Boston Linux & UNIX: 2020

Tuesday, December 15, 2020

Boston Linux VIRTUAL Meeting Reminder, tomorrow, Wednesday, December 16, 2020 - Low Context DevOps: A New Way of Improving SRE Team Culture

When: December 16, 2020 7:00PM (6:30PM for Q&A)
Topic: Low Context DevOps: A New Way of Improving SRE Team Culture
Moderator: Tom Limoncelli

Location: Online: https://meet.jit.si/blu.org

Live stream: https://youtu.be/1ixxKy4ES2o

Summary:

"Low-Context DevOps Culture": a framework for improving team culture to
optimize onboarding, remote work, and project sustainability

Abstract:

"Low and high context cultures" is an anthropological concept, which Tom
leverages to create a framework for creating more effective SRE culture.

A high-context DevOps culture is one where most knowledge is unspoken,
which can be very frustrating for new employees and a disaster in a
"remote only"/COVID-19 team.

A low-context DevOps culture is one where the info you need to do your
job is available, visible, and accessible. Creating a low-context
culture improves remote teamwork, new-hire onboarding, enables project
hopping, and helps you better handle a page you receive at 2am.
Techniques include: smart defaults, "make the right way, the lazy way",
and documentation at the right time and place.

Bio:

Tom manages the SRE team at Stack Overflow in New York City. He is an
internatio nally recognized author, speaker, system administrator and
DevOps advocate. He has received the Usenix LISA Outstanding Achievement
Award. Previously he's worked Google, Bell Labs / Lucent, AT&T and others.

Attachments

https://everythingsysadmin.com/

https://www.whatexit.org/

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Thursday, December 10, 2020

Boston Linux VIRTUAL Meeting Wednesday, December 16, 2020 - Low Context DevOps: A New Way of Improving SRE Team Culture

When: December 16, 2020 7:00PM (6:30PM for Q&A)
Topic: Low Context DevOps: A New Way of Improving SRE Team Culture
Moderator: Tom Limoncelli

Location: Online: https://meet.jit.si/blu.org

Live stream: https://youtu.be/1ixxKy4ES2o

Summary:

"Low-Context DevOps Culture": a framework for improving team culture to
optimize onboarding, remote work, and project sustainability

Abstract:

"Low and high context cultures" is an anthropological concept, which Tom
leverages to create a framework for creating more effective SRE culture.

A high-context DevOps culture is one where most knowledge is unspoken,
which can be very frustrating for new employees and a disaster in a
"remote only"/COVID-19 team.

Bio:

Attachments

https://everythingsysadmin.com/

https://www.whatexit.org/

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Wednesday, November 18, 2020

Tonight's BLU meeting is being live-streamed now

Doc Searls is giving a talk at toniught's BLU meeting on Self-Sovereignty
and Independence Online.

The meeting is being livestreamed to youtube, at
https://youtu.be/zgmiVhu9Ogc

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Tuesday, November 17, 2020

Boston Linux VIRTUAL Meeting Reminder Wednesday, November 18, 2020 - Doc Searls: Self-Sovereignty and Independence Online

When: November 18, 2020 7:00PM (6:30PM for Q&A)
Topic: Self-Sovereignty and Independence Online
Moderator: Doc Searls

Online Location: https://meet.jit.si/blu.org

Live stream: https://youtu.be/zgmiVhu9Ogc

Summary:

A user-centric model for owning and controlling your identity online

Abstract:

Self-sovereign identity (SSI) is new category with dozens of developers,
open source code bases (e.g. Hyperledger Indy), libraries, tools, and at
least one core architecture and data model. But what matters most about
it is that it serves purposes that have motivated free and open source
software developers for decades now: self-sovereignty and personal
independence from surveillance and control by others online.

Doc has been on this case since he became an editor at Linux Journal in
the mid-'90s, and as director of ProjectVRM at Harvard's Berkman Klein
Center since 2006. He also considers the challenge of maintaining
self-sovereignty and personal independence more important than ever, in
our time of normalized—and increasing—corporate and government
surveillance of people's lives, both online and off.

