The Dallas Ft. Worth UNIX Users Group offers area UNIX users the opportunity to attend monthly meetings that include presentations from industry experts, small break-out sessions for special interest groups, and free pizza! If you'd like to get involved and increase your networking opportunities, join us for our next meeting!

We now have a chat room: irc.freenode.net #dfwuug

Gene Saunders -- RIP

Gene Saunders, a well known member of the Unix community here in North Texas and elsewhere, died unexpectedly of natural causes on about September 19, 2008. He was 51 years old. A mailing list, FriendsOfGene@grommit.com, has been setup for those wishing to share stories and receive announcements related to a memorial gathering.

Friends of Gene

Date:

Thursday, December 4, 2008 -- 7:00 PM

Normal Meeting Location

Location: Sun Microsystems in Dallas

Our meetings are always open to the public at no charge.

Main Presentation

Topic(s): Fiber Channel over Ethernet

Speaker(s): Jay Metz with Qlogic

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Talk Presentation Slides - Past

The main presentation is followed by Special Interest Group (SIG) break out meetings,
except for the Career SIG, which meets at 6 pm, before the pizza and program.

Career SIG

Meeting Starts at 6:00 PM

Topic: Topics vary according to the presence of HR/Recruiters, the needs of the current group attending and IT Industry trends since the last meeting.

Speaker: Alvin Goats

Programmers SIG

Topic: Something Related to Python, Not Sure Yet

Speaker: Jeff Rush

Security SIG

Topic: TBD

Speaker: Greg Hoare (greg.hoare at linuxmail.org) Security SIG Leader

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