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Results of NBLUG Board Election for 2016-2017 Term

by Robert Thille

President: Allan Cecil Vice-President: Frank Ball Treasurer: Matt da Silva Scribe: Robert Thille At Large: Tom Most At Large: Matt Smith Robert

7 years, 11 months

Nov. 8th meeting: Lightning Talks, Elections, and Hackfest

by Allan Cecil

Topic: Lightning Talks, Elections, and Hackfest When: Tuesday November 8th, 7:30 PM to 9:00 PM Speaker: Everyone Location: O'Reilly Media, Sebastopol CA in the Tarsier conference room past the metal statue and to the right ( http://nblug.org/locations ) Description: Lightning Talks: Have something you would like to present, but don't have enough material for a full talk? Here's your chance. Talk about anything Linux related. Elections: After the last lightning talk concludes we will hold our annual elections. Hackfest: Bring your hardware or software project to get help with it or just to show it off.

7 years, 12 months

Oct. 11: The Epiphany Chip and the Parallella Computer

by Allan Cecil

Topic: Oct. 11: The Epiphany Chip and the Parallella Computer When: Tuesday October 11th, 7:30 PM to 9:00 PM Speaker: William Tracy Location: O'Reilly Media, Sebastopol CA in the Tarsier conference room past the metal statue and to the right ( http://nblug.org/locations ) Description: The Epiphany is a processor that tries to combine the best attributes of a CPU and a GPU. The Parallella is a single-board computer that runs Ubuntu, originally designed as a showcase for the Epiphany chip. I backed the original Kickstarter campaign for the Parallella in 2012. I will talk about my experience with the fundraising campaign, how the Epiphany and the Parallella are different from their predecessors, and the strengths and weaknesses of the Epiphany in practice.

8 years

September 13th: Gamify Security Training with Developer CTFs by Kyle Rankin

by Allan Cecil

Topic: Gamify Security Training with Developer CTFs When: Tues September 13th, 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: Capture the Flag tournaments have long been used to test hacker skills but they can also serve as effective security training for developers. This talk will feature a case study where I turned teams of developers with no prior security training against each other in a CTF arena featuring their own applications and watched them rack up points as they popped shells in each other's applications.

8 years, 1 month

August 9th: How TASBot Exploits Video Game Consoles (DEF CON talk encore)

by Allan Cecil

Topic: How TASBot Exploits Video Game Consoles (DEF CON talk encore) When: Tues August 9th, 7:30 PM to 9:00 PM Speaker: Allan Cecil Location: O'Reilly Media, Sebastopol CA in the Tarsier conference room past the metal statue and to the right ( http://nblug.org/locations ) Description: This will be an encore presentation of a DEF CON talk given August 5th at 4:00 PM: https://www.defcon.org/html/defcon-24/dc-24-speakers.html#Cecil TASBot is an augmented Nintendo R.O.B. robot that can play video games without any of the button mashing limitations us humans have. By pretending to be a controller connected to a game console, TASBot triggers glitches and exploits weaknesses to execute arbitrary opcodes and rewrite games. This talk will cover how these exploits were found and will explore the idea that breaking video games using Tool-Assisted emulators can be a fun way to learn the basics of discovering security vulnerabilities. An overview of some of the details that will be described in the talk can be found in an article I coauthored for the PoC||GTFO journal issue 0x10 (Pokemon Plays Twitch, page 6).

8 years, 2 months

Tues July 12th NBLUG meeting: Installing Linux on a Chromebook

by E Frank Ball III

Topic: Installing Linux onto a Chromebook / Chromebox When: Tues July 12th, 7:30 PM to 9:00 PM Speaker: Robert Thille Location: O'Reilly Media, Sebastopol CA in the Tarsier conference room past the metal statue and to the right - http://nblug.org/locations Have you looked at the prices of ChromeBooks and thought "Wow that's cheap! Too bad they don't run my OS of choice." **Well, they can! In this talk, Robert will go over the options to give you "more" linux with your ChromeOS device, from just accessing the crosh (chrome-os-shell) to flashing a new ROM with Coreboot & SeaBIOS and installing the linux distro of your choice. - Robert -------------------------------------------------------------------- During this meeting we will be accepting donations for a replacement projector, our first major purchase as a user group in nearly a decade. We are not a 501(c)(3) non-profit and cannot provide receipts for tax purposes, but don't let that stop you we can accept cash or checks. Thanks for your support! The projector fund is going well, we are upto $400, including the existing treasury. We are currently hoping to buy a WXGA (1280x800) projector in the $450 + tax range. ($500). Our current projector is only VGA (800x600), not bright enough, and only has VGA input. - Frank Ball

8 years, 3 months

June 14th general meeting - Hackfest and lightning talks, donations for projector

by Allan Cecil

Topic: Hackfest and lightning talks When: Tues June 14th, 7:30 PM to 9:00 PM Speaker: All of us Location: O'Reilly Media, Sebastopol CA in the Tarsier conference room past the metal statue and to the right - http://nblug.org/locations Description: Come show us what you’ve been up to! Bring your projects, problems and persons for round-table discussion. We also welcome lightning talks if you’d like to present, but don’t have enough material for a full talk. A projector will be available (VGA). During this meeting we will be accepting donations for a replacement projector, our first major purchase as a user group in nearly a decade. We are not a 501(c)(3) non-profit and cannot provide receipts for tax purposes but don't let that stop you - we'll have a Square reader on hand to make things easier and can also accept cash or checks. Thanks for the support!

8 years, 4 months

Meeting TONIGHT in person and streaming: Jams, Cans and Qubes (Kyle Rankin)

by Allan Cecil

(I'm cross-posting this to both lists to make sure people are aware that this meeting will also be streamed, my apologies if you get this twice.) Come one, come all at 7:30 tonight, wherever you are. Qubes is a unique distribution that solves a number of security problems and this is a talk that shouldn't be missed. Jordan Erickson behind the Cool Mic streaming project has volunteered to set up a Periscope live stream of the talk. Just install Periscope on Android or iOS then optionally follow @nblugdotorg on Twitter and/or look for a livestream that will be titled "North Bay Linux Users Group: Jams, Cans and Qubes". See you there either way! A.C. ****** President, North Bay Linux User's Group On 05/10/2016 02:11 PM, Allan Cecil wrote: > (I'm cross-posting this to both lists to make sure people are aware that this meeting will also be streamed, my apologies if you get this twice.) > > Come one, come all at 7:30 tonight, wherever you are. Qubes is a unique distribution that solves a number of security problems and this is a talk that shouldn't be missed. Jordan Erickson behind the Cool Mic streaming project has volunteered to set up a Periscope live stream of the talk. Just install Periscope on Android or iOS then optionally follow @nblugdotorg on Twitter and/or look for a livestream that will be titled "North Bay Linux Users Group: Jams, Cans and Qubes. See you there either way! > > A.C. > ****** > President, North Bay Linux User's Group > > On 04/27/2016 04:28 PM, Allan Cecil wrote: >> 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. >> _______________________________________________ >> announce mailing list >> announce(a)nblug.org >> http://nblug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/announce >> > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk(a)nblug.org > http://nblug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk >

8 years, 5 months

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, 6 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, 6 months

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