Bio:

Doc Searls is a lifelong journalist who has covered Linux since Linux
Journal began in 1994 (and Linux itself was at v 1.0), and served as an
editor there for 24 years, most recently as editor-in-chief. He is
co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto, author of The Intention Economy, a
fellow of the Center for Information Technology & Society (CITS) at the
University of California, Santa Barbara, an alumni fellow of the Berkman
Klein Center at Harvard University (where he continues to direct
ProjectVRM), as well as a visiting scholar at NYU and Indiana
University. He also won the Google/O'Reilly Open Source Award for Best
Communicator in 2005.
Doc Searls Weblog: http://blogs.harvard.edu/doc/

About Doc Searls: https://www.searls.com/

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Thursday, November 12, 2020

Boston Linux VIRTUAL Meeting Wednesday, November 18, 2020 - Doc Searls

When: November 18, 2020 7:00PM (6:30PM for Q&A)
Topic: Doc Searls
Moderator: Doc Searls

Location: Online: https://meet.jit.si/blu.org

Live stream: https://youtu.be/zgmiVhu9Ogc

Summary:

Doc Searls gives a talk on digital privacy

Abstract:

Details to be announced

Bio:

David "Doc" Searls is a journalist, columnist, and a widely read
blogger. He is a co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto, author of The
Intention Economy: When Customers Take Charge, Editor-in-Chief of Linux
Journal, a fellow at the Center for Information Technology & Society
(CITS) at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and an alumnus
fellow (2006-2010) of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at
Harvard University.

Doc Searls Weblog: http://blogs.harvard.edu/doc/

About Doc Searls: https://www.searls.com/

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Wednesday, October 21, 2020

Livestreaming of tonight's BLU meeting

Live streaming of tonight's BLU meeting has just started. The URL is

https://youtu.be/0SRfxmUxt4A

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Tuesday, October 20, 2020

Boston Linux VIRTUAL Meeting reminder, Wednesday, October 21, 2020 - Short Takes: Birdbox (Raspberry Pi Smart Bird Feeder); Overview of New 900Mhz Networks

When: October 21, 2020 7:00PM (6:30PM for Q&A)
Topic: Short Takes: Birdbox (Raspberry Pi Smart Bird Feeder); Overview
of New 900Mhz Networks
Moderators: Seth Elkin-Frankston, Kurt Keville, Bob Frankston and others

Location: Online: https://meet.jit.si/blu.org

Live stream: https://youtu.be/0SRfxmUxt4A

Summary:

Seth Elkin-Frankston, Bob Frankston, and Kurt Keville discuss some
topics of interest

Abstract:

Seth will look into several scientific linux related topics
Kurt will present an overview of new 900Mhz networks
Bob plans to talk on the CULT of 5G

Steve Herrick has made an interesting video tutorial of Nvidia Digits:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IaeR17MSLk

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Thursday, October 15, 2020

Boston Linux VIRTUAL Meeting Wednesday, October 21, 2020 - Birdbox: pi, Linux, Tensor, Coral, overview of new 900Mhz networks

When: October 21, 2020 7:00PM (6:30PM for Q&A)
Topic: Birdbox: pi, Linux, Tensor, Coral, overview of new 900Mhz networks
Moderators: Seth Elkin-Frankston, Kurt Keville, Bob Frankston and others

Location: Online: https://meet.jit.si/blu.org

Live stream: https://youtu.be/0SRfxmUxt4A

Summary:

Seth Elkin-Frankston, Bob Frankston, and Kurt Keville discuss some
topics of interest

Abstract:

Seth will look into several scientific linux related topics
Kurt will present an overview of new 900Mhz networks

At this time we have not yet finalized our topics.

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Wednesday, September 16, 2020

Live stream of tonight's BLU meeting

Tonight's BLU meeting in Jitsi Meet will be live streamed to youtube. We'll
be starting the live stream in a few minutes.

The url for the live stream is https://youtu.be/Ler-9K0yf9U

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Tuesday, September 15, 2020

Boston Linux VIRTUAL Meeting Wednesday, September 16, 2020 - Crypto News Review, Historical Vignette, and Transitioning from PGP/GnuPG

When: September 16, 2020 7:00PM (6:30PM for Q&A)
Topic: Crypto News Review, Historical Vignette, and Transitioning from
PGP/GnuPG
Moderator: Bill Ricker

Location: Online: https://meet.jit.si/blu.org

We will post the YouTube live streem shortly before the meeting

Summary:

Bill's annual crypto and security roundup

Abstract:

Bill reviews the year in crypto news, shares some crypto history, and
discusses how to transition from PGP and/or GnuPG to more modern
alternatives.

Note that due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we are unable to hold a
keysigning party this year.

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Thursday, September 10, 2020

Boston Linux VIRTUAL Meeting, Wednesday, September 16, 2020 - Crypto News Review, Historical Vignette, and Transitioning from PGP/GnuPG

When:September 16, 2020 7:00PM (6:30PM for Q&A)
Topic: Crypto News Review, Historical Vignette, and Transitioning from
PGP/GnuPG
Moderator: Bill Ricker
Location: Online: https://meet.jit.si/blu.org

Summary:

Bill's annual crypto and security roundup

Abstract:

Bill reviews the year in crypto news, shares some crypto history, and
discusses how to transition from PGP and/or GnuPG to more modern
alternatives.

