[ale] [ANNC] ALE CENTRAL MTG. for Thursday, Nov. 17th, 2011

[Ron Frazier]

We'll have Sally in our prayers.  Hope she's OK.

Sincerely,

Ron

On 11/14/2011 10:12 AM, Jim Kinney wrote:
>
> We are working out details of recording the event.
> Aaron has been and will be for the foreseeable future quite busy with 
> a serious family health issue.
> Please, everyone direct all ALE questions to me, Jim Kinney, as I will 
> be attempting to fill in while Aaron cares for his life partner, Sally.
>
> On Nov 14, 2011 8:59 AM, "James Sumners" <james.sumners at gmail.com 
> <mailto:james.sumners at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Is this going to be filmed and made available later? I'd like to hear
>     it, but making it downtown is tough.
>
>     Also, did the SSH presentation ever get posted?
>
>     On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 02:51, Aaron Ruscetta <arxaaron at gmail.com
>     <mailto:arxaaron at gmail.com>> wrote:
>     > The feature presentation for our ALE Central Meeting at
>     > 7:30pm on Thursday, Nov. 17th, 2011 will be:
>     >
>     > A Pioneering Introduction to Puppet
>     > with Matt Urbanski
>     >
>     > Synopsis:
>     > -- Puppet is a configuration management tool written in ruby that
>     > allows a sysadmin to wield their influence and expertise over far
>     > more machines than one could without it.  It uses a simple but
>     > powerful DSL which I would like to introduce to everyone who is
>     > not familiar with it, and open a dialogue about how our role as
>     > admins is changing with the scalability problems we are faced with.
>     >
>     > Bio:
>     > -- Matt Urbanski is a functional programmer turned sysadmin. His
>     last
>     > awesome job was in high frequency trading, administrating a super
>     > low latency MAN and optimizing trading algorithms. He also
>     worked for
>     > an advertising firm in Europe administrating hundreds of cloud based
>     > apache instances for serving ads where they were needed, when they
>     > were paid for, using puppet.
>     > - Matt is currently working for a medtech/bioinformatics firm,
>     selling
>     > data to oncologists and the pharma industry.  He is also involved in
>     > a new professional group focusing on agile system administration
>     > tools and techniques: <http ://smartopsatlanta.org
>     <http://smartopsatlanta.org>>
>
>     --
>     James Sumners
>     http://james.roomfullofmirrors.com/
>
>     "All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts
>     pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it
>     is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become
>     drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted."
>
>     Missionaria Protectiva, Text QIV (decto)
>     CH:D 59
>

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