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So web service for this DCLUG website maybe going too, I don't know. Sorry, if you can't see this, maybe that is what happened to this site, I've been editing for over 10 years...
We haven't been meeting in a while, but doesn't mean we can't, just probably only a notice on the mailing list, (presumably someone ports that), not sure... Bug your local admins, officers, not the WebNewbie, as IDK...
20130505 Webnewbie
Response on the list was that only mail was moving, so stay tuned for more info, at a later date...
From WebNewbie to the list:
Is there enough interest in meeting today?
On Wednesday October 17, 7.00 pm or thereabouts, Charles R. Kiss, newly elected to the Tux.org Board of Directors, will briefly discuss the improvements planned to the servers and other recent actions of the board, followed by a brief question and answer time and likely some other social and technical time...
WebNewbie, never one for much formality, did a little impromptu, unannounced except for on the list, Show and Tell of some gadgets, including RaspberryPi.org, tried HDMI to the host's flat screen and assorted other topics interspersed. There was also some discussion of LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL Perl/PHP stack) and we went home.
No speaker plus criticisms of this website = no meeting, as webnewbie isn't investing time to make/gen a meeting, given recent threads like Web Presentation by people who don't even show up. Snarky, but true.
Matt posted an idea to the list:
I don't know if a topic has been chosen yet but I think A discussion on LLVM (llvm.org) would be cool. In particular, the program verification tools like clang static analyzer, KLEE, and SAFEcode. Symbolic execution is fascinating to me, but I don't have any experience using it.
So we will try meeting and discussing what we know about it, what questions we have, and there is an online demo version if some people have some code to try too...
All else fails, we do a social for the remaining meeting time.
Wednesday June 20, 2012 7 pm
Tux.org Board elections (see slate on emails) and whatver social and/or technical forms, in record "feels like" 109 F heat. Others have proposed meeting the following week, and doing things electronically. Check the list(s) for more info. WebNewbie
3rd Wednesday 7pm as Usual
From Przemek to the list:
I hear that there's a core group of DCLUG members that met a couple of times and had a good time, which is great. I am planning to come down, and if people are interested we can show a video presentation by Matthew Garrett about the new firmware, UEFI. Basically, the old PC BIOS is running out of steam even on Intel PC/x86 platform, and it doesn't exist on Apples and the newly important ARM platform. UEFI was proposed as an improvement and as you may expect it has both advantages and flaws. Matthew is working on integrating UEFI platform into Fedora/Redhat/Linux boot and install processes.
A few people have expressed interest in meeting this month, Przemek is unavailable, so on Wednesday April 18th at 7.00 pm, bring something to talk about, and some money to go eat somewheres locally, in case no one has anything [formal] to present... Meet outside our regular space, if no regular attendees show up to let you in, leave a sign on the door in case others are late and proceed to stated local eatery... Sincerely, WebNewbie
From Przemek to the DCLUG email list:
Rain + no speaker = no meeting---sorry for the late communication.
I went to a DevOps sysadmin group meeting yesterday; they discussed system configuration tools: cfengine, chef, puppet and juju). Is there someone that could do a talk about some of those?
The February 2012 meeting of Washington DC Linux user group will take place on Wednesday, February 15 at 7pm.
Statistical calculations are hard: if the concepts weren't hard enough to understand, the amount of data is mind-crushing. Manipulating and displaying such data is a tough job, addressed by computer programs ranging from simplistic tools like Excel, to specialized systems such as SPSS, S and R.
Abhijit Dasgupta will present R, a Free Software reimplementation of the S statistical computing system written by Chambers et al. at Bell Labs. S and R are generally considered to be state of the art tools to read, process and present statistical information.
The meeting location is our usual 2025 M street, NW in downtown DC. There will be signs in front of the building. The location is within 3 nearby Metro stops, both on the red (Dupont, Farragut North) and blue/orange (Farragut West, Foggy Bottom [a bit of a hike]) lines.
Parking in the area is available for approximately $5; there's even parking in the building itself. Street parking requires feeding the meters until late in the evening. There's a parking lot at 23rd St. between M and L that is not enforced after 7pm (people have successfully parked there for years---no one we know was ticketed or towed yet, but it could happen).
Przemek to the list:
The February 15 DCLUG meeting is already scheduled but we don't have anything on the agenda today, so I suggest cancelling.
The December 2011 meeting of Washington DC Linux user group will take place on Wednesday, December 21 at 7pm.
