Sponsored by USENIX, The Advanced Computing Systems Association, in cooperation with BayLISA  About BaySUG '05 Overview Program Participating Groups  Important Dates Pre-registration deadline: November 11, 2005, noon PST BaySUG '05: November 12, 2005, 1:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m.  Registration Registration for BaySUG '05 is free. Register on-site on November 12, noon–1:00 p.m.  Venue Information Computer History Museum Driving Directions  Is Your Group Participating? Tell us more about your group! Send a 50-word description to baysug05groups@usenix.org.  Help Promote BaySUG '05! Please print out and distribute the flyer (PDF) at user group meetings, around the office, and among your friends! Also display the button on your Web site. THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS Addison-Wesley/    Prentice Hall PTR Google Mirapoint O'Reilly Splunk Taos

Participating Groups Is Your Group Participating? Tell us more about your group! Send a 50-word description to baysug05groups@usenix.org. Balug Bay Area Linux User Group Contact Persons: Dick Verna and Larry Platzek Meeting Location and Times: Four Seas Restaurant (China Town) Third Tuesday of every month. The time is 1900 or (7:00 P.M.). The meetings are opened with a very nice dinner of chinese food and then segue into a speaker section with a question and answer period following afterwards. BayLISA Contact Information: blw@baylisa.org Meeting Location: Cupertino, California, Apple Campus, 3rd Thursday of the month Description: BayLISA, a non-profit group based in the San Francisco Bay Area, helps system and network administrators improve their technical skills and offers a venue for professional fellowship. BayLISA hosts monthly meetings that are free and open to the public. Berkeley Unix User Group (BUUG) Contact Persons: Larry Press, Michael Paoli, Aaron T. Porter, Jon McClintock (some meeting "regulars," domain and list wranglers, respectively) Meeting Location: We meet the 1st and 3rd Thursdays of the month, 7-9pm at Au Coquelet Cafe in Berkeley - convenient to BART/downtown/campus. Description: We're a friendly support network for folks in/around Berkeley to learn and discuss LINUX, BSD, Solaris, and other Unix-type systems. We have open informal meetings (no preset agenda), and you are welcome to bring your questions/problems to ask the group. We also have a fairly active mailing list. Consortium of All Bay Area Linux (CABAL) Contact Information: CABAL Installers Meeting Location and Times: 2nd and 4th Saturdays from 4pm to midnight, at 2033 Sharon Road near Alameda de las Pulgas, West Menlo Park. Since early in 1997, CABAL has organized Linux / BSD installfests all over the Bay Area in cooperation with the other Linux and BSD groups, and has held twice-monthly meetings both to help people with *ix software problems and serve as a social focus for the Bay Area's open source community. Meetings are relaxed social occasions in addition to the technical aspects, and many participants bring food/drink to share, but doing so is not required or expected. Fast Internet access and installation media for dozens of current Linux distributions and BSDs are available for attendees' use, along with expert help. Linux Users' Group of Davis (LUGOD) Leader Contact Information: Henry House, Treasurer, +1 530 7533361 ext. 13, devnull@lugod.org or hajhouse@houseag.com; President: awaiting results of officer election, root@lugod.org Meeting Location and Times: We hold regular meetings on evenings of the third Monday of each month, with guest speakers and informative presentations. Locations vary; check https://lugod.org/ for map and directions to the next meeting. LUGOD also holds other regular and semi-regular events and workshops, and maintains active mailing lists (some with over 200 subscribers) and an IRC channel for chatting. Meetings and membership are free, and open to the public. Description: LUGOD is a 501(c)(7) non-profit club serving Davis and neighboring cities in Yolo, Solano, and Sacramento counties. We are a collection of over 400 people dedicated to GNU/Linux (a powerful, free, Unix-like operating system), Free Software, Open Source, and other related topics. Our goals are advocacy, education, support and socializing. NaSPA (Network and Systems Professionals Association) Leader Contact Information: Radi Shourbaji, VP/Marketing; (408)687-4099, marketing@naspa.com Meeting Location and Times: TBD, since local chapter is just beginning to form. Description: The Network and Systems Professionals Association is a not-for-profit (IRC-501-C6) corporation dedicated to enhancing the professional and personal lives of its members, IT technical professionals worldwide. NaSPA has thousands of members in over 80 countries. In the United States, NaSPA has members in all companies on the Fortune 500 list. Oakland Perl Mongers Leader Contact Information: George Woolley Meeting Location and Times: Grand Lake Neighborhood Center; 530 Lake Park Ave., Oakland, CA, 2nd Saturdays 1-3pm Description: Oakland Perl Mongers (aka Oakland.pm or OPUG or Oakland Perl Users Group) is a small informal Perl users group that meets in Oakland, California and nearby cities. Anyone interested in Perl is welcome. Pacific IT Professionals - Pac IT Pros San Francisco Networking Technologies Users Group - SFNTUG Leader Contact info: Douglas Spindler, 925-258-6600 Meeting Location and Times: 1 Market Street, Suite 200 (Market at California) San Francisco, CA 94105 Meetings First Tuesday of the month Description: The San Francisco Networking Technologies Users Group, SFNTUG, is an independent non-profit Professional Organization focusing on the needs and concerns of Server and Network Administrators, and other IT professionals. The mission of SFNTUG is to provide education, training, information, and resources to IT Professionals. This is not an organization focusing on the issues of home enthusiasts or programmers; however both are welcome to attend our events. If you admin or a support a computing environment with Windows, Novell, Linux or Apple or CISCO you should be attending. PenLUG - Peninsula Linux Users' Group Leader Contact Information: Bill Ward, founder & president Meeting Location and Times: Oracle headquarters in Redwood City once a month on the 4th Thursday (2nd Thursday in Nov & Dec) Description: Linux users for San Mateo County. San Francisco Linux User's Group Contact Information: jim@well.com Meeting Times: first Sunday, third Monday each month SF-LUG is an informal discussion group. We sometimes have some great talks together. It's different from listening to a lecture, often more fun. San Francisco Perl Mongers (SF.pm) Leader Contact Information: Quinn Weaver Meeting Location and Times: Fourth Tuesdays at 8:00 p.m.; varying locations Description: SF.pm is the Bay Area's first and longest-continually-running Perl Mongers group. We feature speakers from all over the Perl world: visiting big names, successful local entrepreneurs, local open-source developers, and others. We also run munches. We are always looking for speakers. Mail Quinn, qw@sf.pm.org, with proposals, referrals, or wish lists. San Francisco PostgreSQL Users' Group Leader Contact Information: david@fetter.org Meeting Location and Times: once a month, alternating between Oakland and San Francisco, also between 2nd Tuesday and 2nd Wednesday. Description: PostgreSQL and related applications in the San Francisco Bay Area Silicon Valley Linux Users' Group (SVLUG) Contact Information: Bill Ward, VP Meeting Location and Times: Symantec in Mountain View once a month on the 1st Wednesday Description: SVLUG is the Silicon Valley Linux Users' Group. SVLUG also holds monthly installfests and "Hacking Society" meetings.