CPLUG

The next CPLUG meeting will be on Tuesday, August 10, 2010 at 6:30 PM at ITT in Harrisburg.

Dennis Little will be talking about ways to get more out of consumer router/firewalls, including OpenWRT, DD-WRT, and Tomato:

• Identifying compatible routers
• Loading firmware steps, licenses, implications, etc.
• OpenVPN (server and endpoint)
• Dynamic DNS
• Network monitoring
• Perhaps QoS and VLANs

See you then!

The next CPLUG meeting will be on Tuesday, July 13, 2010 at 6:30 PM. Gino will be talking about the wonders of GRUB 2. Be there!

The Central PA Open Source Conference (CPOSC) is a small, low-cost, one-day conference about all things Open Source. This year’s conference will be our third annual event, and will be held on Saturday, October 16, 2010 at Harrisburg University.

The Call for Participation (CFP) is now open, so we are looking for interesting speakers and talks. If you are interested in speaking at this year’s conference, check out the Speaker FAQ and submit a proposal. Can’t decide on a topic? No problem! Feel free to submit more than one.

The only requirements are a good understanding of your topic and some enthusiasm! :) The deadline to submit talk proposals is Friday, July 9, 2010.

The next CPLUG meeting will be Tuesday, June 8, 2010 at 6:30 PM.

Ryan Duff (@ryancduff) will be talking about what’s new and awesome in the upcoming WordPress 3.0 release. Whether you are new to WordPress or an expert, there should be some interesting bits for everyone.

See you then!

Doug will be doing a talk on RAID at tonight’s meeting (ITT @ 6:30 PM). Mostly about software RAID, but he’ll be talking about when hardware RAID is appropriate as well. You can check out a preview of his slides here: PDF or ODP.

CTI Networks / PA.net is graciously paying for the pizza for tonight’s meeting.

See you tonight!

The next CPLUG meeting will be Tuesday, May 11, 2010 at 6:30 PM.

Doug will be talking about all things RAID! RAID, an acronym for redundant array of independent disks or also known as redundant array of inexpensive disks, is a technology that allows high levels of storage reliability from low-cost and less reliable PC-class disk-drive components, via the technique of arranging the devices into arrays for redundancy.

See you there!

We have a CPLUG meeting tonight (4/13/2010) at ITT…

Vik will be talking about Apache CouchDB. CouchDB is a free and open source document-oriented database written in the Erlang programming language. It is a NoSQL solution designed for local replication and to scale vertically along a wide range of devices. The documents in a collection need not share a schema, but retain query abilities via views. Views are defined with aggregate functions and filters are computed in parallel, much like MapReduce.

After that, Nathan will be doing a lightning talk about OpenDS. OpenDS Software is a free, open source directory service, written in Java, and developed as part of the OpenDS project. OpenDS Software implements a wide range of Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) and related standards, including full compliance with LDAPv3 but also support for Directory Service Markup Language (DSMLv2).

Feel free to RSVP on the Central PA Linux Meetup page.

See you tonight!

The next CPLUG meeting will be on Tuesday, March 9, 2010 at 6:30 PM at ITT. Hopefully we won’t have yet another snowpocalypse, and we’ll actually be able to have a meeting!

The topic for March is iSCSI. iSCSI is an IP-based storage networking standard for linking data storage facilities. By carrying SCSI commands over IP networks, iSCSI is used to facilitate data transfers over intranets and to manage storage over long distances. iSCSI can be used to transmit data over local area networks (LANs), wide area networks (WANs), or the Internet and can enable location-independent data storage and retrieval.

Feel free to RSVP on the CPLUG Meetup page (optional), and we’ll see you then!

Tonight’s CPLUG meeting has been cancelled due to the forecast of 12+ inches of snow. We’ll try again next month (3/9/2010).

After you run to the store to stock up on bread, milk, and eggs, it’ll be a perfect night to check out the #cplug IRC channel at irc.cplug.net, port 6667 or 6697 (ssl). :)

Hopefully we’ll see you in March!

Please note that, right now, AccuWeather is forecasting another 3 – 8″ of heavy snow mixed with sleet for Tuesday night. If that’s the case, the upcoming meeting may be canceled due to bad weather.

The cancellation announcement will be posted here and on the mailing list. Be sure to check the mailing list and blog before driving over to ITT. :)