Note that due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we are unable to hold a
keysigning party this year.

For further information and directions please consult the BLU Web site:

http://www.blu.org

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Wednesday, August 19, 2020

Live stream of tonight's BLU meeting

Live stream of tonight's BLU meeting is now active, at

https://youtu.be/4sLnWPuXFsA

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Tuesday, August 18, 2020

Boston Linux VIRTUAL Meeting reminder, tomorrow, Wednesday, August 19, 2020 - Building a Box on a Budget with the AMD Ryzen 3, and driving it fast with F2FS

When: August 19, 2020 7:00PM (6:30PM for Q&A)
Topic: Building a Box on a Budget with the AMD Ryzen 3, and driving it fast
with F2FS
Moderator: Brian DeLacey
Location: Online at Jitsi <https://meet.jit.si/blu.org>
The streaming location will be posted on the BLU web site:
http://www.blu.org

Summary:

This meeting will cover the build of a new Linux system from components and
review various uses including consolidating backups

Abstract:

In this two part meeting, we'll review the build list of components and
overall budget for a new Linux-powered system with the AMD Ryzen 3. In the
second part, we'll push this system to its byte-busting limits for powering
a permanent archival system.

We'll begin with an overview of the build - covering the purchase of parts,
continuing with assembly, and concluding with the installation of Ubuntu.
Then we'll move to various considerations and options for the Terabyte
Transportation Generation. We'll discuss managing backups, and showcase the
capabilities of rclone and what you can do with affordable terabytes of
storage.

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Thursday, August 13, 2020

Boston Linux VIRTUAL Meeting Wednesday August 19, 2020 - Building a Box on a Budget with the AMD Ryzen 3, and driving it fast with F2FS

Summary:

This meeting will cover the build of a new Linux system from components and
review various uses including consolidating backups

Abstract:
In this two part meeting, we'll review the build list of components and
overall budget for a new Linux-powered system with the AMD Ryzen 3. In the
second part, we'll push this system to its byte-busting limits for powering
a permanent archival system.

We'll then look at different file systems and compare considerations for
use in backups. We'll wrap it all up with a forensic review of the
Flash-Friendly File System (F2FS) - discussing details of its design, data
layout and aspects of encryption. We'll looking into the pros and cons of
using F2FS as the underlying file system for a permanent archive of all
your most valuable data. Finally, we'll discuss news reports of an SMR
"scandal" and compare that technology to CMR.
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Thursday, July 16, 2020

Video of last night's BLU meeting

The video of the July 2020 online BLU meeting has been posted to YouTube
and the BLU website. You can view it at

https://youtu.be/BrGPeMQ79YM

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Wednesday, July 15, 2020

Livestream of tonight's BLU meeting on youtube

The YouTube livestream of tonight's meeting is now active, at

https://youtu.be/Xb8DEDoB0AI

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Boston Linux VIRTUAL Meeting reminder (corrected) today, Wednesday, July 15, 2020 - You Can Tune a Piano but You Can't Tune a Convolutional Neural Network

When: July 15, 2020 7:00PM (6:30PM for Q&A)
Topic: You Can Tune a Piano but You Can't Tune a Convolutional Neural
Network
Moderators: Kurt Keville,
Location:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85075254996?pwd=cU0xenpiQXRadEVZbEFMSkVjdktkUT09
Summary:
Information updates in the areas of HPC, Supercomputing, and Autonomous
Vehicles

Abstract:
We are partnering with the HPC and GPU Supercomputing Group of Boston
https://www.meetup.com/HPC-GPU-Supercomputing-Group-of-Boston/events/271617454/

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Boston Linux VIRTUAL Meeting reminder, today, Wednesday, July 15, 2020 - You Can Tune a Piano but You Can't Tune a Convolutional Neural Network

When: July 15, 2020 7:00PM (6:30PM for Q&A)
Topic: You Can Tune a Piano but You Can't Tune a Convolutional Neural
Network
Moderators: Kurt Keville, Eliot Eshelman
Location:
https://www.meetup.com/HPC-GPU-Supercomputing-Group-of-Boston/events/271617454/
https://www.meetup.com/HPC-GPU-Supercomputing-Group-of-Boston/events/271617454/

Summary:
Information updates in the areas of HPC, Supercomputing, and Autonomous
Vehicles

Abstract:
We are partnering with the HPC and GPU Supercomputing Group of Boston

For further information and directions please consult the BLU Web site:
http://www.blu.org

