Aaron Ruscetta
404.315.0406 (10a to 10p est)
Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
c/o Ben Chapman
Emory University School of Law
1301 Clifton Road
Atlanta, GA 30322
ALE is also a promoting
sponsor of the 2nd annual
Founded in December 1994, ALE has hosted hundreds of regular monthly meetings with talk topics ranging from "The Linux Advantage in Education" to "How to Write Device Drivers". In addition, we regularly host Linux installation events and educational forums to help others eradicate their windows diseases by introducing them to the secure, user empowering freedom of GNU Linux and Free Software.
The ALE group is loosely structured with a few dedicated volunteers filling any needed administrative and resource support roles. There is no charter and no board. There are no membership fees or other superfluous formalities. Anyone is welcome to join the group by simply showing up at any ALE meeting or event, or by subscribing to our mailing list. Our interests are purely in sharing information about Linux, Open Source and Free Software empowerment with the greater Atlanta community and beyond.
In addition to supporting members through web and email services, ALE holds regular monthly meetings. The "Central" meeting is usually hosted at Emory University on the 3rd Thursday of each month (see directions on sidebar). We also host meetings and events in other areas of the greater Atlanta region as affordable venues and volunteer support allow.
The feature presentation at the ALE Central Meeting
for 7:30pm on Thursday, March 18th, 2010 will be:
Literate Programming:
Source Code for Human Beings
(Because geeks are people too!)
with Larry Felton Johnson
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Synopsis:
– Whether you’re writing a full fledged application or a short utility
shell script, really understanding the code and being able to modify
and maintain it (sometimes years after it was originally written) is
an important part of authoring a program. With the rise of group
coding environments, thorough and comprehensible documentation
of program code has become all the more important.
One of the most interesting systems for ensuring robust documentation,
and the quality code which that supports, is the Literate Programming
approach first proposed by Donald Knuth in a 1983 book of that name.
This presentation will be describing the Literate Programming system
and demonstrating some support utilities I’ve written using a combination
of perl and XSL. It will also look at some of the tools available on linux
systems which support Literate Programming.
Bio:
– Larry Felton Johnson has been a Linux user since early 1995, when
he downloaded an SLS distribution sufficient to fill 50 high density floppy
disks. He’s been a sysadmin for the past 15 years, mostly on Solaris, but
with a significant toe in the Red Hat waters. His great love is doing utility
programming in perl, particularly in the general categories known as
“scraping” (web, terminal, etc) and “data munging”.
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We will be meeting at Emory Law School in our
usual Gambrel Hall, room 1C venue.
Meeting time frame is 7:30pm to ~9:30pm
Directions to Emory Law School can be found
via the side bar link.
On SATURDAY, MARCH 6th, from 9am to 7pm,
we need any and all volunteers who can donate
some time and talent to
THE LINUX LAPTOPS FOR
HONDURAS PROJECT
hosted at the Railroad Earth Studios,
1467 Oxford Road NE, Atlanta, 30307
(RRE is the large gray stone house about 4 buildings
South of the entrance to Emory University at North
Decatur Road. Parking in the neighboring Saba lot
is fine, _except_ in front of the computer repair shop).
The goal of the day is to perform triage and light repairs
to recover as many working laptops as possible from a stack
of about 100 used units. Any systems that can be revived
to a functional state (hopefully 50 or more) will be installed
with a Linux OS Distro and packed up for shipment to South
America.
Volunteers are welcome to arrive and leave any time during
the day, but should be ready to volunteer for a minimum 2 hr.
shift. ANY AND ALL SKILL LEVELS of Linux use, Linux
configuration and hardware repair are welcome. Volunteers
with language skills in Espanol may be especially helpful.
Pizza lunch and soft drinks will be provided around 1pm,
BYOA (bring your own Ale) adult beverages are OK as well.
If interested in volunteering for this worthwhile charity
project, please RSVP to ArxAaron[at]gmail.com
On SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27, from 9am to 5pm,
we invite you to join us for
ALE & Source Freedom Linux Fest
at ITT Technical College
A Freedom Friendly, Linux Installation and Education Event
cooperatively sponsored by ITT Tech, Source Freedom(.com)
and the Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts (ALE.org)
The event is being hosted at the new ITT Tech facilities at:
485 Oak Place, Atlanta, GA 30349
(Location is South Atlanta near I-75 @ I-285,
corner of Atlanta South Parkway and Oak Place.
Once inside the building, follow signs to the lab.)
