[CALUG] [ January 12 Speaker Announcement for CALUG]

[Chuck Frain]

Just a reminder that our January meeting is tomorrow evening. 

Keep an eye on the http://identi.ca/group/calug twitter #calug hastag
and this mailing list should there be any snow related changes to the
meeting (considering the 1 to 5 inches of snow currently being
threatened)

Chuck

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> Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2011 17:48:13 -0500
> From: Chuck Frain <chuck at chuckfrain.net>
> To: Columbia Linux Users Group <calug at unknownlamer.org>
> Subject: [CALUG] January 12 Speaker Announcement for CALUG
> 
> I hope everyone has recovered from a safe and happy holiday season!
> 
> For the first CALUG[0] meeting of 2011 we will be welcoming James P.
> Howard II and Peter M. Van Buren. They will be presenting on "Using DVCS
> Frameworks for Homogenous Systems Management". 
> 
> Join us January 12th from 6:30-7pm for pizza provided by Praxis
> Engineering[1] and then from 7-9pm for the main presentation! All of
> this will be happening at the offices of Tenable Network Security[2]
> located at:
> 
> 7063 Columbia Gateway Drive
> Columbia, MD 20832
> (Enter at the back patio with the blue tables)
> 
> From the abstract:
> 
> Multilayered interdependencies complicate the process of application
> installation, management, and removal under all modern operating 
> systems. Numerous package management schemes have been established 
> to smooth these complexities which are well suited to open source 
> applications because of the ability to patch the source before 
> building, allowing administrators to account for idiosyncratic 
> systems.
> 
> However, the advantages of systems such as RPM can be lost when
> packaging monolithic commercial applications, such as MATLAB or SAS, 
> because they require a certain type of environment on installation, 
> including system-specific interaction. In our research IT group, we 
> have solved this problem by managing the software applications 
> environment directly and recording updates using Git. In effect, we 
> treat the entire noncore OS features of out network computing 
> environment as a large repository. This presentation outlines the 
> issues we faced, why we selected Git, technical challenges, and some 
> of the cultural concerns we encountered.
> 
> About the presenters:
> 
> James has worked at the Federal Reserve Board since 2003. Before 
> that, he was a consultant to the Executive Office of the President 
> and the House of Representatives. He has also implemented social 
> media solutions to improve local governance in Columbia and Howard 
> County, Maryland. He has a master of public administration from the
> University of Baltimore and graduated from the University of Maryland.
> 
> Peter has worked at the Federal Reserve Board since 2008. Before that,
> he worked for MarketBridge, a marketing and sales strategy consulting 
> firm to Fortune 500 IT companies, and Booz Allen Hamilton. He graduated 
> from Dartmouth College.
> 
> [0]http://www.calug.org
> [1]http://www.praxiseng.com
> [2]http://www.tenable.com
> 
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