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The next regular monthly meeting of DLSLUG will be held: Thursday, August 4th, 7-9PM at: Dartmouth College, Haldeman 041 23 North Main Street, Hanover, NH All are welcome, free of charge. Agenda 5:30 Pre-meeting dinner at EBA's. RSVP and bring cash. 7:00 Sign-in, networking 7:15 Introductory remarks 7:20 Btrfs presented by William Stearns Filesystems are supposed to be boring - you never know they're there. BTRFS, based on a design that supports copy-on-write, provides features like effortless snapshots, built-in data redundancy and checksumming, easy addition and removal of underlying disks and much more. Filesystems have become interesting again! Bill is a System Administrator at Dartmouth College and consultant for Intelguardians. He is a content author and faculty member at the SANS Institute, teaching both the Linux System Administration and Perimeter Security tracks. Bill's background is in network and operating system security; he was the chief architect of one commercial and two open source firewalls and is an active contributor to multiple projects in the Linux development effort. His spare time is spent coordinating and feeding a major antispam blacklist, and assisting the technical community as a volunteer Incident Handler for the Internet Storm Center. Bill's articles and tools can be found in SysAdmin magazine, online journals, and at http://www.stearns.org . 8:05 Hack-a-thon HOWTO presented by Ryan Lewis Do you have favorite project that needs some development love and would like to sponsor an event to do it? Ryan will walk us through a mini-Hack-a-thon, using Xournal <https://github.com/ryanlewis/xournal> and GitHub as a platform to show how it's done. Your guide on this expedition will be Ryan H. Lewis. He is a Ph.D. student at Dartmouth College. He studied mathematics in Rochester, New York. He uses Fedora linux and thinks writing in the third person nominative case is strange. 8:50 Roundtable Exchange - where the attendees can make announcements or ask a Linux/FLOSS question of the group. ----- Driving Directions Please see the website for links to driving directions. Refreshments We currently lack a refreshment sponsor. If you or your company would like to provide or sponsor refreshments, please get in touch. RSVP RSVP by replying to this e-mail so we can give any refreshment sponsor a count. Mailing Lists There are two primary mailman lists set up for DLSLUG, an Announce list and a Discuss list. Please sign up for the Announce list (moderated, low-volume) to stay apprised of the group's activities and the Discuss list (unmoderated) for group discussion. Links to the mailing lists are on the webpage. Tell Your Friends Please pass this announcement along to anyone else who may be interested. -- Bill McGonigle, Owner BFC Computing, LLC http://bfccomputing.com/ Telephone: +1.855.SW.LIBRE Email, IM, VOIP: b...@bfccomputing.com VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf Social networks: bill_mcgonigle/bill.mcgonigle _______________________________________________ DLSLUG-Announce mailing list dlslug-annou...@dlslug.org http://dlslug.org/mailman/listinfo/dlslug-announce _______________________________________________ gnhlug-announce mailing list gnhlug-announce@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-announce/