NYC LOCAL: Four Events This Week, Including Eben Moglen on Cloud Computing on Friday 5 February 2010

[secretary]

There will be two events on Tuesday 2 February 2010, one on
Wednesday 3 February 2010, and Eben Moglen will speak on Friday
5 February 2010.

Below we reproduce all four announcements.  The announcements are
in time order.


On Tuesday we have the Java Hello World gathering:

<blockquote
  what="official NYJavaSIG announcement"
  edits="">

 Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 12:36:20 -0500
 To: wwwac@lists.wwwac.org
 From: "Frank D. Greco" <fgreco@crossroadstech.com>
 Subject: [wwwac] NYJavaSIG - "Hello Java" Workgroup Meeting - Tues Feb 2

 NYJavaSIG "Hello Java" Workgroup Meeting
 Fifteen years after it's initial release Java has become arguably
 the most pervasive programming language on the planet, but how can
 somebody take their first steps into the Java world? In this first
 meeting for those developers with limited experience in Java, we will
 explore its similarities and differences with other general purpose
 languages, demonstrate its syntax, and do a focused overview of its
 object oriented features. Finally, we will discuss suggestions
 for future meetings.
 Bring your laptops to Sun's offices!    YOU MUST REGISTER...
 ->> VISIT www.javasig.com to REGISTER <<-
 click on "Upcoming Meetings" in the middle of the home page.
 Frank G.
 - "Eat, Drink, Code(tm)" - NYJavaSIG (www.javasig.com)
 - NYJavaSIG Cool Jobs Posts - <http://bit.ly/76z9f9>http://bit.ly/76z9f9
 PLEASE BE COURTEOUS TO THE NYJAVASIG COMMUNITY! ONLY RSVP IF YOU ARE 
 ATTENDING. AND UN-REGISTER IF YOU CANNOT MAKE IT (unregister button 
 is on meeting page).
 ===============================================================
   What: "Hello Java" Workgroup
    Who: Barry Burd, Rob Eccardt and Kam Kashef
   When: 6:00pm-8:00pm TUESDAY February 2, 2010
 Where: Sun Microsystems (Oracle)
         101 Park Avenue (40th St), 4th Floor
         Grammercy Park Room (#4140)
         New York, NY 10176
         <http://tinyurl.com/megkfa>http://tinyurl.com/megkfa
 6:00-6:15pm Open NYJavaSIG-HelloJava Q&A and Administrivia
 6:15-7:45pm Barry, Robert and Kam
 7:45-8:00pm Q/A
 ===============================================================

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    Intersystems - www.intersystems.com
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 Friends of the NYJavaSIG
    Sun Microsystems - www.sun.com
    TAGonline - www.tagonline.com
 Frank G.
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Also on Tuesday we have a meeting on Sun Virtualization Systems:

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  what="official UNIGROUP of NY announcement"
  edits="removal of material not dealing with this meeting">

 Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 04:16:57 -0500 (EST)
 From: Unigroup_of_NY <unilist@unigroup.org>
 To: jays@panix.com
 Subject: UNIGROUP February 2010 Announcements

 =====================================================================
 UNIGROUP OF NEW YORK - UNIX USERS GROUP - FEBRUARY 2010 ANNOUNCEMENTS
 =====================================================================

 Here are some meeting announcements from our friends at other
 NYC Unix User Groups...
     1) Sun Kernel Engineers in town for Special NYCOSUG Meeting
     2) Upcoming NYCBUG Meeting
     3) Upcoming PowerAIX Meeting

 1) Special NYCOSUG OpenSolaris Meeting - TUESDAY!!
    -----------------------------------------------

