[plug] SAGE-AU meeting, Tue. 7 May: What has SUSE Linux been up to lately

[Alastair Irvine]

Hi, all.  This presentation may be of interest.  People who aren't 
members of SAGE-AU may attend one meeting without being obliged to 
join.  SAGE-AU is the System Administrators Guild of Australia.
http://www.sage-au.org.au/

It would assist if you could RSVP through the Meetup event:
http://www.meetup.com/SAGE-AU-WA/events/114579572/


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            SAGE-AU Western Australian Chapter Meeting
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TITLE:   What has SUSE Linux been up to lately

DATE:    Tuesday 7 May 2013

TIME:    6:00 PM (drinks), 6:30 PM (meeting)

VENUE:   Moon and Sixpence British Pub
         300 Murray St
         Perth 6000

CONTACT: Alastair Irvine <alastair.irvine at computer.org>
         0435 078 348 (on the night only)


.: AGENDA :.
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[6:00pm]  Meet for drinks and chat at "The Stables" in the rear of 
the pub.  The area is roped off with signage announcing the 
meeting.

[6:25pm]  Migration to the Raine Room of the adjoining Comfort Inn.

Drinks rules: Please remember that we have been asked not to take 
our drinks from the Moon and Sixpence to the meeting room any more.  
However, given that rules tend be illogical, there is a loophole.

It turns out that Raine Room operates as part of La Bohème's 
liquor license.  So if you go from the hotel lobby through the 
bistro into the other pub (on Murray Street, corner of William 
Street) you can buy a drink there and bring that into the meeting 
room.  No pretending; there are probably cameras.

[6:30pm]  Welcome & Introductions.

[6:35pm]  Meeting commences.

This month's guest is Rod Nash, from SUSE's South Yarra office.

SUSE has been hard at work over the years building up the core/base 
SLES product and the life cycle management that goes around that. We 
have recently extended that to include the Cloud.  This session will 
have a look SLES SP2 and preview the plans for SP3.  And we will 
also take a quick look at SUSE Manager and SUSE Cloud.

Rod Nash's job title is Linux Specialist.  He has been in the IT 
industry for over 33 years, working for both commercial companies 
and hardware & software vendors. He spent over 21 years working for 
IBM before joining SUSE Linux in 2010.
 
Rod developed an interest in Linux while working in the team that 
helped bring Linux to the IBM Mainframe/System z platform. He has 
been involved in many major deployments of Linux in a wide range of 
industries - often with companies that had little or no skills in 
Linux itself. Rod acted as the technical lead on many of these 
deployments. This included developing and leading detailed technical 
design workshops for the deployment of Linux, manage the co-
ordination of the technical teams from Architecture, Security, 
Network, Storage, Linux, and architectural design for network, 
storage and virtualised server components.

[7:30pm]  Meeting close. Migration back to the pub for drinks, Q&A, 
and General Discussion of current IT issues.

Hope to see you there!


.: DIRECTIONS :.
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The Moon and Sixpence pub is located on Murray Street, Perth, 
between Queen and William Streets. It is within easy walking 
distance of the Busport, Wellington Street Bus Station, Perth Train 
Station and less than 100 meters from Perth Underground Train 
Station. For those who are driving, Murray Street is one-way (east, 
towards the hills) with vehicle entry available from Milligan 
Street, the Freeway and West Perth. Parking is available from one 
of several City of Perth carparks located along Murray Street, as 
well as in bays on Murray Street itself. 

Find your way there with Google Maps: http://bit.ly/35b23N


-- 
Alastair Irvine, Warpspace IT <http://www.warpspace.net/>
Business enquiries: 1300 881744 or guru at warpspace.net
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