Elena Petrova of Unicon proposed that Unicon give a product demonstration of this product development toolkit for Linux handheld devices.

Mentioned by Julio C. Acosta of Infoblox as a possible speaker. He (Cricket) now works at Infoblox.

Cricket Liu is author of the classic reference DNS and BIND for O'Reilly and Associates.

Based on the Australian System, where source code is freely published for public review, the Open Vote Project's initial goals are to make a touchscreen voting system fully compatible with California election law, including a voter-verifiable receipt and easy access for the disabled. Once accomplished, the project will then expand into a global standard for secure, reliable, and full featured voting machine software, including features such as multi-lingual ballots, vote-anywhere technology, and onsite voter registration.

The Open Vote Foundation is an organization dedicated to the development and implementation of open, secure standards for electronic voting machines. Based in California, the foundation's chief focus is the development of the Open Vote Project, is an open source effort to develop free software for Direct Recording Electronic (DRE) voting machines.

Offer made to SVLUG Volunteers list.

Offer made to SVLUG Volunteers list.

Suggested as a possible future speaker on SVLUG Volunteers list.

Suggested as a possible future speaker on SVLUG Volunteers list.

Suggested by member Aniruddha Mulay. May 2008 update: Bryan suggested that September 2008 or so would work for him.

Suggested by member Aniruddha Mulay.

Bill Kendrick mentioned on Mar. 18, 2008, that Alex Honor had given a well-received talk at LUGOD about the "CTL" open source project for enterprise management, written in Java, but with bindings to Python, Perl, Ruby, shell, Javascript, and more. CTL is not an acronym; think of what 'apachectl' does for the Apache webserver, and imagine what such a tool might do for your entire enterprise and you've got CTL.

Alex Honor is open source project lead and principal architect at ControlTier. Formerly, he was head of E*trade system engineering, and carried them from dot boom to dot bomb and has been specializing in cradle to grave distributed enterprise software management ever since.

Luke S. Crawford offered to give a talk about Xen virtuali[zs]ation, even on short notice(!), and adds that he's been running a Xen VPS provider since 2006, and is now (June 2008) just completing a book he's coauthoring on Xen for sysadmins. Talk would be "an overview of the Xen virtualization technology from a practical, hands-on perspective."

Ed Cherlin offered to talk about the "new Sugar Labs and Pixel Qi operations, both created by ex-OLPC managers. Sugar Labs is an all-Linux shop so far (no objection to supporting BSD), and Pixel Qi is trying to find a model for Open Hardware development. Also the XO-2, recently announced by OLPC, which will have a second touch screen acting as keyboard. Much cheaper than keeping track of all those pesky keyboard SKUs."

Ed Cherlin speculated that he might be able to get John Gage to talk about "where technology is heading worldwide and also show us some of the latest toys."

John was formerly Chief Researcher at Sun, and now (June 2008) a principal at Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield, and Byers.