  : To: New York City OpenSolaris User Group
  : Subject: [SPECIAL SUN VIRTUALIZATION MTG w/KERNEL ENGINEERS - 2/2 Tuesday]
  :
  : As previously announced on our list and at our recent meeting,
  : members of Sun Solaris kernel engineering will be in town to review
  : strategies for Sun virtualization (hardware as well as the operating
  : system).  They're here on a mission to see a few customers and have
  : agreed to meet with our usergroup and the rest of the community of
  : interested parties.
  :
  : Specifically - the following individuals are coming:
  : Dan Price, Chief Architect, Zones Engineering
  : Jordan Vaughan, Zones Engineering
  : John Falkenthal, LDOMs eng manager
  : Jeff McMeekin, Solaris Product Management
  : Mark Thacker, Mgr Solaris Product Management
  :
  : Based on the previously floated inquiry, we ARE going to be having
  : this meeting so please do come down, especially if you had
  : previously responded to me that you would!  :-)
  :
  : Please take a moment to RSVP!
  :
  : All details & registration/RSVP is available here:
  : 
http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/User+Group+nycosug/February+2010+-+Special+Meeting+
  :
  : I know its short notice - but please do join us for our upcoming event!
  :
  : The location is our usual - at the Sun offices in midtown, New York City.
  :
  : Meeting will begin at 6pm.
  : We'll have refreshments and drinks to serve;  OpenSolaris media, t-shirts,
  : other swag to give away and raffle off.
  :
  : WHEN:        6:00-7:00/7:30 PM
  : WHERE:       Sun Microsystems Office -  CHINATOWN CONFERENCE ROOM
  :              101 Park Avenue, 4th Floor, New York, NY
  : TOPICS:      Sun Virtualization Updates from Engineering (slides TBD)
  : SPONSOR:     Sun Microsystems, Inc.
  :
  : Directions to Sun New York City
  :
  : Sun is located at 101 Park Avenue, northeast corner of East 40th street and
  : Park Avenue. 2 blocks from the Grand Central Station and subway routes 4, 5,
  : 6. Sun Microsystems, Inc. is located on the 3rd and 4th floors. For
  : after-hours meetings, please sign-in with the security guard in the lobby
  : and proceed to the right-most elevator bank. Upon arrival, check-in at the
  : security desk. Due to the building's security requirements, it might be
  : easier if you've registered prior to the day of the event. Proceed toward
  : the right-most elevator banks, and take a lift up to the 4th floor.
  :
  : More info about this event and the New York's OpenSolaris User Group is
  : available at:
  :     http://www.opensolariX.org
  :     http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/User+Group+nycosug

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 -Rob Weiner
  Unigroup Executive Director
  unilist (-a_t-) unigroup.org
  http://www.unigroup.org
  
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On Wednesday NYC*BUG meets:

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  what="official NYC*BUG announcement"
  edits="">

 Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 13:29:19 -0500
 To: announce@lists.nycbug.org
 From: NYC*BUG Announcements <announce@lists.nycbug.org>
 Subject: [announce] NYCBUG Upcoming
 Reply-To: announce@lists.nycbug.org

 Several important events upcoming, including this week's meeting.

 *      *       *       *

 February 3rd, 645 pm, Wednesday, Suspenders Restaurant backroom

 http://www.suspendersbar.com/location.php

 Aidan Cully on Systems Programming On A System On A Chip

 Embedded software is characterized by a tight coupling to its
 associated hardware.  This means that there is an ability to reduce
 the hardware and software footprint to the barest version that can
 possibly support the intended applications of the embedded system.  In
 turn, this means that many libraries written for full-featured
 operating systems are not well suited to run in the embedded
 environment, as they often assume a range of system features available
 in common desktop platforms, but unavailable to many embedded systems.

 This talk will emphasize techniques developers can use to make their
 software more suitable for embedded systems.  I will also discuss
 debugging embedded applications, as well as the process of
 co-developing custom hardware, and its associated software drivers.

 Aidan Cully is a software engineer at Arkados, a fabless semiconductor
 manufacturer in Piscataway, NJ.

 *      *       *       *

 There will be a BSD Certification exam and SME session Sunday, February 7th.

 https://register.bsdcertification.org//register/events/nycbug-1

 Please contact us for more details.

 *      *       *       *

 BSDCan will be held in May in Ottawa, Canada.

 http://www.bsdcan.org/2010/

 *      *       *       *

 The March NYCBUG meeting will be Ike Levy on pfSense.
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And on Friday Eben Moglen will speak:

<blockquote
  what="official announcement from Evan Korth of ISOC-NY meeting"
  hosts="ISOC-NY and ACM-NYU"
  edits="one line reformatted">

 Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 20:27:30 -0500 (EST)
 From: Evan Korth <korth@cs.nyu.edu>
 To: ACM chapter <acm@cs.nyu.edu>, women-in-computing <winc@cs.nyu.edu>, 
Macs-general@cs.nyu.edu, Computers_and_society_announcements@cs.nyu.edu
 Subject: [Computers_and_society_announcements] Eben Moglen speaking at NYU 
Friday Feb 5th

 Eben Moglen, Professor of Law and Legal History at Columbia University,
 and founder, Director-Counsel and Chairman of the Software Freedom Law
 Center, will speak about "Freedom in the Cloud: Software Freedom,
 Privacy and Security for Web 2.0 and Cloud Computing" on Friday,
 February 5, 2010, 7-9 pm. This event will be webcast live.

 * What: ISOC-NY Public Meeting: Eben Moglen ? ?Freedom In The Cloud?
 * When: Fri. Feb 5 2010 7pm-9pm
 * Where: Room 109, Warren Weaver Hall, 251 Mercer Street NYC (SW corner
    of West 4th) (See note below)
 * Webcast: http://www.livestream.com/isocny

 * Note: Use the entrance on the west side since construction blocks the
   Mercer Street entrance. Must bring ID.

 Hosted by ISOC-NY and ACM-NYU
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Jay Sulzberger <secretary@lxny.org>
Corresponding Secretary LXNY
LXNY is New York's Free Computing Organization.
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