Popular with (but certainly not limited to) the Ruby on Rails developer community, Redmine is a full-featured system used by companies, open source projects, governmental agencies, and individual developers around the world. Big users of Redmine include open source projects such as Ruby, Puppet, Gentoo, Lighttpd, TYPO3, and the Redmine project itself.
This presentation will focus on how Redmine is used from the perspectives of developers, tech leads and project managers at a software development company. Features that will be demonstrated include:
Christefano is one of the founders of Exaltation of Larks, a Drupal strategy, development and training company; and Droplabs, a coworking space and classroom near Downtown Los Angeles. As an advocate of open source software, he helps organize meetups and conferences all over the Greater Los Angeles Area. In his spare time, he trains as an amateur acrobat and gymnast at the Original Muscle Beach in Santa Monica.
Speaker: Christefano Reyes
Date: Thursday May 9th, 2013 @ 7 pm
Location: Caltech - Downs 107.
The Downs building is across from the tennis courts on California at Arden.
The device includes Wikipedia in a dozen languages, a library of 40,000 e-books, most of the world’s open source software and source code, hundreds of hours of instructional videos, and world-wide mapping down to street level.
We can deploy a “knowledge hotspot” anywhere in the world - even under solar power.
This Open Source project is being developed by SGVLUG and SGVHAK members.
Speaker: Braddock Gaskill (braddock .at. braddock.com)
Date: Thursday April 11th, 2013 @ 7 pm
Location: Caltech - Downs 107.
The Downs building is across from the tennis courts on California at Arden.
Speaker: Steven Doran
Date: Thursday March 14th, 2013 @ 7 pm
Location: Caltech - Downs 107.
The Downs building is across from the tennis courts on California at Arden.
Whether you use Vim as seldom as possible or you use it every day, you will learn something from this session.
Update: The Vim Roundtable presentation (with updates and notes) can be found here
Speaker: Lan Dang + SGVLUG
Date: Thursday February 14th, 2013 @ 7 pm
Location: Caltech - Downs 107.
The Downs building is across from the tennis courts on California at Arden.
Bio: Lan Dang spends the majority of her working hours monitoring and troubleshooting data processing systems on Linux-based computer clusters. She has accumulated a number of tips and tricks to deal with the command line, including extensive use of vim and vi key bindings.
]]>Bio: Michael Starch was born in the far-frozen Northlands of the American Midwest. After being enlighten through a university education in Computer Engineering he set sail for the warm coasts of the Californian Southland. He is currently employed and has yet to die.
Speaker: Michael Starch
Date: Thursday, January 10th, 2013 @ 7 pm
Location: Caltech - Downs 107
Note: There will be a brief presentation before the talk where Lan Dang will share her experiences rooting the Nook Simple Touch.
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A modern day Linux Infrastructure should be flexible, scalable and able to deal with the constant changes any business will require. Automation is key to a reliable and consistence server infrastructure, Automation also allows for easy integration of new changes.
The DevOps movement melds two traditionally siloed teams; Application Developers and Operations Engineers. Writing infrastructure as code presents a number of challenges and potential pitfalls, Operations Engineers need to write code (something they may not be familar with) and Developers need to have a strong understanding of the system (many Developers don’t want to be considered with anything other than web applications). There are several major projects related purely to the management of infrastructure as code.
We will examine Opscode Chef and make a strong use case for the implementation of Opscode Chef in a Linux Environment. David will demonstrate many techniques to utilize Chef quickly and efficiently to minimize the time of implementation. Although Opscode Chef can be run on Solaris, FreeBSD and even Windows, the presentation will discuss Linux and only Linux. David will also discuss the techniques to operate Chef on various Linux Distros which can provide a layer of abstraction from the package management systems (apt & yum). Finally David will discuss how Chef can be used to rebuild an Entire infrastructure (regardless of size or complexity) in a time previous thought impossible. The only limitation in speed of deployment is the hardware.
Speaker: David Rodriguez
Date: Thursday, December 13th, 2012 @ 7 pm
Location: Caltech - Lauritsen 269. Lauritsen is connected to Downs; the room is a lecture hall on the 2nd floor towards northeast end. The buildings are located across from the tennis courts on California at Arden. If you enter near our usual room (Downs 107), go down the hallway, hang a right, go past the elevators, and take the stairs up one level. As soon as you come out on the 2nd floor, the classroom is on the left hand side. If you take the elevator, you will want to head left after getting off the elevator. (There is a map taped next to elevator on the 2nd floor that shows the layout of Lauritsen.)
Please note that we are in a different room this month.
Speaker: You!
