[PLUG-ANNOUNCE] ANNOUNCEMENT: May PLUG Meeting - Note room change

[David Mandel]

                             MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT

                        The Portland Linux/Unix Group
                                  will meet
                          7 PM Thursday May 3, 2007
                                      at
                          Portland State University
                                      in
                            Smith Memorial Center
                                   Room 327
                           On the block bounded by
       SW Montgomery, SW Broadway (7th), SW Harrison, and SW Park (9th)

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                                 PRESENTATION

                     Developer and Customer Focused Tests
                                     for
                              a LAMP Environment

                                      by

                               Ward Cunningham
                                <ward at c2.com>
                 Director of Committer Community Development
                            The Eclipse Foundation

      Agile methods such as Extreme Programming (XP) rely on a
      readily repeated suite of tests to give developers the courage
      they need to continuously improve their code.

      In this talk XP pioneer Ward Cunningham will dissect the agile
      testing strategy and framework that the Portland Eclipse
      Foundation team created while developing the recently deployed
      MyFoundation Portal, a LAMP application.

      The testing framework is notable for two reasons. One, it has
      been deployed into production with the application and serves
      as "open and transparent" documentation. Two, it integrates
      with the application in such a way to make it both simple and
      powerful at the small expense of some test coverage.

      Part 3 of Ward's blog series on the portal includes more
      explanation, screen shots, and a link to the live test site.
      Find the blog series here:
      http://dash.eclipse.org/~ward/portal-blog/

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          Agenda:

              7:00 - 7:30  Business
                   We will discuss the status of our ongoing projects
                   including PLUG's monthly Advanced Topics meetings,
                   PLUG's monthly hands on clinics, PLUG for Education,
                   etc.

                   Also, there are changes coming for LinuxFund.
                   I will spend a few minutes discussing these.

              7:30 - 8:30  Presentation

                   See above

              9:00 - ...  Beer
                                  The Lucky Labrador Brewing Company
                                  915 SE Hawthorne



                                          David Mandel
                                          Chief Activist
                                          Portland Linux/Unix Group
                                          560 SE Alexander
                                          Corvallis, Oregon 97333
                                          (541) 730-5285 mobile
                                          dmandel at pdxLinux.org


          P.S.  Biznix which specializes in Linux and UNIX support for
                the Business Computer User.
                As I understand, they haven't been meeting for a while,
                but intend to have regular meetings again in 2006.
                See http://www.Biznix.org for details.

          P.S.  PDXLUG provides a less formal alternative to PLUG
                emphasizing the needs of new users.   PDXLUG meets
                every second Thursday of the month in southeast Portland.
                See http://www.PDXLUG.org for details.

          P.S.  The Mid Willamette Valley Linux Users Group meets
                at 6:30 PM on the first Tuesday of the month.
                They have out grown their meeting location at PEAK
                and are now meeting on the OSU campus.
                See http://www.lug.corvallis.or.us/ for details.

          P.S.  The Eugene Linux Users Group meets several times a month.
                See http://www.euglug.org for details.

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Portland Linux/Unix Group           http://pdxLinux.org
LinuxFund                           http://LinuxFund.org
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