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Subject : LUG: Free Open Source Software Fair - Monday; Meeting Tuesday

From : Ed Anderson <nilbus@nilbus.[redacted]>

Date : Sat, 31 Jan 2009 20:45:50 -0500

Hello,

We have an exciting week coming up.  Monday is the date of NCSU's first FOSS (Free Open Source Software) Fair.  There will be many interesting speakers on many various topics throughout the day.

On Tuesday following the fair, the Linux Users Group will hold a round table discussion to discuss what was presented at the fair.  We will meet at 7:00pm in Riddick 314.

The FOSS Fair schedule is as follows:  (see https://opensource.ncsu.edu/FossFair2009 for more information)

Time Slot

Room 3211

Room 3300

9:35 - 10:25

/Realm Linux (jneely)

Predicting Vulnerabilities with Software Metrics (Andy, Yonghee)

10:40 - 11:30

Keynote: /Participating in Fedora (mdehaan)

Device Driver Tutorial

11:45 - 12:35

Open Health Tools: Rich Rogers and Han Nguyen, IBM

Live Images and Appliances (bkearney)

12:50 - 1:40


Virtualization: KVM/libvirt/virt-manager/Cobbler (mdehaan)

1:55 - 2:45

Deb Woods, Ingres: /Open Source Benefits For All

Open Source Management of the Virtualized Datacenter (bmbouter)

3:00 - 3:50

Geospatial Modeling with GRASS GIS

Upcoming Filesystems: ext4/btrfs/tux3 (jbacik)

4:05 - 4:55

Cloud Computing: Running your applications on Amazon EC2â„¢ ( ElliotPeele )

Spacewalk - open source systems management (jesusr)

5:30 - ???

FOSS Fair Pub at Sammy's


Ed Anderson