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Thursday, July 9, 2020

Boston Linux VIRTUAL Meeting Wednesday, July 15, 2020 - You Can Tune a Piano but You Can't Tune a Convolutional Neural Network

When: July 15, 2020 7:00PM (6:30PM for Q&A)
Topic: You Can Tune a Piano but You Can't Tune a Convolutional Neural
Network
Moderators: Kurt Keville et. al. TBA
Location: Virtual mewthod to be announced early next week (probably Zoom
or Jitsi)
Meeting will be streamed on YouTube: TBA

Summary:
Information updates in the areas of HPC, Supercomputing, and Autonomous
Vehicles

Abstract:

Details to follow

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Tuesday, June 16, 2020

Boston Linux VIRTUAL Meeting Reminder Wednesday, June 17, 2020 How Many Ways Can You Fail? A Taxonomy of Corporate (in)Decision

When: Wednesday June 17, 2020 6:30 Q&A, 7:00 Speaker
Topic: How Many Ways Can You Fail? A Taxonomy of Corporate (in)Decision
Moderator: Federico Lucifredi
Location: online via BlueJeans
Link to Wednesday's BlueJeans meeting: *https://bluejeans.com/654265524
<https://bluejeans.com/654265524>*
Note: We will post the recording within 24 to 48 hours after the meeting

*Summary:*
Federico shares battle stories from fifteen years in technology management

*Abstract:*
Decision-making in the modern corporation is riddled with paradox: the
outward declared objective of the organization, has to contend with all too
human realities ranging from the Peter Principle to having too many cooks
in the kitchen, to the individual's perfectionism, indecision, or even
straight up cowardice. Decisions that are the lifeblood of your project can
be deferred, avoided, or derailed in perfectly legitimate and even
well-meaning ways. This can spell death for what you were tasked to build,
as success depends on implementation as much as on a good idea. You cannot
execute if decisions are not prompt, mostly correct, and accepted by the
team.

We dissect how decisions do *not* happen, and what you can do about it.
Success in business depends on getting things done. Join us as we explore
the lost art of thinking in the corporation, and what you as a tiny but
revolutionary-minded cog can do about it.

*Bio:*
Federico Lucifredi is The Ceph Storage Product Management Director at Red
Hat, formerly the Ubuntu Server PM at Canonical, and the Linux "Systems
Management Czar" at SUSE.
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Wednesday, June 10, 2020

Boston Linux VIRTUAL Meeting Wednesday, June 17, 2020 How Many Ways Can You Fail? A Taxonomy of Corporate (in)Decision

When: June 17, 2020 7:00PM (6:30PM for Q&A)
Topic: How Many Ways Can You Fail? A Taxonomy of Corporate (in)Decision
Moderators: Federico Lucifredi
Location: Via Bluejeans Meeting ID TBA
Meeting will be streamed on YouTube; TBA

We will be using the Bluejeans Conferencing system. We will
also be streaming through YouTube as listed above.

*Summary*

Federico shares battle stories from fifteen years in technology management

*Abstract*

Details to follow

Bio
Federico Lucifredi is The Ceph Storage Product Management Director at
Red Hat, formerly the Ubuntu Server PM at Canonical, and the Linux
"Systems Management Czar" at SUSE.For further information and directions
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Thursday, May 21, 2020

Re: [NatickFOSSDiscuss] Boston Linux VIRTUAL Meeting reminder, tomorrow Wednesday, May 20, 2020 Amd Ryzen

Thanks. Last night I had a prepared stream, but I had some trouble getting
it restarted. I ended up starting a new stream and it kept running until
the meeting ended.

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On Thu, May 21, 2020, 8:36 AM Dennis Payne via Natickfossdiscuss <
natickfossdiscuss@millermicro.com> wrote:

> It's actually really easy to do. You need to setup a verified youtube
> account because that is required to stream video. You create a live stream
> on youtube and get the access key. In jitsi you click over on the bottom
> right (the three dots) and select stream to youtube. After that you go into
> youtube and click go live.
>
> On Thu, 2020-05-21 at 01:04 +0000, Lori Nagel via Natickfossdiscuss wrote:
>
> Is there a way you could explain what you did for lay people so other
> Linux users groups could follow suite. It looks like you live streamed but
> used the meet.jit.si
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Wednesday, May 20, 2020

Boston Linux VIRTUAL Meeting Wednesday, May 20, 2020 Amd Ryzen new live stream URL

https://youtu.be/eGtRUCM

We will be using JTSi, a fully open source conferencing system. We will
also be streaming through YouTube as listed above.

