[nylug-announce] UNIGROUP Meeting 19-APR-2007 (Thu): TCL
Ron Guerin
info at nylug.org
Tue Apr 17 00:07:41 EDT 2007
(note fee schedule below)
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Subject: UNIGROUP Meeting 19-APR-2007 (Thu): TCL
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 15:08:00 -0400 (EDT)
From: Unigroup_of_NY <unilist at unigroup.org>
To: rguerin at nylug.org
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UNIGROUP OF NEW YORK - UNIX USERS GROUP - APRIL 2007 ANNOUNCEMENTS
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1. UNIGROUP'S APRIL 2007 GENERAL MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT
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When: THURSDAY, April 19th, 2007 (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: TCL from a SysAdmin's Point of View
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Speaker: Marc Spitzer,
Unigroup
INTRODUCTION:
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Unigroup's April 2007 general meeting discussion will be on TCL.
As a preamble (at the start of the meeting), I will moderate a
discussion about DST2007, the problems we all ran into, and we
would like to hear about any lingering problems that people are
still experiencing (and if there are any fixes available for them).
The overall meeting "outline" looks like this:
- Unigroup Business and Meetings we are working on:
- Possibility for a RHEL5 release meeting in May
- Possibility for a meeting on Asterix
- Starting to plan our next Solaris Field Trip to Sun Microsystems
- Other meeting topics of interest?
- We need speakers!
- Current Events
- Post DST2007 Daylight Savings Time Roundup and Discussion
- Main TCL Presentation
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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.
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 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 OUTLINE:
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- What is the TCL Scripting Language?
- Who uses it?
- Cisco (test environment and embeded in IOS)
- Oracle
- Others
- How to program in TCL...
- Features
- Addons
- Examples, Writing some code.
- Startkits
- How to package your scripts as single exec,
including needed shared libraries.
- TCL Community
- Database Connectivity
- Network Management
- What is coming up in the 8.5 release and currently in alpha?
- Q&A
Web Resources:
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Tcl/Tk @ SF http://tcl.sourceforge.net
TCL Developers Xchange http://www.tcl.tk
ActiveState TCL for Windows
http://www.activestate.com/products/activetcl
TCL Newsgroup news://comp.lang.tcl
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Speaker Biography:
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Marc Spitzer is a System Administrator for a well known institution
in New York City. He has been a Unigroup member and Unigroup Board
Member for many years.
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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)!
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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:
- TCL - April 2007
- Planning: RHEL5 Release Meeting - Possibly May 2007
- Planning: Asterix / VoIP
- Solaris Field Trip to Sun Microsystems
- NO SPAM! (know any speakers on SPF and DNSrbl?)
- LAMP Part 2 - PHP
- Field Trip to HP - Invited
- Are there too many Linux Distributions?
- Unix 35th Birthday Celebration (Sun has offered to host this!)
- IPsec and IPv6
- 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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** Formal Thank You's to our previous speakers will appear
in an upcoming announcement.
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4. 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.
Planned regular meeting dates are: 4/19/2007, 5/17/2007, 7/19/2007...
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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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 (-a_t-) unigroup.org
http://www.unigroup.org
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