rd.
8th floor
Midtown, NYC
Tel: 212-856-2000
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YOU MUST RSVP TO GET PAST SECURITY, SEE BELOW!
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Time: 6:00 PM - 6:15 PM Registration
6:15 PM - 6:30 PM Unigroup Business, Q&A
6:30 PM - 6:55 PM Tour of HP's Systems Demo Room
6:55 PM - 8:00 PM Main Presentation
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Topic: UNIX TECHNOLOGY UPDATE:
64-bit Hardware (including Itanium),
64-bit Unix/Linux Operating Systems,
Partition Technologies: Hard and Soft Partitions.
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Speaker: Marty Poniatowski,
HP
Introduction:
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Note that this meeting is a Field Trip Meeting at HP's
facilities. This meeting also is on a special day and has
different starting and ending times. The schedule of
times listed above is subject to change, as we re-allocate
our schedule between registration, systems demos and main
presentation.
Also note, in addition to this Field Trip meeting, we still
expect to hold our regularly scheduled May 15th meeting, at
our normal meeting location. The April meeting wound up slipping
into May due a variety of reasons, which include: avoiding
tax time, various holidays and speaker/facility unavailability.
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SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS:
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* IN ORDER TO PASS THROUGH SECURITY, 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 30-APR-2003 16:00. <<<< PAY ATTENTION, DEADLINE!
* Keep an eye out on the deadline date and time, as it may change.
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.
ALSO: Do NOT give us an Email address which is over quota,
cannot receive any new Email, or which requires our automated
shell scripts to respond in some manner to YOUR InBox's
anti-spam efforts which try to confirm that our shell scripts
are human beings. All of this causes us to receive bounces
from your address when we send out the RSVP-ACKs, which will
cause us to remove your address from our lists.
You must have a working and valid Email address in order
to get on the Unigroup Meeting Attendee List, which will
grant you access to our meetings. Be sure to proof-read
your Email address before submitting the RSVP request.
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 Security.
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Description of Talk:
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Prior to the main presentation, we are arranging a guided tour
of HP's Systems Demo Room, where we can see and learn about
HP's State-of-the-Art technology solutions for Unix/Linux
Computing, Networking and Data Storage (SANS, etc).
Tom Mendolia, HP's storage Solution Architect, will be at our
meeting to show HP's storage products and to answer questions.
Marty Poniatowski's main presentation will be a UNIX
Technology Overview, covering some of the latest advancements
in 64-bit Hardware and Software, including:
- 64-bit Hardware (including Itanium),
- 64-bit Unix/Linux Operating Systems,
- Partition Technologies: Hard and Soft Partitions.
Keep an eye on the meeting page at our web site for further
updates.
Web Resources:
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HP Unix http://www.hp.com/go/unix
HP Linux http://www.hp.com/go/linux
Giveaways:
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O'Reilly has been kind enough to provide us with some of their
books, which we will raffle off as giveaways at our meetings.
(I received a nice collection of Python books right after our
Python meeting - Thanks O'Reilly). There may possibly be some
other giveaways from HP as well.
Speaker Biography:
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Marty has been a Technical consultant with Hewlett-Packard
Company for fourteen years in the New York area. He has worked
with hundreds of Hewlett Packard customers in many industries,
including Internet startups, financial services, and
manufacturing. Marty has been widely published in computer
industry trade publications.
He has published over 50 articles on various computer-related
topics. In addition to this book, he is the author of 13 other
Prentice Hall books: Marty holds an M.S. in Information
Systems from Polytechnic University (Brooklyn, NY), an M.S. in
Management Engineering from the University of Bridgeport
(Bridgeport, CT), and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from
Roger Williams University (Bristol, RI).
Company Biography:
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HP information can be found at http://www.hp.com.
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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
Payment Methods: Cash, Check, American Express.
* Employees of JPM/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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Complimentary Food and Refreshments will be served.
HP will be sponsoring and providing the food.
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Directions:
Two Penn Plaza is in Midtown, NYC, on 7th Avenue, spanning
31st-33nd Streets. Penn Station is below, and this building
is convenient to other subways as well- the south exits for
the 34th street stations let out on 32nd street. Once on
32nd Street, it is a quick 1 block walk West, directly to the
main entrance of this building. If you see the taxi stand
in front of the building, you'll know that you are in the
right place.
There are two guard/security stations on the 7th Avenue side
of the building. One or both of them should have the guest
list for this event. Once the guards validate that you are
on the event list, they will direct you to the elevators and
to the 8th Floor. Once there, you will see the main reception
desk. I expect that our event should be in the conference
room to the left of that desk.
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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. 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: 5/1/2003, 5/15/2003, 7/17/2003, 9/18/2003...
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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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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