[nylug-announce] NYLUG April: Vote on meeting topic, Workshop 4/15 & 4/29, Wingfest 4/17, Meeting 4/30

[NYLUG Announcements]

Meeting topic vote (NOW!):
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Please take our less than one day poll over at http://nylug.org/poll
You may vote for more than one topic by taking the poll more than once.
Please don't ballot-stuff.

The top two choices will be presented at our April 30th meeting.

In no particular order, the choices are:

* Nagios, an Open Source host, service and network monitoring program.

* An extemporaneous speech on the wonders of setting up a work station
  using a specific but not named distribution, the purpose of which would
  eventually be to teach a group how to use the operating system.

* Cobbler, a Linux boot server that allows for rapid setup of network
  installation environments. With a simple series of commands, network
  installs can be configured for PXE, reinstallations, and virtualized
  installs using Xen or KVM.

* Linux clusters. Discuss the various open-source packages for building
  Linux clusters. Focus on the Rocks package (basic install, running jobs,
  etc). Wrap up with Rocks 5.0 (Beta) using Xen (tie in to virtulization).

* Real Time Linux: a review of the most significant latency problems
  discovered and solved by the kernel developers with the input of the
  Linux audio community between the beginning of this informal
  collaboration in July 2004 around kernel 2.6.7 through the most
  recent development release.

Vote for all the ones you'd like to hear at: http://nylug.org/poll.
Again, this is a very short poll, and will only be open less than
one day.


Python Workshop Tuesday April 15th (& 29th) 6-8 PM:
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The NYLUG Python Workshop meets again on Tuesday April 15th from 6-8 PM
at the Hudson Library at 66 Leroy St New York, NY 10014

It is helpful, but not necessary to have a notebook computer.  The WiFi
at the library seems to be working reliably now.

Map & Directions: http://tighturl.com/fp

We will continue meeting on a bi-weekly basis at the Hudson Library,
The Hudson Library at 66 Leroy St New York, NY 10014. We meet in the
basement. 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.

We will meet again on Tuesday April 29th, from 6-8 PM at the same
location.


WingFest @ Life Cafe, Thursday April 17 at 7:00 PM
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WingFest! Come and have wings, or don't have wings!

This WingFest is scheduled to coincide with a visitor from UCLALUG
(EulerLiar from freenode) who is in town next week.

WHERE: Life Cafe * 343 E. 10th Street
Corner of Avenue B * New York, NY 10009
(212) 477-8791 * http://www.lifecafe.com

MENU: http://www.lifecafe.com/ev_m_din.shtml

MAP & DIRECTIONS: http://tighturl.com/7ek

BY SUBWAY:
* Take the L train to 1st Avenue and 14th Street
* Go up the stairs and take the right set of second stairs
* Walk east two blocks to Avenue B
* Turn right and walk 4 blocks to 10th Street at Avenue B

- or -

* Take the 6 Train
* Get off at Astor Place
* Go up the stairs and turn right onto 8th Street/St. Marks Place
* Walk east on St. Marks 5 blocks to Avenue A
* Turn left for two blocks
* Turn right onto 10th Street
* Walk one block to Avenue B