Re: [tlug] [announcement] 2010-11-13 Technical meeting.

[Andreas Kieckens <akieckens@example.com>]

Hello Edward

First of all, I apologize for not keeping up with the mailing list too much recently. I've had to leave Japan for a while to renew my visa recently so I've been busy with that. Unfortunately this has also had its effect on the development of my site. I was working on a Zend Framework version and hoped to present that one while talking about Zend itself a bit. This one is currently still in a very early state of development and not ready to be talked about. Also I've recently been wondering if it wouldn't be better to use a CMS instead. The current version of my site was actually built in order to have something online as quickly as possible  so the code is still pretty hackish.

I understand this is really close to the meeting and there don't seem to be too many other speaker candidates so instead of canceling, perhaps I could change the direction of the presentation a bit. I imagine there must be some skilled web designers in TLUG and several of them will be more experienced than me too. I could present my current site, talk about how I did it for now, discuss some future planned features and then ask for comments and suggestions from TLUG. Does this sound acceptable for a presentation?

~Andreas Kieckens
Author of www.rivercityretro.org. You should read it!
Founder of www.gametrip.org. A gamer's travel guide.

On 11/09/2010 11:21 AM, Edward Middleton wrote:

-=-=-=- Announcement: 2010-11-13 TLUG Technical Meeting -=-=-=-=-

Meeting information

  Date:  November 13th (Saturday)

  Time: 14:00 - 16:30

  Place: Digital Garage, Inc.
         Daikanyama Digital Gate Bldg.,
         3-5-7 Ebisu-minami, Shibuya-ku,
         Tokyo 150-0022, Japan

  Details:
http://www.tlug.jp/wiki/Meetings:Locations:Ebisu:Digital_Garage

  Topics:

         "Deploying Gentoo servers with chef"
         By Edward Middleton

         "Developing a Gamers site in PHP"
         By Andreas Kieckens

The first speaker Edward Middleton explain how to use chef to deploy and
maintain Gentoo Linux based servers.  The talk will cover components of
the chef deployment system, basic operation and the development of chef
cookbooks for Gentoo packages.

The second speaker Andreas Kieckens will talk about the development of
his site for international gamers.

If you are involved in a project or have something you would like to
talk about in this or a future technical meeting, we are always looking
for presenters.

Other items on the agenda are:
1. Introduction of new members, news about Linux/Open Source,
general announcements, Q&A
2. Auction

All Linux users and supporters of open source code and free software
are invited to attend this Tokyo Linux Users Group (TLUG) meeting.
Membership is open to anyone. There are no membership dues or entrance
fees.

After the meeting, we will continue chatting over a few beers.

About TLUG
----------
TLUG is a non-profit, non-political organization established in June
of 1994 to exchange information on the use of Linux and Free Software
Foundation tools. TLUG has an active mailing list, home page, and
regular physical meetings. Discussions are primarily held in English,
but non-English speakers are encouraged to come and participate.
We especially want to encourage Japanese people to attend and will make
efforts to support a bilingual meeting.

TLUG generally hosts technical meetings every month on the 2nd
Saturday, and a nomikai (social even at a pub) every even month on the
3rd Friday.

The TLUG home page is available at http://www.tlug.jp

For any instructions or info before the meeting:
    Edward Middleton ............ 090-3689-0292
    Jim Grisanzio ............ 090-6005-3208