CPLUG

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. :)

Say goodbye to tables and say hello to document-oriented databases… this month’s meeting topic will be CouchDB, presented by Vikram Dighe!

Apache CouchDB, commonly referred to as CouchDB, is a free and open source document-oriented database written in the Erlang programming language. It is designed for local replication and to scale vertically along a wide range of devices.

The meeting will be (weather permitting) on Tuesday, February 9 at 6:30 PM as usual.

Feel free to RSVP on the Central PA Linux Meetup page if you are planning to attend!

Our next meeting will be on Tuesday, February 9, 2010. As usual, we’ll be meeting at 6:30 PM at ITT in Harrisburg.

We have a speaker (details to be announced), but could still use one or two short (5-minute) lightning talks if anyone is interested. Either post a comment or email the mailing list if you’d like to help out.

One last reminder that there is a CPLUG meeting tonight (1/12) at 6:30 PM at ITT…

Bill Hathaway will be doing a talk on ZFS, a combined file system and logical volume manager designed by Sun Microsystems. ZFS can do a lot of cool things (volume management, snapshots, copy-on-write clones, continuous integrity checking, automatic repair, RAID-Z) and is definitely worth checking out!

After Bill’s talk, Nathan Powell will be doing a 5-minute lightning talk on OpenSolaris on the Desktop. And of course, we’ll be ordering pizza too. :)

See you there!

Quick reminder that the next CPLUG meeting will be at 6:30 PM on Tuesday, 1/12/2010.

This month, Bill Hathaway will be talking about ZFS, a combined file system and logical volume manager designed by Sun Microsystems. After that, Nathan Powell will be doing a lighting talk on using OpenSolaris as a desktop.

See you there!

It’s December… so this month we’ll be doing our annual “installfest” and social extravaganza on Tuesday, 12/8/09 at 6:30 PM.

Please bring some food to share — snacks, deserts, and similar goodies would be great. We’ll still order pizza too.

If you have any Linux/OSS questions, please feel free to bring them. If you’d like to bring your laptop or desktop to get help with something, you are welcome to do so!

And if you don’t need help with anything, no problem! You can either help other folks, or just hang out and talk about geeky things and eat yummy food. :)

Check out the Meetings page for directions, and see you there!

CPLUG’s November meeting was a triple-header with presentations on Asterisk PBX (Dennis), Dropbox and Ubuntu One (John M.), and cloud computing with Rackspace and Amazon EC2 (John P.).

The next meeting will be December 9, 2009 at 6:30 PM.

The first talk at CPLUG’s May meeting was presented by Rob, who discussed “Home Automation with the Vera Z-Wave controller”. After the break, Lon and Eric discussed the online TODO apps Remember the Milk and Hiveminder.

And don’t forget, you can check out the full list of previous meeting topics.

The next meeting will be on June 9, 2009. See you then!

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 Saturday, October 17, 2009 in Harrisburg, PA.

The Call for Participation (CFP) is open right now and we 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 Speaker FAQ page has all the info you need to submit an abstract. And yes, you can submit more than one! ;)

More info is available at the CPOSC 2009 website. Check it out, and we hope to see you in October!

The February 2009 CPLUG meeting is over, and was on various security topics:

First up, Jerod Lycett gave a talk on some security basics, including information about passwords, wireless and a few other items of interest.

Second, Jeff Best talked about security and compliance, including the 5 W’s of security. He has a wiki page posted at http://cplug.pbwiki.com/Security-Stuff.

After pizza, John Place talked about SSH, its history, some of its more overlooked but very useful features, and a bit into ~/.ssh/config, and how you can make your SSH life easier using it.

Finally, Chris Moates gave an impromptu talk about the yubikey, a device from Yubico that generates one time passwords. More information on the yubikey can be found at http://www.yubico.com.

Here’s some pictures of each speaker:

The next meeting will be on March 10th.