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Subject: LOCAL NYC UNIGROUP 20-MAR-2003 MEETING: Python and Twisted

============================================= UNIGROUP OF NEW YORK MARCH 2003 ANNOUNCEMENTS =============================================

-------------------------------------------------- 1. UNIGROUP'S MARCH 2003 GENERAL MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT --------------------------------------------------

When: Thursday, March 20th, 2003

Where: The Chase Manhattan Bank One Chase Manhattan Plaza (1CMP) <==(Our New Location!) Conference Center, 28th Floor Downtown, NYC ********************************************** YOU MUST RSVP TO GET PAST SECURITY, SEE BELOW! **********************************************

Time: 6:15 PM - 6:30 PM Registration 6:30 PM - 6:40 PM Ask the Wizard, Questions, Answers and Current Events 6:40 PM - 6:50 PM Unigroup Business 6:50 PM - 9:30 PM Main Presentation

------------------ Topic: Python and Twisted ------------------

Speaker: Itamar Shtull-Trauring, http://itamarst.org Chief Technical Architect, Zoteca, Inc. http://www.zoteca.com

Introduction: -------------

If you take a look at Python.org, you'll learn that a Python is "an enormous non-poisonous serpent"... which speaks a "totally awesome language that will someday crush the $'s out of certain other so-called VHLL's". Python (the software) is a freely usable and freely distributable, interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language, which is often compared to TCL, Perl, Scheme and Java.

Unigroup has addressed Java and Perl topics at previous meetings, and now the time has finally arrived to present Python!

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SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS: ---------------------

* IN ORDER TO PASS THROUGH SECURITY AT CHASE, WE NEED YOU TO RSVP * PRIOR TO THE MEETING DAY, SO WE CAN GET YOUR NAME ON THE ATTENDEE * LIST. ADVANCE REGISTRATION AND PHOTO ID ARE REQUIRED! * RSVP DEADLINE 19-MAR-2003 16:00. <<<< PAY ATTENTION, DEADLINE! * Keep an eye out on the deadline date and time, as it may change.

Please RSVP if you know you are attending or if you think you may be attending. This will help us arrange for a letter to security for all of Unigroup. It will also help us to determine the correct amount of food and refreshments.

To REGISTER for this event, please RSVP by:

a) If at all possible, please use the Unigroup Registration Page: http://www.unigroup.org/unigroup-rsvp.html This will allow us to have some automation in the RSVP process.

b) If you must Email us, send an EMail containing the FIRST and LAST NAMEs of the persons attending to the Unigroup RSVP address: unigroup-rsvp@unigroup.org The Email subject should start with "RSVP". You may optionally include your contact phone number (that day) or other current information.

DO NOT simply reply to this announcement, sending us back the entire announcement (we already have it); leaving the subject as it was, and NOT containing the phrase "RSVP" as requested. In that case, your message just looks like failed mail and it makes it impossible to automate the RSVP process and get you registered for our event.

ALSO: Do NOT give us an Email address which is over quota and cannot receive any new Email. This causes us to receive bounces from your address when we send out the RSVP-ACKs. You must have a working and valid Email address in order to get on the Unigroup Meeting Attendee List which will grant you access to our meetings. Be sure to proof-read your Email address before submitting the RSVP request.

Please continue to check the Unigroup web site: http://www.unigroup.org for any last minute updates concerning this meeting. Please check your Email for any last minute announcements prior to the meeting. Note that only the Attendee First and Last Names will be provided to Chase Security.

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Description of Talk: --------------------

This talk will be a quick overview of the Python programming language, it's uses, and the motivation for using it. Twisted will then be presented, as an example of the power and flexibility of Python, and as a useful framework for a wide range of network programs.