If you want help:
http://blu.org/meetings/2020/04/Jitsi-BLU-HOWTO.2020-04-15.pdf

*Summary*

An overview of the architecture of the latest Ryzen chips

*Abstract*

Details to follow

Bio

Shankar Viswanathan is a chip architect at AMD and currently works
on the performance architecture for AMD semi-custom APUs. He has
worked on the design and verification of several generations of AMD
processors, most recently on the APUs used in the various XBox One
and PS4 variants. He also spent a year at a software startup
developing a thin hypervisor for run-time malware detection.

Again, our meeting will be at https://meet.jit.si/blu.org
Meeting will be streamed on YouTube: https://youtu.be/9jWjVTKGTfg
For further information and directions please consult the BLU Web site:
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Tuesday, May 19, 2020

Boston Linux VIRTUAL Meeting reminder, tomorrow Wednesday, May 20, 2020 Amd Ryzen

We will be using JTSi, a fully open source conferencing system. We will
also be streaming through YouTube as listed above.

If you want help:
http://blu.org/meetings/2020/04/Jitsi-BLU-HOWTO.2020-04-15.pdf

*Summary*

An overview of the architecture of the latest Ryzen chips

*Abstract*

Details to follow

Bio

Thursday, May 14, 2020

Boston Linux VIRTUAL Meeting Wednesday, May 20, 2020 Amd Ryzen

When: May 20, 2020 7:00PM (6:30PM for Q&A)
Topic: AMD Ryzed
Moderators: Shankar Viswanathan
Location: Via Jitsi: Virtual at https://meet.jit.si/blu.org
Meeting will be streamed on YouTube: https://youtu.be/9jWjVTKGTfg

We will be using JTSi, a fully open source conferencing system. We will
also be streaming through YouTube as listed above.

If you want help:
http://blu.org/meetings/2020/04/Jitsi-BLU-HOWTO.2020-04-15.pdf

*Summary*

An overview of the architecture of the latest Ryzen chips

*Abstract*

Details to follow

Bio

Shankar Viswanathan is a chip architect at AMD and currently works on the
performance architecture for AMD semi-custom APUs. He has worked on the
design and verification of several generations of AMD processors, most
recently on the APUs used in the various XBox One and PS4 variants. He also
spent a year at a software startup developing a thin hypervisor for
run-time malware detection.

Again, our meeting will be at https://meet.jit.si/blu.org
Meeting will be streamed on YouTube: https://youtu.be/9jWjVTKGTfg
For further information and directions please consult the BLU Web site:
http://www.blu.org
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Wednesday, April 15, 2020

Boston Linux virtual Meeting Update Today Wednesday, April 15, 2020 from 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm - Low Cost Supercomputing with the Raspberry Pi 4

When: April 15, 2020 7:00PM (6:30PM for Q&A)
Topic: Low Cost Supercomputing with the Raspberry Pi 4
Note: Because of the current COVID-19 issues Federico is unable to
access his Kubernetes clusters at Red Hat so we are changing the topic.
Moderator: Federico Lucifredi
Locations: Virtual at https://meet.jit.si/blu.org
We will be using JTSi, a fully open source conferencing system.
When you sign on please mute your microphone when the speaker is speaking..
Livestream should be active on YouTube by 7:00 pm, at
https://youtu.be/AD-uq6wkGtI

Detailed instructions (4 pages) for using Jitsi meet:
http://www.blu.org/meetings/2020/04/Jitsi-BLU-HOWTO.2020-04-15.pdf

Summary

Protoyping Supercomputing Code with the Raspberry Pi 4

Abstract:
We are resuming our meetings and trying our hand at a virtual format
this month. Federico has volunteered to begin this series with a review
of his latest cluster, a new design based on Raspberry PI 4 boards that
completely revamps the previous PI 3 design, and present his SCALE talk
on how to prototype supercomputing code in a less expensive environment.
We are going to cover the new hardware, the operational environment, and
and the coding platform while testing a new in-browser meeting format
for sharing slides, hardware inspection, asking questions, and recording
a YouYube stream. Please see above for appropriate URLs.

Bio
Federico Lucifredi is The Ceph Storage Product Management Director at
Red Hat, formerly the Ubuntu Server PM at Canonical, and the Linux
"Systems Management Czar" at SUSE.

