The group meets the first Thursday of the month, with the exception of those months where the Thursday falls on or near a holiday. Below is a list of meetings, past and planned.
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| Upcoming Meeting Topics |
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| Meeting | Speaker/Coordinator | Presentation Title/Topic (with links to slides, if any) |
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Apr 2011 | (need a volunteer for -this- month) | |
Mar 2011 | (need a volunteer for -this- month) | |
Feb 2011 | (need a volunteer for -this- month) | |
Jan 2011 | (need a volunteer for -this- month) | |
Dec 2010 | tentatively scheduled for talk on advanced storage systems | |
Nov 2010 | Jeff Rush | "Surviving as a Consultant: Sales, Legal, Accounting, Scheduling" |
Oct 2010 | Evan Brown, DFWUUG Past President | "Who Owns Your Brain?" Commentary and Discussion |
Sep 2010 | Chris Cox | "Agentless computer inventory systems" | |
Aug 2010 | David Aldrich | "Random Talk: Specifically Hardware Sources Thereof" |
Jul 2010 | Paul Newton, IBM | "Unix and Linux on IBM System z Mainframes" |
Jun 2010 | Ryan Quick with Paypal | "Distributed Computing and Messaging Apps: How They are Used by PayPal" |
| Start of Member-Coordinated Talks in June and afterward |
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May 2010 | Eric Schoenebelen | Writing for Technical Publication |
| | Jeff Rush (during Linux-SIG) | A Minitalk: Managing Mountable Devices |
Apr 2010 | Dale Young | "Near Zero Downtime in Database Migration" |
| Past Meeting Topics |
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| Meeting | Speaker | Presentation Title/Topic (with links to slides, if any) |
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Mar 2010 | Kurt Hyde | "Computers in Elections -- How to Prevent Fraud" |
Feb 2010 | Udi Fuchs | The UFraw Library for Camera I/O |
Jan 2010 | William Chipman, Chipman Information Services | PCI DSS: Secure Payment Systems (whitepapers/slides/C-source) |
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Dec 2009 | Ralph Green Jr. | Comparison of Ten Linux Distros |
Nov 2009 | Brandon Haynes, CraftLogic Software | "Building a blog site with Ruby on Rails, and extending the app with Flex." |
Oct 2009 | Patrick Michaud | "Rakudo Perl 6 : Confessions of an Open Source Project Leader" |
Sep 2009 | Kevin Pate, Pate Consulting | Asterisk Howtos |
Aug 2009 | Danny Faught, Tejas Software Consulting | Robust Scripting |
Jul 2009 | Rebecca Holleron, Sun Microsystems | Sun's xVM OPS Manager |
Jun 2009 | Dennis Simpson, August Associates | "About Metadata" |
May 2009 | Steve Fuhrman, New York Air Brake | "The Use of Linux in Railroad Simulation Systems" |
| | Jeff Rush, Tau Productions Inc. | Installing Gentoo |
Apr 2009 | Kevin Pate, Pate Consulting | MySQL Clustering |
Mar 2009 | Ralph Green, Jr. | Unix/Linux technical workshop (Family night) |
Feb 2009 | Jon Campos, United Mind Set | "Rich Internet Applications" |
Jan 2009 | Andrew Benrey, Qlogic | Fiber Channel Over Ethernet |
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Dec 2008 | Patrick Michaud | Latest News about the Parrot Virtual Machine |
| | Jeff Rush, Rusty Haddock | Speech Synthesizers, Gadgets and Linux |
Nov 2008 | Jim Gatewood, Author & Historian | Top O' Hill Gambling Establishment & the Texas Oil Rich |
Oct 2008 | Daniel Hebert, Sun Microsystems | The Green Data Center |
Sep 2008 | Jeff Rush, Tau Productions Inc. | "What is Python and Why is it Cool?" |
Aug 2008 | Jeremy Reed with ISC | "DNS SEC" |
Jul 2008 | Michael Friesenegger, Novell | "Mono virtual machine w/Moonlight" |
Jun 2008 | Said Syed, Sun Microsystems | "VMware Storage VMotion: Live migration of Virtual Machines from one Storage Array to another." |
| | Jeff Rush, Tau Productions Inc. | Overview of the OpenMoko Linux Phone (video) |
May 2008 | Eric Schoenebelen, DFWUUG Web Host | State of the BSDs -- 2008 |
Apr 2008 | Charles Howe, Tejas Software Consulting | "Module Regression Testing" |
Mar 2008 | [no meeting] | Cancelled due to weather |
Feb 2008 | Ralph Green Jr. | "Hands on with some Linux/Unix distros you have heard of, but probably have not seen." |
Jan 2008 | John Clutter, eSoft systems | "Internet Appliances" |
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Dec 2007 | Joe Koester, Evergreen Systems | "Another perspective on ITIL" |
Nov 2007 | Bob Netherton, Sun Microsystems | Open Solaris |
Oct 2007 | Q&A, Robert Half, etc. | IT Recruiter Panel |
