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Saturday, November 1, 2014 at 2:04pm.
PDXbyte users group (C/C++/Assembly)
Access Notes
Check in at the security desk to get access to the 27th floor. This usually isn't required for official events and meetups.
Elevator unlocks at 6:30pm to the 29th Floor
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Description
Lightning Talk:
Title: Anti-Social Social Networking
Speaker: Vagrant Cascadian
Vagrant Cascadian develops and integrates free software as part of the Debian project, focusing on network booted and installation systems, and support for low-power ARM devices. Away from computers, you can find Vagrant happily getting thrown around at an Aikido dojo.
Main Talk:
Title: “Firmware: why hiding it behind the curtain and telling no one to look is doomed to failure in the advent of IoT”
Speaker: John Hawley
Open Hardware Technical Evangelist, Intel
John 'Warthog9' Hawley led the system administration team on kernel.org for nearly a decade, leading a team including four other administrators. His other exploits include working on Syslinux, OpenSSI, a caching Gitweb, and patches to bind to enable GeoDNS. He's the author of PXE Knife, a set of interfaces around common utilities and diagnostics tools needed by an average systems administrator, as well as SyncDiff(erent) a state-full file synchronizer and file transfer mechanism. He currently works for Intel working on Open Hardware, and the Minnowboard. In his free time he enjoys cooking extravagant meals and watching bad movies.
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