For further information and directions please consult the BLU Web site
http://www.blu.org

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Tuesday, April 14, 2020

Boston Linux VIRTUAL Meeting Wednesday, April 15, 2020 from 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm Raspberry PI 4 cluster

When: April 15, 2020 7:00PM (6:30PM for Q&A)
Topic: Raspberry PI 4 cluster
Note: Because of the current COVID-19 issues Federico is unable to
access his Kubernetes clusters at Red Hat so we are changing the topic.
Moderator: Federico Lucifredi
Locations: Virtual at https://meet.jit.si/blu.org
We will be using JTSi, a fully open source conferencing system. We will
also be streaming through YouTube. We cannot provide the YouTube address
at this time. It will be posted on the BLU web site (http://www.blu.org)
on meeting day.

Note that Algot Runeman posted instructions for using JTSi for Natick
FOSS members. Those instructions should mostly relevant to our meeting also
https://www.millermicro.com/FOSSUserGroupJitsi.pdf

Again, our interactive meeting will be at https://meet.jit.si/blu.org

When you sign on please mute your microphone when the speaker is speaking..

Abstract:
The Raspberry PI 4 cluster is an update of what Federico discussed in
January, and all the material that he used at SCALE

He is planning on presenting that cluster design and software design.

Bio
Federico Lucifredi is The Ceph Storage Product Management Director at
Red Hat, formerly the Ubuntu Server PM at Canonical, and the Linux
"Systems Management Czar" at SUSE.

For further information and directions please consult the BLU Web site
http://www.blu.org

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Wednesday, April 8, 2020

Boston Linux VIRTUAL Meeting Wednesday, April 15, 2020 from 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm

When: April 15, 2020 7:00PM (6:30PM for Q&A)
Topic: Container Storage Deep Dive
Moderators: Federico Lucifredi
Location: Virtual at https://meet.jit.si/blu.org

We will be using JTSi, a fully open source conferencing system. We will
also be streaming through YouTube. We cannot provide the YouTube address
at this time. It will be posted on the BLU web site as well as in my day
before email notice.

Note that Algot Runeman posted instructions for using JTSi for Natick
FOSS members. Those instructions should mostly apply to our meeting:
https://www.millermicro.com/FOSSUserGroupJitsi.pdf

Again, our meeting will be at https://meet.jit.si/blu.org

For further information and directions please consult the BLU Web site

http://www.blu.org

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Wednesday, March 11, 2020

Boston Linux Meeting Wednesday, March 18, 2020 - Cancelled

When: March 18, 2020 7:00PM (6:30PM for Q&A)

In keeping with MIT's preparations for the COVID-19 situation, we're
cancelling this month's BLU meeting.

Hopefully we'll be able to reschedule Chris's live demo of his FoodPhone
App for the RaspberryPi 4 once the health crisis is over.

If we are not able to meet in April, we hope to provide the meeting online.

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Tuesday, March 10, 2020

Boston Linux and Unix InstallFest LXXII Saturday March 14, 2020 -- CANCELLED

When: Saturday March 14, 2020, from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm
Where: MIT Building E-51, Room 061
2 Amherst St, Cambridge

Out of a concern for the health of our attendees and volunteers, we have
decided to cancel Saturday's installfest

http://news.mit.edu/2020/events-postponed-canceled-covid-19-0309

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Monday, March 9, 2020

Boston Linux and Unix InstallFest LXXII Saturday March 14, 2020

When: Saturday March 14, 2020, from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm
Where: MIT Building E-51, Room 061
2 Amherst St, Cambridge
http://mitiq.mit.edu/mitiq/directions_%20parkinge51.htm
Parking is free at the E-51 lot in front of the building.

Lunch is generously sponsored by Ron Thibeau owner of Bluefin Technical
Services

What you need to bring: Your computer, monitor, power strips and your
Linux distributions. We do have copies of some distributions.
In general we have expertise with most distros, but if you need special
expertise, please email the BLU discussion list in advance. Today, most
distros are using Live images that you can try out and then install.
This can be copied to DVDs or USB sticks.There are a number of USB
creators, such as UNetbootin (https://unetbootin.github.io/). Both
Fedora and Ubuntu have a USB creator built in.

COST: It's free! However, we DO have expenses, and contributions are
welcome. Please consider contributing $25 per machine.

Our volunteers will help you to install Linux on your own system. While
Linux runs on most systems, some systems do have configurations and
hardware that may not be supported. Please consult the following web
pages for hardware compatibility. While we prefer you to bring your own
distros, our volunteers will normally have

Linux Howto Pages: http://tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/howtos.html
Linux Frequently Asked Questions: http://tldp.org/docs.html#faq
Additionally, there are forums and listservs for most distros.

