From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: secretary@lxny.org Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: NYC LOCAL: Tuesday 20 January through Friday 23 January, 2004: Perl, LWE, K. Knopper at NYLUG, Gale Brewer at BOF, Howard Elmer at MuSIG Date: 20 Jan 2004 04:38:38 -0500 Organization: LXNY New York's Free Software Organization Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1074592156 17729 80.91.224.253 (20 Jan 2004 09:49:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 09:49:16 +0000 (UTC) Keywords: available, hackable, freely redistributable source; GPL, BSDL, ArtisticL, XSL Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 20 10:49:11 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AisVS-0001Cf-00 for ; Tue, 20 Jan 2004 10:49:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AisTp-0003P5-23 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 20 Jan 2004 04:47:29 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!panix!panix2.panix.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: alt.religion.emacs,comp.lang.lisp,comp.lang.scheme,gnu.emacs.help Original-Followup-To: comp.lang.lisp Original-Lines: 631 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: panix2.panix.com Original-X-Trace: reader2.panix.com 1074591518 2192 166.84.1.2 (20 Jan 2004 09:38:38 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 09:38:38 +0000 (UTC) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu alt.religion.emacs:8469 comp.lang.lisp:129680 comp.lang.scheme:52045 gnu.emacs.help:120249 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:16193 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:16193 This week there are many events, of various scales and kinds. This message is a portmanteau announcement, and contains notices of several different events. One important event will be the Birds of a Feather meeting with New York City Council member Gale Brewer, Oregon legislator Phil Barnhart, organizer Ed Black, and Novell vice-president Jeff Hawkins at 5:45 pm Thursday 22 January 2004, inside the Javits Convention Center. Today, New York City has signed massive lock-in contracts with computer hardware vendors. If we do not roll back the lock-in provisions of these inequitable contracts, New York City school children will continue to suffer the absurd constrictions and torsions of source secret software for years to come. If you can only make one of this week's events, this is the one to come to. Official information below. The Perl Seminar will meet Tuesday 20 January 2004. Sal Denaro and Jim Keenan will speak. Official announcement below. Of course, GNU/LinuxWorldExpo is in town this week. To register go to http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/linuxworldny/V40/index.cvn?ID=10127 Both NYLUG and the Free Software Foundation will have booths in the DotOrg Pavilion. Below find NYLUG's call for volunteers. NYLUG will meet 22 Wednesday 2004 at IBM on 57th Street and Madison Avenue. Nils Magnus and Klaus Knopper, of GNU/LinuxTag and Knoppix, will speak. Official announcement below. NYCBUG will throw a BOF on Thursday 22 January 2004. Marc Spitzer will preside, starting at 5:45 pm. Official announcement below. The Free Software Foundation will host a number of events in New York between January 20 - 23, 2004. For further information: http://www.fsf.org/events/nyc-2004-01.html The Music SIG of Lisp NYC will meet on Friday 23 January 2004. Howard Elmer will lead the meeting. Official announcement below. Jay Sulzberger Corresponding Secretary LXNY LXNY is New York's Free Computing Organization. http://www.lxny.org
Political Challenges and Opportunities for Open Source Date: Thursday January 22, 2004 Start Time: 5:45 PM End Time: 7:00 PM Speakers: Jeff Hawkins VP, Linux Business Office, Novell, Inc. Gale Brewer Member of Council Phil Barnhart Oregon Legislature Ed Black President and CEO, Open Source and Industry Alliance/CCI The OSAIA panel will examine the broad sweep of open-source policy today. Moderator and OSAIA President Ed Black will join experts from the US and Europe in examining the political goals of the movement, and the obstacles that lie in the way of open source software around the globe. Procurement policy, software patents and copyright protection are among the topics this distinguished panel will examine.