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| DATE | 2011-01-28 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Status report from tonight board meeting
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Can we schedule a postgres workshop ASAP and C++
I don't think we can do an installfest in that space, but perhaps I'm
wrong.
Ruben
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 10:47:00PM -0500, Paul Robert Marino wrote:
> Well as far as a class goes let's see how an inservice goes first.
>I say this for two reasons primarily putting togeather a full
>curiculum is a lot more work than an inservice ( although a good
>inservice takes a lot of prep too) and I don't want to go throught
>planing a class just to find there is too little intrest. The second
>reason is the development of the inservice combine with the questions
>from the audiance after will help me with producing a better class
>curiculum latter. Think of it as a compressed dry run. > also I
>do think postgresql is a good subject as I get a supprising number
>of inqueries from recruters on a weekly basis because postgresql
>variants are becoming hot in the data warehouses and there is no
>official certification. What's worse is I hear thing from DBA's
>who took classes on it that I know are wrong and its not just
>their intrepritation some of them have shown me classroom materials
>that make statments that are wrong and make it seem more difficult
>to manage than it is. > > -----Original Message----- > > From:
>Ruben Safir > Subj: Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT]
>Status report from tonight board meeting > Date: Fri Jan 14, 2011
>3:22 pm > Size: 2K > To: hangout-at-mrbrklyn.com > > On Wed, Jan
>12, 2011 at 12:31:51AM -0500, Paul Robert Marino wrote: > > While
>understandable because of the weather and relatively short > >
>notice we didn't have the turnout I would of hoped for there were
> > several things discussed which were important to the organization
> > moving forward. > > > > In attendance was > > * Micheal
>Richardson > > * Rubin Safir > > * Paul Robert Marino > > > > > >
>1) Future events at Suspenders > > We can hold events at Suspenders
>and seat up to 30 people in a private > > room with internet access
>and an LCD projector. The preferred nights > > are Mondays and
>Tuesdays. we can hold in-services, tech nights, comity > > meetings,
>and possibly even classes in the space. > > > > 2) In-services >
>> In the coming weeks we will be trying to get a list of possible
>> > in-services we can get content experts to present. Once we have
>> > compiled the list we will be setting up polls to determine
>audience > > interest in the subjects. > > > > I personally have
>committed to conduct in-services conditionally on > > the results
>of the poll the following > > * Structuring Nagios configurations
>more easily manageable and > > scalable for enterprise environments.
>> > * PostgreSQL > > * File system and LVM and RAID tuning > > *
>Whats new in the NFS 4.1 standard and why will it become very > >
>important once its declared stable in the Linux kernel > > > > As
>a general question to the group is there any one who would be > >
>willing to commit to doing an in-service > > > > 3) Classes > >
>There is the possibility of doing classes; however, we would need
>to > > figure out which classes we could possibly get reasonable
>number to > > sign up for. an other question would be what costs
>>would be associated > > with it? > > > > Classes interests me at
>this point. I'm wondering if you can put > together a prostgres
>program, and I would like to do an embperl workshop > along with
>>the perl classes. > > Ruben > > > > 4) Taxes > > Micheal Richardson
>agreed to follow up on the following questions > > What is our
>current status? > > Were the tax forms properly filed for 2009? >
>> What forms need to be filed for 2010? > > > > > > > > Thank You
>>>>>>>>> > Paul Robert Marino >
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