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Unigroup's June 2012 Meeting Announcement


Topic:
SysAdmin Tools Round Table - Panel Discussion

Speakers:
Panel:

Doug Hughes, Manager Infrastructure Team,
D. E. Shaw Research, LLC.
Co-Chair of the LOPSA SysAdmin Users Group NYC Chapter.

Justin Lintz, Sr. Systems Administrator,
Bitly.
Co-Chair of the LOPSA SysAdmin Users Group NYC Chapter.

Robert Weiner, President,
Programming Plus.
Executive Director of Unigroup of NY, Inc,

(others pending)

Date:
Thursday, 21-JUN-2012      (** Regular 3rd Thursday **)

Location:
The Cooper Union
School of Engineering   (*** NEW BUILDING ***)
41 Cooper Square    (3rd Avenue @ 7th Street, between 6th & 7th Streets)
East Village, Manhattan
New York City, 10003
Meeting Room: 506_CS   (5th Floor, Note: Room Changes Month-to-Month)
** Please RSVP **

Time:
6:15 - 6:30 PM Registration
6:30 - 6:45 PM Ask the Wizard - Questions, Answers and Current Events
6:45 - 7:00 PM Unigroup Business
7:00 - 9:30 PM Main Presentation

Cost:
Please see the Fee Schedule below.


MEETING INTRODUCTION

Unigroup's June 2012 meeting will be a panel discussion on tools (mostly software tools) that a system/network/security administrator or developer may find useful.


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DIRECTIONS

   Location:
      The Cooper Union  (http://www.cooper.edu)
      School of Engineering  (*** New Building ***)
      41 Cooper Square (3rd Avenue @ 7th Street, between 6th & 7th Streets)
      East Village, Manhattan
      New York City, 10003
      Meeting Room: ** (See Above, Room May Change Month-to-Month)

   Located on the East side of Cooper Square.  Look for the
   new building with the non-traditional appearance.
   Entrance is at the corner of 3rd Avenue and 7th Street.

   Building lobby sign-in is required at the guard's desk.
   Enter the building, check in with the guard at the lobby for
     directions to the Unigroup Meeting Room.

   Nearest mass transit stations are:
     '6'           to Astor Place (stops right at The Cooper Union),
                   then walk 1 block East and 1 block South.
     'R'           to 8th Street, then walk about 2 blocks East
                   then 1 block South.
     '4/5/6/R/N/Q' to Union Square, then walk South and East.
     'B/D/F/V'     to Broadway-Lafayette, then walk North and East.

   Free street parking in the area becomes available at 6pm.

   There are also parking lots on Broadway, at (or just south of)
     Astor Place (8th Street).


PRESENTATION OUTLINE

Topic: SysAdmin Tools Round Table - Panel Discussion

Introduction & Description of Talk:

Unigroup's SysAdmin Tools Round Table will be an informal panel discussion on tools (mostly software tools) that a system/network/security administrator or developer may find useful, but perhaps never knew about.

The idea will be to BRIEFLY present a PILE of useful tools at this meeting (as many as we can fit in)... perhaps tools that are not found in standard OS distributions, various open source tools, perhaps some commercial tools, perhaps tools that have been discussed with great interest in the community (user groups and conferences). Hopefully we'll hit upon a bunch of useful tools that many people should know about, but never heard of before.

And please bring a list of your favorite and most useful tools, and their respective URLs, and we'll try to discuss them as well. Even if you don't know the details about a particular useful tool, let us know about it... one goal of this meeting is to simply "get the word out" to our Unigroup community about these tools.

Outline of Talk:

References & Web Resources:

To-be-announced.


SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY

Panel:

Doug Hughes is the Manager for the Infrastructure Team at D. E. Shaw Research, LLC. in Manhattan. Doug fell into system administration accidently after acquiring a BE in Computer Engineering, and decided that it suited him. Doug is also a Co-Chair of LOPSA-NYC , which is the League Of Professional System Administrators NYC Chapter.

Justin Lintz is a Sr. Systems Administrator for Bitly. Justin is also a Co-Chair of LOPSA-NYC , which is the League Of Professional System Administrators NYC Chapter.

Robert Weiner is the founder and President of Programming Plus, a business which provides Computer-Related Hardware and Software Consulting & Engineering Services (for Unix, Linux, BSD, OpenVMS, Windows and DOS). Robert is an Electrical Engineer (with BE and ME degrees from The Cooper Union in NYC), a NYS Licensed Professional Engineer, Software Developer and Systems Administrator, who has been working with Unix for around 30 years, and Linux for around 20 years. Robert has been a Unigroup member since 1985, a Unigroup Board Member since 1991, and Unigroup's Executive Director since 1992.


COMPANY BIOGRAPHY

To-be-announced.


GIVEAWAYS

Addison-Wesley Professional/Prentice Hall PTR, and O'Reilly have been kind enough to provide us with review copies of some of their books, which we will continue to raffle off as giveaways at our meetings. The publishers always ask that the persons receiving the books provide a review and/or feedback about their books.

Unigroup would like to thank both companies for the support provided by their User Group programs.

As always, all of the books will be available for review at the start of the meeting.

We have some Solaris Related CD-ROMs from our friends at the local NYC Sun Microsystems Office.

(Note: Our supply of books is low right now, we hope to resolve that soon.)


FEE SCHEDULE

Unigroup is a Professional Technical Organization and User Group, and its members pay a yearly membership fee. For Unigroup members, there is usually no additional charges (ie. no meeting fees) during their membership year. Non-members who wish to attend Unigroup meetings are usually required to pay a "Single Meeting Fee".

         Yearly Membership (includes all meetings):      $ 50.00
         Student Yearly Membership (with current! ID):   $ 25.00
         Non-Member Single Meeting:                      $ 20.00
         Non-Member Student Single Meeting (with! ID):   $  5.00

       * Payment Methods: Cash, Check, American Express.

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FOOD AND REFRESHMENTS

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, brownies, bottled water and assorted beverages.


Please join us for this meeting, you won't want to miss it!

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