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General Meeting TOMORROW August 12: CTL Enterprise Project Management

by Kyle Rankin

Start: 2008/08/12 - 7:30pm End: 2008/08/12 - 9:00pm Location: O'Reilly, Sebastopol, CA http://nblug.org/genloc Speakers: Alex Honor Description: CTL is a new open source project for enterprise management, written in Java, but with bindings to Python, Perl, Ruby, shell, Javascript, and more. CTL is not an acronym; think of what 'apachectl' does for the Apache webserver, and imagine what such a tool might do for your entire enterprise and you've got CTL. About the Speaker: Alex Honor is open source project lead and principle architect at ControlTier. Formerly, he was head of E*trade system engineering, and carried them from dot boom to dot bomb and has been specializing in cradle to grave distributed enterprise software management ever since. -- Kyle Rankin NBLUG President The North Bay Linux Users Group http://nblug.org IRC: greenfly(a)irc.freenode.net #nblug kyle(a)nblug.org

16 years, 4 months

General Meeting July 8 (tomorrow): Haiku

by Kyle Rankin

Start: 2008/07/08 - 7:30pm End: 2007/07/08 - 9:00pm Location: O'Reilly, Sebastopol, CA http://nblug.org/genloc Speakers: Jorge G. Mare, Scott McCreary & (possibly) Urias McCullough Description: Haiku is an open source operating system inspired by the BeOS that is specifically focused on personal computing. The intent of this presentation is to give a general introduction to both the Haiku project and operating system. The talk will cover among other things the history of the project, some of its most important milestones, recent developments, the code base, as well as the global community that supports it. We will also introduce some of the aspects that make the Haiku operating system unique both from a technical as well as end user perspective. We will wrap up the talk with an interactive live demo/QA session. Haiku Project website: www.haiku-os.org -- Kyle Rankin NBLUG President The North Bay Linux Users Group http://nblug.org IRC: greenfly(a)irc.freenode.net #nblug kyle(a)nblug.org

16 years, 5 months

General Meeting June 10: NBLUG 10th Anniversary!

by Kyle Rankin

Start: 2008/06/10 - 7:30pm End: 2007/06/10 - 9:00pm Location: O'Reilly, Sebastopol, CA http://nblug.org/genloc Speaker: NBLUG Founders Dustin Mollo, Eric Eisenhart, and possibly Kat Ogaz Description: That's right, 10 years ago (almost to the day) NBLUG held its first meeting. Come hear the founders discuss NBLUG, what the group was like then, and how it has changed through the years. We'll also be providing cake! -- Kyle Rankin NBLUG President The North Bay Linux Users Group http://nblug.org IRC: greenfly(a)irc.freenode.net #nblug kyle(a)nblug.org

16 years, 6 months

General Meeting TONIGHT: Introduction to KDE 4

by Kyle Rankin

Start: 2008/05/13 - 7:30pm End: 2008/05/13 - 9:00pm Location: O'Reilly, Sebastopol, CA http://nblug.org/genloc Speaker: Fabio Locati Description: KDE 4 was released on April 2, 2008 and is the newest version of the K Desktop Environment. Fabio Locati will speak on the history of KDE and Qt(the toolkit behind KDE) and he will also discuss the framework of KDE. Plans for the upcoming 4.1 release will be revealed and there will be a live KDE demo. -- Kyle Rankin NBLUG President The North Bay Linux Users Group http://nblug.org IRC: greenfly(a)irc.freenode.net #nblug kyle(a)nblug.org

16 years, 7 months

General Meeting TONIGHT! OpenVPN

by Kyle Rankin

Start: 2008/04/08 - 7:30pm End: 2008/04/08 - 9:00pm Location: O'Reilly, Sebastopol, CA http://nblug.org/genloc Speaker: Bob Blick Description: OpenVPN - Adding Trust to Untrusted Networks Virtual Private Networks allow you to connect two networks securely. A traveler with a laptop frequently uses a random internet connection but wants to connect securely to a home or office network. Traditional solutions are not well suited to the random connections of the traveler with a laptop. OpenVPN is a versatile cross-platform open source solution that's easy to set up. This presentation will have an overview of the lingo and components of VPN and a how-to demonstration of an OpenVPN server and laptop client. -- Kyle Rankin NBLUG President The North Bay Linux Users Group http://nblug.org IRC: greenfly(a)irc.freenode.net #nblug kyle(a)nblug.org

16 years, 8 months

General Meeting this Tuesday: Scaled-Down Laptops - Asus EeePC and OLPC XO

by Bob Blick

Start: 2008/03/11 - 7:30pm End: 2008/03/11 - 9:00pm Location: O'Reilly, Sebastopol, CA http://nblug.org/genloc Speakers: Brandon Williams and Allan Cecil Description: The Asus EeePC and the One Laptop Per Child XO are two small laptops with very little in common. This month we have two presenters, Allan Cecil and Brandon Williams. Allan will talk about the One Laptop Per Child Project XO laptop, which is technologically very unusual and supports some exciting educational and networking applications. A mesh networking demo of multiple XOs is planned, so if you are one of the lucky ones to already have an XO, bring it along and join in the demo. Brandon will be discussing the EeePC, its hardware specifications, capabilities, the default operating system, and its great suite of open source software. He'll discuss some of the niche distros popping up specifically for the EeePC, some of the popular hardware hacks floating around the web, and discuss some available options to the potential buyer. We'll also hear about upcoming Ultra-Mobile Pc's, why their popularity will continue to grow, and upcoming technology that are going to keep making them cheaper, smaller, and more portable.

