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PENINSULA LINUX USERS' GROUP
of the San Francisco Bay Area

The Peninsula Linux Users' Group (PenLUG) is a Linux group for the San Mateo County and surrounding areas, based in the Redwood Shores / Belmont area. If you are interested in participating, please subscribe to our members mailing list. Or if you just want to hear what's going on, join our announce list. Our members have also contributed some LinuxHints; you're welcome to add your own.

For more information about the group, or to find out about speaking at one of our meetings, contact info@penlug.org. Thank you!



Sponsors

Our meeting sponsor and host for meetings is Qualys. Our meetings have been held at Bayshore Technology Park, where their offices are located, since April 2007. Qualys will also be providing food (FREE PIZZA) and beverages for our meetings. Thanks, Qualys!!!

Andrew Fife of Untangle is our primary speaker coordinator. He has arranged for several excellent speakers at our meetings, and we are very grateful for his help!


PenLUG Meeting Schedule:

PenLUG meets on the fourth Thursday of each month, except during the months of November and December, when we meet on the second Thursday due to the holidays. Meetings begin at 7pm and continue until approximately 9pm, with open social time after that.

We meet at the Qualys offices in Foster City, CA; see Qualys Driving Directions (included below) or Qualys Transit Directions for details.

Next Meeting

Date: Thursday, July 24th, 2008
Time: meeting 7:00 - 9:00 PM, social/networking until 10 PM
Location: Bayshore Technology Park
1300 Island Drive
Redwood City, CA 94065
Suite 106 - Training Room

Robert Scott, Alpaca

Although Linux has all of the necessary tools to do networking, including gateway devices, it is missing a comprehensive configuration utility to stitch it all together. At the end of the day, networking in Linux is hard, and we thought it was time for a change. We wanted something that was powerful, easy to use and looked good. We wanted to make open source networking sexy. Thus, we embarked on a journey to unite both classical and romantic beauty by marrying some of the most powerful tools in Linux Networking with some of the most celebrated web technologies. What emerged was the “Untangle Net Alpaca” -- a new open source networking utility that presents a consistent, reliable platform for setting up a wide range of networking tasks, including PPPoE Management, NAT, Redirect, Packet Filtering, Bridging, DNS, DHCP (dnsmasq), and more.

At this talk, we will go through the design and function of Untangle Net Alpaca and demonstrate how you can use it to easily provide network services at the gateway.

Robert Scott is a keyboard operator at Untangle. He is a passionate member of the Free and Open Source Software community with over 10 years of Linux experience and dedicates some of his time to developing an Open Source Car Stereo at cadvium.net. He enjoys working in a wide range of languages and development environments. He graduated with a degree in Computer Science from Harvard University in 2002.

RSVP

  • Although it is not required, we like to have an idea of how many people to expect, so if possible please email rsvp@penlug.org if you are planning to attend.

2008 PenLUG meetings:

If you or someone you know would like to present at an upcoming PenLUG meeting (any date marked "TBD" is available), see the HowToScheduleSpeakers page for instructions on what to do.

Previous Years: 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003

There is also a Video archive of some past meetings.

Contributing to PenLUG Web site

Want to contribute to the PenLUG Web site? Send mail to registration@penlug.org to request a user account, and then you can click the "Edit" button at the bottom of any page! Due to abuse by wiki-spammers the usual TWikiRegistration form is disabled. Sorry!

PenLUG Knowledge Base

Here are a few of the articles you can find about Linux on this site:

PenLUG Web site updates - RSS feed

[XML/RSS]

Use with your favorite RSS aggregator. For example Mozilla Thunderbird and Firefox have built-in RSS support, or use Bloglines for a Web-based one.


Driving Directions to PenLUG meetings

Bayshore Technology Park
1300 Island Drive
Redwood City, CA 94065

NOTE: See the meeting details page for the meeting in question to determine the specific room for the meeting. The meeting is hosted by Qualys, whose offices are located in the Bayshore Technology Park. The meeting room is not, however, in the Qualys office itself.

Interactive map at Google Maps | Transit Directions

If you encounter difficulty finding us, call Bill Ward at 650 279-9904 (cell).

  • From US-101 (either direction):
    1. Exit the freeway at Ralston Ave/Marine Parkway
      • If coming north (e.g. from San Jose), turn right at the end of the offramp.
      • If coming south (e.g. from San Francisco), turn left at the end of the offramp.
    2. Continue on Marine Parkway past the Oracle buildings
    3. Turn left onto Island Drive
    4. Park at 1300 Island Drive

  • From I-280 (either direction):
    1. Take highway 92 eastbound.
    2. Take the Ralston Ave / Belmont exit off 92, and drive through Belmont on Ralston.
    3. Cross over US-101, where Ralston becomes Marine Parkway
    4. Continue on Marine Parkway past the Oracle buildings
    5. Turn left onto Island Drive
    6. Park at 1300 Island Drive

  • From the east bay:
    • Take highway 92 (San Mateo Bridge) to San Mateo, then take 101 south and continue as above.

  • From Half Moon Bay:
    • Take highway 92. After passing the 280 interchange, take the Ralston Ave exit and continue using the I-280 instructions above.

  • Carpooling & Transit: email carpool@penlug.org to find a carpool buddy. For best results, email us several days before the meeting; also, have a fallback plan for driving. Consult Qualys Transit Directions for bus and train options.

-- BillWard - 08 Apr 2007


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