[SoCoSA/discuss] [SoCoSA/notify] Meeting: SoCoSA's future: tonight

[Eric Eisenhart]

Trevor, Kevan...

So, here's my suggestion:

1) You and Kevan join the board mailing list
   ( http://socosa.org/mailman/listinfo/steering )
2) I set you both up with some edit access to the website (just did that)
3) We take advantage of your offers and schedule you two for some
   presentations.  Maybe get 2 on the schedule right away? (one for Trevor,
   one for Kevan)
4) Somebody tries to find some other speakers, and when that happens we see
   if we can't bump your talk out further into the future...

It sounds like you've got really solid ideas for 3 presentations right off
the bat, with a possibility of a second meeting on any of those topics, plus
another talk or two on other stuff...  I think we can go with whichever of
those topics you'd prefer to start off with...  Maybe start with your 2nd
favorite and save the best one for a little bit later?

As to lead time: how 'bout we assume at least 1 month, and aim for 2 months
warning?  I know that putting together a really solid presentation in our
45-90 minute length format can take 80+ hours, depending a lot on the style
of talk you want to do.

So, obviously the first Tuesday of January is out (it's tomorrow).  Do
February 3rd and March 3rd work for you?

On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 03:34:57PM -0800, Trevor Benson wrote:
> I never really heard much back except the few people who said they would 
> like it.  Kevan has offered to do a presentation on RT (issue tracking 
> system, runs mainly linux, but massively helpful web application for any 
> OS).  Along with asterisk (fairly linux centric) we could also do a 
> presentation on Directory Servers (CentOS/RedHats in specific).  This 
> seems fairly linux centric, but we happen to use it to provide single 
> sign on environments for windows and linux.  Web application 
> authentication is also tied to it as well as our mobile VPN 
> authentication (via openvpn, which on the customer side is STRICTLY a 
> "windows application" to access the corporate LAN).  Thus its a fairly 
> good blend of Windows\Linux and the geeks may enjoy the concept of a 
> simpler small office to a merged enterprise authentication and 
> information system. Also your colleagues at the office who deal with 
> Windows (or linux and windows) can get something out of it.
> 
> There is a variety of other things we could cover as well, BSD based 
> firewalls and the advantages of PF.  Firewall redundancy and failover 
> (including firewall states and IPSEC SPI & SPD.  Vulnerability testing 
> and a few other security checkups could be another component as well. 
> But watching off the shelf hardware failover like Cisco enterprise gear 
> is a treat if your a real network geek.
> 
> 
> These are the offers for more presentations by the local yocals.  Let us 
> know and we will try and schedule something.  I figure with the various 
> levels of asterisk presentations, and the various levels of Directory 
> Server Presentations that each of them could be 2-3 presentations 
> outside of the firewall and security presentations.
> 
> If they are of interest to the group Kevan and I will try and work out 
> something and see how often we could repeat them so everything doesnt 
> get stale.  However putting together enough to make a presentation and 
> make it interesting I am sure takes a little time, so the more advance 
> notice of the topic and date the easier it should be for us to put 
> things together.
> 
> Thanks,
> Trevor Benson
> A1 Networks
> 
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