Forest Mars and Jingsheng Wang on Drupal makes me hAPI: Open source social publishing architecture

March 12th, 2010

Forest Mars and Jingsheng Wang
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Drupal makes me hAPI: Open source social publishing architecture
Wednesday, March 17, 2010 @ 6:30 -8:00 PM
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Drupal is open source social publishing software that empowers individuals, teams, and communities to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website as well as build more complex web applications. Tens of thousands of people and organizations have used Drupal to power scores of different types of web sites, including community web portals, corporate web sites, social networking sites, personal web sites or blogs, and much more.

Drupal’s roots extend deep into the Linux and Open Source communities. Drupal had its “coming out” at the 2005 FOSDEM conference in Brussels and early iterations were mainly developed on Linux.

This talk will cover the Drupal framework with an emphasis on architecture and programming patterns while touching on a number of other topics such as performance tuning and hosting integration as well as considering the underlying reasons for Drupal’s wide-ranging success, all served up with a healthy smathering of awesome sauce.

The presentation will also include a short real world case study of a Drupal SaaS implementation “the BeerCloud” (an Android and iPhone application which uses Drupal as a backend)

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About Forest Mars & Jingsheng Wang:
Forest Mars is a Network Architect and Drupal Developer who presents on a variety of topics concerning the Future of Media including Open Source Models, Trusted Network Protocols, and Web Video Broadcasting. Coming from a background in Cybernetics and Information Theory, Forest Mars is known for his work as the Architect of New York’s first WiFi Internet Service Provider, the “Two Rooms” Free Internet Cafe located in Manhattan’s East Village, and “Yellow Hat” a Debian based LInux distro with Tibetan Language support. He also serves as a board member of the Community Free Software Group and Unigroup of New York.

Jingsheng Wang is a Drupal Developer, Android Developer and Reverse Engineer at GreatBrewers.com .

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TGI Friday’s
After the meeting … You may wish to join up with other NYLUGgers
for drinks and pub food. This month we’ll be over at TGI Friday’s
(677 Lexington Avenue & 56th Street, second floor, northeast corner), but we are also evaluating
other options for the future and welcome your suggestions.

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Luke Kanies on The Future of Puppet – What a Model-Driven Infrastructure Means to You

February 12th, 2010

Luke Kanies
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The Future of Puppet – What a Model-Driven Infrastructure Means to You
Wednesday, February 17, 2010 @ 6:30 -8:00 PM
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Please join us on February 17th, 2010 for a special guest, Luke Kaines, the founder of the Puppet Project.

This talk will have a general focus on the future of Puppet, and will
particularly delve into how Puppet’s model of the world will be used
to drive new tools and capabilities. While Puppet is obviously about
configuring your infrastructure, the fact that it uses declarative
models rather than merely relying on chunks of opaque code is critical to
both how we got here and where we go in the future.

This year will be the year of data for Puppet. For example, its most
recent major release provided the means to address a host’s compiled
configuration as a separate, manageable entity, meaning it can be
stored, controlled, and validated at will. The next full release will
have granular event reporting, with correspondingly greater ability to
correlate configurations to the resulting changes.

Each successive release thereafter will further expose the data that
lies at the heart of a Puppet infrastructure. This talk will discuss
some of the kinds of data we’ll be bringing to the forefront of your
Puppet infrastructure, along with how you can take advantage of it and
how it will change your view of the world.

More Information:

About Luke Kanies:
Luke is the founder and CEO of Reductive Labs and the founder of the
Puppet project. Previously, he was a consultant, open source
contributor, and article author. He has focused on tool development
since 2001, developing and publishing multiple simple sysadmin tools
and contributing to established products like Cfengine. He has
presented on Puppet and other tools around the world, including at
OSCON, LISA, Linux.Conf.au, and FOSS.in.

After the meeting … Join us around 8:30 PM or so at

TGI Friday’s
After the meeting … You may wish to join up with other NYLUGgers
for drinks and pub food. This month we’ll be over at TGI Friday’s
(677 Lexington Avenue & 56th Street, second floor, northeast corner), but we are also evaluating
other options for the future and welcome your suggestions.

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Meeting January 27th: Edward Capriolo on Hadoop – Computation clusters at Scale

January 23rd, 2010

Edward Capriolo
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Hadoop – Computation clusters at Scale

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This presentation gives a brief high level overview of Apache Hadoop. Hadoop is a Java software framework that supports data-intensive distributed applications under a free license. It enables applications to work with thousands of nodes and petabytes of data. Hadoop was inspired by Google’s MapReduce and Google File System (GFS) papers.

