From jzb at pacbell.net Tue May 6 20:35:06 2003 From: jzb at pacbell.net (Janet Brigham Rands) Date: Sat Apr 2 14:56:46 2005 Subject: [web-team] feedback from SVLUG website Message-ID: <029b01c31449$aa063ed0$6401a8c0@Dell> Your link to the Silicon Valley PAF Users group on this page: http://www.svlug.org/farm.shtml is incorrect. The correct address is: www.svpafug.org Thank you for fixing this! Janet Brigham Webmaster www.svpafug.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/web-team/attachments/20030506/4e9d683f/attachment.htm From joyce at TerraLuna.Org Wed May 7 09:23:30 2003 From: joyce at TerraLuna.Org (Joyce Cao Traugott) Date: Sat Apr 2 14:56:46 2005 Subject: [web-team] feedback from SVLUG website References: <029b01c31449$aa063ed0$6401a8c0@Dell> Message-ID: <3EB93302.78E1D27F@TerraLuna.Org> Thank you. I will fix it as soon as possible. Joyce > Janet Brigham Rands wrote: > > Your link to the Silicon Valley PAF Users group on this page: > > http://www.svlug.org/farm.shtml > > is incorrect. The correct address is: > > www.svpafug.org > > Thank you for fixing this! > > Janet Brigham > Webmaster > www.svpafug.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > web-team mailing list > web-team@lists.svlug.org > http://lists.svlug.org/lists/listinfo/web-team From stevegt at TerraLuna.Org Wed May 7 10:52:33 2003 From: stevegt at TerraLuna.Org (Steve Traugott) Date: Sat Apr 2 14:56:46 2005 Subject: [web-team] Steve and Joyce need a break Message-ID: <20030507105233.C16284@scramjet.TerraLuna.Org> Hi All, Joyce and I had a long talk this morning. We've both noticed my stress level spiking the last two or three months, right around the time of the SVLUG meeting. Many of us have talked about some of the reasons why. With a baby on the way, due around the end of May, Joyce and I have come to a tentative conclusion that it would be better to plan a sabbatical for us now rather than have both of us burn out and hit the wall in June. Joyce and I both want to stay involved in a leadership capacity; we both value SVLUG highly. We're thinking about the following plan: - Don't plan for Steve or Joyce to be very useful for the next several months; this being our first kid, we don't know what the workload or sleep deprivation is going to do. - Find at least one more web team member, to fill in for Joyce's time off. - Find someone who's interested in being primary speaker coordinator for at least the next several months. By "primary" I mean they own the job, have the weight on their head, assume full responsibility for making sure we have quality speakers lined up, do the intros, pick up the tab for their dinner, etc. The whole job. My suspicion is that they'll want to take a break themselves after several months of this, which should work out about right. - Over time I think we should build up a cadre of people who can remain on the "speakers" list and rotate through this role. Rotation could be for several months at a time, or a better alternative would be to have the various members of the speakers list volunteer for filling particular months -- "I'll find someone for July if you find someone for August and September". This would solve a central problem; I've found it takes months to figure out how to do this job well, by which time you're burned out. - Keep Steve on the officers and speakers list and Joyce on web-team. While we can't make any promises of how much we'll be able to keep up, at least this lets us serve as backup and transition, and will help us ease back in after the baby starts sleeping more normal hours (usually about 6 months). - I still want to do the CGI automation of much of these jobs. I already generate the monthly e-mail notice from XML input and a template, on my own machine; need to write a template for the meetings page, create some input forms to generate the XML, and move the whole thing to the svlug machine. I won't plan to do this until after the baby dust settles later this year. In the meantime I'll supply the XML form, template, and build script to whoever is doing the job for the next several months. - I'm going to put the PGP key signing sessions on hold for the time being; I might start this back up sooner rather then later, since it's pretty easy by comparison, and I do still plan to come to meetings when I can. - As far as moving the svlug machine, if Marc's interested, the offer stands, now or later. The T-1 and rack space is there (ERPS.Org hosts their web site and cluster there now). If Marc wants to think about it for a few more months, that would be fine too; maybe then I'll have time to do more than just plug it in. I'd like to make the two announcements