Bart Smaalders and Darren Moffat, senior Oracle Solaris developers - led by Markus Flierl, VP of Solaris Core Kernel development, are meeting with customers next week in New York. In a joint effort with local UNIX usergroup leads from the NYC-area we've organized a Solaris event on Wednesday night that everyone's invited to. Kindly see the announcement below (please follow instructions to RSVP for access through building security).
There will also be a second event, on June 20th, (mentioned further below) where I'll be going over feature highlights in the most recent release of Oracle Solaris.
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UNIGROUP OF NEW YORK - UNIX USERS GROUP - JUNE 2013 ANNOUNCEMENTS
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Its "Solaris Month" at Unigroup with TWO Solaris meetings planned...
Please note, we are going to have to run the RSVPs one meeting
at a time. The first round of RSVPs will be for the special
Solaris Kernel Engineers Joint Meeting next week. Then the
second round of RSVPs will be for our main June Solaris 11.1
Release Meeting.
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1. SPECIAL JOINT MEETING WITH LOPSA-NYC - Solaris Kernel Engineers
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** SOLARIS KERNEL ENGINEERS MEETING IS FINALIZED...
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Topic: Oracle/Sun Solaris Kernel Engineers Meeting
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Speakers: Panel of Solaris Kernel Engineers,
Oracle/Sun <http://www.oracle.com>
The panel should include:
Markus Flierl, VP of Solaris Core Kernel Development,
formerly Solaris Networking Lead.
Bart Smaalders, Snr. Developer, Solaris IPS, Performance.
Darren Moffat, Snr. Developer, Solaris Security.
Isaac Rozenfeld, Solaris Product Management.
When: WEDNESDAY 12-JUN-2013
Where: D.E. Shaw Research (** SPECIAL MIDTOWN LOCATION **)
Tower 45, 39th Floor, Large Conference Room (to the left)
120 West 45th Street (between 6th & 7th Avenues)
Midtown Manhattan, NYC
Time: 6:30 - 7:00 PM Registration, Unigroup and LOPSA-NYC
Introductions
7:00 - 9:30 PM Solaris Kernel Engineers Panel Discussion
Cost: Free - No Charge for this Joint meeting.
Oracle/Sun Kernel Engineers are in town next week, and we are
planning a special joint meeting with LOPSA-NYC in Midtown NYC,
at LOPSA-NYC's normal meeting location at D.E. Shaw Research.
This will be a free/no-charge meeting, open to the public,
but we do have a maximum capacity on the meeting room, so it
will be first come first serve. (We do expect to have plenty
of room for everyone.)
The FIRST round of Unigroup RSVPs will be for THIS special
Solaris Kernel Engineers meeting. Please hold off on RSVPs
for our SECOND Solaris 11.1 Release meeting, happening later in
the month on our regular 3rd Thursday meeting day.
These RSVPs will go to building security at D.E. Shaw and
Building Security at the front desk WILL REQUIRE your Photo ID.
Use the Unigroup RSVP link below for both meetings.
Note: Food Service for this meeting is not finalized yet
(probably will be pizza + soft drinks).
For information about LOPSA-NYC, visit: http://www.lopsa-nyc.org
Thanks to LOPSA-NYC and D.E. Shaw Research for hosting this meeting.
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2. UNIGROUP'S JUNE 2013 GENERAL MEETING
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Topic: Oracle/Sun Solaris 11.1 Release Meeting
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Speaker: Isaac Rozenfeld,
Solaris Product Management,
Oracle/Sun <http://www.oracle.com>
When: Thursday, June 20th, 2013 (*** 3rd Thursday ***)
Where: The Cooper Union <http://www.cooper.edu>
School of Engineering (*** New Building ***)
41 Cooper Square (3rd Ave @ 7th St, bet. 6th & 7th Sts)
East Village, Manhattan
New York City
Meeting Room: 505_CS (5th Floor)
Time: 6:15 PM - 6:30 PM Registration
6:30 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
Cost: See the Meeting+Membership Fee Schedule Below.
INTRODUCTION:
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June 2013 is Solaris Month at Unigroup, with two Solaris meetings
planned.
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SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS:
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Most Unigroup meetings are open to the public!
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 avoid Emailed RSVPs.
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. Also make sure
any anti-spam white-lists are updated to _ALLOW_ Unigroup traffic!
If you block Unigroup Emails, your address will be dropped from
our mailing list.
Also, if you have an interest in Unigroup, be sure to receive
Unigroup information DIRECTLY from Unigroup, via direct receipt
of Emails and by visiting the Unigroup Web Site. NO OTHER SOURCE
provides timely, accurate and complete Unigroup information.
Please RSVP as soon as possible, preferably at least 2-3 days
prior to the meeting date, so we can plan the food order.
RSVP deadline is usually the night before the meeting day.
Note: RSVP is requested for this location to make sure the guard
will let you into the building. RSVP also helps us to
properly plan the meeting (food, drinks, handouts,
seating, etc.) and speed up your sign-in at the meeting.
If you forget to RSVP prior to the meeting day, you may
still be able to show up and attend our meeting, however,
we cannot guarantee what building security will do if
you are "not on the list".
