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UNIGROUP OF NEW YORK - UNIX USERS GROUP - OCTOBER 2004 ANNOUNCEMENTS
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1. UNIGROUP'S OCTOBER 2004 GENERAL MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT
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When: THURSDAY, October 21th, 2004 (3rd Thursday)
Where: <<<< OUR NEW MEETING LOCATION >>>>
Alliance for Downtown NY Conference Facility
Downtown Center
104 Washington Street
South West Corner of Wall Street Area
Downtown, New York City
** Please RSVP (not mandatory) **
Time: 6:15 PM - 6:25 PM Registration
6:25 PM - 6:45 PM Ask the Wizard, Questions,
Answers and Current Events
6:45 PM - 7:00 PM Unigroup Business and Announcements
7:00 PM - 9:30 PM Main Presentation
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Topic: Internet Technology: WEB SERVICES.
A Technical Talk and Developer Briefing
covering XML, SOAP, WSDL, UDDI, and other standards.
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Speaker: Bruce Grant, Senior Director SCOx Engineering
SCOx - The SCO Group
INTRODUCTIONS:
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Unigroup has the following meetings planned over the next few
months (no particular order):
- Unix/Linux/BSD WiFi
- OpenAFS - Jeff Altman (followup presentation)
- Zope / Web Development - Zope Corporation
- Repeat Field Trip to Sun, Post Solaris 10 Release
Unigroup 3rd Thursday Meeting dates to hold open:
October 21, 2004; November 18, 2004; January 20, 2005.
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SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS:
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To REGISTER for this event, please RSVP by using the Unigroup
Registration Page:
http://www.unigroup.org/unigroup-rsvp.html
This will allow us to automate the registration process.
(Registration will also add you to our mailing list.)
Please continue to check the Unigroup web site and meeting page,
for any last minute updates concerning this meeting. If you
registered for this meeting, please check your email for any
last minute announcements as the meeting approaches.
Please RSVP by Wednesday, 20-OCT-2004, so we can have the proper
amount of food available.
Note: RSVP is not mandatory for this location, but it does help
us to properly plan the meeting (food, drinks, handouts,
seating, etc.).
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Outline of the Main Presentation:
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Objective:
The objective of this presentation is to provide enough exposure
to Web Services such that a professional in the computer industry
will understand what Web Services are, what situations they are
best used in, and have a general familiarity with the technologies
and tools associated with Web Services.
Target Audience:
This presentation is targeted both at mid-level computer
professionals (administrators, managers, etc.) and software
engineers. However, this is a working-level presentation that
will include references to programming concepts and working code
examples in both C and Java.
Technologies for Discussion:
The following lists the technologies and standards that will be
discussed in detail: XML, SOAP, WSDL, HTTP, HTML, UDDI and others.
Summary:
The presentation is comprised of the following four sections:
1) Why should I care about Web Services?
Web Services have been portrayed as the solution to everything
from software interoperability to bad coding practices to world
hunger. Web Services is not the answer for every solution.
However, if you don't know enough about Web Services to understand
when to use them you will quickly find yourself at a disadvantage
with your competition.
2) Exactly what is a Web Service?
High-level introductions to the elements that comprise a
"Web Service" will be followed with in-depth technical examples
that explain the various standards that together comprise the
Web Service landscape. This section will also include an
explanation of how Web Services are differentiated from similar
software interoperability efforts of the last twenty years.
3) When should I use Web Services?
This section will provide greater depth into the technical
capabilities and short-comings of Web Services, explaining what
situations Web Services are best suited for.
4) How do I code a Web Service?
By this final section, you should have been exposed several times
to the high-level technical aspects of Web Services and it is time
to dig into the details. This section will make suggestions for
tools that can be used to develop Web Services on nearly any
operating system and actually walk through the process of
creating Web Services step-by-step. All examples will work most
major operating systems.
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Web Resources:
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Apache Web Services Project http://ws.apache.org
Microsoft Web Services Center http://msdn.microsoft.com/webservices
Sun Java and Web Services http://java.sun.com/webservices
W3C Web Services Activity http://www.w3.org/2002/ws
Various links exist for Perl + Web Services (do a web search).
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Speaker Biography:
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Bruce Grant has approximately 10 years of experience in software
engineering development and management. He is currently
responsible for all Web Services-related technologies at The
SCO Group including the SCOx Web Services Substrate (WSS). Bruce
has acted as chief architect for the WSS product suite, as well as
managing the team of software engineers that created it.
The WSS enables legacy applications to be "wrapped" as a set of
Web Services, without requiring any modification to the legacy
application. Also, the WSS enables nearly any SQL database to be
wrapped into a set of one or more Web Services. Then, these Web
Services can be used to create rich, graphical browser-based
applications using another product within the WSS.
Prior to SCO, Bruce was a founding member and CTO of Vultus Inc.,
where he pioneered the development of an innovative framework for
the creation of Web Services-enabled web applications. He has
been a force for the adoption of open solutions and web standards,
embracing technologies including Java, XML and SOAP. Bruce
remains a strong advocate of agile software development
methodologies, implementing them successfully since 2000.
SCOx's product offerings are designed to drive the creation of
new UNIX-based products, by providing a unique framework for the
development and delivery of Web Services enabled applications.
