Unigroup of New York, Inc.

Unigroup Background

Unigroup is the oldest and largest Unix User's Group serving the Greater New York City Regional Area since the early 1980s.

Unigroup is a not-for-profit, vendor and platform neutral, member funded, volunteer organization. Unigroup holds regular and special event meetings throughout the year on technical topics relating to Unix and the Unix User Community.

Unigroup presentations cover topics relating to both Unix and Unix-like Operating Systems (such as Linux and *BSD), as well as other related technologies including Communications, Cryptography, Internet, Networking, Security, Software Development and Storage.

Next Meeting:

Unigroup's July 2008 Meeting will be at a NEW meeting location, at our regular time, at: Bway.Net located at 568 Broadway (at Prince Street), Suite 404, SoHo, NYC., on Thursday, July 24th (** Special 4th Thursday Meeting **) at 6:30pm.

Our presentation topic is: Server Performance: Deploying and Scaling (Ruby on) Rails and our speaker is Brian Gupta from Brandorr Group.

POSTPONED: Our FreeBSD presentation has been postponed till later in the year. The topic will be: The FreeBSD 7 Networking Stack and our speaker is George Neville-Neil from The FreeBSD Project Core Team.

Upcoming Meeting Topics:

Linux Real-Time Messaging

FreeBSD Network Stack (tentatively October 2008)

IPsec and IPv6 (awaiting speaker confirmation)

Solaris/OpenSolaris (Indiana) Launch Event

Linux Real-Time Kernel (Novell/SuSE Linux Presenting)

Open Source PBX - Asterix and others.

Open Source OS Distributions - Round Table Discussion

Network Monitoring

Solaris Kernel Topics

Computer Security Threats

LAMP (Part 2)

ANTI-SPAM

Unix's 35th Birthday Celebration

Field Trip to HP (working on this)

Open Source

Are there too many Linux distributions?

DNS - Domain Name System

Unix Clusters and Clustered Databases

Samba

Linux Clustering Part 3: Beowulf version 2

BGP Routing and Fault Tolerant Networking

Single Floppy Unix/Linux Distributions

Building a Firewall using FreeBSD and Linux

Unix Office Tools: Word Processors, Spreadsheets, Accounting Packages.

Emacs

Tex

PKI

GNU Development Environments

Unigroup's News and Special Event Listings

Follow this link to see News about User Group Meetings and other Special Events in our area.

Unigroup Meetings: Topics and Agenda

Unigroup's Next General Meeting
Unigroup's Proposed Meeting Topics
(Includes a partial list of Unigroup's Past Meeting Topics).

Unigroup Membership and Meeting Information

Unigroup Membership and Meeting Fees
Unigroup Member Benefits
Detailed Directions to Our Meetings
Download a Unigroup Membership Form:
PDF Format (15k), Postscript Level 2 Format (78k).

Unigroup Contact Information

Contact the Board of Directors at: uniboard@unigroup.org

Regular meetings are held on the 3rd Thursday of Odd Months at:

	Bway.Net
	Suite 404
	568 Broadway (at Prince Street, North East Corner)
	SoHo Manhattan, New York City

Unilist - Unigroup's Electronic Mail Mailing List

Unigroup maintains an Electronic Mail Mailing List to which we send out Unigroup announcements as well as announcements from other user groups around the area. Anyone may request to be added to this list by sending us mail at: unilist@unigroup.org

Click here for the latest Unilist EMail Newsletter Announcement.

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