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Tuesday
Oct 16, 2012
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PLUG Advanced Topics UnMeeting at the Lucky Lab on Hawthorne – Lucky Labrador Brew Pub No host or speaker available... making for an exciting UnMeeting at the Lucky Labrador Brew Pub at 915 Southeast Hawthorne. Bring your questions and stories! |
Tuesday
Nov 16, 2010
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PLUG Advanced Topics: Artificial Neural Networks: Principles and Applications – Free Geek Portland Linux/Unix User Group Meeting Announcement PLUG Advanced Topics for November 2010 Topic: "Artificial Neural Networks: Principles and Applications" by Cooper Stevenson Date and Time: Tuesday, November 16th, 7PM Location: Free Geek, 1731 SE 10th Avenue Cooper will emphasize the financial industry's use of ANN's as it is closest to what he does. However, he will be mindful to cover other areas where they are useful to as wide an audience as possible. Cooper Stevenson's Bio: Cooper is a leading expert in Information Technology systems for business automation. His award winning designs focus on expanding business intelligence and automation for medium and large industry. He moved Legislation through the Oregon Legislature and has written over ten publications for online resources. He is also featured in CNET News, Linux Today, and Linux.com. Recently, Cooper developed the first automated artificial neural network system for predicting financial securities price fluctuations and business process intelligence. Food & Drink: At the last meeting we talked about having a Lucky Lab menu and calling in an order. With their dinner rush beginning at 6PM, you are welcome to call in and pay for your own order in the afternoon and pick it up before the meeting. Or bring whatever food you wish for that matter: Lucky Lab on Hawthorne 503-236-3555 http://luckylab.com/html/menu.html#brewpub David Mandel (for Michael Dexter) |
Tuesday
Jan 18, 2011
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PLUG Advanced Topics: Artificial Neural Networks: Principles and Applications – Free Geek Cooper Stevenson is rescheduled to give his talk: Artificial Neural Networks: Principles and Applications Cooper will cover how the topic is relevant to Open Source as ANN's may be used for a host of practical applications and serve as an introduction to ANN's running on Open Source. Emphasis will be placed on the financial industry's use of ANN's for market prediction but other uses will be addressed. Cooper Stevenson's Bio: Cooper is a leading expert in Information Technology systems for business automation. His award winning designs focus on expanding business intelligence and automation for medium and large industry. He moved Legislation through the Oregon Legislature and has written over ten publications for online resources. He is also featured in CNET News, Linux Today, and Linux.com. Recently, Cooper developed the first automated artificial neural network system for predicting financial securities price fluctuations and business process intelligence. Free Geek: 1731 SE 10th Avenue: Two blocks south of Hawthorne, not far from the Lucky Lab. If lost: 503-232-9350 Big news and reason for the delay of this announcement: we have a new, dedicated keyholder! |
Tuesday
Sep 21, 2010
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PLUG Advanced Topics: Discussion and the AIDE Tripwire alternative – Free Geek After the Roots Closure and August Dog Days of Summer, it's time for the Portland Linux/Unix Group to beta test a new location and date: Free Geek on the third TUESDAY of the month as opposed to Wednesday. Having watched two venues go bankrupt, we will try a new strategy: beverages (including the correct one) and Pizza will be served and a donation requested. Topic: Open Discussion about venues and Tim's presentation on the AIDE Tripwire alternative. |
Tuesday
Feb 21, 2012
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PLUG Advanced Topics: FreeNAS 64-bit – Free Geek Hands-on FreeNAS 64-bit by Michael Dexter Last month we discussed the history of FreeNAS as a BSD project and the issues related to running FreeNAS on 32-bit repurposed hardware. We toured its user interface and explored its status information from a system administrator's perspective. This month we will look at this issues relating to building your own 64-bit new hardware system and explore ZFS resource usage. As before, you are welcome to bring various client machines to interrogate and hopefully pound on FreeNAS with. Bring your own food and drink. See you there! |
Tuesday
Apr 19, 2011