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Giveaways:
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O'Reilly has been kind enough to provide us with some of their
books, which we will continue to raffle off as giveaways at our
meetings.
Addison-Wesley Professional/Prentice Hall PTR has been kind
enough to provide us with some of their books, which we will
continue to raffle off as giveaways at our meetings.
Unigroup would like to thank both companies for the support
provided by their User Group programs.
Note: The chances tend to be about 1 in 5, that any attendee of
our meeting will walk away with a fairly valuable giveaway
(ie. most books are valued between $30 and $60)!
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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.
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Complimentary Food and Refreshments will be served. This includes
sandwiches such as turkey, roast beef, chicken, tuna and grilled
vegetables as well as cookies, bottled water and assorted beverages.
SCOx will be sponsoring the food for this meeting. Thanks SCOx!
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Directions:
Alliance for Downtown NY Conference Facility
Downtown Center
104 Washington Street
Wall Street Area
Downtown, New York City
This building is located on the West side of the street. Cross
Streets: Between Rector (South) and Carlisle (North) Streets.
Our meeting location is in the Lower West Corner of Downtown,
North of the Battery Tunnel, South of the Downtown Hotel,
East of West Street, and West of Greenwich Street. Walking West
on Rector Street from Broadway, you pass Church, Greenwich then
Washington Streets.
There are multiple blocks of parking lots right there, between
Washington and Greenwich Streets, starting at the Battery Tunnel
and extending North for a number of blocks.
Nearest mass transit stations, in order, are the '1/9' (Rector
Street), 'R/W' (Rector Street) and the '4/5' (Wall Street).
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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:
- Unix/Linux/BSD WiFi - Looking for Speakers
- OpenAFS - Jeff Altman - Planned
- Zope / Web Page Development - Zope Corporation - Planned
- Field Trip to Sun - Invited - Post Solaris 10 Release
- Field Trip to HP - Invited
- Unix 35th Birthday Celebration
- IPsec
- DNS
- iSCSI, Serial ATA, and other new peripheral technologies
- Unix Clusters and Clustered Databases
- Linux Clustering Part 3: Beowulf version 2
- Building a Firewall using FreeBSD and Linux
- High Performance Internet Servers / Web Acceleration
- Unix Office Tools: Word Processors, Spreadsheets, Accounting Packages.
- PKI
- GNU Development Environments
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. LOCAL EVENT AND TRADE SHOW ANNOUNCEMENTS
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INFOSECURITY SHOW
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The Infosecurity New York Show will be at the Javits Center on:
Wednesday December 8, 2004
Thursday December 9, 2004
For further information and online registration visit:
http://www.infosecurityevent.com
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4. PRIOR MEETINGS
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July 2004:
Unigroup would like to thank our speakers from Sun Microsystems
(Ambreesh Khanna, Andrew Deally, Jarod Jenson) for putting on
quite a show for us at our Solaris 10 Pre-Launch Field Trip Event.
We would also like to thank Hal Stern, and the people from the
NYC Sun Office, for helping to set this meeting up, and make it
a great success.
Sun provided us (actually surprised us) with a huge spread of
food and drink, as well as a lively, entertaining and often a
very energetic presentation (you really had to be there) about
the new features of Solaris 10. I believe its fair to say
that most people left the meeting with one word on their
mind... "WOW!"
Topics discussed included: Solaris on various Intel/AMD and
SPARC platforms, Solaris vs other Unix/Linux OS, Solaris 10
vs older versions, as well as a sampling of the new
"best in class" features seen in Solaris 10, many of them
not available in other operating systems.
Unigroup was invited back to Sun, after the official release,
to continue the presentation in more detail, and to talk about
certain things that needed to remain confidential till the
official release.
August 2004:
Unigroup would like to thank NYeWin and their speaker Tony Iams
of D.H. Brown Associates for inviting us to partake in their
meeting on "Migrating From Windows NT 4.0: Linux or Windows
Server?"
Unigroup and NYeWin members were represented about 50:50 at the
meeting, and the meeting went well. We believe both groups
shared ideas, benefited from the lively discussion, and learned
new things at this meeting.
It would seem that independent analysis shows that a migration
from NT4 to Linux makes a lot of sense, specifically due to the
age and feature set on NT4 (the Unigroup people in the audience
already knew this). There were also interesting comparisons
leveled concerning post-migration self-support, and how there
was a trend, or perception of a trend, of commercial enterprises
moving towards self-support (rather than only using commercial
support contracts), particularly in the Linux community. I
believe this comes from the fact that "community support" for
Unix and Linux goes back before the Internet... back to UseNET
and early User Groups, and far before Windows ever existed.
The Unix/Linux community (and the Unix mentality) is well
established and continues to thrive. Also, a vast variety of
highly professional Unix/Linux documentation, manuals and
papers exists from a large variety of commercial,
non-commercial, governmental (research labs) and educational
(university) sources... spanning the past 35 years!
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5. 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.
Unigroup holds regular meetings planned for (at a minimum) the Third
THURSDAY of Odd Months. We generally try to hold Field Trip or
Vendor Specific Meetings on the Even Months, although we do have
the ability to hold monthly meetings at our new downtown meeting location.
Planned meeting dates are: 10/21/2004, 11/18/2004, 1/20/2005, ...
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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If you have recently attended a meeting and you are not receiving
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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
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