Meetings

Open Source Bridge – June 17-19 Portland, OR
http://opensourcebridge.org

Open Source Bridge is a new conference for developers working with open source technologies. It will take place June 17-19 in Portland, OR, with five tracks connecting people across projects, languages and experience to explore how we do our work and why we participate in open source. The conference structure is designed to provide developers with an opportunity to learn from people they might not connect with at other events.

Open Source Bridge is run entirely by volunteers who believe in the need for an open source conference that focuses on the culture of being an open source citizen, regardless of where in the stack you choose to code. All proceeds from conference registration and sponsorship go directly to the costs of the conference.

Our sessions and events will share in-depth knowledge about using, creating and contributing to open source as citizens of a greater community. You’ll find relevant information whether you write web apps for the cloud, tinker with operating system internals, create hardware, run a startup, or blog about technology.

We’re still seeking session proposals, so submit yours by the end of March 31st.

Some examples of our proposals so far: Brian Aker on Drizzle, a reboot of MySQL designed “for the cloud”; Linux Kernel hacker Greg K-H about how Linux manages development; Ward Cunningham, inventor of the wiki, about what’s next in collaboration; Amber Case, an anthropologist living in both the physical and virtual worlds, about Cyborg Citizenship. (You can view all current proposals at http://opensourcebridge.org/proposals/)

In addition to regular conference sessions, we will hold an unconference day for free-form sessions, and host a 24-hour dedicated “hacker lounge” at the top of the Portland Hilton. In addition to hosting the hacker lounge, the Hilton has offered Open Source Bridge attendees steeply discounted room rates, starting at $139/night.

Visit http://opensourcebridge.org/ to learn more about the conference, see our session proposals, and register to attend.

Thanks!

Members:

One Open Source Bridge Conference Pass will be given away at the next COISUG event on April 16. COWPU (http://cowpu.com) will also be giving away a conference pass so don’t miss this chance!

Contact info at coisug dot info for discount code.

Mark Teter, author of Paradigm Shift: Seven Keys of Highly Successful Linux and Open Source Adoptions, is dropping by COISUG on March 18 to explore ways to lower both operating and capital IT costs. While IT processing requirements continue to increase, Mark Teter continues to identify ways to leverage new cost reduction strategies and solutions. This session will address how to lower your server, storage, data protection, security and networking expenses. The topics will include best practices for server virtualization, state of union with the storage industry, what people are currently doing for backups, to providing the latest trends in information security. Please join us to hear this action packed session that will cover several areas for IT cost reduction and process improvements.

Who is Mark Teter?
Mark Teter is the Chief Technology Officer at ASG. He is an internationally recognized authority on information technology, advising IT organizations, vendors and government agencies on a broad range of information management issues. Each year, Mark conducts dozens of seminars and training programs for corporate and government institutions. He sits on several financial industry advisory boards and has recently published Paradigm Shift: Seven Keys of Highly Successful Linux and Open Source Adoptions.

About The Sponsor
ASG is equipped with a high-end computing facility that provides testing, benchmarks, demonstrations and an executive briefing center. ASG maintains the highest level of engineering certifications with our partners and vendor community. From our active involvement in the industry, ASG has been acknowledged by Computer Reseller News as one of the Top Ten Storage Solution Providers.

The next COISUG meeting, sponsored by Bend Broadband, is coming up next week and will start at 1:00pm. This should be a very fun event, technical in nature and very applicable to businesses that continue to demand more bandwidth to support their critical applications…and not so critical applications As always there will be food and drinks – pizza and tater tots, how can you pass that up!

Topic: Metro Ethernet and Fiber Technologies
When: Wednesday, January 14 1:00PM
Where: McMenamins Old St. Francais School – Rambler Room Bend, OR

COISUG is 2 years old!!! Can you believe it? Lets celebrate! Limited edition COISUG shirts will be available to the first 30 members that show up, so don’t miss out!

Spread the news about this event, we want to pack the room. As always, there will be great giveaways!

See you next week,
Lewis

A big thank you to everyone that made it to the COISUG event this past week with Microsoft. The event was a big success for COISUG and the Tech Industry of Central Oregon! Come on, how can you go wrong with tater-tots, pizza, and sodas — and over $1000 worth of giveaways.

Chris Avis (Microsoft) dropped by and gave a great presentation on Windows Server 2008 and HyperV including a brief look into Vista SP1 (specifically improvements in the TCP/IP stack – file transfer speeds) and Windows Mojave. Chris touched on sustainable IT (Green IT) and then rolled into an extensive hands-on q/a session on 2008 and HyperV. Feature by feature Microsft has a strong virtualization package and strategy – it is woth checking out. Windows Vista SP1 is definitely worth deploying, but you might want to just move straight into Mojave.

Did you see the great article in the Bend Bulletin about COISUG and the Central Oregon Tech Industry? Check it out here. There are a lot of tech professionals in Central Oregon and businesses are starting to notice. Chek out and support the other groups in the area.

Interested in learning about Windows Mojave?

Links to local user groups:

Chris Avis – Blog

COISUG

COWPU

WoTech

BendTech

COMUG

SAO

Have any questions? Comments? Thoughts? Would you like to volunteer? We would love to hear from you: info@coisug.info

Security continues to be one of the hottest topics surrounding data management for small and large companies alike. This is not surprising. However, while many of us attempt to implement a set of best practices, are we secure? RSA is visiting COISUG to help us answer some of these questions, continue the conversation, and provide demonstrations of their solutions and product line.This will be a great event so bring two friends or associates! Checkout the website for more information – http://coisug.info