[TriLUG] August 13th: Mark McCahill on Linux Containers for Learning

[Bryan X via TriLUG]

Hey all, will anyone be passing through the Cary/Apex area on their way
back from the meeting tonight who would be willing to give me a ride back
to my house, right off of Highway 55? I asked a similar question in
TriEmbed on Monday and ended up riding with Pete and Glen (not sure if
they're on this list); I can take the busses to the NCSU campus no problem,
however they don't run past 7pm and I'd need to find a way back.

Thank you!
Bryan Palmer
(919) 924-3949
Interruptrequestlevel at gmail.com
On Aug 13, 2015 8:14 AM, "Matthew Frazier via TriLUG" <trilug at trilug.org>
wrote:

> Topic: Linux Containers for Learning
> Presenter: Mark McCahill
> When: Thursday, August 13, 2015 - 7:00pm to 9:00pm
> Where: Bandwidth, Venture III, 900 Main Campus Dr, Raleigh, NC 27606
> Parking: Venture Center Deck, adjacent to Venture III on Venture Center
> Way (visitor spaces are unrestricted after 5pm)
> <http://osm.org/go/ZYRUokxgI-->
>
> Synopsis
>
> Duke University provides access to a wide variety of Linux applications,
> for student projects, teaching, and research. Besides provisioning
> hundreds of traditional Linux VM's each semester, Duke is taking
> advantage of emerging container technologies to host applications.
>
> This presentation will explore a few of the technologies and tools Duke
> has used for application delivery, including the 350 Ubuntu containers
> running on Docker that host R and RStudio for statistics courses, and
> the
> noVNC/OpenBox solution used to embed X Windows applications in users'
> Web browsers. (Source code for some of this technology will be available
> on GitHub.) It will also discuss more generally the strategy and the
> tradeoffs involved in providing virtualized applications - especially
> when you have to give sudo access to students.
>
> Speaker Bio
>
> Mark McCahill works at Duke University's Office of Information
> Technology, as an architect for e-learning and collaborative systems.
> He was involved in the development and popularization of early
> Internet technologies - most notably at the University of Minnesota,
> where he led the team that developed Gopher. He is also interested in
> virtual worlds, developing the GopherVR system for organizing
> Gopher information spatially, and serving  as an architect of the
> Croquet project.
> --
> See you there,
> Matthew Frazier
> PR Officer, Triangle Linux Users Group
> https://www.trilug.org/
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