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: James E Keenan To: Perlmongers NY Subject: Tues Jan 20 Perl Seminar NY Agenda As is customary, Perl Seminar NY will meet on the third Tuesday of the month -- but remember that this month ny.pm will have a special talk by Dan Sugalski on Parrot at Morgan Stanley. The perlsemny details: Tuesday, January 20, 2004, 6:15 pm NYPC Users Group 481 8 Ave (Ramada New Yorker hotel) Suite 1560 between West 34 & 35 Sts, Manhattan Two presentations: 1. Sal Denaro: "Net::LDAP" What is Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), what should you use it for and what should't you use it for. And how it differs from Relational Database Management (RDBM) systems. How to use NET::LDAP to abstract login and user management from your applications. Issues with command line and cgi apps. Issues in migrating to SSO environments. Some LDAP tricks and traps. How to make use of MS ADS without wanting to kill. 2. Jim Keenan: "Cookin' with Tom & Nat" David Adler kept pestering the New York Perlmongers to write reviews of the books O'Reilly & Associates was sending him. Tonight, Jim gives a brief tour of the second edition of "The Perl Cookbook" by Tom Christiansen and Nat Torkington. Should you buy the second edition if you already own the first? Come and find out! **Majordomo list services provided by PANIX ** **To Unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe ny" to majordomo@lists.pm.org**
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: James T Gleason Reply-To: Announcements for NYLUG To: nylug-announce@nylug.org Subject: [nylug-announce] NYLUG booth set-up meeting Tues 1/20 @ 4:30pm + new tishirts to be given out! When Is The Volunteer Rendez-Vous? Volunteers will meet Tuesday, January 20, 4:30PM at the Statue of Jacob K. Javits (indoors) in the south section of Javits Center, on the ground level. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The annual LinuxWorld Conference & Expo is next week. It will be at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, in Manhattan, New York City. It spans from Tuesday through Friday January 20 - 23. The New York Linux Users Group (NYLUG.org) will have a strong presence, as always. Our booth is staffed, and manned by volunteers, good folks such as yourself. Please read on, and come forth to lend a helping hand by volunteering! All levels of users are welcome, newbie to wizard. You can hand out printed information, glad hand with visitors, talk tech with inquiring users, bond with new friends, flirt with the pretty girls in the booth next to yours, etc. All while taking time off to wander the exhibits and get your fill. - We need help in setting up, lugging items around at Javits on Jan. 20. - On the 21, 22, 23 of Jan. we will man the booth, and is when the exhibit floor opens to the general public. Those helping with set-up on the 20th will have the first shot at goodies, swag of good value. As a further show of gratitude volunteers will receive one of the new redesigned NYLUG.org T-shirts. Exhibit-only passes, registration is free, and entitles you to a not publicized one-year Dr. Dobbs Journal magazine subscription. Another plus. NYLUG.org will be stationed in the ".ORG Pavillion". Come help, come visit. Get involved! Be a part of the Linux Community! * * * -------------------- What is There to Do? On Tuesday January 20: Volunteers will help set-up the NYLUG booth at the Javits Center. Take first dibs on major swag. On W/Th/Fr January 21-23: Volunteers will meet and greet LinuxWorld attendees and direct folks to subscribe online to the nylug-talk mailing list. In addition, volunteers will distribute the NYLUG.org flyer that describes when we meet and what we do. You will have fun and make new friends. http://www.nylug.org/flyer/nylugflyer.pdf http://www.nylug.org/flyer We will also review the flyer key points about NYLUG, so all volunteers can confidently answer attendee questions during the show. __________________________________ When Is The Volunteer Rendez-Vous? Volunteers will meet Tuesday, January 20, 4:30PM at the Statue of Jacob K. Javits (indoors) in the south section of Javits Center, on the ground level. You shouldn't need a badge to assemble. We will get everyone a badge in order to walk onto the show floor and set-up the booth. We will rig the LinuxWorld booth, set-up our server, and take first crack at the swag. Including Prentice Hall books (from the Open Source Series), as well as redesigned Linux T-shirts. Anyone who doesn't have a badge will also receive a show coupon which enables free registration to the exhibits for the week. ____________________________________ Where is the Rendez-Vous on Tuesday? Jacob K. Javits Convention Center 35th Street & 11th Avenue, Manhattan, New York City. Assemble at the statue of Jacob K. Javits (indoors), in the south section of Javits Center, ground level. ___________________________________________________________________________ If I can't make the Volunteer Rendez-Vous on Tuesday, Can I still Help Out? Yes! Of course. We have Jan. 21-23 to fill with