MORE

I've been a member of the Mid-Atlantic Off Road Enthusiasts, MORE, mountain biking club for five years. The club promotes trail advocacy and social events for mountain bikers in Wash. DC, Virginia, and Maryland. Gradually, I've become more involved in the organization as the years have gone by. In the beginning I supported the club by becoming a paying member. Then, I decided to provide my free labor by shoveling dirt, clearing debris, and pruning trees on trail work days. Last year I upped the ante again by volunteering to become a forum moderator on their website, a position I currently hold. At the beginning of 2011, I made a resolution to become even more involved with the club. Last night I decided to get involved in the political arena by attending the monthly Board of Directors meeting.

It was a great experience. I was able to view first hand the business conducted by Board members. I learned alot by participating in conversations about the club's budget, volunteer needs, trail projects, and sponsorships. At the conclusion of the meeting, which lasted 2.5 hours, I left with an increased awareness of how the club spends money, who is spending it, and having a better understanding of how difficult it is obtaining permission to build trails. The volunteers that serve on the board deserve a big round of applause for selfishly donating their time to promote a sport that I enjoy. Applause, applause, clap, clap. Keep up the good work.

Monkey Web Server

Monkey Web Server is beautiful. It's a very small, fast and scalable web server for Linux. It's one more reason why I will always be a Linux diehard. I'm still experimenting with it but can see lots of applications for it.


From Monkey's Home Page-http://www.monkey-project.com/about-

Monkey HTTP Daemon, is a very Small, Fast and Lightweight open source Web Server for GNU/Linux. It has been designed to be very scalable with low memory and CPU consumption, the perfect solution for embedded and high production environments.

Features

* HTTP/1.1 Compliant
* Asynchronous networking model
* Virtual Hosts
* Indented configuration model
* Plugin Interface (API) for developers

How it Works

Monkey uses an hybrid network model based on posix threads and the Epoll() Linux system call. Each thread is capable to handle an average of 200 concurrent request at same time as minimum thanks to an asynchronous mecanism.