tonight, looking for new volunteers for web team and speaker coordinator. With Joyce's due date, there's a high probability we'll both be in the hospital during the June meeting, so this is our only chance to do this right. Feel free to call me (650-868-6358) if anyone sees any refinements to this plan that might work. I'll get to the meeting early tonight so we can huddle and go over any details. Steve -- Steve Traugott (KG6HDQ) Speaker Coordinator, Silicon Valley Linux Users Group http://www.svlug.org -- UNIX/Linux Infrastructure Architect, TerraLuna LLC stevegt@TerraLuna.Org http://www.stevegt.com From marc_news at merlins.org Thu May 8 12:59:10 2003 From: marc_news at merlins.org (Marc MERLIN) Date: Sat Apr 2 14:56:46 2005 Subject: [web-team] Digests / root / etc In-Reply-To: <20030507105233.C16284@scramjet.TerraLuna.Org> <20030507011813.B31754@scramjet.TerraLuna.Org> <20030507011813.B31754@scramjet.TerraLuna.Org> <20030507010027.C31101@scramjet.TerraLuna.Org> <20030507005455.A31101@scramjet.TerraLuna.Org> <20030507010849.A31754@scramjet.TerraLuna.Org> References: <20030507011813.B31754@scramjet.TerraLuna.Org> <20030507005455.A31101@scramjet.TerraLuna.Org> <20030507075654.GR17418@merlins.org> <20030507010027.C31101@scramjet.TerraLuna.Org> <20030507005455.A31101@scramjet.TerraLuna.Org> <20030507075456.GQ17418@merlins.org> <20030507005826.B31101@scramjet.TerraLuna.Org> <20030507080139.GS17418@merlins.org> <20030507010849.A31754@scramjet.TerraLuna.Org> Message-ID: <20030508195908.GA9626@merlins.org> On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 01:08:49AM -0700, Steve Traugott wrote: > > Either way, people on svlug-announce shouldn't be in digest mode anyway > > I'll forward them to you when they yell at me after their digests > arrive on Thursday... The 'announce' lists feeds to 'svlug', which > does have digest users. Please do. 1) If this has been a problem, maybe we should take care of it earlier than 01:xx the day of the meeting :) 2) Being the listmaster, send me all the whiners, I'll take them off your back. If they complain about getting the announcement too late, they can subscribe to the announce list too On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 01:00:27AM -0700, Steve Traugott wrote: > Ummm... that means that we'll always have to have a Google employee as > an SVLUG officer. No. When I don't admin the machine anymore, it can be moved wherever. Since I'm the one who built it, admins it, and takes care of fixing it when there are issues, I chose to have it closeby (I had other options, including HE or above.net, but driving to either location in rush hour traffic sucks) On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 01:18:13AM -0700, Steve Traugott wrote: > Me and Joyce too -- we just dragged in after working half the night > again, and don't have time to deal with this sort of bureacracy this > late at night. What was supposed to be a simple task has just turned > into a time-consuming impossibility. Let's not over do it here. 1) You never mentionned there was a problem and you try to fix the internals of mailman 2.1cvs, with which you're not very familiar, in the middle of night 2) I ran the commands you wanted within 1:30secs of when you tried, even though I was deep into other work. > Google has a right to protect their net; we shouldn't be hosting our > machine someplace where our own officers can't administer it. Long story, I just didn't have/take the time to fix that little issue after I got the machine installed. Truth is, you're the only other person with root right now and you did not try to use it in the last 6 months, so I kind of forgot about the problem. I talked to our security person yesterday, and it's cool, so I reenabled sudo yesterday. See, it wasn't a big deal, I just needed a few hours to figure it out :) Also, while I'm the main admin for the machine, I'd like to know what other admins are doing so that we don't step on one another. On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 10:52:33AM -0700, Steve Traugott wrote: > With a baby on the way, due around the end of May, Joyce and I have > come to a tentative conclusion that it would be better to plan a > sabbatical for us now rather than have both of us burn out and hit the > wall in June. Joyce and I both want to stay involved in a leadership > capacity; we both value SVLUG highly. That makes perfect sense, you well deserve the time off. > - Find someone who's interested in being primary speaker coordinator > for at least the next several months. By "primary" I mean they own > the job, have the weight on their head, assume full responsibility > for making sure we have quality speakers