= 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

 * [http://switch.sjsu.edu/v6n2/articles/wright.html article on racism and technology]
 * [http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tutorials/ip-addresses-explained/ overview of IPv4]
 * Wikipedia article on [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtualization 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 
  * [https://support.mayfirst.org/wiki/create_hosting_order Creating a hosting order] using the May First/People Link Control panel.
  * [https://support.mayfirst.org/wiki/add_drupal Installing Drupal on your hosting order].
  * [https://support.mayfirst.org/wiki/sftp Using SFTP to copy files].
  * [https://support.mayfirst.org/wiki/secure_shell 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
  * [http://poctechies.net/content/top-ten-commands Top ten commands] - keep these handy!
  * Download the full [http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0.6/amd64/iso-cd/debian-6.0.6-amd64-CD-1.iso debian stable (squeeze) installer] or [http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/wheezy_di_beta4/amd64/iso-cd/debian-wheezy-DI-b4-amd64-CD-1.iso debian testing (wheezy)] from the network 
  * [http://workingdirectory.net/downloads/misc/vlaunch Download the script to launch your virtual servers]
  * [http://workingdirectory.net/posts/2012/managing-kvm/ 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, [http://poctechies.net/content/second-quarter-instructions 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