PLUG - Phoenix Linux User Group

Start: 10:00
End: 16:00

NOTE: We will be in Room 204 this time!

Where: University of Advancing Technology: 2625 W. Baseline Tempe, AZ 85283
(Baseline Road, just west of I-10 and Pointe Hilton South Mountain, south side of Baseline, near Fry's Electronics Tempe).

The monthly Installfest is co-sponsored by PLUG and the AZloco.

RSVP: InstallFest@PLUG.phoenix.az.us
- Your computer with specs and equipment, including monitor, keyboard, mouse, and network card.
- What you hope to accomplish and learn by installing Linux
- Encouraged to RSVP but not required

Who: Anyone who wants to see Linux or run it on their computer.
- Volunteers always needed, please e-mail your pledge for time.

Installations take 30 minutes to over two hours, please arrive within the first few hours.

We will also help with installing Free Software applications such as Firefox, OpenOffice.org, the GIMP, Blender and Inkscape on other operating systems.

A Scottsdale company is looking for someone to fill a paid Linux Internship. This requires knowledge in Red Hat based distros with a "nice to have" in LAMP type setups. The candidate would report directly or perhaps indirectly, to Mike Ballon; the position does have a good possibility of becoming full time.

Please send resumes to mike.ballon@gmail.com

Presentations This Month

Can a devout EMACS user find happiness using a GUI Editor

Dennis Kibbe, Mesa Community College Linux Instructor, will give a presentation on three useful extensions to the GNOME gedit text editor. See how you can make this simple editor more versatile and fun to use."

Saving Money by Using Linux with a virtualized Windows environment to ease the transition.
Brian will preview his ScaLE OSSIE talk

Ease the migration to Linux, save time and money, while keeping a no
maintenance version of Microsoft Windows desktop to pick up the slack on any software that does not have a Linux equivalent. Employees don't have a visible difference on their desktops. Companies get to save money and IT effort.

Using GNU/Linux to deploy Microsoft Windows in a multi-campus K12
environment reduces annual desktop and server licensing costs. In this
session, you'll learn how to realize many of the benefits of Free
Software without throwing out all your essential, windows only,
educational and administrative software. You can realize additional
savings by moving to Free Software applications.

Students, teachers and staff get to keep using the essential software
software they require to get their work done, but with better stability and flexibility. Using GNU/Linux as the deployment infrastructure also improves security and reduces firefighting for IT.

The presentation also includes tips on how to get users to accept and
even request Free software, as well as tips on when not try do a transition to Free and Open Source Software.

When: 7:00PM to about 9:00PM
Where: Sequoia Charter School in Mesa

Presentations This Month

Presentation 1

Discussion regarding how Infusionsoft implements open source solutions within a corporate environment, This discussion will include how Linux, and other open source tools are used within a corporate environment to efficiently and effectively replicate costly solutions. These topics will include: Setting up an automation system across the back-end with bash; how to configure a fully redundant set of Tomcat web nodes, and MySQL database nodes, with easily activated fail-over capabilities; remote management, and installation; feasible backup solutions; and routing capabilities with Iptables.

Presentation 2

Overview of new features in KDE SC 4.4, the upcoming release of the KDE Software Compilation. Ryan Rix will go over some of the new capabilities of the desktop and will be on hand with live USB images for installation.

Topics: Various topics ranging form beginner's to advanced, user to administrator.
When: Fourth Wednesday of each month at 7:00PM
Where: DeVry, 2149 W. Dunlap Ave., Phoenix, AZ 85021

Start: 2010 Jan 30 - 10:00
End: 2010 Jan 30 - 16:00
Timezone: Etc/GMT-7

Where: University of Advancing Technology: 2625 W. Baseline Tempe, AZ 85283
(Baseline Road, just west of I-10 and Pointe Hilton South Mountain, south side of Baseline, near Fry's Electronics Tempe).

The "monthly" Installfest is co-sponsored by PLUG and the AZloco. It is held the last Saturday of the month January through October. If one is held for November and December it is generally held on a Saturday early in December.

RSVP: InstallFest@PLUG.phoenix.az.us
- Your computer with specs and equipment, including monitor, keyboard, mouse, and network card.
- What you hope to accomplish and learn by installing Linux
- Encouraged to RSVP but not required

Who: Anyone who wants to see Linux or run it on their computer.
- Volunteers always needed, please e-mail your pledge for time.

Installations can sometimes take over two hours, please arrive within the first few hours.

We will also help with installing Free Software applications such as Firefox, OpenOffice.org, the GIMP, Blender and Inkscape on other operating systems.

Perl Programmers...

I spoke with a recruiter the other day who is looking for Perl programmers who can do Object Oriented Perl. The job(s) is in the valley (Phx) and it's contract-to-hire.

Her name is Dana Nilson, she is with TEKsystems, and her email is dnilson (at) teksystems.com. She knows I'm posting this to a user group, but not which one. If you reach out to her, tell her you heard from Bart Garst.

Agenda

• mtg intro
• assign note-taker
• Jan west side topic updates
• Feb devel topic updates
• find Feb east side topic
• start sysadm team

IRC meetings for planning PLUG activities and working on PLUG activities and infrastructure.

Be prepared to help out if you show up.

Meetings will take place on the first and third Sunday of the month at 20:00 in PLUG's IRC channel. We will skip dates that are holidays or on long weekends.

Date: First and Third Sunday of the month
Time: 20:00
Channel: #plugaz
Server: irc.freenode.net

Web interface for Freenode.

Searching for Java Open Source Gurus that either live or can relocate to the Phoenix area! To apply please e-mail Mindy Outzen at m.outzen@richardmichaelgroup.com

Job Description:

To Design, Develop and implement web-based Java Applications, Resolve technical issues for clients, Work with a team of developers, designers, QA etc., Regular travel is required to client sites for Trainings, Implementations, etc.

Requirements:
Must have a Bachelor’s Degree.

Must have knowledge of SQL.

Must have at least 5 years of Java experience.

Must have at least 1 ORM technology experience.

Must have experience with more than one MVC framework.

Environment:

Casual Atmosphere, Flex Schedules available! Full time (between 40-50 hours per week depending on the project you are working on)

Benefits: A full benefits package after 90 day contract is up and you are hired as a permanent employee.

Pay Range:
Contract basis for 90 days then Salary is between $70-90k plus up to a $10k bonus potential per year

East Side Meeting

The December east side meeting will be our annual end of year party.

We encourage bringing family and friends. This is a social event with no presentations.

We will have some giveaways.

We also encourage bringing some food to share.

No alcohol (dry site) because the meeting is at a school.

When: 7:00PM to about 9:00PM

Where: Sequoia Charter School in Mesa

East Side Meeting

Co-sponsored by LOPSA-US-AZ.

Presentations This Month

• Virtualization In The Open Enterprise
• Recollections of founding a distribution and doing business with big business