The WikiMedia Foundation offers Wikipedia's in nearly 300 languages. For those people who want a personal copy on their own PC, there is a new software, WP-MIRROR, which will be released under GPLv3 at the end of this month.
WP-MIRROR is a mirror-building utility for Wikipedia. The user specifies a list of wikipedia languages to be mirrored (e.g. 'en' for English, 'ja' for Japanese, etc.), and the software automates the entire process.
The author, Dr. Kent L. Miller, will describe the process of building mirrors, including: hardware issues, database optimization, MediaWiki configuration, image processing, virtual host configuration, and so on.
Slides:
wp-mirror_v0.2.pdf
Dr. Kent Miller released WP-MIRROR 0.2 during the holiday. Please take a look at http://www.nongnu.org/wp-mirror/. Feedback is welcome.
From Przemek to the list:
Given the weather and the fact that we don't have a talk let's cancel the meeting this month and plan for Dec 21.
The October 2011 meeting of Washington DC Linux user group will take place on Wednesday, October 19 at 7pm.
The topic is virtualization: where it came from, what it's good for, how it works on a modern Linux system. We'll discuss QEMU, Xen, KVM, libvirt, virt-manager, and advanced concepts, such as enterprise virtualization, migration, I/O, etc.
Slides:
VirtualizationLinux.pdf
The September 2011 meeting of Washington DC Linux user group will take place on Wednesday, September 21 at 7pm.
Donald Wales, Vyatta Director of Sales, Jay Lee, Vyatta Product Manager and Sid Wilroy of REI Systems will make the presentation covering aspects of the following topics:
The August 2011 meeting of Washington DC Linux user group will take place on Wednesday, August 17 at 7pm.
Przemek Klosowski will talk about setting up an enterprise class storage server on residential class budget. It turns out that it is surprisingly hard, which is probably why the big guys can charge the prices that they do. Przemek will talk about putting large numbers of disk in limited space,connecting them to the computer and to the network, and setting up a SAN or NAS server.
Slides:
diskStorage.pdf
The July 2011 meeting of Washington DC Linux user group will take place on Wednesday, July 20 at 7pm.
Sanjay Patel and Adam Hammouda of WebFirst will talk about mHealth, the mobile medical data collection program they are working on. The health care IT is a good area for Free and Open Source Software because of the open and rapid development style, flexibility, and scalability of the FOSS development process. This translates into better decision support and improved quality of personal health care for all of us. Sanjay and Adam will show how they designed mHealth on the Drupal platform, giving them readily available modules, and easy extensions at relatively low cost. Some of these functions include: data quality review, workflow, data visualization, GIS and social media sharing, and ability to collect data from and publish to a variety of platforms (web, Droid, iOS,SMS).As the webnewbie has gotten extremely lazy,
and until we meet regularly,
that is the best information available anyways...
(FWIW: Last WebNewbie saw the GlusterFS presentation was off for June,
but some mention if people wanted to meet anyways...)
No speaker, so I suggest we cancel the meeting today.
I have a possible speaker for June 15:
GlusterFS is at the core of s scale-out storage solutions. GlusterFS is an open source, distributed file system capable of scaling to several petabytes and handling thousands of clients. GlusterFS clusters together storage building blocks over Infiniband RDMA or TCP/IP interconnect, aggregating disk and memory resources and managing data in a single global namespace. GlusterFS is based on a stackable user space design and can deliver exceptional performance for diverse workloads. GlusterFS supports standard clients running standard applications over any standard IP network.
The speaker is from out of town, so I want to find out how many of you are interested and would plan to attend, given that we haven't been meeting for a while. If I get at least 10 people, I will ask them to come.
Greetings
przemek
from Przemek to list: I just got a word that our speaker will not be able to make the meeting, so there will be no DCLUG talk tonight.
From Przemek's email to the list about the meeting(s):
It turns out that Jared can't make it in February; we're talking about rescheduling for either March or April. I won't be able to make it downtown this Wednesday---if people feel like meeting, please coordinate on the mailing list.
On a further note, it's clear that we're hitting doldrums with the meetings. While I have some ideas for the talks both from external speakers and prepare some by myself, I invite people with more time and initiative to step up as co-organizers or even to take over the scheduling. As it is now, we've lost momentum---if people are OK with having less regular meetings than we can leave it as is, but if someone feels the mojo to drive a faster pace, please pipe in.