lined up, do the intros, > pick up the tab for their dinner, etc. The whole job. My The speaker coordinator shouldn't pick up the tab. If we do, we should split between the officers > - As far as moving the svlug machine, if Marc's interested, the offer > stands, now or later. The T-1 and rack space is there (ERPS.Org > hosts their web site and cluster there now). If Marc wants to think > about it for a few more months, that would be fine too; maybe then > I'll have time to do more than just plug it in. It's more hassle for me to move it than have it where I can touch it easily. With sudo solved, it shouldn't be an issue. BTW, thank you to Joyce and you for your help. Marc -- "A mouse is a device used to point at the xterm you want to type in" - A.S.R. Microsoft is to operating systems & security .... .... what McDonalds is to gourmet cooking Home page: http://marc.merlins.org/ | Finger marc_f@merlins.org for PGP key From jkostecka at ucsc-extension.edu Fri May 16 11:37:30 2003 From: jkostecka at ucsc-extension.edu (Jim Kostecka) Date: Sat Apr 2 14:56:46 2005 Subject: [web-team] feedback from SVLUG website Message-ID: <3EC52FEA.5563E78F@ucsc-extension.edu> Dear SVLUG, Bruce Moxon, whom I believe uses your website resources frequently, is going to be teaching a class on Parallel and Distributed Computing for Bioinformatics (using Linux). He recommended that I contact your organization to help get the word out about the class, which is scheduled to start July 1st at UCSC Extension. Please let me know the best way to reach those members of your group who may be interested. For your review I have included the course information below. Thank you for your time and attention. Any assistance you can provide will be greatly appreciated. Sincerely, Jim Kostecka Program Representative Bioinformatics Program UC Santa Cruz Extension (408) 861-3863 ==================================== U N I V E R S I T Y O F C A L I F O R N I A E X T E N S I O N , S A N T A C R U Z Parallel- and distributed-computing approaches have been instrumental in accelerating the rate of discovery in the fields of genomics and proteomics. Hundreds of thousands of hours of CPU time were used to assemble the human genome alone. This massive scale of computation would have been impossible just a few years ago. But recent advances in parallel and distributed computing and the availability of inexpensive supercomputer hardware have not only made these approaches possible, but have placed them at the heart of discovery in the post-genomic era. Meanwhile, new computational challenges have arisen that will dwarf the effort used to assemble the genome. High-profile biopharmaceutical companies employ massively parallel-instrumentation technologies, including microarrays, mass spectrometry, x-ray crystallography, and bead-labeling and detection systems that generate very large datasets (terabytes per day). More sophisticated computational models are continually being developed to explore and explain the interactions of proteins and their roles in cell metabolism. Contributing to the advancement of this science is the widespread availability of high-performance computing components. Cluster-computing solutions employing high-performance networks and scalable storage components can be built today through the ?click-and-order? of components from computer vendors? Web sites. However, effectively harnessing the resources of these Beowulf systems can remain a challenge for many organizations. This course explores the basic principles of parallel- and distributedcomputing systems, including shared- and distributed-memory architectures and programming approaches. Case studies illustrating how these systems are used effectively in bioinformatics applications are presented. In addition, a range of approaches developed recently, including distributed-component, Web services and shared-storage models are covered. Through structured laboratory activities and student projects, the theories presented are applied to real-world problems on current parallel- and distributed-computing hardware and software platforms. Prerequisite: Experience with UNIX/Linux or Windows development environments (including shell scripting and Perl); completion of ?Bioinformatics Tools, Databases, and Methods,? ?Introduction to Programming for Bioinformatics II? or similar work experience. Consent of the instructor is mandatory for students who have not completed the two prerequisite courses. REQUIRED TEXT: Beowulf Cluster Computing with Linux, Sterling, Thomas, MIT Press. New! PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING FOR BIOINFORMATICS JULY 1?AUGUST 26 IN CUPERTINO X466.1 Computer