[ale] [ANNC] ALE CENTRAL MTG. for Thurs., Sept. 17th /+/ ATLANTA LINUX FEST on Sat. Sept. 19th

[Aaron Ruscetta]

First, an important reminder that Software Freedom Day is
Saturday, Sept. 19th and ALE is encouraging all Atlanta
freedom fans to celebrate by attending the second annual
ATLANTA LINUX FEST
Saturday, September 19th, 8:30am to 5:30pm
Please visit the ALF site for full schedule and details:
 <http://atlantalinuxfest.org/>
and more on Software Freedom Day can be found at:
 <http://softwarefreedomday.org/SoftwareFreedom>

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And as a warm up to all the info and activities at the ALF,
we have a great presentation scheduled for the ALE Central
Meeting on Thursday, September 17th, 2009 at 7:30pm that
should be of interest to all Linux users:

"ALL YOUR DEVICE ARE BELONG TO UDEV!"
with Ryan Matty of Prefetch Technologies

Synopsis:
-- Whether a disk drive, a USB slot or an ethernet port, Linux manages
most of the various data transport components of your system as DEVICES.
The mechanics and capabilities of Linux device management underwent
a pretty significant overhaul with the release of the 2.6 kernel in 2004,
where DevFS was removed in favor of the UDev device management
framework. This presentation will give an overview of UDev, and will
show how it can be used to handle all of your Linux device management
needs!

Bio:
– Ryan Matteson (aka matty) is a long time Linux user, and has been a
member of ALE for close to 8 years. In addition to hacking code, Ryan
thoroughly enjoys evaluating new technology and sharing his findings
with the world through his blog at prefetch.net.

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Related Links:
About UDev --  <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Udev>
Ryan Matty's Blog --  <http://prefetch.net/blog/>

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We will be meeting at our usual Emory Law School venue,
Gambrel Hall, rm 1C. Meeting time frame is 7:30pm to ~9:30pm
to Emory Law School can be found at <http://ale.org/?page_id=2>.

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[OpEd note]  Ryan is an excellent and well organized
presenter who is very effective at selecting and delivering
the salient information of his topics. We appreciate his
participation in ALE and can recommend his presentations
as ones that shouldn't be missed.