[Flux-announce] FLUX October 2006 Meeting Announcement

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FLUX OCTOBER 2006 MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT
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DATE: Thursday, October 12, 2006

TIME:  Refreshments and networking 6:30pm, Presentation starts at 7:00pm

LOCATION:   Nova Southeastern University, our usual location

TOPIC:      Large Server Environment Automation.  REALLY large.

PRESENTER:  Michael Marschall, long-lost FLUX member and employee of Yahoo!



ABOUT THE PRESENTATION
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Michael Marschall, long-time (but currently long-distance) FLUX
member, is now working at Yahoo!  He will be speaking about large
environment automation - Tools, scripting, and massively automated
server buildouts.

System Deployments/Build-outs
Configuration Management
       Versioning
       Pull vs. Push
       Conf File pre-post processing
Core Infrastructure Services (DNS, SMTP, LDAP)
       Sizing
       Management
Automation
       Build-out automation and the little tools that save the day.


If there's time, we may also hear a little about what it's like
to work at Yahoo!


ABOUT THE PRESENTER
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Mike Marschall was born in Massachusetts, raised and schooled
Connecticut, spent the last 10 years in Miami, Florida and now resides
in Los Angeles, California.

Mike has been working in the Dot Com world since 1998 at companies
including MarsMusic.com, Foreclosure.com and Edmunds.com. Mike is now
working for Yahoo! in it's Search Marketing division in Los Angeles,
CA where he heads a team responsible for the build-out of Yahoo's next
generation search marketing and monetization platform.

Mike is a long-time FLUX member and presented several topics to the
group including "Exchange Killer:Replacing Exchange with Open Source".
 Mike has also volunteered in the FLUX booth at several technology
trade shows.