• Free Linux Discs and a variety of Linux Distros including
Ubuntu, SUSE, Fedora, CentOS, Puppy Linux, DSL and more.
• Free Expert Help Installing and Configuring Linux on your own machine.
• Seminars by Experts on Various Topics (see wiki.sourcefreedom.com)
• Free WiFi Available
• Free Soft Drinks, Snacks and Pizza Lunch Provided By ITT Tech!
• Techs@Heart support info and More!!!
If you want to get involved as a presenter, a contributor or some
other way, email mhalton[at]itt-tech.edu
We invite everyone to promote this event where ever
possible and appropriate! A printable PDF poster for
is available here.
The feature presentation at the ALE Central Meeting
for 7:30pm on Thursday, Feb. 18th, 2010 will be:
Native Linux Virtualization:
An Overview of KVM Installation and Management
with Damon Chesser
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Synopsis:
– An overview of the Kernel Virtual Machine with consideration of the
advantages and disadvantages compared to technologies like Xen. The
talk will cover basic installation and configuration, then look at several
KVM management and monitoring tools including virt-manager, virsh,
oVirt and Proxmox VE.
Bio:
– Damon’s career has been nothing if not diverse. Formally, he has
worked as (in order) a Navy Electronics Tech, a Self Employed Window
Cleaner, a Furniture mover, and a Furniture Sales Man. Then one day he
woke up and decided to be a computer tech. As his wife, a commercial
programmer, would not let him run any unlicensed software, so he turned
to the freedom of Open Source and learned Linux. As a self taught
computer aficionado, he made a career out of being a drop in support
tech. Along the way, he was hired by Dell to be an Enterprise Support
Analyst and opened up the support center in OKC. While there he
became a founding member of the “Alt OS Queue”, Dell-Speak for
anything NOT Windows, including VMware products. After moving to the
Atlanta area to be close to his wife’s family, he connected with a startup
company that allowed him to experiment with Linux virtualization.
He rolled out a few new product offerings based off of KVM, but due
to poor structuring, the company did not survive. He is currently
weighing his options for continuing to work professionally in Linux:
“I always look at technology from a practical view: Yes, that’s cool,
but what can it do for me?”
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We will be meeting at Emory Law School in our
usual Gambrel Hall, room 1C venue.
Meeting time frame is 7:30pm to ~9:30pm
Directions to Emory Law School can be found
via the side bar link.
The feature presentation at the ALE Central Meeting
at 7:30pm on Thursday, Jan. 21st, 2010 will be:
“Open SUSE 11.2:
A Tardy but Hearty Release Party”
with Chuck Payne, regional OpenSUSE Ambassador
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Synopsis:
– Sure, we’re well past the November 2009 release date for
OpenSUSE 11.2, but we figure there’s never a bad time for a
distro release party! So please join our regional OpenSUSE
Ambassador, Chuck Payne, as he showers the crowd with free
11.2 install disks and discusses the work behind all the feature
additions and updates found in the latest OpenSUSE offering.
Chuck will additionally explain how any user can tinker with
OpenSUSE by building their own distro or appliance package
using the SUSE Studio online services.
Light refreshments and s.w.a.g. (courtesy of Novell / SUSE)
are also expected, along with a concerted effort to answer
anyone’s questions about OpenSUSE and the 11.2 release.
Bio:
– Chuck “PUP” Payne has been working with computers since
his parents gave him an Atari 130XE for his 16th birthday.
Computing turned from hobby to career in 1998, the year he
started exploring GNU Linux with Slackware, Red Hat and SUSE,
and took on his first job as a System Administrator. He is
currently employed by Travel Channel Media as a Unix Systems
Admin, where day to day tasks include managing 70+ Red Hat
Linux Servers, 20 Solaris Servers, and a handful of Mac XServers.
He also helps out with web development in the areas of Apache
and JBOSS administration.
In April 2009 Chuck’s application to be a regional volunteer
ambassador for OpenSUSE was accepted, facilitating his goals
of helping people discover the benefits of Free Software,
GNU/Linux and the OpenSUSE distributions. In his free time he
bolsters his geek cred by writing bash scripts or php code,
hacking hardware in his home gadget lab, and watching any
and all Zombie flicks that cross his path.
Related Links:
– OpenSUSE.org
– SUSE Studio
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We will be meeting at Emory Law School in our
usual Gambrel Hall, room 1C venue.
Meeting time frame is 7:30pm to ~9:30pm
Directions to Emory Law School can be found
via the side bar link.