volunteer duties, privileges. If you haven't yet done so, register online for a free Exhibit-only pass, then pick-up your pass at Javits, walk onto the Exhibit floor, wander to the .ORG Pavillion, to the NYLUG booth, and say "Boo!" As a for instance, you could plan to give your time in 4 hour spans. Say 8:00AM-12:00PM, or 12:00PM-5:00PM. On one day, or every other day, or all 3 days. In the afternoons, or mornings, etc. Perhaps one full day, and so on. Regardless, share yourself with the crowd as you help. ------------------------------------------------------------ Where Do I Register? Where is the Website for the Expo Show? ------------------------------------------------------------ LinuxWorld Conference & Expo Website http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/ LWE FAQ http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/linuxworldny/V40/index.cvn?id=10026&p_navID=30 How Do I Register for the Show: You can still register for free and get an exhibits-only pass. The main URL for the show is . Click on the "Register Now!" button. Follow the instructions and choose the Exhibits-Only option, which costs $0.00. How Do I Get There? http://www.mta.info/ http://maps.yahoo.com/ -------------------- Schedule At A Glance Tuesday, January 20, 4:30PM-x:xxPM: Volunteers assemble, rig booth, etc. at Javits. Wednesday, January 21, 8:00AM-5:00PM: Expo 6:30PM-8:00PM: NYLUG.org monthly meeting <----<< Thursday, January 22, 8:00AM-5:00PM: Expo Friday, January 23, 9:00AM-3:00PM: Expo and breakdown of booth --------------------------------------- How Can I Still Get More For My Dollar? Well, if you've read this far you're a shrewd customer, and a true enthusiast. How about we save you up to $200.00. The Linux Professional Institute (LPI) offers the 101 and 201 level Linux certification exams free of charge to those attending the Expo. Visit LPI at for the details. Good luck. Sometime along the way you will have the opportunity to meet, talk at lenth, drink with (you'll want to buy them drinks, I asssure you) two very special Linux developers. In my interaction with you, I know many of you are rabid for these men's work. Leave room in your schedules. _________________________ When does NYLUG.org Meet? With the generous support of IBM, all NYLUG.org speaker presentations are held regularly at the IBM headquarters building located at 590 Madison Avenue on the corner of 57th Street in Midtown Manhattan. Meetings take place every third Wednesday of the month starting at 6:30PM. All meetings are free and open to the public. _______________________ What does NYLUG.org do? NYLUG.org is the New York's Linux Users Group supporting all things Linux and Open Source in the greater New York area. Members are Linux enthusiasts who come to the meetings and installfests, subscribe to the mailing lists, and/or participate in keysignings and other NYLUG events. Membership is free and open to the public. * We hold Regular Meetings * We solve technical problems via nylug-talk mailing list * We hold GPG Key Signings * We demonstrate For Freedom of Speech * We connect to other user groups * We announce community events and job postings __________________________________________ How does one subscribe to the mailing list? http://www.nylug.org/mlist/index.shtml Note - we will have this webpage up on the computer in the booth and will register as many attendees as possible. ______________ What is Linux? It is a Unix-like operating system. Specifically, Linux is an independent POSIX implementation of the Unix operating system. Linux is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public license (GPL). It includes true multitasking, true multiuser capabilities, virtual memory, shared libraries, demand loading, proper memory management, TCP/IP networking, copy-on-write exectables, and other features consistent with Unix-type systems. For more information, take a look at the Linux FAQ: http://www.tldp.org/tldp-redirect.php?url=/FAQ/Linux-FAQ/index.html ---------------------------------------------------------- Wait. I Have Questions, I Have Gold and Booty to Give You. To: John Bajana-Bacalle Cc: Ron Guerin , Sunny Dubey Or, post to nylug-talk. ( to subscribe). Or, via IRC, at irc.freenode.net #nylug . Thanks everyone. See you at the show! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ January 2004 - The New York Linux Users Group - http://www.nylug.org/ Many thanks to John Bacalle for this announcement. - Jim Gleason -- IBM Linux Cluster Sales Financial Services Sector http://www.ibm.com President, New York Linux Users Group http://www.nylug.org phone: 347-200-6460 email: jim@nylug.org, jgleason@us.ibm.com _______________________________________________ nylug-announce mailing list nylug-announce@mail.nylug.org http://www.nylug.org/mailman/listinfo/nylug-announce