After the overview, we will delve into a with a practical example of Hadoop solving a “big data” problem.

Finally we will discuss how the demonstrated Hadoop processing model scales out to terabytes of data and hundreds or even thousands of computers.

More Information:

About Edward Capriolo:

Edward Capriolo does System Operations at About.com. He researches high/traffic high-availability and scalable solutions. Edward is a committer to the Apache Hadoop Hive sub project.

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NYLUG Holiday Pizza Party: December 16, 2009 @ 6:30-8:00PM

December 15th, 2009

NYLUG Holiday Pizza Party

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Please join us this Wednesday, December 16th 2009 for our annual holiday season pizza party. We’ll have some community news, maybe a short talk or two, and then share pizza and bid farewell to 2009.

Those interested in volunteering to help run NYLUG are encouraged to attend. Among the positions we’d like to get some assistance with are:

  • Speaker Coordinator: Finding speakers, getting abstract from the speaker, and optionally, the responsibilities of the announcement coordinator
  • Publicity Coordinator: Manage our Twitter & Identi.ca, Facebook, email announcements, Blog, RSS feeds, calendar, strategy and content, and optionally, the responsibilities of the announcement coordinator
  • Announcement Coordinator: Writing the meeting announcements for our meetings, workshops, etc. (This tends to be more work than most people assume up-front)
  • Media Production Coordinator: Audio & Video from our events gets titled and produced in a variety of formats and uploaded to archive.org. We’d also like to stream our general meetings.
  • Activity Coordinator: We’ve had a lot of successful smaller events over the years, and we’d have a lot more if someone were to take the lead in proposing and helping to organize them.  All it usually takes is picking a time and place and being there yourself.

Those looking for less responsibility are encouraged to volunteer for the:

  • Media crew: Help us record, and distribute our meetings.
  • Web site crew: Help us create content for the NYLUG site and maintain it.
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Tonight’s Python Workshop/Hackfest

November 24th, 2009

None of the regular crew that holds down the Python Workshop/Hackfest/Hacking Society will be able to attend this evening.  If you attend, you may be the first or only person to arrive, so just ask the librarian for the key to the room (in the basement) where we meet.

The next gathering will be December 8, 2009.

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Meeting November 18th: Larry Ludwig on Puppet: What it is and how can it make system administration less painful

November 13th, 2009

Larry Ludwig
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Puppet: What it is and how can it make system administration less painful

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Please join us on Wednesday, November 18th, 2009 for a discussion of Reductive Labs’ Centralized configuration management framework, Puppet.

Puppet is a model-driven open source framework designed to efficiently manage data center infrastructure. It’s the sysadmin’s best friend, reducing error counts and downtime, saving countless hours and providing significantly higher service quality. Puppet lets sysadmins spend less time on mundane tasks and instead focus on managing their infrastructure as a whole.

System administrators have long written custom scripts and tools to help automate common tasks such as configuration management and system updates. But as networks scale and reach outside the corporate firewall, custom tools become yet another management headache.

The benefits of automated infrastructure go beyond policy-enforced consistency and auditing. In conjunction with virtualizaton, the ability to reliably create new systems running consistent services creates auto-scaling applications as well as test systems identical to production environments.

Puppet abstracts the system from the system administration, providing developers and system administrators with a simple service-based policy framework that allows for more consistent, transparent and flexible systems.

Puppet is currently in use at many organizations, large and small, including: Google, Yahoo, and RedHat.

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About Larry Ludwig:

Larry Ludwig is a Solutions Architect at Brandorr Group LLC. Larry has been in the industry for over 15 years as a system administrator, DBA and system programmer. He`s had previous experience working for Fortune 500 corporations and holds a BS in CS from Clemson University. Larry has written over 120 puppet modules. Larry, along with Eric E. Moore and Brian Gupta are founding members of the NYC Puppet Usergroup.

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Queens Chamber of Commerce on Oracle and Amazon Cloud Computing, October 22

October 20th, 2009

(forwarded to us from Scott Wolpow)
If you missed the NYLUG meeting on AWS, now you have a second chance.

The Queens Chamber of Commerce’s Infotech committee presents:
Oracle and Amazon Web Services on Cloud Computing

Date:Thursday, October 22, 2009 Limited seating is available
Location:Bulova Center 75-20 Astoria Blvd., Suite 140, Jackson Heights, NY 11370
Time: 8:00AM to 8:30AM Networking breakfast
8:30AM to 10:30AM Presentation
Free admission, free parking and free advice
Register at: http://queenschamber.org

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Meeting October 14th: Tobias Abdon & Matt Tavis on Cloud Computing with Amazon Web Services

October 14th, 2009

Tobias Abdon & Matt Tavis
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Cloud Computing with Amazon Web Services

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Everyone’s talking about “The Cloud”, but what exactly is it? Please join us Wednesday, October 14th 2009 at 6pm for a discussion about Cloud Computing with Amazon Web Services.