Let's cancel the DCLUG meeting tonight. Stay tuned for next month: I have a shot at a visit from Fedora director Jared Smith and if it's not that, there's the next instalment of the virtualization series.
p
Email to the list from Przemek:
Given that we have no talk, it's cold and everyone is busy before the holidays, let's cancel tonight's DCLUG meeting. See you in January!
The November 2010 meeting of Washington DC Linux user group will take place on Wednesday, November 17 at 7pm.
John Holland will talk about RedHat virtualization setup (RHEV), and how it works with Satellite and custom RPMs for updates
The meeting location is our usual 2025 M street, NW in downtown DC. There will be signs in front of the building. The location is within 3 nearby Metro stops, both on the red (Dupont, Farragut North) and blue/orange (Farragut West, Foggy Bottom [a bit of a hike]) lines.
Parking in the area is available for approximately $5; there's even parking in the building itself. Street parking requires feeding the meters until late in the evening. There's a parking lot at 23rd St. between M and L that is not enforced after 7pm (people have successfully parked there for years---no one we know was ticketed or towed yet, but it could happen).
The remaining meeting date for 2010 is Dec 15.
Przemek posted out to the list(s):
John Holland and myself were planning to do a virtualization talk, but we both ended up with a conflict tomorrow. This is probably the Universe's way of suggesting to postpone the meeting.
Next month Rob Pegoraro will stop by and talk about his attempts to advocate FOSS through his Washington Post technology column.
John and I are planning to finally deliver the virtualization presentation in November.
Due to lack of participation, heavy rain and whatever...
Meeting Wednesday August 18, 2010, 7-9+ pm.
Given that preparing a full meeting talk can be a fair amount of work (and it's still summer time, as the heat reminds us...), shorter talks, called Lightning Talks, usually limited to 5 minutes or so, provide an easier way to get started presenting, so if you've got a topic you'd like a technical Linux and related Open Source audience to hear, send it to the DCLUG mailing list, and please RSVP, as a way of gauging interest in this month's meeting...
Webnewbie note: NoVALUG/Tux.org people are organizing a Linux Picnic currently in the Arlington area for after the NoVALUG monthly meeting time frame (second Saturday). Sorry for the cross posting to DCLUG, but it's closer than previous years, and generally been fun... See the Novalug list for more info...
From Przemek to the MA-Linux list, dated on or about July 13, 2010:
DCLUG July meeting falls on July 21. I will be at OSCON, and we don't have a speaker aligned. If someone can come up with a topic or people want to meet and chat, please speak up. Otherwise, let's give ourselves a summer break.
On another note, the USENIX Security Symposium is next month in D.C. Here's a blurb I am forwarding on behalf of the organizers:
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Invitation to attend:
USENIX Security '10: the 19th USENIX Security Symposium
Join us in Washington, D.C., August research in security of computer systems, networks, healthcare, electronic voting, and more. As with previous security symposiums, the breadth and quality of this year's tutorials, refereed papers, invited talks, and participants is excellent. The week's agenda includes:
- Mon: CSET '10: 3rd Workshop on Cyber Security Experimentation and Test - Mon: WOOT '10: 4th USENIX Workshop on Offensive Technologies - Mon-Tue: EVT/WOTE '10: 2010 Electronic Voting Technology Workshop/Workshop on Trustworthy Elections - Tue: HealthSec '10: 1st USENIX Workshop on Health Security and Privacy Tuesday, August 10, 2010 - Tue: HotSec '10: 5th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Security Tuesday, August 10, 2010 - Tue: Metricon 5.0: Fifth Workshop on Security Metrics Summit - Tue: CollSec '10: 2010 Workshop on Collaborative Methods for Security and Privacy - Wed-Fri USENIX Security '10: 19th USENIX Security Symposium (Keynote by Roger. G. Johnston, Vulnerability Assessment Team,Argonne Nat.Lab)
For details go to: http://www.usenix.org/sec10/progm
Whether you're a researcher, a system administrator, or a policy wonk, come to the 19th USENIX Security Symposium (and the co-located workshops) to collaborate with security colleagues around the latest topics and advances in computer security.
-------------------------------------- WHAT: USENIX Security '10: the 19th USENIX Security Symposium WHEN: Aug 9-13, 2010 WHERE: Washington, DC: Wardman Park Marriott WHO: Researchers, System Administrators, Policy Wonks, etc. WHY: To get to and stay on the cutting edge of computer security HOW: Register NOW at http://www.usenix.org/sec10/progm --------------------------------------
Early-Bird registration ends July 19! Register now for the best pricing!
