BayLISA "Short But Cool" - All Welcome

Here are the currently scheduled short talks -- speakers and details are subject to change (especially if YOU volunteer -- email president@baylisa.org to sign up!).

Ceph Architecture with Roger Weeks:

This will be an architectural overview of Ceph (http://ceph.com/), the open-source, massively scalable storage software. We'll cover the foundations: CRUSH and RADOS, and the ways you can use Ceph in your storage environment: object, block and filesystem.

Roger Weeks spent 17 years in IT doing systems, network and storage administration and architecture. He defected to the business side of things, worked for several years at a Large Storage Company(™) and is now Technical Marketing Manager at Inktank (http://www.inktank.com/).

OwnCloud and Warden with Ben Milman:

Ben Milman, Technical Marketing Specialist at iXsystems (http://www.ixsystems.com/), will be giving a Warden/Owncloud (http://owncloud.org/) demo on PC-BSD (http://www.pcbsd.org/).

Kanban with Dominica DeGrandis (http://www.ddegrandis.com/):

Dependencies often create havoc, but they don’t need to. Patterns are emerging for handling dependencies using the Kanban method. This short talk highlights a few.

Dominica DeGrandis spent most of her career building and automating releases, maintaining environments and synchronizing dependencies between teams. She now travels across the US and Europe, teaching Kanban.

Simple CIFS shares with Joseph Atkinson:

Joseph Atkinson of iXsystems, who spoke at the last Short But Cool, will be joining us to talk about simple CIFS setup for home users. He will focus on the caveats of permissions when setting up shares, and the benefits of Local User (instead of Anonymous) authentication.

Open Build Service (http://openbuildservice.org) with Peter Linnell:

Even wished you could have a tool to natively package your in-house applications? Peter Linnell will give a high level overview of the Open Build Service (OBS), an open source multi-platform package builder for all major Linux distributions.

Peter is an Engineer with SUSE Linux, with prior stints at Cloudera and INRIA (www.inria.fr (http://www.inria.fr/)) He has over a decade of experience with Linux and open source, including founding several graphics application projects.

More details as they arrive.

Want to give a short (10-15 minute) demo or presentation at the December meeting? Contact secretary@baylisa.org to get things rolling.

Would your company or organization like to host/sponsor a BayLISA meeting somewhere in Silicon Valley/south bay area? We're looking to branch out to new locations and would love to hear from you.

Our meetings are scheduled for 7:30pm on the third Thursday of each month, LinkedIn HQ in Mountain View. Note that we are in a different building at LinkedIn as of April 2011.

For directions, point your map tool at:
2025 Stierlin Ct.
Mountain View, CA 94043

BayLISA includes system and network administrators across a range of skill levels. BayLISA meets to discuss topics of interest to system administrators and managers. The meetings are free and open to the public.

Recent topics have included OpenStack Nova, Dynamic Tracing and dtrace, ISC's BIND 10, new developments in LAN/top-of-rack networking, and cloud computing at Netflix.

We always welcome presentation topics and volunteer speakers. Use the "Contact us" link on this page to get in touch with BayLISA's directors.

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