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UNIGROUP OF NEW YORK - UNIX USERS GROUP - MARCH 2005 MEETING
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1. UNIGROUP'S MARCH 2005 GENERAL MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT
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      When:  THURSDAY, March 17th, 2005    (3rd Thursday)

     Where:  <<<< FIELD TRIP LOCATION >>>>
             Sun Microsystems
             101 Park Avenue, 4th Floor  (at 40th Street)
             Midtown, New York City
             ** RSVP Will Be Required for Entry! **

      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:  Solaris 10 Post-Launch Followup Event:
             OpenSolaris, Solaris Management Facility,
             Solaris Security, Solaris ZFS (new filesystem),
             and other topics as time permits.
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   Speaker:  Ambreesh Khanna,
             Datacenter & Edge Technologies Lead for NY/NJ,
             Sun Microsystems 


   INTRODUCTIONS:
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   This is a followup meeting to our Solaris 10 Launch Event that
   occurred some months ago.  Now that Solaris 10 has been officially
   released, there are various new topics and new operating system
   components that Sun can more easily talk about (previously they
   could only discuss them under non-disclosure).  There is a lot
   to cover, and we expect a great meeting with a large turnout.

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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 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.

   Please RSVP by Wednesday, 16-MAR-2005, so we can have the proper
   amount of food and Solaris 10 CD-ROMs available.
   Please register as soon as possible.

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   Outline of the Main Presentation:
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   Solaris 10 is the latest UNIX OS from Sun Microsystems.  It is being
   billed as the Next Generation Datacenter OS, and is unique due to the
   number of key technologies that have sedimented into it.

   Some items to be covered at this meeting:
   - OpenSolaris and Solaris Licensing
   - Solaris 10 Management Facility
   - Solaris 10 Security
   - Solaris 10 ZFS (new filesystem)
   - More on Solaris 10 Hardware Platforms
   - More on Solaris vs Linux/BSD/Other Unix
   - And if time permits: Solaris Networking, and some other topics.

   We learned at the last meeting that Sun is very capable of spending
   a full day talking on each Solaris topic listed above.  They will
   be trying to provide us as much information as possible, in the
   short time that we have to work with.  Expect a long meeting,
   packed with technical details and examples of implementation.

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   Web Resources:
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     Sun Solaris 10
         http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/10

     Sun BigAdmin Portal
         http://www.bigadmin.com

     Sun Microsystems
         http://www.sun.com

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   Speaker Biography:
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   Ambreesh Khanna has been at Sun for 7 years, and is currently the
   Datacenter and Edge Technologies Lead for NY/NJ.

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   Company Biography:
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   See http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/index.html for company information
   about Sun Microsystems.

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   Giveaways:
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   To be determined.

   We expect to have copies of Solaris 10 CD-ROMS for x86 and Sparc
   available.

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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.

   Sun will be providing us with the food service for this meeting.
   Thanks Sun!

   While we don't know the details, the last time Sun surprised
   us with a major spread of sandwiches, salads, drinks and
   desserts!

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   Directions:

     ** FIELD TRIP LOCATION **
        Sun Microsystems
        101 Park Avenue, 4th Floor   (at 40th Street)
        Midtown, New York City

   The office of Sun Microsystems is 1-2 blocks South of Grand Central
   Station.  Enter the building at the corner of Park Avenue and 40th
   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:

   - 17-MAR-2005 : Solaris 10 Post-Release Followup Event
                   Field Trip to Sun Microsystems

   - 21-APR-2005 : AFS and OpenAFS
                   Jeff Altman / Secure Endpoints

   - IPsec
   - Samba
   - Field Trip to CA - Invited
   - Field Trip to HP - Invited
   - Unix 35th Birthday Celebration
   - 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 at uniboard@unigroup.org.


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3. PRIOR MEETINGS
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   Jan 2005: Wireless Access Around NYC and Introduction to WiFi
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   Unigroup would like to thank Ben Serebin of NYCwireless.org
    for presenting a background on
   Wireless 802.11 connectivity, covering hardware and software
   aspects on both the client and server side of the access point,
   WiFi antennas and their applications, and explaining where and
   how WiFi can be found, and used, around NYC.  Ben also spoke
   about the activities of the NYCwireless Users Group.

   Unigroup would also like to thank Dan Wexler of Genesis
   Information Security (and the Unigroup Board), for presenting
   an introduction to various aspects of Wireless security.

   Feb 2005: ZOPE - An Open Source Web Development Framework
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   Unigroup would like to thank Rob Page, from Zope Corporation,
   for presenting Zope, an open source framework for web development.
   Various aspects of web application development and specific
   features of Zope were discussed and demonstrated, and
   specific applications that lend themselves particularly well
   to the Zope environment were discussed.  Rob had flown
   in specially for our meeting, and we appreciate Zope Corp's
   support.

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4. TRADE SHOWS
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   a) 2005 Business Continuity & Corporate Security Show & Conference
      (Flagg Management)

      Location: Metropolitan Pavilion, 125 West 18th Street at 7th Ave, NYC.
      When:     March 22-23, 2005 (Tue-Wed)

      For information and online registration visit:
        http://www.flaggmgmt.com/bc

   b) 2005 Linux on Wall Street 3rd Annual Show & Conference
      (Flagg Management)

      Location: Roosevelt Hotel, Madison Avenue and 45th Street.
      When:     April 20, 2005

      For information and online registration visit:
        http://www.linuxonwallstreet.com

   c) SIA Technology Management Conference

      Location: The Hilton New York

      For information visit:
        http://www.sia.com/tmc2005/

      EXHIBIT HALL SCHEDULE:
        Tue, June 21 12:00 pm -  6:00 pm
        Wed, June 22  9:00 am -  6:00 pm
        Thu, June 23  9:00 am - 12:00 pm

      For FREE Online Exhibit Hall Registration Please Visit:
        http://www.sia.com/conf_vendors/exReg_Email.html

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5. NEW USER GROUP FORMING
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   Bill Zack of the NYeWin group is forming a new Software Architects
   Group in NYC, that he hopes will be affiliated with the IASA -
   International Association of Software Architects.

   For information about the IASA visit:
     http://www.iasarchitects.org

   This group is forming as a vendor-neutral and system-neutral group,
   and they are looking for members from the all of the *NIX Unix/Linux/BSD,
   as well as the Windows, and other communities.

   More information will follow in our next announcement.
   (I believe their meetings will be on the last Tuesday, but the day,
    a meeting location, and contact information, needs to be clarified.)

   Keep an eye out for more information if you are interested.

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6. 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 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.
   Recently, we have been holding meetings on a more monthly basis.

   Planned meeting dates are: 3/17/2005, 4/21/2005, 5/19/2005, ...
   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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   List send an EMail message to:
        unilist@unigroup.org

   To contact the Board of Directors of Unigroup, send an EMail message to:
        uniboard@unigroup.org

   If you have recently attended a meeting and you are not receiving
   Email announcements, please send us an Email and we will make
   corrections to our lists.

   Please Email the Board with any suggestions, especially potential
   meeting topics and speakers.  Unigroup welcomes contributions and
   content suggestions for our newsletter.  Unigroup is a volunteer
   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@unigroup.org
 http://www.unigroup.org

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