announce April 2016

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May 10th general meeting: Jams, Cans and Qubes (Kyle Rankin)

by Allan Cecil

Topic: Jams, Cans and Qubes When: Tues May 10th, 7:30 PM to 9:00 PM Speaker: Kyle Rankin Location: O'Reilly Media, Sebastopol CA in the Tarsier conference room past the metal statue and to the right ( http://nblug.org/locations ) Description: To understand how Qubes secures your desktop, look to your pantry. The same security by compartmentalization concept that makes Qubes resilient against attack was conceived of over two hundred years ago to protect food against infection. In this talk Kyle will discuss how to jam strawberries, can green beans, and isolate desktop workflows into a combination of netVMs, proxyVMs, and appVMs. He'll cover some common threats against your food and data and describe how Mason jars and Qubes can mitigate them.

8 years, 10 months

April 12 General Meeting: Life After Second Life: Metaverse

by E Frank Ball III

Topic: Life After Second Life: Metaverse When: Tues April 12th, 7:30 PM to 9:00 PM Speaker: Mike Higgins Location: O'Reilly Media, Sebastopol CA in the Tarsier conference room past the metal statue and to the right ( http://nblug.org/locations ) I gave a talk here once before about programming in the video game Second Life ( http://nblug.org/node/155/ ). This time I'll talk about Life After Second Life. There is a larger world, a Metaverse, of open source MMORPGs based on the open source Second Life Viewer projects and the Open Simulator project. There are hundreds of small companies trying to make a living doing what Second Life did. There are thousands of crazy artists creating 3D environments and inviting you to walk through them, there are tens of thousands of people setting up virtual environments on their own PCs and all of these are starting to link up to each other. My plan is to not have many slides for this talk, but log onto several different virtual worlds and put them up on the Big Screen while I talk. Eventually taking us to my private world run off the server in my barn. - Mike Higgins

8 years, 11 months

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announce April 2016