6:30pm
BASE Topic: Scripts, crontab, and PagerDuty ( Tentative )

(Orginally scheduled for May)

Presenter: Grant Taylor

A tutorial on using a "Free tier" PagerDuty plan account to receive prompt notifications from scripts and cron jobs that can't wait for you to see in your email.

~7:00pm Announcements & general Q&A

~7:15pm MAIN: My FreeBSD Journey on a laptop / desktop (w Frameworks)
We have all heard the myths.
"FreeBSD is only for servers."
"FreeBSD is for hardcore engineers."
In this talk, Deb shares what happened when she decided to run FreeBSD on a modern laptop. Learn more about her journey to getting this rock-solid operating system on her laptop, and how it is far more accessible than its reputation suggests.

Alternative title= FreeBSD on a laptop / desktop (w Frameworks)

MAIN Topic: My FreeBSD Journey

Presenter: Deb_Goodkin is the head of the FreeBSD Foundation & has been with them since 2005. An accomplished programmer, who has a BS in Computer Engineering from the University of California, San Diego. She has also earned a Masters in Electrical Engineering, from the University of Santa Clara,

She has spent 20+ years working in marketing, sales, and development of data storage devices. Prior to joining the FreeBSD Foundation she worked as a firmware engineer and as an application engineer for Maxtor Corporation.

Deb is proficient in FreeBSD systems administration. She currrently runs FreeBSD 13.

You can read an interview with her here:
"Our whole mission is to support the FreeBSD project and the community"

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ONLINE MEETINGS ONLY until further notice.
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Details will be published on https://www.sluug.org/ when available.