[wplug-announce] WPLUG/PghSAGE 4/30 1pm-5pm CMU NSH 1507

[Beth Lynn]

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WPLUG/PghSAGE  Saturday April 30, 1pm-5pm
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Hello,

Western PA Linux Users Group and Pittsburgh System Administrators' Guide 
(PghSAGE) will host an afternoon meeting this Saturday April 30, 2005. The 
time will be 1pm to 5pm. The place will be Newell Simon Hall (NSH) 1507. We
will open at 1pm with an ice cream social. The talk "Flying Linux" will begin
at 2pm. This meeting is FREE and open to the general public. You do not need to
be a member of WPLUG, SAGE or USENIX to attend. Please feel free to invite your 
colleagues as this is the first PghSAGE meeting after a hiatus.

To confirm, the meeting will begin at ONE O'CLOCK in the afternoon.

Please visit our "Maps and Directions" page
http://www.wplug.org/pages/wplugmap/
Please note that our phone number is currently 412 268 7564
If you've never been here before make sure you print out the directions!

Speaker: Dan V Klein of Usenix
WPLUG Host: Beth Lynn Eicher
PghSAGE Host: Esther Filderman

"Flying Linux" Talk Abstract:
We all know that "Linux is better than Windows." Few intelligent
people would board a fly-by-wire airplane that was controlled by
Microsoft Windows. So how about Linux? When your life is at stake,
your attitudes change considerably. Better than Windows, yes -- but
better enough? This talk will look at what it takes to make software
truly mission-critical and man-rated. We'll go back to the earliest
fly-by-wire systems -- Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo -- and look at such
diverse (but critical!) issues as compartmentalization, trojans and
terrorism, auditing and accountability, bugs and boundary conditions,
distributed authoring, and revision control. At the end of this talk,
what you thought might be an easy answer will be seen to be not so
easy.

SCHEDULE
* Doors will open at 1pm to NSH 1507
* 1pm Ice cream served in NSH 1507
* 1:30pm A discussion of who SAGE is along with some plugs for some upcoming 
SAGE events in NSH 1305
* 2pm "Flying Linux" talk in NSH 1305
* 3:30ish Q&A and socializing in NSH 1305
* 4:30 tear-down in NSH 1507 and 1305
* 5pm adjournment

Please try to arrive by 2pm since the talk is in around the corner
in 1305. Just in case, Evelyn Chao will greet latecomers and usher
them to 1305.


See you there!

Beth Lynn

Upcoming WPLUG Schedule...
Installfest May 21 10am - 5pm 5/21/2005 10am-5pm
General Users Meeting "Subversion" 5/28/2005 10am-2pm
General Users Meeting "Myth TV" 6/4/2005 10am-2pm
Popular Demand: Regular Expressions 6/11/2005 10am-2pm

Upcoming PghSAGE Schedule...
Ethics in Systems Administration 5/28/2005 2pm-5pm

Please reply to bethlynn at wplug.org if you have questions about this event or 
about WPLUG