We elected our officers for Jun, 2012 to May, 2013 in our May, 2012 meeting. The results are:
President: Lee Damon (president @ …)
Vice President: Paul English (vicepresident @ …)
Secretary: Jon Lasser (sectres @ …)
I would like to thank our outgoing president, Scott McDermott, for his years of service!
| Date: | June 14th, 2012 |
| Time: | 7pm |
| Place: | EE1 Building (Electrical Engineering) Room 403 University of Washington Campus |
| Directions: | http://www.ee.washington.edu/about/contact.html |
| Subject: | NTFS the workhorse file system for the Windows Platform |
| Presenter: | Neal Christianson |
This presentation will provide a high level overview of NTFS for those who may be less familiar with how it operates. The focus of the presentation will then shift to functionality added in the Windows 7 and Windows 8 timeframe.
Bio:
Neal Christiansen is a Principal Software Development Lead for the Resilient File Systems team in the Windows Storage and File Systems Group at Microsoft (Redmond WA). His team’s primary responsibility is the development of the Windows NTFS File System. Neal joined Microsoft in 1999 as a member of the Core File Systems Group working in the File System Filters team. In 2002 he became the lead for the File System Filters team and was involved with the design and implementation of the Windows Filter Manager. Neal has 30 years of system software development experience. He led the design and implementation of the NSS File System for NetWare while at Novell. Neal also led the design and implementation of the Motorola 68000 based WMCS operating system for Wicat Systems. Neal has a BS in Computer Science from Brigham Young University.
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As always, there will be dinner sponsored by Silicon Mechanics. Check them out at http://www.siliconmechanics.com/
There will also be several CACert assurers present.
The meeting will be at the Electrical Engineering building on the University of Washington Campus, aka EE1. Directions are linked to the EE Department’s web site above. Parking is $5 after 5pm.
| Date: | May 10th, 2012 |
| Time: | 7pm |
| Place: | EE1 Building (Electrical Engineering) Room 403 University of Washington Campus |
| Directions: | http://www.ee.washington.edu/about/contact.html |
| Subject: | fpm – why you should try it out |
| Presenter: | Ian Paredes |
Ever needed to build a package quickly from a tarball or folder structure without having to write spec files or Debian control files? What about converting rpm’s to deb’s, deb’s to rpm’s, RubyGems to system packages, Python packages to system packages, or even all of the above over to full fledged Puppet modules?
fpm does all of the above for you. What’s more is that there are other open source projects, such as fpm-cookery, that allow you to define how to build packages from scratch with a single manifest, and have it build packages in a package format agnostic way.
We will be talking about how to get started, how you can use fpm-cookery to replace repositories of spec files and Debian related packaging files, and what a build system would look like with these two programs.
Bio:
Ian Paredes recently joined Amazon Web Services as a systems engineer for both the CloudFront and Route 53 teams. He’s worked in a variety of environments, with most of his experience being in administering high performance websites and automating entire stacks with configuration management systems. He has been in the industry for
three years.
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As always, there will be dinner sponsored by Silicon Mechanics. Check them out at http://www.siliconmechanics.com/
There will also be several CACert assurers present.
The meeting will be at the Electrical Engineering building on the University of Washington Campus, aka EE1. Directions are linked to the EE Department’s web site above. Parking is $5 after 5pm.