[tlug] [announcement] March 8 TLUG Technical Meeting

["A.Tomita" <atomita@example.com>]

-=-=-=- Announcement: March 2014 TLUG Technical Meeting -=-=-=-=-

Meeting information

   Date:  March 8, 2014 (Saturday)

   Time:  15:00-17:00 (doors open 14:30) 

   Place: Internet Initiative Japan, Inc.
          Jimbocho Mitsui Bldg 17F,
          1-105 Kanda Jinbo-cho, Chiyoda-ku,
          Tokyo 101-0051, Japan

   Presentations/Short Talks:

   1. Programming Money (by Edmund Edgar ) 

      Bitcoin is sometimes referred to as "programmable money".
      It has a built-in stack-based scripting language that can
      be used to require multiple signatures to spend money, lock 
      money up in escrow contracts and more. This talk will show 
      you how transactions work, how to make them and what you can 
      do with them. 

   2. Living on the command line series (part I) (by Kalin Kozhuharov) 

      Ninja skillz for emergency Data Analytics or: 
      how to stay in command of when something hits the fan...

      What do you do when, out of the blue, you sense emergency in the air,
      but you have no exact idea what is coming, from where it is going to
      hit you and since when it has been lurking? You get the data, all the
      data you can, and analyze it to extract information. You may already
      have the data, but in hard-to-digest form, spread among people, servers
      and some backup tapes. Or you may not, so you have to go out and collect
      it first. Then analyze it. But not in emergency! You have to do all at
      once, with no sleep, some food and more caffeine, completely out of 
      control most of the time.

      To cope with all I use the COMMAND LINE, hell I live on the command line!
      I grep with fancy regex-es, cut and sort, while forking many finds and 
      shove data up pipes of all kind and visualize data in gnuplot. To glue 
      all that I use Bash and Perl and Vim.

      After 3/11, I got involved with Safecast in another emergency - understanding 
      what happened in Fukushima Dai-ichi NPP. I used more or less the same methods
      and since data is public, I'll use it in a demo of CLI approaches to Data
      Analytics. We'll analyze and visualize some of the data with some ninja
      tricks, stay alert! 

Details: http://tlug.jp/wiki/Meetings:2014:03

Other items on the agenda are:
1. Introduction of new members, news about Linux/Open Source,
   general announcements, Q&A
2. Auction (bring any gear that would would like to donate to TLUG) 

All Linux users and supporters of open source code and free software
are invited to attend this Tokyo Linux Users Group (TLUG) meeting.
Membership is open to anyone. There are no membership dues or entrance
fees.

After the meeting, we will continue chatting over a few beers.

About TLUG
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TLUG is a non-profit, non-political organization established in June
of 1994 to exchange information on the use of Linux and Free Software
Foundation tools. TLUG has an active mailing list, home page, and
regular physical meetings. Discussions are primarily held in English,
but non-English speakers are encouraged to come and participate.
We especially want to encourage Japanese people to attend and will make
efforts to support a bilingual meeting.

TLUG generally hosts technical meetings every odd-numbered month on the
2nd Saturday, and a nomikai (social even at a pub) every even-numbered
month on the 2nd Friday.

The TLUG home page is available at http://www.tlug.jp

For any instructions or info before the meeting:
     Edward Middleton ............ 090-3689-0292
     Alberto Tomita   ............ 080-3463-9256