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Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 03:53:57 -0400 (EDT) From: Unigroup_of_NY <[email protected]> Subject: UNIGROUP Field Trip Meeting 06-AUG-2009 (Thu): AIX Performance and Virtualization Unigroup's July/August Joint Meeting with PowerAIX is THIS week! Please double-RSVP (see below) immediately if you will be attending. =================================================================== UNIGROUP OF NEW YORK - UNIX USERS GROUP - AUGUST 2009 ANNOUNCEMENTS =================================================================== ------------------------------------------ 1. UNIGROUP'S JULY/AUGUST 2009 MEETING NOTICE ------------------------------------------ When: THURSDAY, August 6th, 2009 (** SPECIAL 1st Thursday **) Where: ** FIELD TRIP TO IBM ** IBM Headquarters 590 Madison Avenue (at 57th Street) Midtown, NYC Room 1219 (12th Floor) ** RSVP MANDATORY ** Time: 5:30 PM - 9:00 PM (** SPECIAL Earlier Start **) 5:30pm - 6:00pm PowerAIX Pre-Meeting Book Fair 6:00pm - 6:15pm PowerAIX Meeting Introduction 6:15pm - 6:30pm Unigroup Announcements & Current Events 6:30pm - 6:45pm MC Press Introduction 6:45pm - 8:00pm Driving the Power of AIX 8:00pm - 8:45pm AIX Virtualization 8:45pm - 9:00pm Q/A and Grand Prize Drawing ----------------------------------------------------- Topic: Joint Meeting with the NY Metro PowerAIX/Linux Group, AIX Performance Tuning and AIX Virtualization. ----------------------------------------------------- Speakers: AIX & AIX Performance Tuning - Ken Milberg/PowerTCO AIX Virtualization - Joefon Jann/IBM ------------------------------------------------------------------- INTRODUCTION: ------------- Unigroup's July/August 2009 Joint Meeting with the NY Metro PowerAIX/Linux User Group will be a Field Trip to IBM Headquarters in NYC, which is PowerAIX's regular meeting location. Unigroup was invited to participate in PowerAIX's scheduled August meeting, so we are working on their schedule and getting things started earlier than usual. RSVP is mandatory to get into IBM, and we're going to ask you to do a double RSVP (as we did once before on a prior Field Trip). 1) The PowerAIX RSVP is the one which will get you into IBM! 2) The Unigroup RSVP will let us know who is planning on attending and allow us to pre-scan for Unigroup membership status. PowerAIX has a series of speakers scheduled, with the main presentations on AIX Performance Tuning and AIX Virtualization. For information about this upcoming Joint Meeting with PowerAIX visit the PowerAIX/Linux page at: http://www.powertco.com/nymetropoweraixlinuxusersgroup.html ** This Special Field Trip meeting is FREE and open to the public. However, Unigroup will be accepting new memberships and renewals. In September 2009, Unigroup expects to resume meetings at our regular meeting location (which was under construction): The Cooper Union School of Engineering. We will be meeting in Cooper's brand new Engineering building, which is located 1-2 blocks South of their old building on Astor Place. ------------------------------------------------------------------- SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS: --------------------- Double Registration Instructions: 1) To REGISTER for this event, please RSVP by using the PowerAIX Registration Page: http://www.powertco.com/nymetropoweraixlinuxusersgroup.html (Note: Unigroup has no control over your supplied information here) 2) 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. 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! If you block Unigroup Emails, your address will be dropped from our mailing list. Please RSVP as soon as possible, preferably at least 2-3 days prior to the meeting date, so we can plan the food order. RSVP deadline is usually the night before the meeting day. Note: RSVP is requested for this location to make sure the guard will let you into the building. RSVP also helps us to properly plan the meeting (food, drinks, handouts, seating, etc.) and speed up your sign-in at the meeting. If you forget to RSVP prior to the meeting day, you may still be able to show up and attend our meeting, however, we cannot guarantee what building security will do if you are "not on the list". ------------------------------------------------------------------- MAIN PRESENTATIONS ------------------ Topics: 1) First Annual NY Metro PowerAIX UG Book Fair, Co-sponsored by MC Press. 2) Ken Milberg will be giving a special presentation based on his new IBM Power book: "Driving the Power of AIX", and he will be covering AIX Performance Tuning. 3) Joefon Jann will give a presentation on AIX Virtualization. Outline: (to be determined) Web Resources: -------------- IBM AIX: http://www.ibm.com/servers/aix NY Metro PowerAIX/Linux User Group: http://www.powertco.com/nymetropoweraixlinuxusersgroup.html ------------------------------------------------------------------- Speaker Biography: ------------------ Ken Milberg, is the President of PowerTCO and the Leader/Founder of the NY Metro PowerAIX/Linux UG. Ken is also a former Unigroup Board Member and current Unigroup Member. Ken is also an author, his new IBM Power book is "Driving the Power of AIX". Ken is a technical editor/writer of IBM Systems Magazine - Power Edition/AIX and is a permanent guest on the Board of Directors at COMMON as their AIX representative. The book is the first Power book published in over 5 years, and should be in all bookstores late Summer/Early Fall, published by MC Press. Joefon Jann is a Distinguished Engineer (DE) at IBM, and works at the Watson Research Headquarters. She leads the research in AIX technologies and POWER Systems Software and has won awards for her leadership and innovations of Concurrently Pageable Page-sizes in AIX and of DLPAR. Joefon also is the co-inventor of the "Jann MPP Workload Model" for modeling parallel workloads, being the main Systems person of the Deep-Blue Chess machine that beat Kasparaov. