PLUG - Phoenix Linux User Group

Where: University of Advancing Technology: 2625 W. Baseline Tempe, AZ 85283

(South side of Baseline Road west of I-10 roughly 2-3 blocks west of Fry's Electronics).

We are back in room 208 !

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

RSVP: InstallFest@PLUG.phoenix.az.us
- Your computer with specs 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 several 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.

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

Be prepared to help out if you show up.

Agenda

• task updates
• topics for west side a week from Wed?
• Tempe Installfest report
• topics for devel in Apr?
• topics for east side in Apr
• promotion

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.

East Side Meeting

Presentations This Month

Clustering Web Applications for Continued Operations and Disaster Recovery

• Replication of your databases
• Clustering your Java applications using Tomcat and Apache webserver
• Load balancing concepts and modern round robin

Presenter: Bryan O'Neal

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

Where: Sequoia Charter School in Mesa

The PLUG Development Meetings are held at the UAT on the first thursday of the month in room #203

Join the plug-devel email list to participate in running the devel meetings or to ask devel questions.

Presentations this month

Intro to Adroid development and Eclipse

The presentaiton will give an intro to the architecture of the Android platform and its capabilities. Given time, the basics of the SDK/emulator with a couple of "Hello World" like applications written in Eclipse.

When: First Thursday of each month at 7:30PM
Where: UAT

Where: University of Advancing Technology: 2625 W. Baseline Tempe, AZ 85283

(South side of Baseline Road west of I-10 roughly 2-3 blocks west of Fry's Electronics).

We are back in room 208

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

RSVP: InstallFest@PLUG.phoenix.az.us
- Your computer with specs 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 several 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.

Presentations This Month

Dave Walker will do a basic demo on the history of Asterisk, demo install of FreePBX and setup a couple of extensions.

Dave Walker is the founder and president of DAMC Consulting, a successful IT outsourcing and communications firm specializing in SMB solutions with customers in California, Arizona, Nevada and Washington states. His education credentials include a degree in Computer Science from Rutgers University with an emphasis on virus design and defense, Database Engineer certifications from Microsoft and Oracle, CCNA from Cisco and various other HP, Dell and A+ certifications. Before founding DAMC he served as an independent consultant for a number of organizations including Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, Lockheed Martin, Level 3 Communications and Salt River Project and also as IT Director for Gannet Corporation including publications such as the New York Daily News, U.S. News & World Reports and USA Today. In his limited free time he works as a political activist and volunteer triager for the Ubuntu project.

Come -- bring a friend and introduce them to Linux.....we will be in Room 214: Enter the building from the West side, by the flags. Go upstairs and turn NORTH, thru the double doors. Go to the end of this hall, then turn right....Room 214 is on your LEFT. Come on in!!

When: Fourth Wednesday of each month at 7:00PM
Where: DeVry, 2149 W. Dunlap Ave., Phoenix, AZ 85021

For at least the months of March-May we will be holding an additional Installfest at the Escalante Community Center. Thanks to the fine folks at http://azloco.com/ for all their work getting this going.

Escalante Community Center
2150 East Orange Street
Tempe, AZ 85281

Map at http://www.tempe.gov/escalante/Escalante%20map.htm

The City of Tempe will help promote these events so we can hope for increased attendance and hopefully more converts.

The 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.

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.

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