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January 2005
No Monthly Meeting in January

Thursday
10th February 2005
Monthly Meeting

Q&A

Novell Update
by Novell System Engineers

Keynote 1: Computer Associates - "Intelligent Storage Management"
By Rod Tansey, Senior Consultant

This presentation will focus on "a day in the life of a storage manager". Rod will focus on dealing with some of the myriad of challenges faced by system administrators on a daily basis, including:

Managing a geographically dispersed heterogenous backup environment across multiple platforms

Immediately dealing with backup operation problems

Restoring an executive's data stored on their laptop

Producing management reports

Reviewing storage volume levels and trends and planning for the continued growth in storage requirements

Supper

Keynote 2: GrangeNet - "Advanced Communications"
By Chris Myers, Advanced Communication Services Coordinator

What is GrangeNet?
GrangeNet is a three year program extended for two more years to install, develop and operate a multi-gigabit network supporting grid and advanced communications services.

EduRoam:
EduRoam allows roving researchers to log-in, with their usual "user name/password", to a wireless networks at participating campuses around Australia and the World and gain access to resources at their home institution. The program, which is based on inter-institutional trust, originated in the Netherlands and is rapidly spreading across the UK, Europe and now Australia.

DDCMS Prototype Project:
The Distributed Data Centre Mass Storage (DDCMS) Prototype project will permit GrangeNet to demonstrate the utility of distributed storage attached to a high performance, research network: the distribution of storage in this way is fundamental to the creation of virtual data centers.

AccessGrid Recorder:
The GrangeNet AccessGrid Recorder is being designed to provide a storage resource for the capture of access grid streams as a prerequisite to asynchronous playback, cataloguing and long-term storage of meetings, conferences, educational sessions and presentations.

IPv6 Deployment:
A brief update on our deployment of native IPv6 in Australian Universities.

Multicast Deployment:
A brief update on our deployment of Multicast in Australian Universities.

And....
We also will be covering how to participate or collaborate in these projects.

Thursday
10th March 2005
Monthly Meeting

Please Note: This month's meeting will be held in Microsoft's Melbourne Office:

9th Floor (Level 9 Theatre)
Como Centre
644 Chapel Street
South Yarra

Enter the Como Center from the corner of Toorak Road and Chapel Street. Walk past a few shops (about 30 metres). Then on the left you'll see an escalator heading up. Take this, and keep walking about 15 or so metres in to Como Tower. On the right you'll see a lift. Take this up to the 9th floor.

Q&A

Novell Update
By Novell System Engineers

Supper

Keynote: "Novell Netware and Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Interoperability"
By Jeff Alexander of Microsoft

How Novell Netware and Microsoft Windows Server interoperate today

Tools that are available from Microsoft to help with this

Thursday
14th April 2005
Monthly Meeting

Q&A

Keynote: Special Novell BrainShare 2005 (Salt Lake City) Update
- by Chris Louloudakis (Novell System Engineer)
- Assisted by John Simmons and Brian Habel
- All the latest news from Novell's premier event
- Including lots of give-aways!
- Don't miss this one!

Supper

Thursday
12th May 2005
Monthly Meeting

Q&A

Novell Update
- by Novell System Engineers

Keynote 1: Suse Linux Professional v9.3
- by Gerald Xie (Novell)

Configuration Tips

Beagle Search Tool

Helpful Information Sources

Supper

Keynote 2: OpenOffice.org
- by Gerald Xie (Novell)

Thursday
9th June 2005
Monthly Meeting

Q&A

Novell Update
by Novell System Engineers

Keynote 1: Moonwalk
by Peter Harvey (CEO, Moonwalk) and Rudi Bierach (CTO, Moonwalk)

Moonwalk is an Enterprise Data Management system that allows the Netware System Administrator to design and deploy centrally-managed business rules throughout the corporation. Moonwalk manages the migration of data, automatically transferring targeted files from Netware primary storage volumes to secondary tiers and beyond, reducing the total cost of ownership for data while ensuring it remains safe and immediately accessible