Science (2) www.ucsc-extension.edu The Instructor BRUCE MOXON is a technology consultant specializing in the adoption and deployment of strategic information technologies in largescale information management and analysis solutions (an area he has termed ?high throughput computing?). He has successfully applied this approach to largescale gene-expression analysis, protein-function annotation and development of Perlegen Science?s 100+ TB human-genome-variation (SNP) repository. Mr. Moxon has worked with numerous high-profile commercial and biopharmaceutical clients, including IBM, Bank of America, NASA, Affymetrix, Celera Genomics, and Rosetta Inpharmatics, and is recognized as a technology thought leader by prominent industry executives. General Information Fee: $645 ($710 if registering after June 17). Location: UCSC Extension, Lab 139, 10420 Bubb Rd., Cupertino. Date: 9 meetings: Tuesdays, 6?8:30 pm, July 1?August 26. EDP 031X96 (use this EDP code to enroll) From joyce at TerraLuna.Org Wed May 21 20:18:30 2003 From: joyce at TerraLuna.Org (Joyce Cao Traugott) Date: Sat Apr 2 14:56:47 2005 Subject: [web-team] feedback from SVLUG website References: <3EC52FEA.5563E78F@ucsc-extension.edu> Message-ID: <3ECC4186.EAB64F54@TerraLuna.Org> Hi Jim, I believe you can come to the meeting and do an announcement before the meeting, but you need to confirm with the president or the officers of the group first. I am copying this to the officers list. Joyce Jim Kostecka wrote: > > Dear SVLUG, > > Bruce Moxon, whom I believe uses your website resources frequently, is > going to be teaching a class on Parallel and Distributed Computing for > Bioinformatics (using Linux). He recommended that I contact your > organization to help get the word out about the class, which is > scheduled to start July 1st at UCSC Extension. Please let me know the > best way to reach those members of your group who may be interested. > For your review I have included the course information below. > > Thank you for your time and attention. Any assistance you can provide > will be greatly appreciated. > Sincerely, > > Jim Kostecka > Program Representative > Bioinformatics Program > UC Santa Cruz Extension > (408) 861-3863 > ==================================== > U N I V E R S I T Y O F C A L I F O R N I A E X T E N S I O N , S A N T > A C R U Z > > Parallel- and distributed-computing approaches have been instrumental in > accelerating the rate of discovery in the fields of genomics and > proteomics. Hundreds of thousands of hours of CPU time were used to > assemble the human genome alone. This massive scale of computation would > have been impossible just a few years ago. But recent advances in > parallel and distributed computing and the availability of inexpensive > supercomputer hardware > have not only made these approaches possible, but have placed them at > the heart of discovery in the post-genomic era. > > Meanwhile, new computational challenges have arisen that will dwarf the > effort used to assemble the genome. High-profile biopharmaceutical > companies employ massively parallel-instrumentation technologies, > including microarrays, mass spectrometry, x-ray crystallography, and > bead-labeling and detection systems that generate very large datasets > (terabytes per day). More sophisticated computational models are > continually being developed to explore and explain the interactions of > proteins and their roles in cell metabolism. Contributing to the > advancement of this science is the widespread availability of > high-performance computing components. Cluster-computing solutions > employing high-performance networks and scalable storage components can > be built today through the ?click-and-order? of components from computer > vendors? Web sites. However, effectively harnessing the resources of > these Beowulf systems can remain a challenge for many organizations. > > This course explores the basic principles of parallel- and > distributedcomputing systems, including shared- and distributed-memory > architectures and programming approaches. Case studies illustrating how > these systems are used effectively in bioinformatics applications are > presented. In addition, a range of approaches developed recently, > including distributed-component, Web services and shared-storage models > are covered. Through structured laboratory activities and student > projects, the theories presented are applied to real-world problems on > current parallel- and distributed-computing hardware and software > platforms. > > Prerequisite: Experience with UNIX/Linux or Windows development > environments (including shell scripting and Perl); completion of > ?Bioinformatics Tools, Databases, and Methods,? ?Introduction to > Programming for Bioinformatics II? or similar work experience. Consent > of the instructor is mandatory for students who have not completed the > two prerequisite courses. > > REQUIRED TEXT: Beowulf Cluster Computing with Linux, Sterling, Thomas, > MIT Press. > New! PARALLEL AND > DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING > FOR BIOINFORMATICS > JULY 1-AUGUST 26 IN CUPERTINO > X466.1 Computer Science (2) > www.ucsc-extension.edu > > The Instructor > BRUCE MOXON is a technology consultant specializing in the adoption and > deployment of strategic information technologies in largescale > information management and analysis solutions (an area he has termed > ?high throughput > computing?). He has successfully applied this approach to largescale > gene-expression analysis, protein-function annotation and development of > Perlegen Science?s 100+ TB human-genome-variation (SNP) repository. Mr. > Moxon has worked with numerous high-profile commercial and > biopharmaceutical clients, including IBM, Bank of America, NASA, > Affymetrix, Celera Genomics, and Rosetta Inpharmatics, and is recognized > as a technology thought leader by prominent industry executives. > > General Information > Fee: $645 ($710 if registering after June 17). > Location: UCSC Extension, Lab 139, 10420 Bubb Rd., Cupertino. > Date: 9 meetings: Tuesdays, 6-8:30 pm, July 1-August 26. > EDP 031X96 (use this EDP code to enroll) > > _______________________________________________ > web-team mailing list > web-team@lists.svlug.org > http://lists.svlug.org/lists/listinfo/web-team From joyce at TerraLuna.Org Wed May 21 20:33:14 2003 From: joyce at TerraLuna.Org (Joyce Cao Traugott) Date: Sat Apr 2 14:56:47 2005 Subject: [web-team] feedback from SVLUG website References: <029b01c31449$aa063ed0$6401a8c0@Dell> Message-ID: <3ECC44FA.61BB30A2@TerraLuna.Org> Sorry for taking so long to fix it. It is done. Joyce > Janet Brigham Rands wrote: > > Your link to the Silicon Valley PAF Users group on this page: > > http://www.svlug.org/farm.shtml > > is incorrect. The correct address is: > > www.svpafug.org > > Thank you for fixing this! > > Janet Brigham > Webmaster > www.svpafug.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > web-team mailing list > web-team@lists.svlug.org > http://lists.svlug.org/lists/listinfo/web-team From singo29 at yahoo.com Thu May 29 17:08:58 2003 From: singo29 at yahoo.com (Xing guo chen) Date: Sat Apr 2 14:56:47 2005 Subject: [web-team] volunteer Message-ID: <20030530000858.21396.qmail@web41107.mail.yahoo.com> Hi, This is Eric, I'm a big Linux fun for few years. And I have been to Linux installfest. I'd like to know what kind of volunteer position that you are looking for. I work and live close either Cisco in Santa Clara. I'm able to install Linux system and seting up http server and other kind of administrative task. Hope that I can be helpful to linux community. Regards, -- Eric Chen 4655 Old Ironsides Dr, Suite 350 Santa Clara, CA 95054 ===== Eric Chen __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). http://calendar.yahoo.com From incubus at shell.izap.com Thu May 29 19:18:02 2003 From: incubus at shell.izap.com (Brian Chrisman) Date: Sat Apr 2 14:56:47 2005 Subject: [web-team] volunteer In-Reply-To: <20030530000858.21396.qmail@web41107.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20030530000858.21396.qmail@web41107.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20030530021802.GN7099@izap.com> On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 05:08:58PM -0700, Xing guo chen wrote: > Hi, > This is Eric, I'm a big Linux fun for few years. And I > have been to Linux installfest. I'd like to know what > kind of volunteer position that you are looking for. I > work and live close either Cisco in Santa Clara. > > I'm able to install Linux system and seting up http > server and other kind of administrative task. Hope > that I can be helpful to linux community. You are definitely welcome to help out at the Linux Installfests. It sounds like you've been there before. I'm not sure what other areas we need volunteers for... perhaps others will respond. I do remember that we were looking for people to assist with finding speakers for the main SVLUG meeting. Thanks, Brian Chrisman > > Regards, > > -- > Eric Chen > 4655 Old Ironsides Dr, Suite 350 > Santa Clara, CA 95054 > > > > ===== > Eric Chen > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). > http://calendar.yahoo.com > > _______________________________________________ > web-team mailing list > web-team@lists.svlug.org > http://lists.svlug.org/lists/listinfo/web-team