Kids are exposed to computers and other technology very early in school. What better place to demonstrate the benefits of Linux and Open Source Software than here? Speaker Jordan Erickson will talk about his experiences with helping bring Linux to several local Sonoma County schools and after school programs, and how you can do the same.

Tom Most will be presenting “An Introduction to Debian Packaging”. This talk is aimed at developers and system administrators who wish to deploy applications to Debian and Ubuntu systems. Topics include the structure of a .deb, writing debian/control files, and use of debhelper and dh_make.

Comment from Allan: This should be of interest to anyone who uses a distribution that relies on .deb package management. See you there!

Update: Slides available.

According to Wikipedia: A Lightning talk is a short presentation given at a conference or similar forum. Unlike other presentations, lightning talks last only a few minutes and several will usually be delivered in a single period by different speakers.

Everyone is invited and encouraged to talk about Linux. - Which distro or window manager are you running? - What hardware are you running Linux on? - What projects are you working on? - We want to hear about it.

A Raspberry Pi, connected to a custom PCB with a PIC microcontroller, connected to… a game console’s controller port? In this presentation, Allan will talk about the Tool-Assisted Speedrun community from http://tasvideos.org, game console emulators in Linux, Raspberry Pi GPIO serial interface capabilities, PCB design, reverse-engineering, and how a TAS can be an artform.

There will be plenty of technical details but the presentation should be enjoyable by all, with demonstrations of games being played perfectly using tools to overcome the limitations of human reflexes and a finale of taking complete control of an unmodified Super Nintendo using only the controller input.

The meeting will begin with the yearly election of members of the NBLUG Board of Directors.

Following the election, Kyle Rankin will be presenting “Practical 3D printing and the Open Source Community”.

Your average geek has probably heard of 3D printers but may not know about all of the Open Source underpinnings that have made the 3D printing boom possible. In this talk Kyle will discuss the similarities between the history of hobbyist 3D printers and the history of some popular Linux distributions. He will then talk about some of the 3D printers available today and help you justify buying your own 3D printer with examples of useful things you can print for around the house.

GnuPG is the free open source version of the OpenPGP standard. GPG can be used to encrypt and/or digitally sign files for secure storage or email. I’ll cover creating GPG keys and using them for encryption and signing.

Tonight is a roundtable hackfest of anything Linux or Open Source related. A projector will be available for anyone who wants to use it to present something but this is generally an opportunity for a more loosely-structured social setting where everyone can show each other what they have been working on or ask for help. This would be a good meeting to bring your computers or projects.

This talk will cover a introduction of mini-computing at home using Linux. Topics covered will include Rikomagic’s MK802 and MK802II based on the All-winner A10 Chip set and Android operating system. There will be a brief introduction to the Dalvik VM, an overview of Hardware specifications, comparisons of similar devices, as well as a demonstration of stock and custom images. Recently restricted releases of Chromecast by Google have prompted a revisit to hardware that is Linux-friendly and ships with access to root. Active participation for this talk is encouraged, so if you have similar devices do not hesitate to bring as a HDTV will be available for demonstration.

Linux developers play a major role in bringing forth the surprisingly near-term technology of autonomous vehicles. The talk will present lessons from a few years of work on vehicular SW and make the case that automotive software will have an outsized societal impact. Imminent decisions by government and private industry will influence how long-running problems like privacy and security play out in this new space. What code is important in automotive Linux, and what’s it like to work on it? What are the opportunities for software developers and EE’s, and where might one get started?

Alison Chaiken has worked as an automotive software developer for 3 years, starting with MeeGo-IVI at Nokia, continuing as a contractor, and then joining Mentor Embedded Software Division. She is the organizer of the Silicon Valley Automotive Open Source Group and rides bicycles in any time that is somehow left over.

Edit 7/10/2013: slides from the presentation are available at http://she-devel.com/Chaiken_NBLUG_2013.pdf.

According to Wikipedia: A Lightning talk is a short presentation given at a conference or similar forum. Unlike other presentations, lightning talks last only a few minutes and several will usually be delivered in a single period by different speakers.

Everyone is invited and encouraged to talk about Linux.

• Which distro are you running?
• What hardware are you running Linux on?
• What projects are you working on?
• We want to hear about it.

A sign up form will be provided at the beginning of the meeting for anyone wanting to give a lightning talk.

Like IPv6, DNSSEC is one of those great ideas that just hasn’t seen widespread adoption yet. That’s a shame because it turns out it’s not that difficult to deploy DNSSEC for a domain once you have the basic concepts down. In this talk Kyle will talk about general security issues that have plagued DNS over the years, how DNSSEC addresses some of them, how DNSSEC works, and finally how to deploy DNSSEC yourself.