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We'd like to thank our sponsors:
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Linux
- The Operating System of
the 21st Century
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SVLUG Sponsors
As with most user groups, SVLUG depends on the support of
individuals and corporations in our community.
We very much appreciate the support and assistance we have
received from current and past sponsors, and would like to
acknowledge their contributions.
Please let us know if you are aware of anyone we've missed!
Current Sponsors:
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Friendly local neigborhood Xen Virtual Private Server provider
prgmr.com has generously provided a VPS serving
SVLUG mailing lists (lists.svlug.org) since May 2015. They migrated and
resurrected mailing list services from the old physical machine running a 2.4
kernel.
Links:
prgmr.com
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Virtual machine and Internet hosting provider
Linode provides SVLUG with a
virtual machine that serves as our primary DNS server as well as
being intended to become SVLUG's replacement production Web server.
Linode has been providing us this machine since mid-2006. Our
particular thanks to our Linode's CEO, Christopher Aker.
Links:
linode.com
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Symantec provides SVLUG with an excellent main meeting space in the Vcafe cafeteria
facility at the former Veritas building in Mountain View. This began in May of 2005.
Our particular thanks to our Symantec sponsor and liaison, Hans van Rietschote.
Links:
about
Veritas
jobs
support
Stock: NASDAQ:SYMC
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Past Sponsors:
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Palo Alto, CA. Internet hosting provider
ViaNet graciously provides
SVLUG with physical Internet presence. This includes rack space for
servers, power, and a high-speed Internet connection. ViaNet began
sponsoring SVLUG in December of 2006.
ViaNet has supported Silicon Valley user groups for
many years. Our particular thanks to Joe McGuckin, founder of ViaNet,
for his sponsorship.
Links:
Via.Net
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Google, Inc. kindly furnished SVLUG with a pleasant, cheerful installfest
venue with LAN access to the Internet and an array of snacks and drinks,
from April 2005 to December 2007. Also, in late 2007 and early 2008,
they provided event space for our "kernel walkthrough" lecture series.
Our thanks in particular to sponsoring employees Mark Nielsen,
Jason T. Collins, Peter Neal, and Warren Turkal, who gave generously
of their time and help.
Links:
about
labs
zeitgeist
jobs
groups (former
DejaNews)
Stock: NASDAQ:GOOG
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During 2006, Open Country, Inc. provided refreshments (pizzas
and drinks) for attendees at most SVLUG general meetings.
Links:
about
products
news
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Several times since 2000, Alvin Oga's Linux-1U.net, a local
manufacturer of Linux 1U rackmount servers, donated 1U chassises
and NetGear NICs as door prizes at summer Linux Picnic events and other
SVLUG-sponsored events. During September/November 2006, the firm also
provided hosting and data backup for SVLUG's Web server.
Links:
about
info.
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Starting 1997,
Linux hardware vendor VA Research (later VA Linux
Systems) gave us Web hosting, free hardware, system administration,
sponsorship for installfests at their business partner UMAX's cafeteria,
and the free ongoing services of Amy Abascal and Lisa Corsetti on SVLUG's
original Web staff, working with Heather Stern. The original SVLUG machine
was constructed and administered by VA Research's Rob Walker and then by
VA Linux IT Department sysadmin Marc Merlin. Many other VA exployees
have generously helped.
In 2002, the firm became VA Software Corporation, a proprietary Java
(J2EE) software company, when it decided to
exit the Linux industry, and then later (May 2007) exited that industry as well,
renamed itself Sourceforge, Inc., a collection of "media and e-commerce Web
sites", ironically approximating the Andover.Net company that VA Linux
acquired in 1999.
Stock: NASDAQ:LNUX
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Linuxcare was a great sponsor of SVLUG, providing speakers, shirts, stickers,
and even raffling machines off at our meetings! (More recently, the firm
re-emerged as Levanta, Inc. a publisher of proprietary data center
management software.)
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Systems provided us with meeting space at their Gateway and Vineyard
Conference Centers in North San Jose, into 2005. Cisco was also the
site of our first installfest in 1997 and the July-December 1998 installfests.
Many Cisco employees are either officers or volunteers for SVLUG.
Links:
home
products
support
jobs
Stock: NASDAQ:CSCO
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Netscape
(a subsidiary of AOL since early 1999)
provided speakers for the April 1998 meeting
(the day after the Mozilla source release!)
and the meeting space at their Bldg 22 Cafeteria
for the Dec 1998 and Dec 1999 meetings.
Links:
home
jobs
Stock: NASDAQ:AOL
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Accent Technology
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Accent Technology provided space for SVLUG installfests from September 2001 to
2005. The firm closed in February 2005.
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SVLUG would like to thank the following individuals and groups
who've done DNS nameservice and domain adminstration for svlug.org,
svlug.net, and svlug.com:
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Brian Litzinger
Don Marti
Marc Merlin
New York Linux User Group
Rick Moen
Aaron T. Porter
Thunder.Net Communications
VA Linux Systems
Rob Walker
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Feedback to SVLUG webmasters.
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