CPLUG

We didn’t have a formal meeting with presentations in October due to CPOSC being the same month. Although we did meet at ITT to chat and allow some of the speakers a chance to test out their hardware with the projectors.

The next meeting will be November 11, 2008.

Just a quick reminder about the meeting this coming Tuesday. As usual, we have two talks:

1. A programmer from Mapquest will be spending some time talking about how mapping and routing work, their development platforms (including Linux), and all sorts of similar goodies.
2. Eric will be doing a talk called “Staving Off The Apocalypse with pfSense (how to save the world with a router).”

See you then!

In case this is of interest to anyone here, Joey Lott, the author of the book Adobe Flex 3, will be speaking just up the street from where CPLUG meets. Details for the event can be found at CPAUG.

Adobe released the Flex 3 SDK under the open source Mozilla Public License.

The August CPLUG meeting will be tomorrow night at 6:30 PM at ITT. The topics will be:

• 10 Awesome Firefox Plug-ins (Jason May)
• Embedded Linux Distributions (Bob Igo)

Directions can be found on the meetings page.

Just a quick reminder that the deadline for submitting talk proposals for CPOSC is this Friday! More details can be found on the CFP page.

We had a special guest at tonight’s meeting! Brad Lhotsky, a Security Administrator at National Institutes of Health (NIH) gave a talk on Network Introspection with Open Source Tools. Here’s the abstract:

“Information Security is a hot field these days. However, most Security Policies deal with the world from the perspective of high school physics class: no friction, zero air resistance. This presentations intends to demonstrate how to leverage a variety of Open Source Projects to gain a better understanding of your network. Leveraging this understanding, it’s possible to attach security policies to networks that actually increase productivity and limit wasted time and money.”

Brad will be giving this talk at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo this year.

At the June meeting (6/10/08), Todd (tmz) gave a presentation called “What is packaging and why should you care?” which is the first in a series of talks about that various packaging systems available for Linux.

I did a talk on “Flying Light with Lighttpd”. Lighttpd is a secure, fast, high-performance web server that is really worth checking out, especially if you are using a framework like Rails or Django.

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.

Continue reading ‘May meeting slides and notes’

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.

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.