April meeting slides and notes

At the meeting on Tuesday, the topics were Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and OpenVPN.

Nate’s EC2 presentation slides are below. You can check out Matt’s OpenVPN presentation notes on his website.

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CPOSC 2008 Call for Participation

CPOSC, the Central PA Open Source Conference, is a one-day, multi-track, low-cost conference about all things open source: software, programming, operating systems, community and more. It will take place on Sunday, October 19th at the ITT Tech campus in Harrisburg, PA.

We have started the Call for Participation (CFP) and are currently looking for interesting talks and presentations. If you’ve given a talk at CPLUG before, or if you’ve got a cool topic to talk about, please don’t be shy! We’d love to hear your idea!

The CFP page has all the info you need to submit an abstract.

More info is available at the CPOSC 2008 website.

May meeting topics

The next CPLUG meeting will be on Tuesday, May 13, 2008 at 6:30 PM. Nathan Powell will be talking about Amazon’s super-cool Elastic Compute Cloud and Matt Rinehart will be discussing OpenVPN.

Command Security with Sudo

Slides from Chris’ talk from the April meeting:

Need talks for May meeting

We are still in need for one (possibly two) people to speak at the upcoming meeting on May 13, 2008. There are a wide variety of topics available, and just about anything involving Linux would be welcome.

If you are interested, either post a comment below or email Eric directly.

Revision control tools and methods

In addition to Chris’ talk on user privileges, Todd Z. will be doing a presentation on revision control:

Revision control is used by many open source projects, large and small. You can use it too, to follow or contribute to those projects, or to track your config files, scripts, and whatnot. We’ll talk about various revision control tools as well as the differences between centralized and distributed systems.

The meeting will be on Tuesday, April 8 at 6:30 PM. Details and directions are on the meetings page.

Sudo goodness springs forth this Spring!

For the April meeting, I’ll be discussing solutions to control user privileges at the command line level.

I’ll kick things off with a basic introduction to the problem, followed by a high level overview of the most popular solutions around today. Then we’ll go into a lot more detail on how sudo helps to manage this problem effectively and cleanly. From the mundane to the obscure, most of the major functionality of sudo will be covered. The expectation is that you will be better equipped to both understand what sudo is configured to do on your system, as well as be given enough knowledge to start your own further research on the topic.

March meeting

MythTV and LinuxMCE were the topics at tonight’s meeting. Bob did the pre-pizza talk and Seth did the post-pizza talk:

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The next meeting will be April 8, 2008 at 6:30 PM.

Linux loves your TV

This month’s meeting will include two talks on getting the most out of your TV with Linux.

Bob Igo will be talking about MythTV and KnoppMyth:

MythTV 0.21 will soon be released, and a new version of KnoppMyth will soon follow. Learn about some of the new features in each.

Seth Jerome will be talking about LinuxMCE:

Do you like MythTV? Have you integrated it into your daily life? Excellent. Mythtv is a wonderful platform. Now imagine this… All the functionality of your current mythtv setup, plus the ability to run multiple instances of it simply needing a network connection. Have your media follow you from room to room. Oh and did I mention, have it control your lights, temperature, telephony, and security? Let LMCE run your entire house. It is a whole home control system, using mythtv , keeping your media top of mind, and adding convenience to your everday life, as well as security.

The meeting will be on Tuesday, March 11 at 6:30 PM. Details and directions are on the meetings page.

New Server and Website

Welcome to the new CPLUG website!

This is running on a new server; the old server had some unexpected trouble, and we needed to move everything over to this new one. There’s still a few things we haven’t been able to migrate yet, but as a whole this box should be working.