Re: Special Speaker, Dave McAllister, May 21 and 22.

[Larry White <lwhite@apci.net>]

Its been several days since Kara posted this message and I've seen 
little, if any response.  How many from the Fairview Heights chapter are 
interested in going to St Louis on the night of Monday 21 May?  Please 
let me know so we can work out driving arrangements.  I for one would be 
willing to drive if someone wants to navigate!

Kara, you can put me down for dinner on Wednesday.

Larry


>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

On 5/3/01, 1:35:40 PM, Kara Pritchard <kara@luci.org> wrote regarding 
Special Speaker, Dave McAllister, May 21 and 22.:


> Hey everyone, we've got a special speaker, Dave McAllister coming to the
> area the week of May 21, sponsored by SILUG.

> On Monday May 21 at 7:00pm, Dave will be giving a presentation on Linux
> clusters at the normal meeting place of the St Louis Linux Users Group at
> Indian Trails Library.

>               St. Louis County Library, Indian Trails Branch
>                    8400 Delport Drive (at Midland)
>                    St. Louis, MO 63114-5904
>                    314.428.5424

> You can find directions and such at stllinux.org. This is a special
> meeting event, not a regular LUG meeting, and it is being sponsored by
> SILUG, so I would like as many SILUG members present as possible.

> Let's organize a carpool/caravan. Harry Treece (sorry to point you out),
> but if you will attend (PLEASE!) can you be lead contact on a caravan or
> carpool from Carbondale? If so, post so that Carbondale members can
> contact you for arrangements. I'm going to have my hands full by
> chauferring Dave, so who in Fairview Heights will coordinate the local
> caravan? Last time we attempted this, it fell apart, so let's try again 
:P

> ------

> On Tuesday, May 22 at 7:00pm Dave will be speaking at the Linux Users of
> Central Illinois (LUCI) regular LUG meeting at 7:00pm in Springfield,
> Illinois. It is approximately 1.5 hours from Fairview Heights to the
> Springfield location, if you opt to travel there. For meeting location 
and
> directions, visit http://www.luci.org/.

> ------

> On Wednesday, May 23 I am planning another informal dinner for SILUG
> members at Emporer's Wok as we did with Peter Salus' visit. With dinner
> finishing up early, we can retire to my home for a quieter chat session
> with Dave, as well as a SILUG social. Egenera has agreed to sponsor the
> buffet dinner, and as soon as I get a firm budget from them, I will know
> how many 'freebies' we'll have available. For afterward, I wouldn't mind
> having a finger foods, desserts, beer and soda social, open to everyone,
> including those unable to attend dinner. If I can get volunteers for
> carry-in, that'd be extremely helpful. Please, please be rude and
> volunteer your spouses if nothing else ;)

> -------

> Okay, that's the general schedule for the week. If you think your company
> or work group would be interested in a special visit or meeting with 
Dave,
> please let me know. Dave is also meeting with large technical groups and
> with business people that week to discuss large data center solutions
> using Linux clusters and mass storage networks as well.

> Below is Dave's BIO and his presentation abstract.

> Look forward to seeing you at the events that week :)

> -------

> About Dave:

> Currently Director of Strategic Technologies for Egenera, Dave McAllister 
is
> best known in open source circles for bringing Linux into SGI as a main
> product line, McAllister has presented on several Linux tours and 
keynotes,
> both in the U.S and internationally. A respected figure in the Open 
Source
> world, Dave is active in Linux International, and the Linux Professional
> Institute. He holds degrees in mathematics and chemistry from Old 
Dominion
> University and has done graduate work in computer science.

> About the presentation:

> Clustering in the Enterprise: What works, What we need.

> As Linux and Open source have taken the internet world, several attempts 
to
> bridge high availability and clusters to the needs of commercial concerns
> have arisen. These attempts run the gamut from Load Balancing to 
Failover,
> and in fact may be the best way to build such systems. However, each
> available solution has both strengths and weaknesses; depending on your
> business needs, will influence your choice of a viable solution. This
> discussion will cover the highlights of each approach, and look at the
> idealized hardware concept.


> Please make every attempt to make this meeting, so we can justify making
> more arrangements with special event speakers. I've known Dave for a few
> years now, and is a very interesting individual in the Linux community.
> Definitely worth your time!

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