Supper

Keynote 2: MySQL
by Stewart Smith (Software Engineer, MySQL)

An introduction to the MySQL database server - it's features, architecture, what makes it (and the company) different and the offerings specific to Novell platforms (Netware and Linux)

Thursday
14th July 2005
Monthly Meeting

Special Training Night at Excom Education

150-160 Gladstone Street
South Melbourne

Q&A

Novell Update
by Novell System Engineers
and the Excom Training Team

Supper

The Excom Training Team will present two seperate training sessions. These will be run twice each, with attendees swapping classrooms in the middle, so that everyone will be able to attend both sessions.

Session 1: iManager v2

Session 2: Linux Sys-admin Skills

Please note that the training PCs, and seating, are stricly limited to 12 attendees in each of the two sessions, therefore it will be necessary to book in by sending an email, with your name in it, to: rsvp@mnug.org.au. Entrance to these sessions will be granted in the order that the RSVP emails are received. Within reason, extra attendees will be admitted, but they will not get access to a training PC and may not even get a chair, so please reply ASAP!

Thursday
11th August 2005
Monthly Meeting

Q&A

Novell Update
by Novell System Engineers

Keynote: Netcomm
by Tony Salloum (Business Development Manager, Netcomm)

Presenting some of the latest networking technologies including:

ADSL2/2+,

Wireless Hotspots,

HomePlug

and VoIP.

Supper

Keynote: (continued)
- Allocation of door prize (a Netcomm LVZ40 USB Phone)

Thursday
8th September 2005
Monthly Meeting

Q&A

Novell Update
by Novell System Engineers

Keynote: McAfee
by Rob Blanco (Client Relationship Executive, McAfee)
and Sean Duca (Sales Engineer, McAfee)

Presenting on:

Risk management life-cycle,
Vulnerability management,

and System protection solutions management.

Supper

Keynote:(McAfee continued)

Includes prize-giving!

Bonus Presentation: Novell - ZENWorks Assett Manager Demo
by Chris Louloudakis (Sales Engineer, Novell)

Thursday
13th October 2005
Monthly Meeting

Q&A

Novell Update
by Novell System Engineers

Keynote 1: Sugar CRM's development process using Novell's "Market Start" program
by James Horton (Hotmagna)
Hear how the Commercial Open Source software package, Sugar CRM, used Novell's "Market Start" program to go from "zero" to "success" in a very short time-frame.

Supper

Keynote 2: Open Suse v10
by Chris Louloudakis (SE Novell)
Find out exactly what this exciting new release is all about, and where it fits into Novell's fleet of products.

Keynote 3: "Meet the neighbours" session
Come and learn about two of the other Linux user groups that are active in Melbourne.
Both Mac Calder (Administrator of Melbourne Linux User Group (MLUG))
and Andrew Chalmers (President of Linux Users of Victoria (LUV))
will be present to tell us about their respective user groups.

Thursday
10th November 2005
Monthly Meeting

Q&A

Novell Update
by Novell System Engineers

MNUG Annual General Meeting (AGM)

Have a say in how our group is run
Help elect our new Executive team
Better yet - Volunteer for a position!!!

Supper

Keynote: AMD (Still Tentative)

Thursday
8th December 2005
*** MNUG Christmas Party! ***

Excellent Food & Drinks and Great Company!!!

Venue:

Stalactites Restaurant
Upstairs Dining Room
177-183 Lonsdale Street
(Russell Street corner)
Melbourne CBD
Ph: 9663 3316

Come and join us for a Greek Banquet!

Starting at 6:15pm

All MNUG members, friends and their guests are most welcome

Please RSVP ASAP so that we can book for the correct number of people.

Please note:

All current MNUG Members' meals will be paid for by MNUG

All drinks are to be paid for individually

All friends' and guests' meals are to be paid for individually (@ $25 per person)
(Hint: Sign up on the night and get a free dinner!)

