Please see the announcements section below. It's been quite a while since we've been fully staffed with volunteers to help keep CLUE running. Just as many eyes make for shallow bugs, more volunteers make the workload easier.

Colorado Linux Users & Enthusiasts (CLUE) is the Linux User's Group (LUG) for the Denver metro area. Our goal is simple: we advocate the GNU/Linux operating system. Our advocacy is achieved by social gatherings and dissemination of information about GNU/Linux, and other Free and Open Source software.

Participation in CLUE is free and open to everyone. We have regular meetings, and provide several mailing lists for discussions about Free and Open Source Software, and other topics of interest to Linux enthusiasts. Meetings are held in the Denver Tech. Center area on the second Tuesday of each month, and in the north metro area on the fourth Monday.

CLUE offers annual memberships for $20/yr. In return for your support, we offer benefits, such as eligibility for door prizes at meetings, a CLUE e-mail address, and a personal web site hosted by CLUE. More membership details will soon be available.

Whether you are new to Linux, a Linux expert, or just interested in Linux, please join us at our next meeting. If you cannot attend the monthly meetings, we also host Installfests, where CLUEbies gather to share knowledge about Linux installation and configuration. Finally, you can be involved in CLUE remotely by joining the CLUE email lists.

CLUE hosts a monthly meeting on the 2nd Tuesday of each month, near the Denver Technological Center (DTC).

Next Meeting: 13 May 2008, 7:00 PM
Location: Oracle DTC, Building 3 (north side of the parking lot)
Topic: Dan Magenheimer on Linux Virtualization

• Why is virtualization such a hot commodity?
• What use case scenarios make the most sense?
• What are some of the current approaches to implementing virtualization on Linux, and where are they headed?
• How can I help the linux virtualization effort?

Dan Magenheimer is a consulting developer for Oracle Corporation working from his home in Fort Collins, Colorado, USA, on "Oracle VM", Oracle's Xen-based virtualization product.

Prior to Oracle, Dan worked for HP for over 25 years, most recently as a principal research scientist at HP Labs. Dan began at HP as a member of the processor architecture team that developed PA-RISC; he wrote the first PA-RISC simulator, remote debugger, object-code emulator (for the 16-bit HP3000), integer multiplication algorithm, and linker. During the later 1980's and the 1990's, he managed various R&D teams in HP's software, server, and storage divisions. In 2001, Dan joined an HP Labs team investigating security and virtualization on the Itanium platform; this team developed vBlades, the first Itanium virtual machine monitor. When Xen was announced in 2003, Dan commenced a port of Xen to Itanium (Xen/ia64), utilizing the lessons learned in vBlades and also directly leveraging Linux/ia64 code. This effort grew to involve a multi-company, worldwide team of Itanium experts that completed the port, such that Itanium is the only fully-functional non-x86 architecture in the Xen source tree.

Upcoming Meetings:

• 10 June
• 08 July
• 12 August
• 09 September
• 14 October
• 11 November
• 09 December

Speakers Needed: CLUE is seeking speakers to give presentations for our meetings. Topics may be anyting related to Linux or other Free/Open-Source software. If you would like to make a presentation at one of our meetings, or know of someone who would, please contact Dennis Perkins.

CLUE hosts a monthly meeting on the 4th Monday of each month, at the DeVry University Westminster Campus.

Next Meeting: 28 April 2008, 7:00 PM
Location: DeVry University, Room 300
Topic: Nagios

Upcoming Meetings:

• 26 May
• 23 June
• 28 July
• 25 August
• 22 September
• 27 October
• 24 November
• No meeting in December

Speakers Needed: CLUE is seeking speakers to give presentations for our meetings. Topics may be anyting related to Linux or other Free/Open-Source software. If you would like to make a presentation at one of our meetings, or know of someone who would, please contact Zach Giezen.

An "Installfest" is a social gathering where folks interested in Linux share knowledge about Linux installation and configuration. Often, those new to or interested in Linux will bring their computers for installation assistance. Others have already installed Linux and wish to try out new configurations or software. Typically, the CLUE installfests last for most of a weekend day.

We try to alternate locations between the DeVry University Denver South Campus in the Denver Tech Center and DeVry Westminster near 120th and Huron. Please see our Installfest page for more information.

CLUE Mailing List Archives Restored: Thanks to Jeff Cann for restoring the Mailman archives for all the CLUE Mailing Lists. We now have archives going back to 2000.

Volunteers still needed: CLUE is looking for volunteers to be our Sponsor Coordinator and DTC Speaker Coordinator. Please contact Dennis Perkins to volunteer for either of these positions.

CLUE Presentations: If you would like to make a presentation at a CLUE meeting, or know someone who would, please contact one of our coordinators: Dennis Perkins (DTC) or Zach Giezen (North).

CLUE Sponsorship: If your organization or business would like to become a CLUE Sponsor, please contact Dennis Perkins.

Safari Bookshelf: O'Reilly & Associates, a CLUE premier-level sponsor, has a free 14-day trial of their online Safari Bookshelf for User Group members.