Generally our volunteers have sets of the latest Fedora, SuSE and Ubuntu
distributions:
* Fedora - https://getfedora.org/ (Fedora 31 Live DVD/USB)
* Ubuntu - http://www.ubuntu.com ( 18.04.4 LTS DVD/USB or 19.10)
* other distros can easily be downloaded at the Installfest

We generally have them on local drives and can burn CDs/DVDs and
USBs.Since there are many variants of these distros, we advise you to
bring an empty USB stick with sufficient memory to hold one of the
distros. Live images require about 1.5GB. I usually have some USBs
prepared or can easily burn a USB.

We usually have both a Wired and Wireless network available.
The preferred wireless SSID at MIT is "MIT". In addition John does set
up a local wifi.

Additionally, you can run Linux on your Windows PC through a virtual
machine manager, such as Virtualbox. You can install this in your
Windows machine and run Linux as a guest OS, or install it in your Linux
machine and run Windows as a guest. Linux has a built-in virtual memory
system, but you can also download and install VirtualBox 6.0
(http://www.virtualbox.org) which is free and is available for Linux,
Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows XP and Windows Vista.
Additionally, there are also some VMWare clients that are also free for
Windows.

Please refer to the BLU website (http://www.blu.org) for further
information and directions. There is a parking lot in front of the
building on Amherst St. Enter the building, and take the elevator your
left down to the basement. Room 016 is directly across from the elevator.

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Tuesday, February 18, 2020

Boston Linux Meeting Tomorrow, Wednesday, February 19, 2020 - Atom: A Hackable Text Editor for the 21st Century

When: February 19, 2020 7:00PM (6:30PM for Q&A)
Topic: Atom: A Hackable Text Editor for the 21st Century
Moderator: Jerry Feldman
Location: MIT Building E-51, Room 149

*** Note: Room change. This is on the first Floor

Note: Parking at E-51 is now free. See note below

Please note that Wadsworth St is open from Memorial Drive to Amherst St,
but is closed between Amherst St to Main St. See the ling below for
additional details.
https://courbanize.com/projects/mit-kendall-square/updates

Note: Sorry for late notice: Our previously scheduled speaker's employer
scheduled him to be out of town.

Summary:

Jerry shows us Atom, a graphical editor for software development

Abstract:

As the subject says, 'Atom is a Hackable Editor for the 21st Century'.
Jerry is a long time EMACS user, but while at Red Hat, he found that
EMACS was not doing a good job with Python. Another developer suggested
Atom. Atom is very customizable. First, for Python, it has a number of
packages that provide syntax checking, automatic indentation as well as
the ability to execute code from the console. Atom also has packages to
support other languages. The things I like about Atom is that it can
display a list of files and their status, and a number of panes. Jerry
will demonstrate how he works on applications and displays code in
multiple panes. In addition, Atom supports GIT and SVN. With git you can
do a an add, commit, a pull or a push. He will demonstrate that on one
of his projects.
Atom is fully open source. In addition to Python, Atom supports many
other languages, including C, C++, Perl, JavaScript, Java, and many
more. Jerry will show a list from the language indicator. Atom supports
many different themes. Jerry uses the Atom Dark, but he will demonstrate
others. He will also discuss the package manager. He will also
demonstrate how to run the application being edited.

Atom can be installed directly from the Fedora repositories via the 'dnf
install' command or the software center, and in Ubuntu via the 'apt-get'
command or via the Ubuntu Software Center. It may be downloaded from
https://atom.io/. [atom.io] For more detailed directions see the Atom
Flight Manual: https://flight-manual.atom.io/. [flight-manual.atom.io]
In many cases, when you install an application from a vendor repository,
that version might be somewhat out of date. However, atom will notify
you if there are updates to both Atom or your packages.

Jerry has tried many different editors over the years. More recently he
tried Pycharm, a popular Python-oriented IDE. Pycharm is not open
source, and the free version lacks many useful features. Several years
ago, Jerry tested Geany, but decided that Atom was the better system for
him.

Attachments
Atom Home: https://atom.io/ <https://atom.io/>
Installing Atom:
https://flight-manual.atom.io/getting-started/sections/installing-atom/
Atom Flight Manual: https://flight-manual.atom.io/

For further information and directions please consult the BLU Web site
http://www.blu.org

Parking:
On-Campus Free Parking (These parking lots are free after 5pm)

The Amherst Street/E51 parking lot is the best parking option. It
probably will have plenty of spaces. During the school year the lot
tends to be full, but tends to clear out after 6:30 or 7PM.

Due to the never-ending construction, Sloan's Hermann Garage is only
accessible via Main Street. It is a small garage without a gate, and
directly under the Sloan library.

All other MIT lots require permits after hours.

