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- UNIGROUP'S OCTOBER 2015 GENERAL MEETING ---------------------------------------
----------------------------------- Topic: An Introduction to the Raspberry Pi -----------------------------------
Speaker: Brian Reynolds, Unix & Network Systems Administrator
When: Thursday, October 15th, 2015 (** Regular 3rd Thursday **)
Where: The Cooper Union School of Engineering 41 Cooper Square (3rd Ave @ 7th St, bet. 6th & 7th Sts) East Village, Manhattan New York City Meeting Room: 502_CS (** 5th Floor **)
Time: 6:15 PM - 6:30 PM Registration 6:30 PM - 6:45 PM Ask the Wizard, Questions, Answers and Current Events 6:45 PM - 7:00 PM Unigroup Business and Announcements 7:00 PM - 9:30 PM Main Presentation
Cost: See the Meeting+Membership Fee Schedule Below.
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Unigroup is pleased to announce our October 2015 meeting on The Raspberry Pi, a small and low cost single board computer that can run a variety of operating systems, including: Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Plan 9, and various others. At various prior Unigroup meetings, we have discussed and/or demoed various small system boards, including the Raspberry Pi, Beaglebone, and Intel's Galileo. This is our first dedicated full meeting on this interesting topic.
Unigroup's November 2015 meeting will be on the latest Intel Processor Architecture Technology Roadmaps, presented by Charles Milo from Intel, who has given Unigroup our previous Intel Technology Roadmap presentations.
For December 2015, tentatively, there will be the annual NYC Technical Groups Holiday Party. (Stay Tuned).
For January 2016, Unigroup's meeting may be held one week earlier than normal (on the 2nd Thursday), due to easier classroom availability at that time. (Stay Tuned).
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MAIN PRESENTATION -----------------
Topic: An Introduction to the Raspberry Pi
Introduction & Description of Talk: -----------------------------------
The Raspberry Pi is a low cost ARM based single board computer intended for grade school students. Its low cost and ease of use has led to it being used for this, and much more.
Presentation Outline --------------------
- An Introduction to the Raspberry Pi - History - Hardware Lineup - Model A - Model A+ - Model B - Compute Module - Model B+ - 2 Model B - Hardware Overview - Software - Boot Options - OS Options - Applications - Ecosystem - Demo - Resources
References & Web Resources: ---------------------------
Wikipedia on Raspberry Pi:
Raspberry Pi Foundation
The MagPi Magazine
RPi Hub
BerryBoot
RasPi.TV
The Raspberry Pi Guy
/r/Raspberry/Pi/
Adafruit
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Speaker Biography -----------------
Brian Reynolds is a UNIX and Network Systems Administrator from New York City with over 25 years of experience. He has worked in the Banking, Software Development, Finance, Legal, ISP, and Garment industries. Brian is a graduate of NYU/WSUC. In the distant past Brian was a board member of UNIGROUP, and has previously given presentations at UNIGROUP meetings.
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Company Biography -----------------
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Giveaways: ----------
Addison-Wesley Professional/Prentice Hall PTR, and O'Reilly have been kind enough to provide us with review copies of some of their books, which we will continue to raffle off as giveaways at our meetings. The publishers always ask that the persons receiving the books provide a review and/or feedback about their books.
Unigroup would like to thank both companies for the support provided by their User Group programs.
As always, all of the books will be available for review at the start of the meeting.
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Fee Schedule: -------------
Unigroup is a Professional Technical Organization and User Group, and its members pay a yearly membership fee. For Unigroup members, there is usually no additional charges (ie. no meeting fees) during their membership year. Non-members who wish to attend Unigroup meetings are usually required to pay a "Single Meeting Fee".
Yearly Membership (includes all meetings): $ 50.00 Student Yearly Membership (with current! ID): $ 25.00 Non-Member Single Meeting Fee: $ 20.00 Non-Member Student Single Meeting (with! ID): $ 5.00
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Members: Remember to bring your Unigroup membership card with you to the meeting, to confirm your yearly renewal date!
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Food: -----
Complimentary Food and Refreshments will be served.
This normally includes "wraps" such as turkey, roast beef, chicken, tuna and grilled vegetables as well as assorted salads (potato, tossed, pasta, etc), cookies, brownies, bottled water and assorted SOFT beverages.