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PLUG Advanced Topics: IPv6 Networking Part 1 – Free Geek PLUG Advanced Topics April Meeting IPv6 Networking with Ted Mittelstaedt: Part 1 The first in a multi-part series on IPv6 networking by Ted Mittelstaedt, the author of The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide. Part 1: Theory & management & ISP routing, as well as current events in the IPv6 realm. For example, did you know that Nortel just sold Microsoft a huge chunk of IPv4 legacy addresses for something like 7 million dollars? This has really turned the tables on the game. Up until that happened the thought in the community was that the large ISP's would be the biggest pushers of IPv6 deployment. But this is an early indicator of what's going to happen. The large ISPs are going to spend millions in vacuuming every scrap of IPv4 out of all the corners on the Internet before they will start pushing their users to go to IPv6. That is a serious problem for any small ISP that does not have a stock of IPv4 because they will be run out of numbers and new customers will not be interested in their IPv6 offerings as long as the large ISPs still are handing IPv4 out. Where: Free Geek, 1731 SE 10th Avenue When: TUESDAY, April 19th, 7PM BYO Food and Beverages Sorry for the late announcement. Tax day distracted quite a few of us. |
Tuesday
May 17, 2011
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PLUG Advanced Topics: IPv6 Networking Part 2 – Free Geek PLUG Advanced Topics May Meeting IPv6 Networking with Ted Mittelstaedt: Part 2 The second in a multi-part series on IPv6 networking by Ted Mittelstaedt, the author of The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide. Part 2: The shifting paradigm of how to firewall with IPv6. With IPv4, just about everyone uses NAT as a poor-mans firewall. They don't have to think about port numbers and the like but they will with IPv6 because dual-stacking is going to be the standard in how it's implemented. Where: Free Geek, 1731 SE 10th Avenue When: TUESDAY, May 17th, 7PM BYO Food and Beverages |
Tuesday
Jun 21, 2011
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PLUG Advanced Topics: IPv6 Networking Part 2 – Free Geek PLUG Advanced Topics May Meeting IPv6 Networking with Ted Mittelstaedt: Part 2 The second in a multi-part series on IPv6 networking by Ted Mittelstaedt, the author of The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide. Part 2: The shifting paradigm of how to firewall with IPv6. With IPv4, just about everyone uses NAT as a poor-mans firewall. They don't have to think about port numbers and the like but they will with IPv6 because dual-stacking is going to be the standard in how it's implemented. This is a rescheduling of the past meeting that Ted could not attend. Where: Free Geek, 1731 SE 10th Avenue When: TUESDAY, June 21st, 7PM BYO Food and Beverages |
Tuesday
Jul 19, 2011
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PLUG Advanced Topics: IPv6 Networking Part 3 – Free Geek PLUG Advanced Topics July Meeting IPv6 Networking with Ted Mittelstaedt: Part 3 This is the third part of a multi-part series on IPv6 networking by Ted Mittelstaedt, the author of The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide. How to setup webservers and such to offer content over IPv6 and how to setup clients to access such content. Ted will plan to offer a live demonstration of an IPv6-enabled web server. Where: Free Geek, 1731 SE 10th Avenue When: TUESDAY, June 21st, 7PM BYO Food and Beverages REMINDER: OSCON is just around the corner and there is a MIND NUMBING amount of FREE ACTIVITIES going on during it including the Community Leadership Summit: http://www.oscon.com/oscon2011/public/content/free http://www.communityleadershipsummit.com/ Michael |
Tuesday
Mar 20, 2012
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PLUG Advanced Topics: Linux Containers (LXC) – Free Geek The Portland Linux/Unix Group Advanced Topics for March: Brian has been using native Linux Containers (aka LXC) to solve a need for increased security and isolation while avoiding the overhead of virtualization. In this talk Brian will discuss:
After the main meeting a subcommittee will convene to study the best application of containers (holding beer) at the Lucky Lab. |
Tuesday
Apr 17, 2012
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PLUG Advanced Topics: Round Table Discussion – Free Geek PLUG Advanced Topics for April 2012 Round table discussion on the many fine topics that came up on the mailing list: How to prepare and document your systems for emergency sysadmin help. What will a replacement sysadmin need? Zabbix/Monit/OpenNMS monitoring systems! Linux's systemd! More LXC! More Asterisk! You name it! |
Tuesday
Oct 19, 2010
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PLUG Advanced Topics: Ubuntu Release Engineering by Allison Randal – Free Geek Ubuntu 10.10 arrived on 10/10/10 and work has already begun on Ubuntu 11.04, scheduled for April of 2011. Allison Randal is the Technical Architect for Ubuntu at Canonical and will give a tour of how a Ubuntu release transforms from a download from kernel.org to a production-ready ISO that is ready to be downloaded by millions of users around the world. Allison will highlight how the Ubuntu community gets involved along the way during the release process. Food & Drink: At the last meeting we talked about having a Lucky Lab menu and calling in an order. With their dinner rush beginning at 6PM, you are welcome to call in and pay for your own order in the afternoon and pick it up before the meeting. Or bring whatever food you wish for that matter: Lucky Lab on Hawthorne 503-236-3555 http://luckylab.com/html/menu.html#brewpub |
Thursday
Sep 6, 2012