Ma-linux mailing list
In record time, Dr. Kent Miller provided slides
from last night's talk
ipv6_v0.2.pdf
The June 2010 meeting of Washington DC Linux user group will take place on Wednesday, June 16 at 7pm.
Originally, ARPANET ran the Network Control Program (NCP). The NCP had many limitation (including address space) and was in time superseded by TCP/IP. However, users were reluctant to make the transition. So, in 1982, Vinton Cerf and Jon Postel brutally forced users to switch from NCP to IPv4 by instructing the Internet gateways to block all NCP traffic.
Now, almost 30 years later, it is the IPv4 address space that is approaching exhaustion. If current IPv4 address allocation policy continues, then IANA will allocate its last remaining /8 block in 2011-06, and the RIRs will allocate the last of their IPv4 addresses in 2012-04. Yet the demand for addresses will only grow due to the rapid proliferation of hand-held devices and the ongoing roll-out of Internet services in the third-world.
IPv6 is a complete rewrite that offers a vast address space, new services, and solutions to old problems. Yet, as with the change from NCP to TCP/IP, adoption has been slow due to inadequate transition planning and lack of pressure to change---until recently. While it is unlikely that someone like a Cerf or Postel will pull the plug, the ongoing demand for addresses means increasing pressure to change.
DCLUG members and members of the general public are encouraged to attend the IPv6 Install-Fest organized by Kent Miller.
Slides from the NoVALUG talk are up on:
http://drwho.virtadpt.net/archive/2010/04/10/my-novalug-presentation-was-a-success
DCLUG specific slides (very slight variations noted from presenter and author) to be posted when available.
The May 2010 meeting of Washington DC Linux user group will take place on Wednesday, May 19 at 7pm.
The twenty-first century has brought with it a disturbing loss of personal privacy. Communications are routinely monitored for content and traffic analysis can be used to determine which IP addresses are exchanging meaningful amounts of traffic. Onion routing is a technique by which a subset of all network nodes are tasked with relaying encrypted traffic for clients. Tor is an implementation of an onion routing protocol which defends against traffic analysis attacks; it also implements hidden services only reachable from within the Tor darknet. Tor is endorsed by a number of human rights and advocacy organizations, including as the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Reporters Without Borders, and Wikileaks.org. Tor is also used by the US Department of Defense and the US Military.
The presentation will describe the origins of Tor as well as how the darknet functions. The threat model Tor was designed under will be discussed, and a demonstration will be given of how to set up the client, middleman and exit nodes. A demonstration of how to set up a web server as a hidden service will also be given. Operational security for clients as well as routing nodes will be detailed.
The meeting dates for 2010 are Jun 16, Jul 21, Aug 18, Sep 15, Oct 20, Nov 17, and Dec 15.
The April 2010 meeting of Washington DC Linux user group will take place on Wednesday, April 21 at 7pm.
Our April topic is 'Building software packages, RPM edition'. Software packaging systems are one of the leading features of Linux, benefitting both system administrators and end users. They make it easy to find, load and upgrade software and keep your system well organized.
RPM started life as RedHat Package Manager, but it was adopted by other distributions like Suse, Mandrake, Fedora etc. Package building is a mandatory skill if you want to participate in developing a Linux distribution. This month's talk by Przemek Klosowski will discuss the benefits of packages and show how to make your own.
The March 2010 meeting of Washington DC Linux user group will take place on Wednesday, March 17 at 7pm.
Eric Rzewnicki will talk about Conference Video. Video recordings and live internet streams of a growing number of Linux and Free Software conferences around the world are being produced by teams of volunteers using largely donated resources and Free Software running on Linux. This talk discusses the hardware and software used for a variety of the productions in which Eric has participated. The software covered includes dvswitch and tools from xiph.org. Challenges and experiences with regard to quality sound, lighting, volunteer organization and workflow management will also be touched upon.
Conference Video Talk Slides: edrz_at_dclug.odp
Conference Video Talk Slides pdf: edrz_at_dclug.pdf
Some photos of the talk and the Bread & Brew afterwards: photos directory
From Przemek:
"Due to lack of presentation and difficult traffic into and out of downtown,
let's cancel today's DCLUG meeting."
