Hello All;

For those of you from the New York City area, here is some 
info on a presentation by Christos Zoulas tomorrow night at
NYSA. The topic will be "Open Source Packages for Unix". 
Admission is free, so are the refreshments and pizza. Bring
a friend and please pass the word. 

For more info, please read the following text.

Regards,

-mike

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Date:
         Wed, 13 Nov 2002
         Pizza and soda will be provided
         6:30 PM - NYSA Announcements
         7:00 PM - Presenation begins
         Afterwards - Drinks if folks are interested, location TBA

 Location:
         Legato (http://www.legato.com)
         125 Maiden Lane
         Manhatten

 Directions:
         By Subway:  Take the 2 or 3 train to Wall St.  Walk North to
         Maiden Lane and turn right.  The building is on the North side
         of Maiden Lane between Pearl and Water.

 Subway Map:
         Map of Manhatten
         (http://www.mta.nyc.ny.us/nyct/maps/submap.htm)

         Map of lower Manhatten
         (http://www.mta.nyc.ny.us/nyct/maps/mapdown.pdf)

 Topic:

 Open-Source Packages for UNIX
 -----------------------------

 Presentation:

 The talk will concentrate on the fundamentals of packaging and package
 distribution, with specifics about the pkgsrc and CVS tool suites.  These
 tools are extensively used for Linux and NetBSD, but are available on
 almost any UNIX platform.

 Speaker:

 Christos Zoulas is one of the lead developers of NetBSD
 (http://www.netbsd.org).  He received his PhD from Cornell University and
 has primarily worked in the financial business.  He has held senior
 positions at such firms as D.E. Shaw, Commerzbank AG, and Blink.Com and
 now works for a private hedge fund called TwoSigma.  Among his
 many accomplishments, Christos is the maintainer of the tcsh UNIX shell.

 ------------------------------------
 David P. Feldman
 Vice President
 New York System Administrators
 dfeldman@panix.com

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