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                Vancouver Linux Users Group
                  http://www.vanlug.bc.ca

                     Monthly Meeting

            Mon, 23 Sep 2002   7:30 - 9:00 pm

              BCIT, Bldg SE6. TELUS Theatre


1. Annual General Meeting

    * Presentation of Financial Statements

    * Presentation of Proposed Bylaw Amendments

    * Election of Directors

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2.       VanLUG and BCIT's Internet Engineering Lab

                   Eric Byres, PEng
                 <eric_byres@bcit.ca>

Earlier this month, VanLUG joined the University of British Columbia,
Simon Fraser University, PMC Sierra, and TELUS Mobility, among other
organizations, as a member of BCIT's Internet Engineering Lab (IEL). One
of only four research centers of its kind in North America, IEL provides
academic and corporate researchers with advanced facilities for
evaluating network performance, quality of service, routing policy,
network security and conformance to standards in a realistic yet totally
controlled environment.  As a member of IEL, VanLUG will be invited to
propose or participate in community projects that will take advantage of
the lab's $1.6 million dollars of network hardware and test equipment,
including network routers and switches, traffic generators, and network
analysis tools, to advance the goals of the Open Source movement.  For
more information about IEL, please see http://www.tc.bcit.ca/gait/iel/.

About the presenter: Eric J. Byres is the research manager of the
Internet Engineering Lab at the British Columbia Institute of 
Technology, one of North America's leading research facilities in the
field of industrial cyber-security.  He is also a faculty member in
BCIT's School of Electrical and Electronic Technology. For the past 14
years, he has specialized in data communications and controls systems in
industrial environments, focusing on industrial Ethernet research and
network security design. Eric was a founding member of the Instrument
Automation and Systems Society (ISA) TECH/EXPO Networking and Fieldbuses
steering committee and the Chair of the ISA Industrial Ethernet
Conference in 2000 and 2001. He is a board member of the Industrial
Automation Open Networking Association and is on the NIST committee
developing industrial network security standards. He holds the Advanced
Systems Institute (ASI) fellowship for industrial network security
research until 2005. In 1999, he was the winner of the Best Paper Award
at the IEEE Pulp and Paper Industrial Applications Conference and in
September 2000 he won the IEEE Outstanding Industry Applications Article
award for his paper on network security.

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3.           Meta-CVS: A solid version control tool with 
                  directory structure versioning

                          Kaz Kylheku
                   <kaz@ashi.footprints.net>

The Meta-CVS front end transforms CVS into a more intelligent and
capable version control system. It interactively handles file types when
adding and importing. It simplifies parallel development by keeping
track of what has been merged between any two branches. It avoids the
classic CVS glitches that arise when concurrent file adds conflict, when
there is a race between changing and removing a file, or when dead files
are resurrected. Lastly, it treats the directory structure as a
versioned element, allowing files to be renamed and moved without losing
history or merge context. As the user navigates the repository using the
update command, Meta-CVS automatically rearranges the directory
structure of the sandbox to match.

About the presenter: Kaz Kylheku is a Vancouver-based software
developer, who hacks on a few free software projects when time permits.
Past projects have included the development of a Linux driver for
Mobitex radio modems (which, incidentally, was the subject of VanLUG
presentation in 1998, a time when the meeting fit into a small room in
the Brock Hall Annex building at UBC) and improvements to the 
LinuxThreads component of GNU Libc.

-- 
Dave Michelson
dmichelson@ieee.org