CPLUG

Nate Moss will be speaking this month on inter-connectivity and compatibility  between open and closed source, using Ubuntu and Windows.

This will focus primarily on office and graphics programs, and show some web related tools as well. See first hand how compatible LibreOffice is with Microsoft Office, and how to work seamlessly across your LAN in both Windows and Linux.

Monthly meetings take place at ITT Tech at 6:30pm on the second Tuesday of every month.

Tuesday Evening January 10  at 6:30pm

An introduction to software Equivalents in Linux. See the alternatives to programs like Photoshop and Microsoft Word, Learn how to network with Windows.

Also possibly an introduction to project management and user administration in Linux.

This will be held at the ITT Tech Harrisburg Campus, most likely in room Theory 9.

Tuesday December 13th – 6:30pm

No lecture, no lab, just a relaxed social event. Bring one item to share, soda, chips or a snack, pizza will be ordered shortly after 6:30. Possibly some games or other optional activities just for fun. This is a great way for newbies to get familiar with the group without the worries of being too technical. Bring your friends!

This will be held at the ITT Tech Harrisburg Campus.

Monthly Meetings are held on the second Tuesday of the month. This meeting will be on November 8th at 6:30pm at the ITT Tech Harrisburg Campus.

Seth Jerome, one of the original CPLUG members will be giving a talk and running a lab on LinuxMCE (http://linuxmce.com). Bring your laptop, and Seth continues:

And a network cable, preferably at least 12ft. Otherwise we’ll be sitting in each others laps.
Also,

I will send another message regarding this meeting to ask all who plan on attending to speak up, so as that I can create the diskless images in advance.
I will be asking the people who wish to connect to the core server to provide the following if you can:

1. first name

2. type of video card on your laptop/netbook
- as root or use sudo
- #lspci -v|grep VGA
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82Q963/Q965 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
- or perhaps you just know. Nvidia cards will be no issue, you can use the full UI, however ATI and Intel chipsets we may be stuck with UI1. Which is not a bad thing, just not as sweet.

3. the MAC address of your network card, the wired one.
-  #ifconfig|grep HWaddr
should return something like:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1c:c4:f1:c0:f5 <— this is the address

4. Please visit LinuxMCE on the web. Perhaps viewing the main page/forums/wiki you may have some questions for me.
- http://www.linuxmce.org
Can’t wait to see you all again.
Best Regards,

Seth

If you don’t have an Ethernet cable, there may be a few extras available. If you have extras, please bring them. You can contact Seth through the mailing list at cplug@cplug.net.

The Security B-Sides conference is coming up in June, and they are looking for speakers and attendees:

“Think you have to go to Washington or Vegas for an awesome computer security conference? Think again! Pittsburgh is getting its own Security Bsides this summer, featuring awesome talks and the chance to meet other local Infosec people as well as nationally recognized experts. There are a lot of people in Pittsburgh doing awesome things in the field; let’s get them all together! Oh, did we mention it’s all free – even the food and beer??”

Details at the link above.

The slides from Tuesday’s talks on AVR Microcontrollers for the Linux User (PDF) and Physical Computing with Arduino & ZigBee are online. Enjoy!

Due to the upcoming snow, the January meeting is cancelled.  We’ll see you in February!

In place of the October monthly meeting, we have the Central PA Open Source conference on October 16th.

Don’t show up at ITT Tech on Tuesday; no one will be there!

The fun will be on Saturday, October 16th, where there will be 21 talks, 3 tracks, and 1 awesome day! There’s only a handful of tickets left, so be sure to sign up soon if you’d like to attend.  You can sign up on the CPOSC website.

Also, there’s a social event at LBC on Friday night. Everyone is welcome! Sign up here on the wiki so we have a head count.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Kyle Burton will be visiting us for the next CPLUG meeting on Tuesday, September 14, 2010 at 6:30 PM….

Leveraging Chef-Solo for Less than Enterprise Scale Deployments

“When you’re a small, and I mean small, company with an even smaller IT department you can’t afford not to automate provisioning and system administration. Developing a culture of automation early on is vital for ensuring that your infrastructure group can scale itself as your business grows. Chef is an up and coming system administration automation framework that makes installing and managing cloud computing systems take less time and produces more consistent results. This talk will cover the architecture of Chef-Solo, getting started, core features and best practices for maintaing a cluster of systems.”

After the meeting, we’ll head next door to LBC for some food and drink.

Feel free to RSVP on the Meetup page: http://www.meetup.com/Central-PA-Linux/calendar/14611818/

See you then!

One final reminder… registration for the Central PA Open Source Conference ends tonight at midnight. If you haven’t registered yet, now is your last chance. :)

For full details about the conference, check out www.cposc.org!