===== Using VMs for Special Purposes, SUSEstudio talk and BTRFS presentation =====


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====== August Meeting: Using VMs for Special Purposes, SUSEstudio talk and BTRFS presentation ======

Date: August 6, 2013 at 7 p.m.\\
Location: [[history:location:29|Shopify Headquarters]]\\


This month we are having a short talk on the utility of VMs for accomplishing specific goals and the main talk will be based on a demo of SUSEstudio and BTRFS


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===== VMs as a solution for badly designed services =====

Speaker: [[history:speaker:19|John C. Nash]]\\

John Nash will be presenting a short talk on his experiences with the Ottawa Public Library and how he solved his issues with their lending system.

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==== About the Speaker ====

Retired Professor of Management at U of Ottawa.

  * 2006 - May -- Pres. of OCLUG -- Now I'll have to learn more about Linux!
  * 2007 - Mar -- have learned a lot, including how much still to learn.


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===== SUSEstudio =====

Speaker: [[history:speaker:79|Sean Rickerd]]\\

Sean Rickerd will be giving a talk and demo of SUSEstudio

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==== About the Speaker ====

Sean is currently a sales engineer with SUSE, having held that position since March of 2013. Prior to that, Sean has worked at Headstrong and Rocket Networks.


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===== Overview of the BTRFS =====

Speaker: [[history:speaker:79|Sean Rickerd]]\\

Sean Rickerd will be giving a talk and demo of the BTRFS (Butter/Better/B-Tree File System) which is considered production ready with SUSE Linux

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==== About the Speaker ====

Sean is currently a sales engineer with SUSE, having held that position since March of 2013. Prior to that, Sean has worked at Headstrong and Rocket Networks.


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