Free Software

This month we'll have "Thank You" from der.hans.
Attend the meeting on by visiting: https://lufthans.bigbluemeeting.com/b/plu-yuk-7xx on the 8th of July at 7pm MST

Description
Thank you to all the developers, translators, documentors, artists and maintainers who make Free Software.
Thank you to all the project managers, mailing list admins, SREs and toolsmiths who enable the making.
Thanks to the people who use Free Software and do amazing things with it.
This talk will use stories and anecdotes to explore the thanks we can have for the Free Software community.

About der.hans:
der.hans works remotely in the US.
In the FLOSS community he is active with conferences and local groups.
He's chairman of PLUG, chair for SeaGL Finance committee, founder of SeaGL Career Expo, RaiseMe career counselor, BoF organizer for the Southern California Linux Expo (SCaLE) and founder of the Free Software Stammtisch.
He speaks regularly at community-led FLOSS conferences such as SeaGL, Penguicon, SCaLE, LCA, FOSSASIA, Tübix, CLT, Kieler Linux Tage, LFNW, OLF, SELF and GeekBeacon Fest.
Hans is available to speak remotely for local groups.
Currently a Customer Data Engineer at Object Rocket. Public statements are not representative of $dayjob.
Fediverse/Mastodon - https://floss.social/@FLOX_advocate

We'll have 2 persentations for this month "MySQL 8.0 Indexes, Histograms, and Other Ways to Speed Up Your Queries" and "My Presentation Creation Stack with AsciiDoc"
Attend the meeting on by visiting: https://lufthans.bigbluemeeting.com/b/plu-yuk-7xx on the 8th of July at 7pm MST

Dave Stokes: MySQL 8.0 Indexes, Histograms, and Other Ways to Speed Up Your Queries

Description:
Improving the performance of database queries is often seen as a Harry Potter-ish dark art. In reality it is simple engineering and revolves around providing the query optimizer the best information about your data! And how do you do that? Well, you can start with properly planned indexes and histograms. We will also venture into some other areas that will help you speed up your queries.

About Dave:
Dave Stokes is a MySQL Community Manager for Oracle and the author of 'MySQL & JSON - A Practical Programming Guide'.

der.hans: My Presentation Creation Stack with AsciiDoc

Description:
Creating information rich presentations in AsciiDoc is easy.
AsciiDoc was created as a markup for making DocBook books.
Since it is plain text, AsciiDoc lends itself to writing, editing and using revision control.

The presentation introduces AsciiDoc and covers both advantages and disadvantages of using it for presentations.
I will also cover some of the presentation tools I've used previously.
Then I'll illuminate why I now prefer AsciiDoc and some suggestions when using it for presentations.

About der.hans:
der.hans is a technologist, Free Software advocate, parent and spouse.

Hans is chairman of the Phoenix Linux User Group (PLUG), chair for SeaGL Finance committee, founder of SeaGL Career Expo, BoF organizer for the Southern California Linux Expo (SCaLE) and founder of the Free Software Stammtisch. He presents regularly at large community-led conferences (SeaGL, SCaLE, LCA, FOSSASIA, Tübix, CLT, LFNW, OLF, SELF, GeekBeacon Fest) and many local groups.

Currently a Customer Data Engineer at Object Rocket. Public statements are not representative of $dayjob.

Fediverse/Mastodon - https://floss.social/@FLOX_advocate

We've got 2 presentations this month on Containers and The Fediverse for you this month.

Attend the meeting on by visiting: https://lufthans.bigbluemeeting.com/b/plu-yuk-7xx

Sebastian: Putting Containers on Waiters

Description:
Containers have been around for a long time, though they have recently become more popular. Sebastian will go into fedora's main container management software, Podman; discuss the uses of containers and how they can improve an organizations security and reliability; downsides to using docker containers; and where many security issues are found in the space.
Over the course of this presentation, nginx, apache, and nextcloud servers will be built for examples. Maybe others, depending on audience desires.
This is a demo presentation, so slides are written as notes for people afterward.

About Sebastian:
By day, Sebastian works for the Arizona Counter Terrorism Information Center, in which he uses Linux and Open-Source software to accomplish the organization's tasks.
By night, Sebastian... does the same, thing. He works on servers for home use and researches what open-source software people can generally use, as well as how to improve the processes for their construction and maintenance.



Bob Murphy: An Introduction to the Fediverse

Description:
The Fediverse is a collection of communities that is a bit of a throwback to a smaller, more personal time of the internet. There are services for short messaging, audo and video sharing, and event organizing, among other things.

We'll talk a bit about the origin, and the present state of the Fediverse, and some of the services that you can use to have a more reasonable social media experience.

About Bob:
Linux sysadmin, long time desktop Linux user. Not the most social "social media" user.