Stalactites is a fully licenced restaurant, with a choice of beverages available,
however you may bring your own (wine only) if you prefer.

The great company is FREE - so come along and be a part of it!

Back to: MNUG's Important Dates for 2004
Forward to: MNUG's Important Dates for 2006

January 2005	No Monthly Meeting in January
Thursday 10th February 2005	Monthly Meeting Q&A Novell Update by Novell System Engineers Keynote 1: Computer Associates - "Intelligent Storage Management" By Rod Tansey, Senior Consultant This presentation will focus on "a day in the life of a storage manager". Rod will focus on dealing with some of the myriad of challenges faced by system administrators on a daily basis, including: Managing a geographically dispersed heterogenous backup environment across multiple platforms Immediately dealing with backup operation problems Restoring an executive's data stored on their laptop Producing management reports Reviewing storage volume levels and trends and planning for the continued growth in storage requirements Supper Keynote 2: GrangeNet - "Advanced Communications" By Chris Myers, Advanced Communication Services Coordinator What is GrangeNet? GrangeNet is a three year program extended for two more years to install, develop and operate a multi-gigabit network supporting grid and advanced communications services. EduRoam: EduRoam allows roving researchers to log-in, with their usual "user name/password", to a wireless networks at participating campuses around Australia and the World and gain access to resources at their home institution. The program, which is based on inter-institutional trust, originated in the Netherlands and is rapidly spreading across the UK, Europe and now Australia. DDCMS Prototype Project: The Distributed Data Centre Mass Storage (DDCMS) Prototype project will permit GrangeNet to demonstrate the utility of distributed storage attached to a high performance, research network: the distribution of storage in this way is fundamental to the creation of virtual data centers. AccessGrid Recorder: The GrangeNet AccessGrid Recorder is being designed to provide a storage resource for the capture of access grid streams as a prerequisite to asynchronous playback, cataloguing and long-term storage of meetings, conferences, educational sessions and presentations. IPv6 Deployment: A brief update on our deployment of native IPv6 in Australian Universities. Multicast Deployment: A brief update on our deployment of Multicast in Australian Universities. And.... We also will be covering how to participate or collaborate in these projects.
Thursday 10th March 2005	Monthly Meeting Please Note: This month's meeting will be held in Microsoft's Melbourne Office: 9th Floor (Level 9 Theatre) Como Centre 644 Chapel Street South Yarra Enter the Como Center from the corner of Toorak Road and Chapel Street. Walk past a few shops (about 30 metres). Then on the left you'll see an escalator heading up. Take this, and keep walking about 15 or so metres in to Como Tower. On the right you'll see a lift. Take this up to the 9th floor. Q&A Novell Update By Novell System Engineers Supper Keynote: "Novell Netware and Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Interoperability" By Jeff Alexander of Microsoft How Novell Netware and Microsoft Windows Server interoperate today Tools that are available from Microsoft to help with this
Thursday 14th April 2005	Monthly Meeting Q&A Keynote: Special Novell BrainShare 2005 (Salt Lake City) Update - by Chris Louloudakis (Novell System Engineer) - Assisted by John Simmons and Brian Habel - All the latest news from Novell's premier event - Including lots of give-aways! - Don't miss this one! Supper
Thursday 12th May 2005	Monthly Meeting Q&A Novell Update - by Novell System Engineers Keynote 1: Suse Linux Professional v9.3 - by Gerald Xie (Novell) Configuration Tips Beagle Search Tool Helpful Information Sources Supper Keynote 2: OpenOffice.org - by Gerald Xie (Novell)
