[NCSA] NC*SA July Meeting (07/13): SUNFREEWARE.COM: Past, Present, and Future

[NC*SA Announcements List - Moderated]

The next meeting of the North Carolina System Administrators
organization (NC*SA) is Monday, July 13th, 2009. 

If you are interested in, involved, or currently planning to start
a very large web site to serve hundreds thousands of users
across the world, you won't want to miss this presentation. 

Details about the meeting are provided in this note.  
Free Pizza dinner will be served at the meeting.
We hope to see you there!

                  NC*SA General Meeting
            7:00 pm Monday, July 13th, 2009

	UNC-TV Board Conference Room
        Research Triangle Park, NC
     *** Note that meetings are no longer held at MCNC ***
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Topic: 
Sunfreeware.com
Past, Present, and Future

Speaker: 
Steven M. Christensen, Ph.D., Funder of the sunfreeware.com web site.
sunfreeware at gmail.com


Abstract

In this presentation, I will talk about my sunfreeware.com web site and
how it works.  Sunfreeware serves over 400,000 Solaris users in more
than fifty countries providing packages for Solaris 2.5-10 and higher.
I will go into some detail about why I started the project and what
the difficulties, as well as the joys, of running such a site are.
Other projects I do for Sun and others will also be discussed.

Bio

Steve Christensen is the founder and maintainer of the Sunfreeware.com 
web site.  He is a theoretical physicist by training and a former 
professor at UNC-Chapel Hill and the University of Illinois, where he 
was also a Senior Research Scientist at the National Center for 
Supercomputing Applications in its first five years.  He created and 
moderates the Mathematica newsgroup comp.soft-sys.math.mathematica and 
is co-author of the MathTensor software system for doing tensor analysis 
by computer.  He is a consultant in science, mathematics, and computing 
and is currently working on a book on relativity theory for fun.

Christensen received his BA in physics and mathematics from Augustana
College in Illinois and his Ph.D. at the Center for Relativity Theory at
the University of Texas at Austin.  In addition to UNC and the 
University of Illinois, he has held positions at Harvard, UC-Santa 
Barbara, and King's College-London.  He lives in Durham and has been Sunfg
doing computing for forty-four years.


NC*SA Sponsors:
UNC-TV- http://www.unc-tv.org
TriLUG - http://www.trilug.org

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Directions: http://www.unctv.org/aboutus/directions.html

 >From I-40 East (Chapel Hill/Greensboro/Charlotte):

    * Take Exit 279B (Durham Freeway/Highway 147 North).
    * Take the second exit (Alexander Drive).
    * Turn left at the traffic light at the top of the exit ramp.
    * Cross over the bridge and take the second right
      (approximately .5 mile).
    * At this point, you should see signs for UNC-TV.**

[Note: If traveling I-40 East, you will see Exit 279A (To Alexander 
Drive/Durham Freeway South). Please do not take this exit as you will be 
on the opposite end of Alexander Drive from UNC-TV and increase your 
travel time.]

 >From I-40 West (Raleigh/RDU Airport)

   1. Take Exit 279B (Durham Freeway/Highway 147 North).
   2. Take the second exit (Alexander Drive).
   3. Turn left at the traffic light at the top of the exit ramp.
   4. Cross over the bridge and take the second right
      (approximately .5 mile).
   5. At this point, you should see signs for UNC-TV.**


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Our meetings are free and open to anyone with an interest in the topic
of the evening and/or system administration.  We will be providing food
and drink for the evening. If you have any questions please contact the
Steering Committee at:

ncsa-steer at ncsysadmin.org
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Directions to the meeting are available on the web at
http://www.ncsysadmin.org/directions.
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