[TriLUG] August 13th: Mark McCahill on Linux Containers for Learning

[Mauricio Tavares via TriLUG]

On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 12:54 PM, Bryan X via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
> Hey all, will anyone be passing through the Cary/Apex area on their way
> back from the meeting tonight who would be willing to give me a ride back
> to my house, right off of Highway 55? I asked a similar question in
> TriEmbed on Monday and ended up riding with Pete and Glen (not sure if
> they're on this list); I can take the busses to the NCSU campus no problem,
> however they don't run past 7pm and I'd need to find a way back.
>
      How far down you have to go? I am in Carrboro but tank is full.
So, if nobody else likes you, let me know.

> Thank you!
> Bryan Palmer
> (919) 924-3949
> Interruptrequestlevel at gmail.com
> On Aug 13, 2015 8:14 AM, "Matthew Frazier via TriLUG" <trilug at trilug.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Topic: Linux Containers for Learning
>> Presenter: Mark McCahill
>> When: Thursday, August 13, 2015 - 7:00pm to 9:00pm
>> Where: Bandwidth, Venture III, 900 Main Campus Dr, Raleigh, NC 27606
>> Parking: Venture Center Deck, adjacent to Venture III on Venture Center
>> Way (visitor spaces are unrestricted after 5pm)
>> <http://osm.org/go/ZYRUokxgI-->
>>
>> Synopsis
>>
>> Duke University provides access to a wide variety of Linux applications,
>> for student projects, teaching, and research. Besides provisioning
>> hundreds of traditional Linux VM's each semester, Duke is taking
>> advantage of emerging container technologies to host applications.
>>
>> This presentation will explore a few of the technologies and tools Duke
>> has used for application delivery, including the 350 Ubuntu containers
>> running on Docker that host R and RStudio for statistics courses, and
>> the
>> noVNC/OpenBox solution used to embed X Windows applications in users'
>> Web browsers. (Source code for some of this technology will be available
>> on GitHub.) It will also discuss more generally the strategy and the
>> tradeoffs involved in providing virtualized applications - especially
>> when you have to give sudo access to students.
>>
>> Speaker Bio
>>
>> Mark McCahill works at Duke University's Office of Information
>> Technology, as an architect for e-learning and collaborative systems.
>> He was involved in the development and popularization of early
>> Internet technologies - most notably at the University of Minnesota,
>> where he led the team that developed Gopher. He is also interested in
>> virtual worlds, developing the GopherVR system for organizing
>> Gopher information spatially, and serving  as an architect of the
>> Croquet project.
>> --
>> See you there,
>> Matthew Frazier
>> PR Officer, Triangle Linux Users Group
>> https://www.trilug.org/
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