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Second Quarter
Face-to-Face meeting
Sept. 17 & 18, 2012 (New York City)
Topic: networking and virtualization
Logistics
Place and Subway Travel
Our face to face is taking place at MF/PL offices which are located in Alfredo's house. Alfredo's phone number is 347 675-0953
The address is
461 54th Street (between 4th and 5th Avenues) in Brooklyn NY
By train, you take the R train (BMT line) downtown into Brooklyn to the 53rd Street stop which leaves you on 4th Avenue. Walk half a block to 54th, make left and proceed up the block. It's a mild hill. The house is in front of the second fire pump.
We will be posting the addresses for other locations where people are staying on this page in a very short time.
Travel
- Ross, Kendra, Tomas: Arriving by car from Boston Sunday evening
- Miles: Arriving by Amtrak Sunday evening
- Langston Arriving Amtrak Sunday evening
- Rita -- Air flight booked
- Roberto Air flight booked
Accommodations
- Tomas: Housed with Jamie
- Roberto: Housed with Alfredo
- Langston: Housed with Alfredo
- Miles: self made arrangements
- Kendra: Housed with Hilary
- Rita: self made arrangements
- Ross: self made arrangements
Agenda
Pre-meeting reading materials
- article on racism and technology
- overview of IPv4
- Wikipedia article on Virtualization
Sept. 17
- 9:00 - 10:00 am Participants' Initial Reactions to Course - Go Round
- 10:00 - 12:00 Presentation and Discussion: Role of Racism in Technology
- 12:00 - 1:00 pm Lunch
- 1:00 - 3:00 pm Interactive lecture on May First/People Link Hosting orders
- Creating a hosting order using the May First/People Link Control panel.
- Installing Drupal on your hosting order.
- Using SFTP to copy files.
- Using secure shell to login to your account.
- 2:55 - 3:00 Install utils
run the command as root
apt-get install util-linux
- 3:00 - 3:15 pm Break
- 3:15 - 5:15 - Running a virtual server on your laptop
- Top ten commands - keep these handy!
- Download the full debian stable (squeeze) installer or debian testing (wheezy) from the network
- Download the script to launch your virtual servers
- Read explanation of script
- Move script into your home directory and make it executable:
mv ~/Downloads/vlaunch ~/ chmod 755 ~/vlaunch
- 5:15 - 5:30 pm Wrap up
- 6:30 pm: Group Dinner
September 18
- 9:00 - 9:30 Reflections on previous day
- 9:30 - 11:30 Independent work, exercises
- 11:30 - 12:00 wrap up
Second Quarter's Work
Over the course of the second quarter, mentees will be assigned the tasks of setting up virtual servers to perform the following tasks:
- Web Environment [link to how to], Deadline: October 15
- Email system [link to how to], Deadline: November 15
- File Server/Samba server [link to how to]: December 8