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Company Biography: ------------------ The NY Metro PowerAIX/Linux UG is the largest PowerAIX UG in the world. It is widely known as the communications and collaborations channel for the NY Metro Power - AIX and Linux community. They have technical discussions and provide information and news on the latest IBM Power innovations - as they relate to both AIX and Linux. The focus of the UG is on sharing ideas and providing tips, technical expertise and relevant information to the entire NY Metropolitan Power community. For information about the NY Metro PowerAIX UG, visit: http://www.powertco.com/nymetropoweraixlinuxusersgroup.html For information about PowerTCO... visit http://www.powertco.com. For information about IBM... visit http://www.ibm.com. Book Fair: MC Press has the widest selection of iSeries, AS/400, and related technology titles on the market, and with the release of "Driving the Power of AIX", is hoping it paves the way for many other AIX and Linux on Power books. The book fair will include topics of: Informix, I titles, DB2, EGL, Project Management, SOA, SQL, and WebSphere. There will be book-giveaways and a 20%, discount will be offered to all attendees. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Giveaways: ---------- PowerAIX is running the giveaways... and they have a few things planned, including: Free AIX books and one Netbook ($400 Value). Thanks PowerAIX! ------------------------------------------------------------------- Fee Schedule: ------------- Our Special July/August 2009 Joint Meeting is free! Unigroup is a Professional Technical Organization and User Group, and its members pay a yearly membership fee. For Unigroup members, there is usually no additional charges (ie. no meeting fees) during their membership year. Non-members who wish to attend Unigroup meetings are usually required to pay a "Single Meeting Fee". Yearly Membership (includes all meetings): $ 50.00 Student Yearly Membership (with current! ID): $ 25.00 Non-Member Single Meeting: $ 20.00 Non-Member Student Single Meeting (with ID): $ 5.00 * Payment Methods: Cash, Check, American Express. ! Students: We are looking for proof that you are currently enrolled in classes (rather than working full-time), and as such, your Student ID should show a CURRENT date. We have been presented Student IDs containing NO dates whatsoever, and in the current environment, perpetual/non-expiring access to university facilities just does not feel right. If your ID contains no date, please bring additional proof of current enrollment. Thanks, NOTE: Simply receiving Unigroup Email Announcements does NOT indicate membership in Unigroup. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Food: ----- Complimentary Food and Refreshments will be served. PowerAIX (though the help of their meeting sponsor) is taking care of the food service/catering. Thanks PowerAIX! ------------------------------------------------------------------- Directions: ----------- ** SPECIAL FIELD TRIP LOCATION ** IBM Headquarters 590 Madison Avenue (at 57th Street) Midtown, NYC Room 1219 (12th Floor) ----- Please mark this meeting on your calendar and join us! Please tell your friends about Unigroup! < ... /> -------------------- 5. UNIGROUP INFORMATION -------------------- 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/Linux/BSD User Community. 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 regular meeting location. Planned regular meeting dates are (usually 3rd Thursdays): 9/17/2009, 11/19/2009, 1/21/2010, 3/18/2010... Also watch for Special Event meetings and "Field Trips" to the facilities of local hardware and software vendors. ========================================================================= = For Unigroup Information, Events and Meeting Announcements be sure to = = visit our World Wide Web Home Page: = = http://www.unigroup.org = ========================================================================= For further information or to get on the Unigroup Electronic Mail Mailing List send an EMail message to: unilist (-a_t-) unigroup.org To contact the Board of Directors of Unigroup, send an EMail message to: uniboard (-a_t-) 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! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -Rob Weiner Unigroup Executive Director unilist (-a_t-) unigroup.org http://www.unigroup.org </blockquote> Distributed poC TINC: Jay Sulzberger <[email protected]> Corresponding Secretary LXNY LXNY is New York's Free Computing Organization. http://www.lxny.org _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
