[BLU/Officers] Ideas for upcoming BLU meetings?

[Jerry Feldman]

Here is one topic we can investigate. This is from an article in wired last
year:
NASA's Plan to Turn the ISS Into a Quantum Laser Lab
https://www.wired.com/story/nasas-plan-to-turn-the-iss-into-a-quantum-laser-lab/

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On Thu, Mar 11, 2021, 11:40 PM Bill Ricker <bill.n1vux at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 10:42 PM John Abreau <jabr at blu.org> wrote:
>
>> Any thoughts for speakers and topics for the next few BLU meetings?
>>
>
> 1. The ongoing *NAS* discussion on GNHLUG list is fodder for thought, but
> not sure who you'd get to cover which subset of that.
>
> Related, the latest *BSD Now* podcast mentions *OpenZFS* has a new
> feature in Raid-Z called *dRaid* that solves a problem with healing
> performance.
> https://www.bsdnow.tv/393
> https://klarasystems.com/articles/openzfs-draid-finally/
>
> I might not hop on this new feature *immediately* if were i building a
> NAS right *now*, as one wants stability in storage, which is the opposite
> of new code; and it seems aimed at bigger setups, but interesting
> nonetheless.
>
> 2. *BSD* in general is perhaps undercovered lately but specifically
> included in the B.L.*U *TLA.
> While we're WFH meeting virtually, maybe we can recruit someone from the
> Open/Net/Free BSD communities ?
>
> And then there's the other BSD, Mac OSX.
> Perhaps someone has a pre-canned presie on OSX Commandline for folks used
> to Linux/Unix/POSIX shell/CLI?
> I got a Mac for Linux People book 15-20 years ago when kid got a Macbook,
> but it's out of date by now.
> Probably an earlier version of
> https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/mac-os-x/9780596520625/
> *Mac OS X For Unix Geeks, 4th Edition *by* Ernest E. Rothman, Rich Rosen,
> Brian Jepson*
> (Advanced section discusses dual booting)
> but it might have been an Apress or No Starch equivalent, i'd have to
> rummage to see.
>
> Do we perhaps have contact with any of those 3 authors?
>
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