The Python-in-Business site tells us this about Python: ``Python is a very high level programming language that excels in clarity and simplicity of expression. Python allows programmers to build their computing solutions using human modes of thought and logic. While Python is relatively simple to learn and use, its extensive standard library, portability, and ability to integrate tightly with other languages make it a real power tool for many types of software development.'' Python is used by many organizations and companies, including Google, Industrial Light & Magic, Redhat, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories and others. For information see http://www.python.org and http://www.python-in-business.org/.

The Twisted event-driven networking framework is a powerful, cross-platform tookit for creating networked applications. It is being used to create server applications, GUI clients and peer-to-peer systems, both open source and in large organizations such as NASA. Twisted's support for multiple protocols (TCP, UDP, SSL/TLS, Multicast, Sockets, HTTP, SSH, FTP, etc), multiple platforms (Unix, Win32) and integrated services make it a great choice for the next generation of networked applications. Twisted is written in Python, and is licenced under the LGPL. For more information see http://www.twistedmatrix.com.

Web Resources: --------------

Python http://www.python.org Python Newsgroup news://comp.lang.python Python-in-Business http://www.python-in-business.org Twisted http://www.twistedmatrix.com

Giveaways: ----------

O'Reilly has been kind enough to provide us with some of their books, which we will raffle off as giveaways at our meetings.

Speaker Biography: ------------------

Itamar Shtull-Trauring has been programming since 1994. He has worked on projects ranging from multimedia applications, to web sites, distributed servers and remote object protocols. He has contributed to Python, Zope and is one of the main developers of Twisted. Currently he is Chief Technical Architect at Zoteca. For a full resume see http://itamarst.org/resume.html.

Company Biography: ------------------

Zoteca http://www.zoteca.com provides open source / open standards software solutions and consulting services. Their technology solutions and expertise address a broad range of IT challenges including Enterprise Application Integration, complex web site back-ends and distributed network applications. Zoteca's key technology platform is a software workbench for the rapid development of efficient, safe, robust and scalable applications used in distributed, networked environments.

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Fee Schedule: Yearly Membership (includes all meetings): $ 50.00 * Non-Member Single Meeting: $ 20.00 Student Yearly Membership: $ 20.00 Non-Member Student Single Meeting (with ID): $ 5.00 Payment Methods: Cash, Check, American Express.

* Employees of JPM/Chase (with ID) can attend general meetings at NO CHARGE.

==> Unigroup is the Greater NYC Regional Area Affiliate of UniForum - an International Unix Users Group. Our Joint Membership Program with UniForum is currently on hold due to circumstances at UniForum. For information about UniForum visit http://www.uniforum.org.

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Complimentary Food and Refreshments will be served. This includes sandwiches such as turkey, roast beef, chicken, tuna and grilled eggplant. Chase also provides us a very nice spread of treats, which include brownies, cookies, popcorn, bottled water and assorted beverages.

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Directions:

The 1CMP building is situated: South of Liberty Street, North of Pine Street, East of Broad/Nassau Street and West of William Street. The building is one block east of Broadway, right behind 140 Broadway.

The closest entrance to the conference center is from Nassau Street, first elevator bank from the Nassau Street entrance.

The building is on a raised platform. Walk up the outside stairs at Nassau Street and head for the guard's station at the south-west corner of the building. Tell the guards you are heading for Unigroup.

They will inspect your ID and carry-ins and direct you to the meeting facility assuming you are on the Unigroup RSVP list.

Once you get upstairs, enter the conference facility through its main doors. There is a bank of large monitors to the left of the entrance which should direct you to the Unigroup meeting room (the room may vary from month to month). To the right of the main entrance is the concierge's desk, ask for help there if you need anything. The conference facility has two levels, keep in mind that the Unigroup meeting may be up the staircase on its upper level. Thus far, our meeting room has been upstairs, on the south side of the building.

As always, also look out for Unigroup signs marking the path to the meeting room. Also note, if you come early, we may not have our own signs in place yet (we have to commute there too).

