BALUG is
the
Bay Area
Linux Users
Group.
We generally meet monthly
in San Francisco (in/near SOMA/Chinatown area, near downtown).
We also operate several
mailing lists.
BALUG generally meets the third Tuesday of each month. We talk about Linux and related topics, and we typically share ample portions of food (e.g. Chinese).
We typically have a speaker/presentation for our meetings (generally starting around the tail end of dinner or immediately following dinner). In any case, with or without a speaker/presentation arranged and scheduled, our meetings include good people, and interesting conversations. And if we haven't announced/posted a speaker/presentation, don't let that fool you - sometimes we manage to score an excellent speaker/presentation (e.g. at the last minute) without our having managed to get it posted onto the web site and an announcement sent out in advance.
Please RSVP if you're planning to attend.
Meeting kicks off at 6:30 P.M. - we start
with meet and greet and chat and such,
then proceed with dining around 7:00 P.M. for dinner
- please arrive before 7:00 P.M. if you want to join us for dinner.
Please RSVP if you're planning to attend.
To do so please e-mail us a note at
rsvp@balug.org
indicating meeting date.
If you'll be bringing additional guest(s) please let us know total number of folks you're RSVPing for.
Also please let us know any special requirements or concerns you may have (e.g. if you have any particular dietary considerations,
so that we might possibly be able to accommodate you,
or if you won't be dining with us
but do wish to otherwise join our meeting).
dinner costs? May vary - see venue for more information (we may dine and share "family" style and split up the costs, if folks are agreeable to that
- for Henry's Hunan Restaurant, typical cost per
person including tax and tip (but not including beverages beyond
complementary tea) would be in the $13.00 to $17.50 range, and
commonly around $15.00 to $16.50. Cash may be preferred to ease
splitting up the check. One can also specifically order the
dish(es) one needs/prefers (e.g. for dietary considerations) - and
we also commonly order some dish(es) that may meet various dietary
considerations (e.g. vegetarian, non-pork, ...)).
Discussion Topic:
We do have some suggested discussion topic for this meeting:
"Of course" that doesn't mean we're limited to the above, but expect we'll probably be at least touching upon those. Feel free also to bring your own topics/suggestions to meeting, and/or suggest for upcoming meetings.
So, come meet with us and enjoy interesting Linux, etc. discussion. Bring questions, answers, interesting stuff to share, learn stuff, hear and share cool interesting stories and meet cool and interesting people!
Fred Moyer will introduce us to statistical based service monitoring. If you've used something like Nagios, Graphite, or Zabbix to monitor your systems, you're probably familiar with threshold based alerting. Specifically, that it often results in you waking up in the middle of the night for false positives. This talk will show you how to implement quantile based service monitoring with histograms, so that you can understand how your service is actually doing, rather than just guessing based on metric averages.
Meeting venue (at least until further notice or otherwise noted):
Henry's Hunan Restaurant
110 Natoma St. (between 2nd & New Montgomery, not to be confused with their other locations)
San Francisco, CA 94105-3704
1-415-546-4999
Dinner costs? We typically share and dine "family style" and split up the costs, for folks are agreeable to that (folks may also order item(s) specifically for themselves - e.g. if they have specific dietary restrictions).
BALUG Mailing Lists:
We could also always use more volunteers to make BALUG even better! Some of the tasks which could use more volunteers include:
If you're at all interested in helping with any and/or all of the above, please contact BALUG contact.