GatorLUG Meeting - Xen, Mozilla Plugins, NinjaSudoku Update

GatorLUG Meeting Agenda for August 16, 2006

6:00 - 6:15 Announcements / General Discussion

T-Shirts, O'Reilly Stuff, OSCON 2006 Report, Mozilla Foundation

6:15 - 6:30 Must Have Firefox/Thunderbird Plug-ins, Jordan Wiens

6:30 - 7:20 Presentation - Xen Virtualization, Eli Ben-Shoshan

Enterprises are embracing Xen for server virtualization because it enables them to increase server utilization, consolidate servers, and dramatically reduce complexity and overall total cost of ownership. Xen is the fastest and most secure virtualization software available today, enabling every server to support multiple virtual servers each with resource guarantees to ensure that its application layer SLA is met.

7:20 - 7:40 Call in segment - Steven Hand, XenSource Co-Founder and Chief Architect

Steve Hand is a founder and Chief Architect of XenSource, and a member of senior faculty at Cambridge University, UK, where he leads research in the areas of operating systems, storage, networking and security. He is a Fellow of Wolfson College and Visiting Faculty at Intel Research. He holds a BSc and MSc from University College Dubin and a PhD from the University of Cambridge. He is author of over 30 research papers and patents.

7:20 - 7:40 Multiplayer NinjaSudoku Application update, Edward Allcut, Martin Smith, JC Jones

7:40 - 8:00 Auction of Cisco 2500 router, Dell Laptop