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Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 06:46:05 -0400 (EDT)
From: Unigroup_of_NY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: UNIGROUP 19-MAY-2005 (Thu): Getting Your Manager to Approve Open
Source
Unigroup's May 2005 meeting is THIS Thursday...
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UNIGROUP OF NEW YORK - UNIX USERS GROUP - MAY 2005 ANNOUNCEMENTS
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1. UNIGROUP'S MAY 2005 GENERAL MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT
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When: THURSDAY, May 19th, 2005 (3rd Thursday)
Where: 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: Getting Your Manager to Approve Open Source
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Speaker: Maria Winslow,
Author of "The Practical Manager's Guide to Open Source",
<http://windows-linux.com/practicalOpenSource>
Contributing Editor, LinuxWorld Magazine.
INTRODUCTIONS:
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The media keeps publishing articles about the pros and cons of
Open Source in the enterprise. Those of us who have been using
Open Source for many years, certainly do know and understand its
many benefits. Nevertheless, it can still remain a challenge to
convince others to allow its use in the enterprise. Unigroup's
May 2005 meeting on "Getting Your Manager to Approve the use of
Open Source" will attempt to directly address this challenge.
In her professional work, Maria Winslow, has been directly
addressing the use of Open Source in the Commercial Enterprise
in recent years, and she will share her insights with us at
this month's Unigroup meeting.
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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 avoid emailed RSVPs, if at all possible.
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. Also make sure
any anti-spam white-lists are updated to _ALLOW_ Unigroup traffic!
Please try to RSVP as soon as possible.
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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MAIN PRESENTATION:
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Getting Your Manager to Approve Open Source
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The grass roots efforts of system administrators have brought
Linux and other open source software into the enterprise,
frequently under the radar. But to take the next step in open
source advocacy at work, you need to speak the language of
management and convince them from their point of view. We will
discuss the right and wrong ways to present your case, why your
audience makes all the difference (technical manager versus
non-technical business owner), how to really hook them with proof
of cost savings, and two secret weapons in your quest to promote
open source.
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Web Resources:
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Maria's Book: "The Practical Manager's Guide to Open Source"
http://windows-linux.com/practicalOpenSource
Maria @ LinuxWorld Magazine: Practical Open Source
http://winslow.linuxworld.com
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Speaker Biography:
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As an open source business analyst, Maria Winslow assists clients
in understanding the technical and budgetary impact open source
software will have on their computing environments. Her recent
book, "The Practical Manager's Guide to Open Source", guides IT
directors and system administrators through the process of finding
practical uses for open source that will integrate seamlessly into
existing infrastructures, as well as understanding the costs
and savings. Maria is a frequent speaker on the budgetary impact
of open source, and is a contributing editor at LinuxWorld
Magazine.
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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)!
** We also received a pile of Sun Solaris 10 DVDs from our
friends at the NYC Sun Office.
First dibs will go to attendees of our Solaris 10
meeting who did not receive one directly from Sun. We
gave out a pile of these DVDs at last month's meeting.
** Maria will also be bringing a copy of her book to raffle off.
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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
"wraps" such as turkey, roast beef, chicken, tuna and grilled
vegetables as well as assorted salads (potato, tossed,
pasta, etc), cookies, bottled water and assorted beverages.
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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, the
second building north of Rector 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:
- NO SPAM! (know any speakers?)
- Asterix / VoIP
- Field Trip to CA - Invited
- Field Trip to HP - Invited
- Field Trip to Novell - SuSE Linux
- Are there too many Linux Distributions?
- Unix 35th Birthday Celebration (Sun has offered to host this!)
- IPsec
- Samba
- DNS
- 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
- iSCSI, Serial ATA, and other new peripheral technologies
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.
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3. PRIOR MEETINGS
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March 2005: Solaris 10 Field Trip to Sun Microsystems (updated)
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Once again, Sun put on a massive show for us! Our "Thanks!" go to Sun,
Ambreesh Khanna, and a series of guest speakers from Sun Engineering,
who presented various Solaris 10 and Sun Hardware topics.
Our thanks go to our presenters:
Ambreesh Khanna , Chief Technologist / Solaris, NYC Office
Glenn Brunette , Distinguished Engineer
Robert Cibrario , x86 Solaris Architect
Praveen Debur , NYC Office
Andrew Tucker , Distinguished Engineer
and
Wendy Brookstein, Field Marketing Specialist, NYC Office.
Ambreesh and Wendy have helped us put together each of our Solaris
meetings, from the room & food through the speakers & giveaways.
Attendees received various Solaris 10 and Sun Product White Papers,
as well as Sun Studio 10 IDE (C,C++,Fortran) and Sun Java Studio
Enterprise 7 Evaluation Software. Also, the Solaris 10 Operating
System Software was delivered to many of those who signed up to
receive it (unfortunately not everyone). The local Sun office
has also provided us with an additional box of Solaris 10 DVDs for
anyone who did not receive them thus far.
Thanks again to all our friends at Sun Microsystems!
April 2005: The OpenAFS Distributed Filesystem
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Our thanks go to Jeff Altman of Secure Endpoints Inc. for
his presentation on The OpenAFS Distributed Filesystem.
This was Jeff's third technical presentation to Unigroup.
Jeff spoke about the OpenAFS (Open Andrew File System) Project,
its Unix/Linux/Windows ports, OpenAFS authentication and security
and its relationship with Kerberos, and past/present/future
OpenAFS implementations.
Jeff has put his Unigroup presentations (OpenAFS and Kerberos)
online for us on his web site:
http://www.secure-endpoints.com
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4. TRADE SHOWS
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a) SIA Technology Management Conference
Location: The Hilton New York
For information visit:
http://www.sia.com/tmc2005/
EXHIBIT HALL SCHEDULE:
Tue, June 21 12:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Wed, June 22 9:00 am - 6:00 pm
Thu, June 23 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
For FREE Online Exhibit Hall Registration Please Visit:
http://www.sia.com/conf_vendors/exReg_Email.html
Please let us know about other free admission computer-related
shows and events, scheduled around New York City.
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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/was 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.
Recently, we have been holding meetings on a more monthly basis.
Planned meeting dates are: 5/19/2005, 7/21/2005, 9/15/2005, 11/17/2005...
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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For further information or to get on the Unigroup Electronic Mail Mailing
List send an EMail message to:
unilist (at) unigroup.org
To contact the Board of Directors of Unigroup, send an EMail message to:
uniboard (at) unigroup.org
If you have recently attended a meeting and you are not receiving
Email announcements, please send us an Email and we will make
corrections to our lists.
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 (at) unigroup.org
http://www.unigroup.org
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