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Location: Red Hat HQ, NCSU Centennial Campus Speaker: D. Richard Hipp Time: 7:00pm -0500 Thu, 11 Feb 2010 Food: Pizza and soft drinks provided

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Database technology has a long and rich history. Come listen to Richard mesmerize us with tales of the database world of yore, and the original reasons behind SQLite.

Richard will further delve into the evolution and world-wide adoption of SQLite up to the present day, survey the current state of database technology (and the trending "NoSQL" idea in particular), and how it all relates to embedded databases like SQLite. Finally, he'll tie it up with prognostications on future turns of database technology.

See the meeting wiki page for directions, etc.

Location: Red Hat HQ, NCSU Centennial Campus Speaker: Thomas Munn Time: 7pm, Thursday January 14 Food: Pizza and soft drinks provided

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Thomas has been working on something that is part art, part tech, and part FUN. He has an arcade game console with Linux under the hood.

Come hear Thomas tell us how he selected appropriate PC hardware, external controller boards and game inputs. He'll share his experiences putting it all together, from wood-working to soldering to software configuration. He'll show us some working parts (and some not-so-working parts), and photos of the almost complete game machine -- sorry, it's way too heavy to bring to the meeting!

Location: Red Hat HQ, NCSU Centennial Campus Speaker: Brian Phelps Time: Thursday December 10, 7pm Food: NO PIZZA THIS TIME - bring a dish to share

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For the last few years in December, TriLUG has hosted a "social", a time to gather and eat and chat and play games, without the distractions of a planned presentation.

We're going to try something new this year, the hybrid talk / social meeting.

Brian Phelps has been working with a pretty neat ARM-based embedded board called the "Beagle Board". It's a very capable little machine, with very modest needs. It has some smokin' hot graphics and lots of pins for hooking stuff up to it. And it can be powered by a USB plug.

Before, during, and after Brian's presentation/demo, we will be sharing food with our peers. Bring a dish, either something home-made or something store-bought, and share it with the group.

Food sign-up/ideas sheet on the wiki: http://trilug.org/wiki/Meeting:2009_Dec_10

TriLUG has received generous support from the following organizations and individuals. The sponsors are listed in alphabetical order within each sponsorship category, and the donation made by each sponsor is noted.

TriLUG Sponsorship level descriptions can be found on the Sponsorship Information" page.

Please contact the Steering Committee if you or your organization are interested in sponsoring TriLUG.

Platinum Sponsors

Server co-location generously provided by DASH Systems.

Caktus Group

Caktus Group located in Durham, NC provides the meeting space for TriLUG Hack Nights, at Caktus' Tech Space. Thank you, Caktus!

Brian's Hub 3D Printing

Brian provides an on-demand 3D printing service for the Triangle, featuring a 25% discount for TriLUG Members! Brian provides the custom TriTux models provided to TriLUG meeting presenters. Thank you Brian for your support!

Dr. Warren Jasper and the NCSU College of Textiles

Dr. Jasper and the NCSU College of Textiles generously provide the space for our regular monthly meetings. Thank you, Dr. Jasper and the College!

Silver Sponsors

O'Reilly and Associates have agreed to give TriLUG members 20% off of all O'Reilly and Associates books purchased at their website or through their phone number, 1-800-998-9938. See a Steering Committee member for details. O'Reilly also generously donates multiple titles to the TriLUG library, and giveaway books for our meetings.

Bronze Sponsors

All Things Open is a conference exploring open source, open tech, and the open Web in the enterprise. All Things Open is held every October in the Raleigh Convention Center.

Intrex Computers, is your 'one stop shop' for all your computing needs including parts, custom systems, repairs, and other services. Show your membership card at any of the Intrex stores & get discount pricing on all their products.

Location: Red Hat HQ, NCSU Centennial Campus Speaker: Andrew Dunstan Time: 7pm

The PostgreSQL project released v8.4 of its relational database in July. Andrew Dunstan will introduce us to the project as a whole, and delve into some of the new features (e.g. Windowing Functions) of the recent release. Andrew is also part of the Postgres development team, so as a bonus, we may get a sneak peek at in-development improvements (e.g. Streaming Replication).

Postgres is behind the scenes of many well-known sites and companies, including Cisco, Debian, MySpace, OpenStreetMap, Skype, and Yahoo!.

Linux is a very popular choice for server applications, but many businesses require extremely high availability. For example, phone companies require "five nines" of availability. That's 99.999% uptime.

Sure, my desktop PC might go a month or two between reboots. But how do you ensure that your Linux-based application is available ALL the time?

"Linux HA" is a set of tools that allows you to cluster several Linux systems together to provide a very high level of availability. When one system is not responding, the next one takes over.

SImon Karpen and Eric Blau will show us how all of this Linux HA magic works. Eric develops databases that are used by cellular telephone companies to route telephone calls, so he knows first-hand that Linux HA works well.

We would also like to thank Tekelec for sponsoring this month's meeting.

The wiki contains the pertinent details (directions, time, agenda): Linux HA

NOTE - There was some concern that our speaker might not be able to make it on Thursday night, but we have confirmed that the presentation will proceed as originally planned. - Alan Porter, 9/8 10pm

In 2002, Tarus Balog took a leap of faith by leaving his steady day job and taking over the management of a software package called OpenNMS. He has managed to slowly grow his business by providing support for this open source package, and by following the mantra "spend less than you earn".

Tarus will share his experiences with open source business, how it is viewed by customers, competitors, contributors and leeches.

And if you've got this lingering feeling that you could participate in the open source world and make it your full-time profession, Tarus has plenty of advice. Come join us for an unforgettable talk.

Time: 7:00pm Thursday, September 10 Place: Red Hat HQ Directions: http://www.redhat.com/about/contact/ww/americas/raleigh.html

Pizza and drinks are free. We'd like to thank Tarus Balog and The OpenNMS Group for their generous sponsorship of this month's meeting.

There is no charge for attendance or membership. Donations are always welcome.