Date: Thursday, November 8, 2012 @ 7 pm
Location: Caltech - Downs 119
The Presentation will cover the Linux command line utility ‘strace’ and some of it’s many uses. It will cover the basics of Linux System Calls and their use. The presentation will use examples throughout to provide genuine use-cases for the tool. The Presentation is focused on Practical Application Troubleshooting, it will not be an in-depth guide to the various System Calls. I will demonstrate many techniques that can help you to gain a deeper understanding of application execution flow on a Linux system.
Speaker: David Rodriguez – otherwise known as… ‘D Rod’
Currently working as Linux Systems Engineer – managing various types of Linux servers (Web App, DB, Chef, Nagios, etc.)
3+ years as a Linux Systems Engineer
5+ years as a Windows Systems Engineer
10+ years as a Linux User
B.S. in Information Systems Security & A.S. in Computer and Electronic Engineering
Strong Advocate for Open Source
I like to break web applications… :-)
Date: Thursday, October 11, 2012 @ 7 pm
Location: Caltech - Downs 107
Do you like working on hardware projects? Did you just get a Raspberry Pi/Arduino/Kinect with the intentions of doing something cool? Did you wish that there was a local meetup group where you can meet up with like-minded folks and actually make progress with your projects?
Come to our kickoff meeting on Thursday to discuss starting up this special interest group. Connect with your fellow hardware geeks and share some of the projects you’ve been working on. And if we can decide on a name for the SIG, we can set up things like a mailing list, website, and wiki.
We have been kindly granted access to a room at Caltech for this meeting only. It is a small classroom with about 30 student desks and a teacher desk. We will have access to a projector and power. There is an open wireless network.
Date: Thursday, September 20, 2012 @ 7 pm
Location: Caltech - Downs 119 (around the corner from usual LUG meeting room)
Speaker: Clint Byrum is a member of the Canonical Ubuntu Server Team, bringing
years of Ops and Development experience in web environments to the task
of making Ubuntu Server shine.
Date: Thursday, September 13, 2012 @ 7 pm
Location: Caltech - Downs 107
Speaker: Doug Vargas
Date: Thursday, August 9, 2012 @ 7 pm
Location: Caltech - Downs 107
We will have a brief overview of Git.
Speaker: You!
Date: Thursday, July 12, 2012 @ 7 pm
Location: Caltech - Downs 107
Speaker: Homan Chou and David Ferril
Date: Thursday, June 14, 2012 @ 7 pm
Location: Caltech - Downs 107
Speaker: Dan Kegel
Date: Thursday, May 10, 2012 @ 7 pm
Location: Caltech - Downs 107
Speaker: Braddock Gaskill (braddock .at. braddock.com)
Date: Thursday, April 12, 2012 @ 7 pm
Location: Caltech - Downs 107
A striking departure from Gnome 2, Unity has been seen as a source of
controversy in the Linux world.
This talk will outline some of the design goals that Unity addresses, noting
strengths, weaknesses, and improvements across the three versions of Ubuntu in
which it’s been included.
While Unity offers many usability affordances, some Ubuntu users prefer to
customize it for their specific workflows. Linux is famous for its
customizability, and Unity is no exception if you know which tools to look
for.
This presentation will outline some of the tools available through the Ubuntu
Software Center to show you how to customize the Unity interface.
Speaker Bio: Richard Gaskin is President of Fourth World, a software design
and development consultancy in Los Angeles. Since founding the company in
1994, he’s developed dozens of commercial and open source applications used by
a wide range of organizations, including FedEx, AOL, the US Library of
Congress, and hundreds of universities around the world.
Although he started his career with Mac OS, Richard has since delivered
applications for Irix, every version of Windows, and has been developing for
Linux for the last two years.
Richard has spoken at more than a dozen tech conferences, including UbuCon,
LiveCode Developer Conference, and MacTech where he had the distinction of
being the only presenter using Linux.
Date: Thursday March 8, 2012 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Location: Downs 107
Date: Thursday February 9, 2012 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Location: Downs 107
The idea is to have a fun meeting with some scary stories and trouble shooting
lessons to be learned. Depending on how quickly the presentation goes we may
have time to share more, so please feel free to bring your horror story and
what you did to resolve it.
Date: Thursday January 12, 2012 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Location: Downs 107
Christefano who was going to present Redmine is unavailable so we will try to
reschedule.
Virtual Private Servers: On a Budget - We will discuss a class of virtual
private servers available at a low price point allowing individuals to get
many of the benefits of dedicated hardware without the cost thanks to
virtualization technologies and a competitive marketplace.
James McDuffie has worked for JPL for over 10 years and has been using Linux
since at least kernel version 1.3.
Date: Thursday December 8, 2011 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Location: Downs 107
PPTP (with a demo on DDWRT) along with OpenVPN, L2TP, and IPsec Presenter: Dan Buthusiem
Date: Thursday November 10, 2011 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Location: Downs 107