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: John Bacalle Reply-To: Announcements for NYLUG To: NYLUG Announcements Subject: [nylug-announce] NY Linux Users Grp. 21 January Meeting: Nils Magnus & Klaus Knopper on Knoppix Linux, and LinuxTag January 21st, 2004 Wednesday 6:30PM-8:00PM IBM Headquarters Building 590 Madison Avenue at 57th Street 12th Floor, home to the IBM Linux Center of Competency ** RSVP Instructions ** Unless you have already rsvp'ed for a prior meeting, everyone should RSVP to attend. http://rsvp.nylug.org Check in with photo ID at the lobby for badge and room number. ** Note Meetings Are On the 12th Floor ** Nils Magnus & Klaus Knopper (Knoppix Linux) -on- Knoppix Linux, and LinuxTag New Linux distributions come fast and furious out of the production chute---a well understood virtuous trait for the little OS kernel---all the time. Sometimes though a special thing happens. You recognize signs of it, you know it when you see it. When someone taps you on the shoulder during Stammtisch at the most inopportune time to discuss Knoppix, say. ``Golly, these users are fervent,'' you realize. Knoppix is a child project of LinuxTag, Europe's major Linux and free software conference. 2004 is to be LinuxTag's tenth year: June 23-26, Karlsruhe, Germany. Nils Magnus, and Klaus Knopper from LinuxTag, and Knoppix Linux developers will present at the January 21st New York Linux Users Group (NYLUG.org) monthly meeting. They will discuss two topics. (1.) An introductory portion on LinuxTag, a volunteer run melange between a hacker conference and a major corporate expo. Now that future LinuxWorld Conference & Expo 2005 will take place in Boston, the nitty gritty details of launching and running a major *nix, free software, open source software conference are welcomed, especially volunteer-powered as they do it. (2.) The major portion of the meeting will focus on the Knoppix Linux distribution. Knoppix is a Linux that runs from CDROM. Although it is installed to disk if you so choose. Many avid users choose. Knoppix is a complete Linux distribution running off a CDROM. Knoppix has a tremendous impact on Linux usability especially for first time Linux users. "Just boot it" is the slogan for almost 2.0 GB ready to use software from a single CD, thanks to an on-the-fly-decrompression scheme that even speeds up the booting. Knoppix comes with extensive hardware detection, supports writing persistent data on USB memory and can be used for data recovery as well as for Linux classes in schools or at LUG gatherings. Klaus, the principal maintainer and mastermind of Knoppix will talk about the painful migration to 2.6 kernels, supported hardware, erring vendors giving out no proper documentation about their products and future plans of Knoppix. You might ask, what is the power in doing real work that you can't save? Between the `live CD', and the `install it to disk' usage methods there is a third way. Using a USB pocket drive, or other removable media you can hit-and-run anyone's machine, doing real work all while using your in-hand defaults, but more importantly storing your new work. These tripod benefits is why one individual wouldn't let another recycle peacefully. But---I understand. Importantly on the homefront, January 2004 marks the fifth anniversary for the New York Linux Users Group. A great achievement---Happy Birthday!---and many more. For More Information Visit: * Knoppix Linux http://www.knoppix.org/ * LinuxTag http://www.linuxtag.org/ About Nils Magnus & Klaus Knopper: Klaus Knopper is chairman of LinuxTag e.V. and is maintainer of Knoppix. He works as a freelance engineer and consultant for Free Software Integration. He lives in Kaiserslautern, Germany. Nils Magnus is program chair of the LinuxTag Free Conference. Nils works as Senior Consultant for information security for secunet Security Networks AG in Hamburg, Germany. He is a speaker and columnist about security management, vulnerabilty assessment and computer forensics. Free Stuff! Swag of undetermined value and quantity may be distributed on a first-come, first-served basis. Arrive early for the best selection. Keysignings GPG cryptography. Immediately after the presentation and continuing at Stammtisch we will be gathering for a keysigning. For those who already have keys, please remember to bring paper printouts of your 40-character key fingerprint, as per the instructions in our howto docs. If you haven't created a key yet, and for keysigning details, our howto docs are a must read. http://www.nylug.org/keys Stammtisch After the meeting ... Join us around 8:30pm or so at TGI Friday's, located at 677 Lexington Avenue and 56th Street, second floor. Northeast corner. Please see our home page at http://www.nylug.org for the HTMLized version of this announcement, our archives, and a lot of other good stuff. Monthly Reminder! Please read the NYLUG-Talk Posting Guidelines at: http://www.nylug.org/mlistguide/ ________________________________________________________________________ January 2004 - The New York Linux Users Group, NYLUG.org _______________________________________________ nylug-announce mailing list nylug-announce@mail.nylug.org http://www.nylug.org/mailman/listinfo/nylug-announce