Thursday 9th June 2005	Monthly Meeting Q&A Novell Update by Novell System Engineers Keynote 1: Moonwalk by Peter Harvey (CEO, Moonwalk) and Rudi Bierach (CTO, Moonwalk) Moonwalk is an Enterprise Data Management system that allows the Netware System Administrator to design and deploy centrally-managed business rules throughout the corporation. Moonwalk manages the migration of data, automatically transferring targeted files from Netware primary storage volumes to secondary tiers and beyond, reducing the total cost of ownership for data while ensuring it remains safe and immediately accessible Supper Keynote 2: MySQL by Stewart Smith (Software Engineer, MySQL) An introduction to the MySQL database server - it's features, architecture, what makes it (and the company) different and the offerings specific to Novell platforms (Netware and Linux)
Thursday 14th July 2005	Monthly Meeting Special Training Night at Excom Education 150-160 Gladstone Street South Melbourne Q&A Novell Update by Novell System Engineers and the Excom Training Team Supper The Excom Training Team will present two seperate training sessions. These will be run twice each, with attendees swapping classrooms in the middle, so that everyone will be able to attend both sessions. Session 1: iManager v2 Session 2: Linux Sys-admin Skills Please note that the training PCs, and seating, are stricly limited to 12 attendees in each of the two sessions, therefore it will be necessary to book in by sending an email, with your name in it, to: rsvp@mnug.org.au. Entrance to these sessions will be granted in the order that the RSVP emails are received. Within reason, extra attendees will be admitted, but they will not get access to a training PC and may not even get a chair, so please reply ASAP!
Thursday 11th August 2005	Monthly Meeting Q&A Novell Update by Novell System Engineers Keynote: Netcomm by Tony Salloum (Business Development Manager, Netcomm) Presenting some of the latest networking technologies including: ADSL2/2+, Wireless Hotspots, HomePlug and VoIP. Supper Keynote: (continued) - Allocation of door prize (a Netcomm LVZ40 USB Phone)
Thursday 8th September 2005	Monthly Meeting Q&A Novell Update by Novell System Engineers Keynote: McAfee by Rob Blanco (Client Relationship Executive, McAfee) and Sean Duca (Sales Engineer, McAfee) Presenting on: Risk management life-cycle, Vulnerability management, and System protection solutions management. Supper Keynote:(McAfee continued) Includes prize-giving! Bonus Presentation: Novell - ZENWorks Assett Manager Demo by Chris Louloudakis (Sales Engineer, Novell)
Thursday 13th October 2005	Monthly Meeting Q&A Novell Update by Novell System Engineers Keynote 1: Sugar CRM's development process using Novell's "Market Start" program by James Horton (Hotmagna) Hear how the Commercial Open Source software package, Sugar CRM, used Novell's "Market Start" program to go from "zero" to "success" in a very short time-frame. Supper Keynote 2: Open Suse v10 by Chris Louloudakis (SE Novell) Find out exactly what this exciting new release is all about, and where it fits into Novell's fleet of products. Keynote 3: "Meet the neighbours" session Come and learn about two of the other Linux user groups that are active in Melbourne. Both Mac Calder (Administrator of Melbourne Linux User Group (MLUG)) and Andrew Chalmers (President of Linux Users of Victoria (LUV)) will be present to tell us about their respective user groups.
Thursday 10th November 2005	Monthly Meeting Q&A Novell Update by Novell System Engineers MNUG Annual General Meeting (AGM) Have a say in how our group is run Help elect our new Executive team Better yet - Volunteer for a position!!! Supper Keynote: AMD (Still Tentative)
Thursday 8th December 2005	* MNUG Christmas Party! * Excellent Food & Drinks and Great Company!!! Venue: Stalactites Restaurant Upstairs Dining Room 177-183 Lonsdale Street (Russell Street corner) Melbourne CBD Ph: 9663 3316 Come and join us for a Greek Banquet! Starting at 6:15pm All MNUG members, friends and their guests are most welcome Please RSVP ASAP so that we can book for the correct number of people. Please note: All current MNUG Members' meals will be paid for by MNUG All drinks are to be paid for individually All friends' and guests' meals are to be paid for individually (@ $25 per person) (Hint: Sign up on the night and get a free dinner!) Stalactites is a fully licenced restaurant, with a choice of beverages available, however you may bring your own (wine only) if you prefer. The great company is FREE - so come along and be a part of it!