The closest public parking
is Kendall Center Green Garage, next to the Marriott Hotel. The entrance is
90 Broadway Street. For other parking options, see
http://web.mit.edu/facilities/transportation/parking/visitors/public_parking.html

All Cambridge parking meters use Passport by Phone:
https://www.cambridgema.gov/traffic/Parking/paybyphone
This is active on all Cambridge metered parking spaces. Meters are free
after 8PM

For further information and directions please consult the BLU Web site
http://www.blu.org

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Tuesday, January 14, 2020

Boston Linux Meeting reminder, tomorrow Wednesday, January 15, 2020 - Raspberry Pi Short Takes

When: January 15, 2020 7:00PM (6:30PM for Q&A)
Topic: Raspberry Pi Short Takes

Moderators: Brian DeLacey
Federico Lucifredi
Bob Frankston

Location: MIT Building E-51, Room 315

Note: Parking at E-51 is now free. See note below

Summary:

Several short presentations about the Raspberry Pi 4 and other SBCs

Abstract:

Several short talks by Brian, Federico, and Bob.

Brian DeLacey discusses and demos the latest Raspberry Pi 4 developments
and news about IPFS. Demos will cover power saving RPi firmware updates,
a recent Raspbian release, and using the RPi as a "dual HDMI daily
driver". Now the RPi4 is an even "cooler board", and we'll try to solve
the mystery of leaking radio frequency. We'll also discuss how to use
IPFS and RPi to "pin down" the latest developments on the distributed
web. This is DeLacey's fourth in an ongoing series of short talks about
the RPi.

New IoT Hardware: Federico Lucifredi will review the capabilities of the
brand new 64-bit SheevaPlug that just landed in his lab.

Bios:
Federico Lucifredi is The Ceph Storage Product Management Director at
Red Hat, formerly the Ubuntu Server PM at Canonical, and the Linux
"Systems Management Czar" at SUSE.
Bob is probably best known as co-creator of the original spreadsheet
application, VisiCalc. His detailed bio is at
http://rmf.vc/bob_frankston_bio [rmf.vc]

Attachments

https://www.raspberrypi.org/

https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/raspberry-pi-4-model-b/specifications/

For further information and directions please consult the BLU Web site
http://www.blu.org

Parking:
On-Campus Free Parking (These parking lots are free after 5pm)

The Amherst Street/E51 parking lot is the best parking option. It
probably will have plenty of spaces. During the school year the lot
tends to be full, but tends to clear out after 6:30 or 7PM.

Due to the never-ending construction, Sloan's Hermann Garage is only
accessible via Main Street. It is a small garage without a gate, and
directly under the Sloan library.

All other MIT lots require permits after hours.

All Cambridge parking meters use Passport by Phone:
https://www.cambridgema.gov/traffic/Parking/paybyphone
This is active on all Cambridge metered parking spaces. Meters are free
after 8PM

For further information and directions please consult the BLU Web site
http://www.blu.org

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Jerry Feldman <gaf.linux@gmail.com>
Boston Linux and Unix http://www.blu.org
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Wednesday, January 8, 2020

Boston Linux Meeting Wednesday, January 15, 2020 - Raspberry Pi Short Takes

When: January 15, 2020 7:00PM (6:30PM for Q&A)
Topic: Raspberry Pi Short Takes
Moderators: Brian DeLacey (and others)
Location: MIT Building E-51, Room 315

Note: Parking at E-51 is now free. See note below

Summary:

Several short presentations about the Raspberry Pi 4

Abstract:

Several short talks by Brian and others.

Attachments

https://www.raspberrypi.org/

https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/raspberry-pi-4-model-b/specifications/

For further information and directions please consult the BLU Web site
http://www.blu.org

Parking:
On-Campus Free Parking (These parking lots are free after 5pm)

The Amherst Street/E51 parking lot is the best parking option. It
probably will have plenty of spaces. During the school year the lot
tends to be full, but tends to clear out after 6:30 or 7PM.

Due to the never-ending construction, Sloan's Hermann Garage is only
accessible via Main Street. It is a small garage without a gate, and
directly under the Sloan library.

All other MIT lots require permits after hours.

All Cambridge parking meters use Passport by Phone:
https://www.cambridgema.gov/traffic/Parking/paybyphone
This is active on all Cambridge metered parking spaces. Meters are free
after 8PM

For further information and directions please consult the BLU Web site
http://www.blu.org

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Jerry Feldman <gaf.linux@gmail.com>
Boston Linux and Unix http://www.blu.org
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PGP Key fingerprint: 0EDC 2FF5 53A6 8EED 84D1 3050 5715 B88D 6F6B B6E7

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