Asymmetric Clustering... Distributed Name Space... Global Sign-on... Guerrilla Networking... Open Source Technology... Do these words make your heart beat faster and your breath go shallow? If so then perhaps you should become involved with Hangar 18. We are a tit-for-tat group of computer hobbyist of a wide range of skills intent on building the next computing infra-structure using Open Source technology. We don't focus on any one form of technology but instead focus on real world applications in grid or large scale distributed computing. Time: Oct. 25, 2003 (last Thu. of month) Every Thursday, excluding national holidays 7:00 - 9:00 pm (or later) http://open-forge.org Location: The location varies from week to week so be sure to check with an active Hangar 18 member (or join the mailing list!) for more information. The last Thursday of each month we meet at the Robot Group. Please contact them directly for directions, per their request. http://robotgroup.net Identification: We'll be the group with the Plan 9 stuff...;) Homepage: http://open-forge.org/hangar18/ Mailing List: Send 'majordomo@open-forge.org' an email which has in the body 'subscribe hangar18-general' and nothing else. You should be subscribed to the list and recieve a notification back from the server. There are a variety of mailing lists currently available. Internet Relay Chat: kraken.open-forge.org 6667 The Open Forge group tries to meet each evening at 10PM (Austin, Tx.). The server is available for use 24/365. Austin Contacts: Open Forge, LLC helpdesk: 512-695-4126 (24/365) vmb: 512-451-7087 help@open-forge.com Events & News: There is a 1st Saturday Sale road trip scheduled for Oct. 4. We'll be starting a re-write of the installation How To over the next week or so. Look for it around the first couple of Oct.