----- Forwarded message from Hans Zaunere ----- From: "Hans Zaunere" Subject: NYC *BSD User Group Launch: http://www.NYCBUG.org/ We have founded a new *BSD User Group in New York City, the New York City BSD Users Group (, pronounced "nice-bug"). It is our goal to make this B.U.G. a longtime success, and a permanent bright fixture in the skyline of New York City Metro's I.T. technical communities. There are two goals for this new user group. First, to provide a forum for the many BSD users in New York City to discuss and debate topics of interest to the BSD community. Second, to provide a bridge to users interested in learning more about or expanding their knowledge of the BSD family. - Our kick-off event will be a free "birds-of-a-feather" session at LinuxWorld Conference & Expo, at the Jacob Javits Center on Thursday, January 22nd, at 5:45pm, Room 1E15. We will have a presence at various tables at the expo, including those of BSDMall and New York PHP. - Our first monthly meeting will present on, "Secure by Default: Learning from OpenBSD," will be held on Wednesday, February 4th at 7:00pm in the offices of: SageSecure, 116 West 23rd Street and 6th Avenue, on the fifth floor. Presented by Wes Sonnenreich, author of "Building Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls" and "Network Security Illustrated." This talk will deal with crucial security concepts and best practices for today's computing environments. Subsequent monthly meetings will take place at 7:00pm on the first Wednesday of the month. Our website is located at . o NYCBUG will include a joint documentation project with New York PHP () and OpenlySecure.org, focused on providing original documentation to new and experienced BSD users alike. o NYCBUG also provides community mailing lists to assist in discussion and learning about the BSD world. Interested users, please join the mailing list(s) at . NYCBUG is open to all interested individuals, including, but not limited to, users of FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFlyBSD, OpenDarwin, Darwin and Mac OSX. Since the origins of the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) Unix in the 1970's, BSD has been a consistent force among the backroom servers of the world, powering internet service providers, hosting firms, and web sites such as Yahoo! and 2600.com. NYCBUG works to assist current users, those interested in learning more about this fundamental operating system family and various other BSD projects, and to provide a channel for community interaction. We look forward to supporting the BSD community in a variety of ways in the coming months and years. Please join us in making NYCBUG a success. E pluribus unum. We kindly endorse the distribution of this announcement among your colleagues, and potential *BSD users. Thank you. ----- End forwarded message -----
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: 'monk' To: LISP NYC Subject: [Lisp] LISP MuSIG 2004 Kickoff Meeting hi again everybody, final plans for the MuSIG kickoff are as follows: Friday, January 23, 2004 6:30 - 9:30 at Harvestworks 596 Broadway Suite 602 NY NY 10012 Harvestworks is on Broadway just south of Houston Street. Take the For V train to Broadway/Lafayette, the 6 train to Bleeker Street, or the N or R train to Prince Street. from then on we will meet the 3rd friday of each month at harvestworks (http://www.harvestworks.org) as per our previous meetings anything LISP music and multimedia related plus computer music in general is welcome for show and tell, presentation, discussion, debate, development - for those of us advocating LISP this is a great opportunity and a professional location i look forward to seeing and hearing how things develop, and thanks to harvestworks for allowing us to meet in their digs anybody with bar/pub info. around the area is welcome to make suggestions for after the meeting! howie / howard elmer composituer / performer -- http://www.assemblage.org _______________________________________________ Lisp mailing list Lisp@lispnyc.org http://www.lispnyc.org/mailman/listinfo/lisp