Transit By Train: Take the J/M/Z to Broad Street and walk one block North to Pine St. Take the 4/5 to Wall Street and walk North to Pine St., then East to Broad St. Take the 2/3 to Wall Street, the North West exit is inside the Chase complex, else you will need to walk a block North and West. See the MTA Downtown NYC Map (pdf) for detailed mass transit information: http://www.mta.nyc.ny.us/nyct/maps/mapdown.pdf

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Please mark this meeting on your calendar and join us! Please tell your friends about Unigroup!

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----------------- 2. UPCOMING MEETINGS -----------------

We have a series of meetings in the works:

- Python and Twisted - True64/HPUX/Linux Futures (watch for a Field Trip meeting) - Zope (Web Page Development) - Unix Clusters and Clustered Databases - High Performance Internet Servers / Web Acceleration - Unix 30th Birthday Celebration - IPsec and IPv6 - Linux Clustering Part 3: Beowulf version 2 - Building a Firewall using FreeBSD and Linux - Unix Office Tools: Word Processors, Spreadsheets, Accounting Packages. - Emacs - Tex - PKI - GNU Development Environments - Meetings on a variety of Sun/Solaris/Java topics

Please let us know about any other meeting topics that you may be interested in. Potential speakers on Unix related technology topics should contact the Unigroup board at ugny-0303@unigroup.org.

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------------- 3. PRIOR MEETING -------------

Unigroup would like to thank our speaker Sharon M. Williams, from HP BCRS, for her presentation "IT Disaster Recovery - Running a Winning Relay Race". Ms. Williams focused on the business aspects of the Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and the processes of Respond/Recover/Restore/Resume. Ownership (by departments, by people) of the various tasks along the way was critical to an orderly recovery. The logistics of recovery "relay teams" and backup/recovery sites was also discussed. Detailed planning and dress rehearsals are required such that everyone involved in the recovery knows the task they need to perform. Key management personnel must know their roles in order to have proper decision making, and funding must also be available for use during the recovery process (car rental, air-fare, train-fare, hotel, computers, hubs, food, etc). We also heard some interesting war stories concerning what can go wrong and just how probable the unexpected can be.

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-------------------- 4. UNIGROUP INFORMATION --------------------

Unigroup is one of the oldest and largest Unix User's Groups serving the Greater New York City Regional Area since the early 1980s. Unigroup is a not-for-profit, vendor-neutral and member funded volunteer organization. Unigroup holds regular and special event meetings throughout the year on technical topics relating to Unix and the Unix User Community. Unigroup is also the Greater NYC Regional Area Affiliate of UniForum - an International Unix Users Group.

Thanks to Chase, Unigroup holds regular meetings planned for the Third THURSDAY of Odd Months at The Chase Manhattan Bank, 1CMP, NYC. Chase has been a long time sponsor of Unigroup, allowing us the use of a meeting room and presentation equipment.

Planned meeting dates are: 3/20/2003, 5/15/2003, 7/17/2003, 9/18/2003... Watch for our Special Event meetings at the various trade shows in NYC as well as "field trips" to the facilities of local hardware and software vendors.

========================================================================= = For Unigroup Information, Events and Meeting Announcements be sure to = = visit our World Wide Web Home Page: = = http://www.unigroup.org = =========================================================================

For further information or to get on the Unigroup Electronic Mail Mailing List send an EMail message to: ugny-0303@unigroup.org

To contact the Board of Directors of Unigroup, send an EMail message to: ugny-0303@unigroup.org

To contact the Newsletter Editor, send an EMail message to: ugny-0303@unigroup.org

If you have recently attended a meeting and you are not receiving Email announcements, please send us an Email and we will make corrections to our lists.

Please Email the Board with any suggestions, especially potential meeting topics and speakers. Unigroup welcomes contributions and content suggestions for our newsletter. Unigroup is a volunteer organization and we need your assistance! Please let us know if you can help!

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I hope to see you all at our next meeting!

-Rob Weiner Unigroup Executive Director ugny-0303@unigroup.org http://www.unigroup.org

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