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Directions: -----------
The Cooper Union School of Engineering (*** New Building ***) 41 Cooper Square (3rd Avenue @ 7th St, between 6th & 7th Streets) East Village, Manhattan New York City, 10003 Meeting Room: ** (See Above, Room Changes Month-to-Month)
Located on the East side of Cooper Square. Look for the new building with the non-traditional appearance. Entrance is at the corner of 3rd Avenue and 7 Street.
Building lobby sign-in is required at the guard's desk. Enter the building, check in with the guard at the lobby for directions to Unigroup (the room varies from month-to-month).
Nearest mass transit stations are: '6' to Astor Place (stops right at The Cooper Union), then walk 1 block East and 1 block South. 'R' to 8th Street, then walk about 2 blocks East then 1 block South. '4/5/N/Q' to Union Square, then walk South and East. or transfer to the downtown '6' to Astor Place. 'B/D/F/V' to Broadway-Lafayette, then walk North and East, or transfer to the uptown '6' to Astor Place.
Free street parking in the area becomes available at 6pm.
There are also parking lots on Broadway, at (or just south of) Astor Place (8th Street), across from the West side of Cooper Square, as well as various others in the area.
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Please mark this meeting on your calendar and join us! Please tell your friends about Unigroup!
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Our thanks goes to The Cooper Union School of Engineering, and its staff, for hosting our meetings.
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- LOCAL TRADE SHOWS AND EVENTS ----------------------------
a) CCW - Content & Communications World / SATCON / NAB ===================================================
Dates: Wed, Nov 11, 2015 Thu, Nov 12, 2015
Where: Javits Center Midtown, NYC
For information and complimentary exhibits registration visit:
b) No-Shows: CETW/CET + Interop New York =====================================
It appears that the CETW/CET and Interop NY Shows are not happening in NYC for 2015.
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- UPCOMING MEETINGS -----------------
We have a series of meetings in the works: - 201511 : Intel Processor Architecture Technology Roadmaps - 2016?? : What's new in the latest C/C++ Standards - Planning: Popular Linux Distribution Round-Up and Comparison (aka: Are there too many Linux Distributions?) - Planning: Building a Data Server with Oracle/Sun ZFS - Planning: Virtualization: KVM, Xen/XenServer, VirtualBox - Planning: DNS / Dynamic DNS - Planning: Fibrechannel and Infiniband Storage - Planning: IPsec and VPNs (possibly 2 meetings) - Planning: Cloud and Grid Computing - Planning: Unix/Linux Authentication - Planning: NO SPAM! - Planning: Crypto / PKI / GPG-PGP - Planning: The latest on *BSD (FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD) - Planning: The latest on Solaris - Planning: Anti-Virus - Unix/Linux/BSD Clusters and Clustered Databases - Patching and Updating Unix/Linux/BSD (rpm. yum, yast, apt, etc.) - Building Custom Kernels Unix/Linux/BSD - Building a Firewall using FreeBSD and Linux - LAMP Part 2 - PHP/Python - Unix 40th+ Birthday Celebration - Samba - High Performance Internet Servers / Web Acceleration - Unix Office Tools: Word Processors, Spreadsheets, Accounting Packages. - GNU Development Environments - iSCSI, and other new peripheral technologies - Java and/or JavaScript Programming - Web Development Frameworks
** Unigroup Needs Speakers!! Please let us know about any other meeting topics that you may be interested in. Potential speakers on Unix/Linux/BSD related technology topics should please contact the Unigroup Board.----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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- UNIGROUP INFORMATION --------------------
Unigroup is one of the oldest and largest Unix User's Groups serving the Greater New York City Regional Area since the early 1980s. Unigroup is a not-for-profit, vendor-neutral and member funded volunteer organization. Unigroup holds regular and special event meetings throughout the year on technical topics relating to Unix and the Unix/Linux/BSD User Community.
Unigroup holds regular meetings planned for (at a minimum) the Third THURSDAY of Odd Months. We generally try to hold Field Trip or Vendor Specific Meetings on the Even Months, although we do have the ability to hold monthly meetings at our regular meeting location.
Planned regular meeting dates are (usually 3rd Thursdays): 10/15/2015, 11/19/2015, 12/2015 HolidayParty?, 01/14/2016?? ... Also watch for Special Event meetings and "Field Trips" to the facilities of local hardware and software vendors.
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