Since early 2006, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has provided users of all sizes with an infrastructure web services platform in the cloud. With AWS you can requisition compute power, storage, and other services-gaining access to a suite of elastic IT infrastructure services on demand. With AWS you have the flexibility to choose whichever development platform or programming model makes the most sense for the problems you’re trying to solve.

The first half of the presentation will start with an overview of AWS, exploring each individual service. Then the services will be pieced together to show how they work together with open source projects. After that the focus will shift to several open source projects that run on the cloud, including Linux and Hadoop.

The second half of the presentation will be a hands on demonstration of deploying a custom Linux server on the Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service. A simple web application will be installed on the server, which will then be configured to auto-scale. To cap off the demonstration, a cloud based load generation tool will be used to trigger the auto-scaling configuration.

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About Tobias Abdon:
Tobias Abdon has a background in IT infrastructure implementation and management. In that role his primary focus was on deploying high speed data networks for enterprises in the US and Canada. He has moved away from being hands on inside the datacenter, to consulting clients on how to best leverage infrastructure based cloud computing services with Amazon.

About Matt Tavis:
Matt Tavis is the senior technical manager for Amazon ECS web service and Amazon Associates.

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Meeting September 16: Jimmy Kaplowitz & Richard Darst on Debian GNU/Linux, DebConf and DebConf10 NYC

September 14th, 2009

Jimmy Kaplowitz & Richard Darst
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Debian GNU/Linux, Debconf, and DebConf10 NYC

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Please join us Wednesday, September 16th 2009 at 6:30 PM for a discussion about the Debian GNU/Linux operating system, DebConf, and the upcoming DebConf 10 in New York City.

Debian is a fully integrated free software operating system (OS) based on the Linux kernel and tools from the GNU project, among other sources. It is the basis of a large number of other Linux-based operating systems, ranging from Ubuntu and Knoppix to the upcoming Nokia N900 Maemo smartphone and the Linux-based versions of the Eee PC. NYLUG also runs Debian on its server.

The talk will start with a review of the what makes Debian unique, both from a technical perspective and its grassroots, community-based model of development. After that we will cover the status of the latest release, Debian 5 (codenamed “Lenny”), and the goals for the next release of Debian.

Finally, we will introduce Debian’s annual international developer conference, DebConf, and talk about the process of bringing DebConf to New York City next summer, its first time ever in the United States.

About Jimmy Kaplowitz:
Jimmy Kaplowitz is an advocate of free software and has been active in many aspects of the Free Software world, including at his alma mater of Brown University, in NYC, and online. Jimmy is a Debian Developer and helps run Software in the Public Interest (SPI), a legal umbrella non-profit used by many free software projects including Debian, PostgreSQL, and OpenOffice.org among others.

Jimmy currently makes a living as a systems administrator, managing Linux and other machines for the Freelancers Union, a non-profit organization based in DUMBO, Brooklyn. He is leading the local team for the DebConf10, the NYC DebConf, and helped organize DebConf7 in Edinburgh, Scotland and DebConf9 in Cáceres, Spain.

About Richard Darst:
Richard Darst is also an advocate of free software, a longtime Debian user, and recently became involved in the Debian project by helping to secure DebConf10 for New York City. Since that start, he has become a contributor to a number of free software projects and communities in and outside of the New York area. Richard is currently a graduate student in chemical physics at Columbia University, and remains heavily involved in planning next year’s DebConf.

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Python Workshop & Hackfest/Hacking Society: September 15 @ 6-8PM Hudson Park Library

September 14th, 2009

Python Workshop/Hackfest/Hacking Society
The Hudson Park Library
66 Leroy St New York, NY 10014
Basement
6:00PM – 8:00PM

Any of the following are reasons to come:

  1. You’re interested in Python
  2. You’re interested in showing off code
  3. You’re interested in working on code
  4. You’re interested in Linux, Free Software, or Open Source

We continue meeting on a bi-weekly basis in the basement at the library, 66 Leroy St New York, NY 10014. Enter the library and head to the back. If the door is closed when you arrive you can ask the manager of the library for the keys to the room if you’re comfortable opening up the basement, or you can wait for some of the others to arrive.
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