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MAIN PRESENTATION
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Topic: Solaris 11.1 Release Meeting
Introduction & Description of Talk:
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Solaris 11.1 Operating System Topics
Outline of the Talk:
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- What's New in Solaris 11.1
- To-be-announced
References & Web Resources:
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Oracle/Sun Solaris:
http://www.sun.com/software/solaris
Unixman Solaris Blog:
http://blogs.oracle.com/unixman
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Speaker Biography:
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Isaac Rozenfeld, from Oracle/Sun, has presented Solaris and
OpenSolaris topics to Unigroup on various occasions.
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Company Biography:
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For information about Oracle/Sun, visit http://www.oracle.com.
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Giveaways:
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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 hope to have copies of Oracle/Sun Solaris Install Media too.
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Fee Schedule:
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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 Fee: $ 20.00
Non-Member Student Single Meeting (with! ID): $ 5.00
* Payment Methods: Cash, Check, American Express.
! Students: We are looking for proof that you are
currently enrolled in classes (rather than working
full-time), and as such, your Student ID should show
a CURRENT date. We have been presented Student IDs
containing NO dates whatsoever, and in the
current environment, perpetual/non-expiring access
to university facilities just does not feel right.
If your ID contains no date, please bring
additional proof of current enrollment. Thanks,
NOTE: Simply receiving Unigroup Email Announcements does
NOT indicate membership in Unigroup.
Members: Remember to bring your Unigroup membership card with
you to the meeting, to confirm your yearly renewal date!
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Food:
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Complimentary Food and Refreshments will be served.
This normally 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 SOFT beverages.
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Directions:
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The Cooper Union <http://www.cooper.edu>
School of Engineering (*** New Building ***)
41 Cooper Square (3rd Avenue @ 7th St, between 6th & 7th Streets)
East Village, Manhattan
New York City, 10003
Meeting Room: ** (See Above, Room Changes 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 7 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 Unigroup (the room varies from month-to-month).
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,
or take the new transfer to the uptown '6'.
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).
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Please mark this meeting on your calendar and join us!
Please tell your friends about Unigroup!
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3. PRIOR MEETINGS
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** Formal Thank You's to our previous speakers will appear
in an upcoming announcement. Unigroup issues a "Thank You"
to all our speakers and sponsors!
Our thanks goes to The Cooper Union School of Engineering,
and its staff, for hosting our meetings.
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4. LOCAL TRADE SHOWS AND EVENTS
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a) CloudCamp at Cloud Expo NYC
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Date: Tue, Jun 11, 2013 (**DATE CHANGED**)
Time: 5:30pm - 9:30pm
Where: Javits Convention Center, NYC
Meeting Room To-be-determined.
For information and complimentary online registration visit:
http://www.cloudcamp.org/ny/370
http://cloudcamp-ny-2013.eventbrite.com
** As in prior years, it looks like CloudCamp attendees receive a
complimentary Cloud Expo pass!
b) Cloud Computing Expo / Big Data Expo
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Dates: Mon, Jun 10, 2013
Tue, Jun 11, 2013
Wed, Jun 12, 2013
Where: Javits Convention Center, NYC
For information and registration visit:
http://www.cloudcomputingexpo.com
** Also see CloudCamp Event above. Many complimentary VIP codes
have materialized on the web in the past week.
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5. UPCOMING MEETINGS
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We have a series of meetings in the works:
- Planning: Solaris 11.1 Release Meeting
- Planning: Building a Data Server with Oracle/Sun ZFS
- Planning: Oracle/Sun VirtualBox
- Planning: DataCenter Field-Trip
- Planning: Real-Time Hardware Acceleration: FPGAs, DSPs and GPUs
- Planning: Hadoop Clusters
- Planning: DNS / Dynamic DNS
- Planning: Fibrechannel and Infiniband Storage
- Planning: IPsec and VPNs (possibly 2 meetings)
- Planning: Trading with the FIX Protocol
- Planning: Cloud and Grid Computing
- Planning: Unix/Linux Authentication
- Planning: NO SPAM!
- Planning: Crypto / PKI / GPG-PGP
- Planning: Anti-Virus
- Planning: The latest on *BSD (FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD)
- Unix/Linux/BSD Clusters and Clustered Databases
- Patching and Updating Unix/Linux/BSD (rpm. yum, yast, etc.)
- Building Custom Kernels Unix/Linux/BSD
- Linux Clustering Part 3: Beowulf
- Building a Firewall using FreeBSD and Linux
- LAMP Part 2 - PHP/Python
- Unix 40th+ Birthday Celebration
- Samba
- High Performance Internet Servers / Web Acceleration
- Unix Office Tools: Word Processors, Spreadsheets, Accounting Packages.
- GNU Development Environments
- iSCSI, and other new peripheral technologies
- Java and/or JavaScript Programming
** Unigroup Needs Speakers!!
Please let us know about any other meeting topics that you may be
interested in. Potential speakers on Unix/Linux/BSD related
technology topics should please contact the Unigroup Board.
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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/Linux/BSD User Community.
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 regular meeting location.
Planned regular meeting dates are (usually 3rd Thursdays):
06/12/2013, 06/20/2013, 07/18/2013, 09/19/2013, 11/21/2013, ...
Also watch for Special Event meetings and "Field Trips" to the
facilities of local hardware and software vendors.
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