Sep 2007 | E.J. Pappas, Solidcore Systems | "ITIL, The IT infrastructure Library" |
Aug 2007 | Danny Faught, Tejas Software Consulting | Everything is UNIX - Adventures in Cross-Platform Tolling |
Jul 2007 | Derrick Harcey, Sun Microsystems | "Integrated Identity Management Solution" |
Jun 2007 | Patrick Michaud | WikiPatterns: Wiki techniques for collaboration and consensus building |
May 2007 | Dennis Simpson, August & Associates | Semantic Enterprise Platform |
Apr 2007 | Vincent Chacko, MKS Software | "One Solution, One Architecture, Total Visibility" |
Mar 2007 | Eric Lundgren, Vmware Sr. Sys Engineer | VmWare |
Feb 2007 | Rick Spurgeon, Red Hat | Red Hat Enterprise Edition and the Red Hat Global File System |
Jan 2007 | Keith Priddy, Platform Computing Partners | Grid Computing |
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Dec 2006 | Chris Nystrom, Entrepreneur | New/IO |
Nov 2006 | Lloyd Chappell, Dallas Chamber of Commerce | Hi-tech Financial Planning |
Oct 2006 | Dave Thomas, Founder of the Pragmatic Programmers | An Evening with Ruby and Rails |
| | Jeff Rush, Tau Productions Inc. | About Dynamic Languages and Python, an online slide show (source in Docutils/S5(approve sites) format) |
Sep 2006 | Kip Harris, IBM - Austin | Service Oriented Architecture |
Aug 2006 | Dan Butzer, Sun Microsystems | Grid Computing, from Sun's Perspective |
| | Eric Schnoebelen | State of the BSDs |
Jul 2006 | Pat Nurre, Novell - Irving | Novell Xenworks Linux Management Version 7 |
Jun 2006 | Patrick Michaud, the Perl 6 project "pumpking" | Source Code Management using Subversion |
May 2006 | Bob Farkaly, Overland Storage | Backup & Recovery of Storage-Area-Networks using Virtual Tape Libraries |
Apr 2006 | Daniel Brookshier, former President of Java MUG | Peer-to-Peer and JXTA |
| | Jeff Rush | Rsync, Incremental Backups, Speeding Up SSH and Intro to Openoffice.org 2.x by Jeff Rush\\ (my scripts and programs to go with talk) |
Mar 2006 | Richard McFarland | About Voice-over-IP |
| | Blake Covarrubias | PPTP "road warrior" VPN with FreeBSD and MPD |
Feb 2006 | ??? | |
Jan 2006 | ??? | |
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Dec 2005 | ??? | |
Nov 2005 | ??? | |
Oct 2005 | ??? | |
| | Jeff Rush, Tau Productions Inc. | User Authentication with Zope2 |
Sep 2005 | ??? | |
Aug 2005 | ??? | |
Jul 2005 | ??? | |
Jun 2005 | ??? | |
May 2005 | ??? | |
Apr 2005 | ??? | |
Mar 2005 | Josh Coburn, Nuview Software in Houston | File Life Cycle Management using v5.5 of StorageX |
Feb 2005 | Dennis Simpson, August & Associates | Building WebApps That Truly Separate Applications and Data |
| | Jeff Rush, Tau Productions Inc. | KuroBox: A Cool Embedded Linux Box |
Jan 2005 | Sean Costello, Bynari Systems Inc. | Replacing Microsoft Exchange with a Linux Infrastructure |
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Dec 2004 | Jeremy Mann, UT Austin HSC | Human Genetic Research using BEOWULF Clusters Speaker No-Show |
Nov 2004 | Patrick Michaud | All About Wiki's and PM Wiki Specifically |
Oct 2004 | Bob Netherton of Sun Microsystems | JDS (Java Desktop System), Linux on a Sparc Station |
Sep 2004 | Eric, Central Iowa (Model) Railroad | The State of BSD |
Aug 2004 | Randy Kreiser, LSI's Director of HPC Storage Arch | RAID I/O Performance Tuning |
Jul 2004 | Dale Young, Applied Solutions | Oracle Backup and Recovery - Protecting the Corporate Assets |
Jun 2004 | Marc Rochkind | Appl Portability Between Unix/Linux and the Posix Standard |
| | Jeff Rush, Tau Productions Inc. | A Survey of the Python Language |
May 2004 | Danny Faught, Tejas Software Consulting | Open Source Development Tools: Coping with Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt |
Apr 2004 | ??? | |
| | Jeff Rush, Tau Productions Inc. | Voice-over-IP and the Asterisk Software |
The meetings are informal. We usually invite visitors and any firms in attendance to briefly introduce themselves. A short business meeting
ensues. Then we break for pizza, so you need not eat before coming. The high point of the evening is, of course, the Program. Occasionally, we
have tutorial sessions, which are excellent, and are without charge. If you would like to present the Program or conduct a seminar, please
contact the Program Chairman.
We do not limit ourselves to any one flavor or UNIX or a particular vendor. Our programs cover a wide variety of topics. These range from general marketing trends all the way to highly technical language presentations.