The meeting dates for 2010 are Jan 20, Feb 17, Mar 17, Apr 21, May 19, Jun 16, Jul 21, Aug 18, Sep 15, Oct 20, Nov 17, and Dec 15.
The January 2010 meeting of Washington DC Linux user group will take place on Wednesday, January 20 at 7pm.
Kent Miller will talk about apt-mirror and grub2.
The meeting dates for 2010 are Jan 20, Feb 17, Mar 17, Apr 21, May 19, Jun 16, Jul 21, Aug 18, Sep 15, Oct 20, Nov 17, and Dec 15.
Apt-Mirror: apt-mirror_v0.1.pdf
As a bonus Dr. Miller provided the DC ACM Computopics newsletter
"CompuTopics Jan 10.pdf" where he has two security related book reviews on pages 5-10.
Note: the DCACM editor Cora Dickson mentions on page 2 that this is her last newsletter, and hopes someone steps up to continue the efforts as Communications Chair. [Webnewbies paraphrasing, see the source]
"FOSE is the premier meeting and solutions marketplace for government technology today. Where other events fall short on content and expertise, FOSE continues to evolve to meet the needs of an ever-changing government technology marketplace. FOSE features groundbreaking education, smart solutions and unparalleled networking events and programs. The event brings together an audience that shares passion for computing and technology, and is the gold standard for government technology events. FOSE is produced by 1105 Media that includes Federal Computer Week, Government Computer News, Government Health IT, Defense Systems and Washington Technology. Discover what FOSE is all about at FOSE.com"
Currently Booth 1507
The December 2009 meeting of Washington DC Linux user group will take place on Wednesday, December 16 at 7pm.
The computerization of the health care industry is an important area that has been in the news recently, and Free and Open Source software is bound to play a major role. Our speaker this month, Nancy Anthracite, has an unique perspective in this area, so this should be an interesting presentation.
Nancy is President & Chief Medical Officer of WorldVistA, a charitable, volunteer operated nonprofit organization that distributes the open source software, WorldVistA EHR, a medical records and hospital management system developed by the Department of Veterans Affairs that is Open Source. She will give us an introduction to it and also try to give us a rapid fire overview of what is going on in the world of electronic medical records now that there are strong incentives to adopt electronic medical records, a strong push to make them interoperable and huge amounts of money being distributed to implement them through the ARRA (American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.)
None Yet...
The November 2009 meeting of Washington DC Linux user group will take place on Wednesday, November 18 at 7pm.
Zachariah Wadler will be de-mystifying regular expressions. They are great for processing textual input but very intimidating to the uninitiated. He will go over the basic regexp: metacharacters, grouping, etc. He'll show a number of real world examples and the Perl 5 extended regular expression syntax as well.
Slides:
The October 2009 meeting of Washington DC Linux user group will take place on Wednesday, October 21 at 7pm.
Przemek Klosowski will talk about LVM facilities in Linux, in the context of local Logical Volumes as well as iSCSI SAN technology. These things make Linux an enterprise class storage, with high-end features such as fancy RAID configurations, multi-path disk access, live data migration and size expansion/shrinking, etc.
DCLUG meeting date is tonight. I hope the DCLUG mailing list is up after the recent debacle. I don't have any presentation scheduled, so we will just meet and chat. See you at 7pm.
Przemek has graciously offered the slides, and they are put up here:
Enjoy, and hopefully (Webnewbie suggests) we make it a policy to require giving the slides in order to present, as my little fingers could not keep up with trying to type it all in... ;-/
The August 2009 meeting of Washington DC Linux user group will take place on Wednesday, August 19 at 7pm.
Przemek Klosowski will talk about B-Tree File System, (BTRFS, pronounced ButterEffEss), the new-and-upcoming Linux filesystem that may replace the EXT family as the default storage for Linux. BTRFS was conceived by Chris Mason to compete with ZFS, and to address problems with the current generation of file systems. We'll will discuss and compare features, discuss history and future developments of BTRFS.
Mackenzie's slides for July talk:
The July 2009 meeting of Washington DC Linux user group will take place on Wednesday, July 15 at 7pm.
Mackenzie Morgan will talk on how to lockdown a Linux laptop if you're somewhere you don't trust the WiFi (like a hacker con) while still getting online.
The June 2009 meeting of Washington DC Linux user group will take place on Wednesday, June 17 at 7pm.
