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UNIGROUP OF NEW YORK - UNIX USERS GROUP - NOVEMBER 2004 ANNOUNCEMENTS
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1. UNIGROUP'S NOVEMBER 2004 GENERAL MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT
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When: THURSDAY, November 18th, 2004 (3rd Thursday)
Where: ** FIELD TRIP MEETING **
Apple Computer
153 East 53rd Street, 29th Floor
Midtown, NYC 10022
** RSVP is MANDATORY **
Time: ** EARLIER START TIME **
6:00 PM - 6:15 PM Welcome and Introductions
6:15 PM - 7:30 PM BSD and MAC OS X Talk
7:45 PM - 8:30 PM Apple Hardware Overview
8:30 PM - 9:00 PM Q & A
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Topic: Apple OS/X Operating System and Comparison to *BSD,
a Technical Talk with Demonstrations.
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Speakers: Patrick Dennard, AE Apple Enterprise,
Leslie Schwartz, AE Apple Enterprise,
Ed Eigerman, Sr. Systems Engineer,
Kevin Boland, Consulting Engineer,
Apple Computer
INTRODUCTIONS:
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Our November meeting will be a Field Trip to Apple to learn about
OS/X. The meeting has an earlier start time to accommodate our
speakers/hosts. Apple had just confirmed a couple of days ago
(which lead to the short notice), although we had announced a
tentative trip to Apple at our last meeting.
Note: Apple told us that we have a 30 person limitation at the
meeting, and RSVP will be required. If more than 30 people
show up on site, it may have to be first-come first-serve,
or someone may have to leave (perhaps to catch a train,
etc.) to let the next person in. We'll have to see how
this works out (we did not know about this limitation
going in).
Apple OS/X is supposed to be very similar (or nearly identical)
to FreeBSD... it will be interesting to hear about the
similarities and differences.
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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, 17-NOV-2004, so we have time to submit
your name to Apple.
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Outline of Presentations
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Tentative Agenda:
06:00 Welcome and Introductions
- Patrick Dennard, AE Apple Enterprise
- Leslie Schwartz, AE Apple Enterprise
06:15 BSD & Mac OS X: A brief history, Security & Future (Tiger)
- Ed Eigerman, Sr. Systems Engineer
07:30 Break
07:45 Apple Hardware Overview/General Discussion
- Kevin Boland, Consulting Engineer
08:30-09:00 - Q&A
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Web Resources:
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Apple Mac OS X Panther http://www.apple.com/macosx
FreeBSD http://www.freebsd.org
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Speaker Biography:
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(to be announced)
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Company Biography:
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Apple ignited the personal computer revolution in the 1970s with
the Apple II and reinvented the personal computer in the 1980s
with the Macintosh. Today, Apple continues to lead the industry
in innovation with its award-winning desktop and notebook
computers, OS X operating system, and iLife and professional
applications. Apple is also spearheading the digital music
revolution with its iPod portable music players and iTunes
online music store.
For more information, see: http://www.apple.com
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Giveaways:
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(to be determined)
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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.
Apple will be sponsoring (and supplying) the refreshments for
this meeting, and they will include: Light sandwiches, drinks,
and sweets. Thanks Apple!
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Directions:
** FIELD TRIP LOCATION **
Apple Computer (in the Citibank Building)
153 East 53rd Street, 29th Floor
Midtown, NYC 10022
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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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Keep these tentative Unigroup 3rd Thursday meeting dates open:
January 20, 2005, February 17, 2005, March 17, 2005.
We have a series of meetings in the works:
- Unix/Linux/BSD WiFi - Looking for Speakers
- Open Source Anti-Spam and Anti-Virus - Looking for Speakers
- Zope / Web Page Development - Zope Corporation - February 17th, 2005
- OpenAFS - Jeff Altman - Secure Endpoints - April 21st, 2005 (tentative)
- 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. PREVIOUS MEETING
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Unigroup would like to thank Bruce Grant from SCOx Engineering and
Gerrald Smith from SCO for presenting at our October 2004 meeting
on Web Services. Jonathan Schilling, a Java Architect from SCO
(and Unigroup attendee), was also there to answer technical questions.
Gerrald gave us a product roadmap and Bruce gave us the technical
presentation. Bruce clearly is a _HUGE_ evangelist for Web Services
and he declared them the future of the Web (and he demonstrated
how and why they are so important). He showed us what they do,
how they are programmed/accessed, and gave us a demo of how easily
(with a little help from some helper applications) you can take
legacy character-based command-line Unix/Linux applications and
convert them into web/graphical web-service based systems. Some
of us at the meeting left thinking "what have we been missing,
we need to get into this technology ASAP."
SCO sponsored the food service for that meeting and provided 10 NFR
full product sets (probably each worth between $1000-$2000 retail)
as giveaways. Combined with a set of books from Prentice Hall and
O'Reilly that we also raffled off, we had a nice collection of items
to give away to the audience.
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4. 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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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: 11/18/2004, 1/20/2005, 2/17/2005, ...
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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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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