NYLUG Meeting: Jorden Mauro on Distributed Version Control Systems and Git

The New York Linux Users Group (NYLUG) will be meeting tomorrow (Wednesday). Information, including time and location, are below. Please note that you need to RSVP by 4:30 pm the day of the meeting if you plan to attend.

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Wednesday, June 17, 2009
6:30pm-8:00 PM
IBM
590 Madison Ave, 12th Floor
corner of 57th Street

** RSVP Closes at 4:30pm the day of the meeting (sharp!) ***
Please RSVP for EVERY meeting at this time.
Register at http://rsvp.nylug.org/
Check in with photo ID at the lobby for badge.

Jorden Mauro
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Distributed Version Control Systems and Git

Source Code Management or Version Control is an important aspect of software development. For over a decade, CVS, a centralized SCM, was the dominant player in software to manage a project's code history and handle concurrent development by multiple programmers.

In the past few years, new version control systems based on the idea of distributed systems. This presentation will explain basic concepts in source code management, review the history and overall themes of centralized systems such as CVS and Subversion, and also introduce distributed SCMs and their benefits over the older systems. Git is used as a concrete example of a distributed SCM and a brief introduction to Git features not present in most SCMs will also be featured.

More Information:
* RCS Revision Control System (Wikipedia)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revision_Control_System

* Distributed Revision Control (Wikipedia)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_revision_control

* CVS (Wikipedia)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concurrent_Versions_System

* Subversion (Wikipedia)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subversion_(software)

* Git (Wikipedia)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git_(software)

* Git homepage
http://git-scm.com/

* The birth of Git
http://essays.ajs.com/2009/04/git-bitkeeper-and-power-of-open-source.html

About Jorden Mauro:
Jorden is a student/grader/labbie at the Rochester Institute of
Technology currently working for JP Morgan Chase & Co. in Manhattan.

Over the past couple of years, he's worked on the Linux kernel with Greg Kroah-Hartman on the staging tree to get drivers into the kernel faster and get them patched up, worked with Plan 9 from Bell Labs on some userspace stuff, and he's done a lot of things at RIT, including making Linux machines available for student use in one of the open labs and started a tech-talk series.

Meeting Location:
Please note that this meeting will be held at IBM, 590 Madison Ave, 12th floor, corner of 57th Street, and not at Google. This is the building with the IBM logo on the front of the building.

Map:
http://nylug.org/mapofibm

Books!!!
Our friends at Prentice-Hall kindly provide us with review copies of various new titles. One of these could be yours, all you have to do is agree to review the book within a reasonable period of
time.

Swag (Give Away):
During/after the meeting... unusually terrific Fedora swag will be given away.

Stammtisch:
After the meeting ... You may wish to join up with other NYLUGgers over at TGI Fridays located at 677 Lexington Avenue and 56th Street, second floor. Northeast corner.

Python Workshops:
We are rounding up a group that wants to learn about Python. This would be a great time to attend our workshop, whether you are just starting with Python or use it professionally.

The workshops meet every other Tuesday, at the NY Public Library, Hudson Park Branch. 66 Leroy St. NY NY from 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Next meeting is June 23.
See the calendar at: http://nylug.org/pythoncalendar

Please see our home page at http://www.nylug.org for the HTMLized version of this announcement, our archives, and a lot of other good stuff.