Jason van Gumster will talk about Blender (www.blender.org), the free 3D modeling and animation suite. He'll cover some of Blender's history and guide the uninitiated past the intimidating and quirky Blender user interface. If you were ever impressed by 3D computer-rendered artwork and wanted to try your hand at it, Jason will help you get over that initial hurdle and wrap your brains around Blender.
Blender is probably the topic, so start studying up now... More official stuff likely to follow, as developed, approved, etc...
The May 2009 meeting of Washington DC Linux user group will take place on Wednesday, May 20 at 7pm.
Greg Dekoenigsberg from RedHat will talk about role of Free and Open Source Software in Open Government.
The open government movement is quickly gaining strength. It's in everyone's best interest to ensure the transparency and freedom of the technical infrastructure that runs our federal, state and local governments.
Open source developers are uniquely qualified to lead this effort. How can open source developers participate in this movement today? What are the challenges that we must overcome to bring more open source developers to the open government movement?
The April 2009 meeting of Washington DC Linux user group will take place on Wednesday, April 15 at 7pm.
Peter Haggerty from Librato will give away five 1GB flash drives and present clever user space techniques for process management. The Librato tools provide various process management capabilities -- from monitoring both actual and desired resource usage inside of a process to checkpointing processes on one machine and resuming them on a different machine. None of these techniques require anything more than setting a few environment variables to preload a shared library. No recompiling, no relinking or no kernel mods.
Peter will discuss in detail a load management technology which guarantees different resources levels to competing groups of processes on the same operating system instance. Common examples of using this technology include:
1. dueling oracle databases where one instance gets 20% and the other 80% of the CPU allocations
2. fencing in aggressive or poorly behaved grid workloads to prevent collateral damage
[Dclug] DCLUG meeting bust from: Przemek Klosowski to: dclug email list date: 1:39 PM (2 hours ago) Let's cancel the DCLUG meeting for tonight-I don't have a talk, so it would be a social occasion anyway, and people are tired after FOSE. Everyone is welcome to come down to the meeting place and go for some food, of course, but there will be no formal meeting. _______________________________________________ Dclug mailing list Dclug@calypso.tux.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dclug
HacDC (last month's presenters) has an electronics class tonight, according to their blabber list and calendar...
Tux.org and the area's LUGs will be at FOSE again this year! FOSE is
the premier meeting and solutions marketplace for government
technology today. FOSE features groundbreaking education, smart
solutions and unparalleled networking events and programs. Discover
what FOSE is all about at
Tux.org is currently looking for volunteers (http://cyberigor.com/fose) to help make this another success! Even if you can't join us in the booth, be sure to plan a trip to FOSE and drop by to say hello!
The February 2009 meeting of Washington DC Linux user group will take place on Wednesday, February 18 at 7pm.
The first presentation will be about 20-30 minutes and it will cover HacDC. Here's a blurb on that.
HacDC is DC's premiere hackerspace, bringing together a wide variety of people with an even larger variety of interests together under one roof. In this presentation, Serge Wroclawski will discuss the organization, what it's up to and where it's going.
The second presentation will be the remainder of the time and will discuss Arduino. Here's a nice blurb for that.
The Arduino has made microcontrollers simple and accessible. In this presentation, Serge Wroclawski will explore the Arduino hardware and software environments. Following this talk will be several small hardware demonistrations using the Arduino by either thier creators or other Arduino enthusiasts.
His main topic will be the Arduino microcontroller, a simple and accessible hardware and software platform for embedded computing. Serge and his HacDC colleagues will show several Arduino-based projects.
The January 2009 meeting of Washington DC Linux user group will take place on Wednesday, January 21 at 7pm.
Joe Klein will talk about using, hacking and securing IPv6, the upcoming new version of the IP protocol. He will cover the basics and rationale for IPv6, and the implementation issues. Because of significant design changes, IPv6 introduces its own set of security issues: Joe will discuss pitfalls to avoid, and how to leverage new IPv6 features for a better, more secure networking.
The meeting location is our usual 2025 M street, NW in downtown DC. There will be signs in front of the building. The location is within 3 nearby Metro stops, both on the red (Dupont, Farragut North) and blue/orange (Farragut West, Foggy Bottom [a bit of a hike]) lines.
Parking in the area is available for approximately $5; there's even parking in the building itself. Street parking is free after 6:30pm, but scarce. There's a parking lot at 23rd St. between M and L that is not enforced after 7pm (people have successfully parked there for years---no one we know was ticketed or towed yet, but it could happen).
Detailed directions can be found at meetings.
