{"id":1171,"date":"2007-07-11T07:41:31","date_gmt":"2007-07-11T11:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/?p=1171"},"modified":"2007-07-11T07:41:31","modified_gmt":"2007-07-11T11:41:31","slug":"plug-montco-july-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/2007\/07\/plug-montco-july-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"PLUG Montco July Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monday night Michael and I headed to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phillylinux.org\/montco.html\">Montco chapter<\/a>&#8216;s new meeting location in at Unisys Blue Bell. Linking the Montgomery County LUG with PLUG has been fantastic for the group, I&#8217;m very happy to have both the access to people who offer meeting locations and the publicity that posting meeting announcements to the PLUG list.<\/p>\n<p>We arrived around 6:30, our host quickly showed up with the pizzas and sodas Unisys provided (nice!). People came in throughout the first hour and ended up totaling 13 &#8211; a record for Montco! And surprising because LUGs are usually slow in the summer. A couple people new to the LUG showed up and we had some good discussions. Our host, Rob Wilkinson, spent a few minutes explaining the role of Unisys in Free\/Open Source Software, which was really interesting, aside from their heavy Xen development, they&#8217;re now shipping servers bundled with Linux (Suse and Redhat) and other F\/OSS, including support for things like Postgres on the enterprise level. He then alluded to a few state governments that are putting millions in the F\/OSS solutions they&#8217;re selling, but wouldn&#8217;t elaborate because press releases haven&#8217;t gone out yet. Call me sold, but I&#8217;m impressed with the steps Unisys has been taking in the F\/OSS arena these past couple years.<\/p>\n<p>Michael did his updated talk on <a href=\"http:\/\/bevilacqua.us\/LinuxStreamingTalk\/\">Cross-Platform Digital Audio Streaming<\/a> from 8-9 and I think it went quite well, it was his second time giving it but the format of Montco meetings really lends itself to a more discussion type talk than the last time he gave it. We headed home around 9:30.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/images\/journalpics\/montco_plug_070907.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/images\/journalpics\/montco_plug_070907_sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>A success I&#8217;d say! I&#8217;ll be adding a permanent directions page to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phillylinux.org\">PLUG website<\/a> when I have some time, it was a great location and the security considerations weren&#8217;t as bad as I was worried they would be &#8211; members need to be escorted in by an employee from the guard station but it&#8217;s not all that far from the conference room. Thanks again to them for hosting!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday night Michael and I headed to the Montco chapter&#8216;s new meeting location in at Unisys Blue Bell. Linking the Montgomery County LUG with PLUG has been fantastic for the group, I&#8217;m very happy to have both the access to people who offer meeting locations and the publicity that posting meeting announcements to the PLUG [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-planet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}