ABLEconf Free Software for Free Enterprise

East Side Meeting

The December east side meeting will be our annual end of year party.

We encourage bringing family and friends. This is a social event with no presentations.

We will have some giveaways including some new Free Software comics.

We also encourage bringing some food to share.

No alcohol because the meeting is at a school.

When: 7:00PM to about 9:00PM
Where: Sequoia Charter School in Mesa

East Side Meeting

Presentations This Month
TBD

When: 7:00PM to about 9:00PM
Where: Sequoia Charter School in Mesa

Topics: No formal presentation. Free discussion with wings and beverage available for purchase.
When: Third Wednesday of each month at 7:00PM
Where: Buffalo Wings & Rings, 2935 N Dysart road, Avondale, AZ 85323
Google:
maps.google.com

Topics: No formal presentation. Free discussion with wings and beverage available for purchase.
When: Third Wednesday of each month at 7:00PM
Where: Buffalo Wings & Rings, 2935 N Dysart road, Avondale, AZ 85323
Google:
maps.google.com

Topics: No formal presentation. Free discussion with wings and beverage available for purchase.
When: Third Wednesday of each month at 7:00PM
Where: Buffalo Wings & Rings, 2935 N Dysart road, Avondale, AZ 85323
Google:
maps.google.com

Topics: No formal presentation. Free discussion with frozen custard and beverage available for purchase.
When: Third Tuesday of each month at 7:00PM

Tempe
Where: Boulders on Broadway, 530 W Broadway Rd., Tempe, AZ 85282-1311
Google: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=530+W+Broadway+Rd,Tempe+AZ+85282...
The restaurant is directly west of the marker right on the north-east corner of Broadway and Roosevelt.

Topics: No formal presentation. Free discussion with frozen custard and beverage available for purchase.
When: Third Tuesday of each month at 7:00PM

Tempe
Where: Boulders on Broadway, 530 W Broadway Rd., Tempe, AZ 85282-1311
Google: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=530+W+Broadway+Rd,Tempe+AZ+85282...
The restaurant is directly west of the marker right on the north-east corner of Broadway and Roosevelt.

Topics: No formal presentation. Free discussion with frozen custard and beverage available for purchase.
When: Third Tuesday of each month at 7:00PM

Tempe
Where: Boulders on Broadway, 530 W Broadway Rd., Tempe, AZ 85282-1311
Google: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=530+W+Broadway+Rd,Tempe+AZ+85282...
The restaurant is directly west of the marker right on the north-east corner of Broadway and Roosevelt.

Presentations This Month
Intro to Intrepid

Talk Description
Intrepid, Ubuntu's most recent release, just came out. The presentation will cover installing via a USB stick and new features in Intrepid.

Presenter Bio
der.hans is a well-known Free Software advocate. He is currently teaching Free Software classes for Mesa Community College's Business and Industry Institute, http://www.LuftHans.com/Classes. He is chairmain for PLUG, volunteer coordinator and education committee chair for LOPSA and past president for ASULUG. He has many years of experience as both a system administrator and software developer.

When: 7:00PM to about 9:00PM
Where: Sequoia Charter School in Mesa
(See "East Side Meeting" information)

In November the Hackfest will be on the 3rd Saturday, November 15th. It will also be at Estrella Community College

The Hackfest is a 3 hour security lab from noon to 15:00 on the second Saturday of every month. Come prepared to learn about a security tool and then start using it.

Network and other facillities generously provided by UAT.

Plan on bringing a laptop and being able to use live CDs.

The PLUG Development Meeting is suspended for the months of November, December and January. Meetings are planned to restart in February, 2009.

A refresh discussion of the meeting is taking place on the plug-devel email list. Please participate there.

Presentations this month
TBD
When: First Thursday of each month at 7:00PM
Where: Adtron Corporation, 4415 E. Cotton Center Blvd., Phoenix, AZ 82040
Google: http://www.google.com/maps?q=4415+E+Cotton+Center+Blvd,+Phoenix,+AZ+8504...
The arrow is actually off in this Google map. The building is actually the mostly square one directly south of the traffic circle east of the arrow location.

The PLUG Development Meeting is suspended for the months of November, December and January. Meetings are planned to restart in February, 2009.

A refresh discussion of the meeting is taking place on the plug-devel email list. Please participate there.

