[web-team] Request: "Upcoming meetings" / "Future meetings" page

[Bill Kendrick]

On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 07:22:25PM -0800, Rick Moen wrote:
> OK, we now have initial data added to
> http://www.svlug.org/meetings.shtml for Jan through May, _except_ for
> April.  I've search the archives of both these two mailing lists, and
> can't seem to find anything definite for that month.

Thanks.

Here are all the blanks:

  Feb. 2nd - GOSSiP:

    GOSSiP (Gossip Optimization for Selective Spam Prevention:
    http://sufficiently-advanced.net/ ) is a distributed, peer-to-peer
    reputation management system. It tracks the behavior of e-mail senders
    and shares senders' reputations among participating mail servers.
    These reputations may then be used by mail servers as part of a 
    comprehensive program to combat unwanted e-mail.

    Mark C. Langston has been doing systems administration for more
    than 10 years. In that time, he has worked for small groups and huge
    companies. He has worked in academia, and industry, for startups and
    long-established companies, and for salaries ranging from
    below-subsistence to obscene in size. He's worked his way from the most
    junior of technical employees to Chief Technical Officer and corporate
    board member. He is on the advisory committee for the Linux Professional
    Institute certification, and is an active member of SAGE and USENIX.

    [I put the above together from his website; we should prob. double-check
    that it's a suitable bio.]


  Mar. 2nd - Scalix:

    Scalix ( http://www.scalix.com/ ) produces a Linux email server
    which supports shared calendaring and advanced email features,
    delivering desktop-grade productivity to users running Outlook
    and/or popular browsers such as Mozilla, Firefox and Internet Explorer.
    Scalix's messaging server can run side-by-side with both mainstream
    proprietary systems, such as Microsoft Exchange, and open source
    applications, bridging the two worlds and integrating with a company's
    existing IT infrastructure. 

    Steve Martensen is Sr. Messaging Specialist at Scalix. He has been
    in the messaging industry since 1991, first working for Lotus
    Development on cc:Mail then on to Lotus Notes, then focusing for
    several years on messaging migration and now at Scalix for the past
    two years.  He wrote and developed the Exchange to Scalix migration
    process.

    [I need to get the name and bio of the developer who will be joining
    Steve at this talk]


  Apr. 6th - Penguin Computing [Not sure of exact topic title!]
  [TENTATIVE; I had to move them, waiting for confirmation]

    Penguin Computing ( http://www.penguincomputing.com/ ) is a
    leading provider of high-performance Linux-based computer systems,
    system management software, and integration services.
    Penguin's extensive customer base includes Fortune 1000
    companies, educational institutions, and government agencies.

    [Details on actual talk topic needs to go here]

    Donald Becker is Penguin Computing's Chief Technology Officer
    and was a co-founder of the original Beowulf project, which
    is the cornerstone for commodity-based high-performance cluster
    computing. Don's work in parallel and distributed computing began in
    1983 at MIT's Real Time Systems group. He is known throughout the
    international community of operating system developers for his
    contributions to networking software and as the driving force behind
    beowulf.org.


  May 4th - "Windows to Linux Migration Roadmap":

    This talk will give guidance and best-practices methodology for
    performing a successful enterprise migration of network services from
    Windows to Linux. Linux migration paths for Windows NT, Windows 2000,
    Active Directory, and Exchange 5.5 / 2000 will be exploredm as will
    will explore DHCP, DNS, directory, authentication, file, print,
    messaging, groupware, and web services migration from Windows to Linux
    servers. Migrating from Windows to Linux desktops will also be examined.

    David Allen is president of Computer Resources Consulting and author of
    the book "Windows to Linux Migration Toolkit" (published by Syngress).
    He has performed over 25,000 migrations across various platforms on
    five continents.


*WHEW*!

-bill!