16 years, 9 months

General Meeting this Tuesday: Introduction to Forensics

by Kyle Rankin

Start: 2008/02/12 - 7:30pm End: 2008/02/12 - 9:00pm Location: O'Reilly, Sebastopol, CA http://nblug.org/genloc Speaker: Kyle Rankin Description: In this talk Kyle Rankin will provide an introduction to performing forensics analysis on Linux machines using the popular Sleuthkit tools with their easy-to-use Autopsy web-based front-end. The talk will cover initial installation and configuration of Sleuthkit and Autopsy, basic concepts and considerations for a forensics investigation, and at the end there will be a demo with a compromised Linux image. -- Kyle Rankin NBLUG President The North Bay Linux Users Group http://nblug.org IRC: greenfly(a)irc.freenode.net #nblug kyle(a)nblug.org

16 years, 10 months

Eric S. Raymond @ BALUG (Next Tuesday)

by Andrew Fife

Howdy Folks: Eric S. Raymond will be kicking off the start of a great 2008 at The Bay Area Linux Users Group (BALUG) with a talk on January 15th. If you haven't been to BALUG in a while, this a great opportunity to check out what we're up to... and who knows you may just wind up eating dinner with Eric S. Raymond at your table. If you'd like to come, please RSVP: RSVP(a)balug.org Upcoming 2008 speakers include: Jan - Eric S. Raymond Feb - Bruce Perens March 24th (New Date) - Mark Shuttleworth April - Eric Allman May - Jeremy Allison June - Andrew Morton So why not signup for BALUG's extremely low volume announce list: http://lists.balug.org/listinfo.cgi/balug-announce-balug.org Meeting Details... 6:30pm January 15th, 2008 (Next Tuesday) Four Seas Restaurant 731 Grant Ave. San Francisco, CA 94108 Parking: http://www.portsmouthsquaregarage.com/ Cost: The meetings are always free, but dinner is $13 About BALUG: BALUG is lively gathering of Linux users & free software enthusiasts that combines great food, community & intimate access to featured speakers. We meet in the bar of the Four Seas Restaurant from 6:30pm. At 7pm, we share a family-style Chinese dinner, which is followed by our guest speaker. BALUG Mailing list Policy: BALUG promises not to abuse other LUGs mailing lists. Our current policy is to make one monthly announcement on other Bay Area LUGs mailing lists. If you feel this is not appropriate for a particular list, please tell us which list and what you feel would be a more appropriate policy for that list. Please send feedback to balug-contact(a)balug.org. ---------------------------------------- Andrew Fife Untangle - Open Source Security Gateway download.untangle.com 650.425.3327 (O) 415.806.6028 (C) afife(a)untangle.com

16 years, 11 months

General Meeting TOMORROW: Advantech FWA-660 Network Appliance

by Kyle Rankin

Start: 2008/01/08 - 7:30pm End: 2008/01/08 - 9:00pm Location: O'Reilly, Sebastopol, CA http://nblug.org/genloc Speaker: Paul Stagnoli and Brian Davidson Description: Paul Stagnoli and Brian Davidson, of Exchange Bank, will be discussing hacking the Advantech FWA-660 network appliance. The FWA-660 specs include four Ethernet ports, a Celeron processor, up to 512 meg of ram, on-board USB and printer support, compact flash support, and a 30 gig hard drive. Paul will demonstrate how to install Ubuntu server onto the box via PXE. Brian will discuss case mods he made to add USB and Printer support to the box. -- Kyle Rankin NBLUG President The North Bay Linux Users Group http://nblug.org IRC: greenfly(a)irc.freenode.net #nblug kyle(a)nblug.org

16 years, 11 months

General Meeting TOMORROW: Virtualization Panel

by Kyle Rankin

Start: 2007/12/11 - 7:30pm End: 2007/12/11 - 9:00pm Location: O'Reilly, Sebastopol, CA http://nblug.org/genloc Speaker: NBLUG Panel Description: Curious about virtualization? In this talk a panel of NBLUG members will highlight a number of different virtualization technologies including but not limited to VMware, OpenVZ, Solaris zones, and more! -- Kyle Rankin NBLUG President The North Bay Linux Users Group http://nblug.org IRC: greenfly(a)irc.freenode.net #nblug kyle(a)nblug.org

17 years

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