Presentations this month
TBD
When: First Thursday of each month at 7:00PM
Where: Adtron Corporation, 4415 E. Cotton Center Blvd., Phoenix, AZ 82040
Google: http://www.google.com/maps?q=4415+E+Cotton+Center+Blvd,+Phoenix,+AZ+8504...
The arrow is actually off in this Google map. The building is actually the mostly square one directly south of the traffic circle east of the arrow location.

The PLUG Development Meeting is suspended for the months of November, December and January. Meetings are planned to restart in February, 2009.

A refresh discussion of the meeting is taking place on the plug-devel email list. Please participate there.

Presentations this month
TBD
When: First Thursday of each month at 7:00PM
Where: Adtron Corporation, 4415 E. Cotton Center Blvd., Phoenix, AZ 82040
Google: http://www.google.com/maps?q=4415+E+Cotton+Center+Blvd,+Phoenix,+AZ+8504...
The arrow is actually off in this Google map. The building is actually the mostly square one directly south of the traffic circle east of the arrow location.

ASULUG will be hosting its Fall InstallFest on Saturday October 11th from 9am to 7pm in the Memorial Union Arizona Ballroom (MU 221).

For more information please see the ASULUG InstallFest event poster (PNG format).

How to get there:

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Presentations This Month
Presentation: Open Source Telephony with a focus on Asterisk
Jame Finstrom would like to also announce the launch and creation of the Phoenix Open Source Telephony User Group The goal is to introduce Asterisk and some of the things you can do with it and in turn peak interest within the community to grow the telecommunications aspects of open source.

Presenter Bio
James Finstrom is the community manager for Rhino Equipment corp. He is in charge of support and community development. He works mostly on building the community and making life easier for end users. James spend allot of time developing scripts in bash, php, Perl and whatever gets the job done. His focus is to take the most complex aspects of open source to a level where the average user can make it happen. James has been Windows free for 3 years and working with open source software for 6. James grew up on DOS and my first computer was a IBM XT with dual 5.25 floppies. His current employment and free time focus around open source telephony applications such as Asterisk, FreeSwitch and other similar apps. James has spent a majority of the last 2 years conquering Asterisk the primary open source PBX and meeting much of the community that makes the Asterisk world go round.

Presentation: GMANE
Get too much email? Can't keep up with all your maillists? Gmane, the maillist archive can help you cope. Read posts conveniently as a web forum or in your favorite news reader like Pan or emacs gnus. Keep the clutter out of your mailbox.

Dennis will give a short presentation at the PLUG East Side meeting introducing you to gmane.org.

Presenter Bio
Dennis Kibbe is a long time member of PLUG.

When: 7:00PM to about 9:00PM
Where: Sequoia Charter School in Mesa

The Hackfest is a 3 hour security lab from noon to 15:00 on the second Saturday of every month. Come prepared to learn about a security tool and then start using it.

Network and other facillities generously provided by UAT.

Plan on bringing a laptop and being able to use live CDs.

The Hackfest is a 3 hour security lab from noon to 15:00 on the second Saturday of every month. Come prepared to learn about a security tool and then start using it.

Network and other facillities generously provided by UAT.

Plan on bringing a laptop and being able to use live CDs.

The Hackfest is a 3 hour security lab from noon to 15:00 on the second Saturday of every month. Come prepared to learn about a security tool and then start using it.

Network and other facillities generously provided by UAT.

Plan on bringing a laptop and being able to use live CDs.

Where: Adtron Corporation
4415 E. Cotton Center Blvd., Suite 100
Phoenix, AZ 85040
(Google map)

The mostly square building directly south of the traffic circle in the road.

Topic: Intro to OpenDDS

Description:
An introduction to Object Management Group's (OMG) Data Distribution Service (DDS) specification and its open source implementation, OpenDDS. DDS is a publish & subscribe communication framework.
See more about the open source implementation at http://www.opendds.org/ .
See the DDS specification at http://www.omg.org/cgi-bin/doc?formal/07-01-01 .

Presenter:
Scott Harris is a Principal Software Engineer at Object Computing, Inc. http://www.ociweb.com Scott was a lead on the initial development of OpenDDS and has a lot of experience supporting a popular open source CORBA implementation, TAO.

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NO Internet access are available.

We have a candy machine and soda machines that will take your money for refreshment. You are welcome to bring your own food. No alcohol please.