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PLUG: The Joy of Logical Volumes – PSU Maseeh Engineering Building The Joy of Logical Volumes Brian P. Martin will give a short introduction on getting started with the Linux Logical Volume Manager. A demonstration will follow, showing how to get up and running with LVM in three simple commands. Bring your laptop prepared with either an empty partition or an empty flash key and get on LVM yourself during the demo. Agenda: 7:00 - 7:30 Announcements 7:30 - 8:30 Presentation and Questions 9:00 - ... Refreshments The Lucky Lab Northwest Beer Hall 1945 NW Quimby Portland, Oregon Follow PLUG on Twitter: http://twitter.com/pdxlinux Michael Dexter PLUG Volunteer See you there! |
Thursday
Oct 7, 2010
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PLUG: Zentyal Linux Small Business Server – Portland State University FAB, Room 86-09 October Portland Linux/Unix Group Meeting An Overview of Zentyal by Dale Zeutenhorst Zentyal (formerly eBox Platform) is an open source unified network server for small to mid size companies based on Ubuntu Linux. Zentyal can act as a Gateway, Network Infrastructure Manager, Unified Threat Manager, Office Server, Unified Communications Server or a combination of these. Dale Zeutenhorst is a long time consultant and small business owner. He is currently owner and manager of Adept I.T. Service of Camas, Washington. Before that he was Technical Manager at Microsharp where is was a key player in building the Netule family of server-appliances. Schedule: News Presentation Meet for beer at the Lucky Lab Beer Hall - 1945 NW Quimby Venue: Portland State University Fariborz Maseeh College of Engineering & Computer Science Building Room FAB 86-01 (This is in the basement.) The building is on SW 4th across from SW College Street. See location H-10 on map at http://pdxLinux.org/campus_map.jpg |
Thursday
Apr 5, 2012
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Portland Linux/Unix Group (PLUG): Asterisk, FreePBX and Trixbox – Portland State University FAB, Room 86-09 FreePBX - Asterisk - Trixbox Bill Ensley will give an introduction to Asterisk, FreePBX and Trixbox. Come learn some ins, outs, and gotchas of how each of these systems interact and build on top of eachother. We will cover (time permitting): System Requirements How to roll your own or go Appliance Basic Installation Trunk Setup IP Phones - User/Network Setup Echo Cancellation - Hardware and Software Manual Config Editing IVR and Advanced Call Routing Any other questions that come up that we think we can answer. See you there! |
Thursday
Apr 7, 2011
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Portland Linux/Unix Group: Canceled to attend Richard Stallman talk – Portland State University - Native American Student and Community Center |
Thursday
Jun 2, 2011
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Portland Linux/Unix Group: Introduction to OpenEMR – Portland State University FAB, Room 86-09 |
Thursday
Aug 4, 2011
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Portland Linux/Unix Group: The Use of Open Source Software in State Agencies – Portland State University FAB, Room 86-09 |
Thursday
May 5, 2011
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Portland Linux/Unix Group: Comments on the IPv6 Transition – Portland State University FAB, Room 86-09 |
Thursday
Feb 3, 2011
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Portland Linux/Unix Group: What is Open? – Portland State University FAB, Room 86-09 |
Thursday
Oct 6, 2011
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Portland Linux/Unix Group: Arch Linux – Portland State University FAB, Room 86-09 |
Thursday
Mar 3, 2011
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Portland Linux/Unix Group: Free Content and the Data Revolution – Portland State University FAB, Room 86-09 Presentation Free Content and the Data Revolution by Daniel Hedlund The amount of information available on the Internet has exploded in recent years and shows no sign of slowing down. Most of this information is freely available to anyone with a web browser --- but what does free mean? Daniel Hedlund will lead a discussion on the meaning of open data and explore how the open source movement is no longer constrained to the realm of software. |
Thursday
Jan 6, 2011
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Portland Linux/Unix Group: Mini-presentations on variety of topics – Portland State University FAB, Room 86-09 |
Thursday
Dec 2, 2010
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Portland Linux/Unix Group: Open Source Desktop Publishing with Scribus – Portland State University FAB, Room 86-09 |
Thursday
Aug 2, 2012
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Portland Linux/Unix Group: OSCON Feedback and General Questions – PSU Maseeh Engineering Building The Portland Linux/Unix Group will have an informal meeting to discuss OSCON experiences and general open source questions. We have several books to give away courtesy of O'Reilly Media! Many will break for the Lucky Lab NW after the meeting |
Thursday
Nov 4, 2010
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Portland Linux/Unix Group: Presentation by Allan Foster of Forge Rock – Portland State University FAB, Room 86-09 A Presentation by Allan Foster of ForgeRock.com I will give a presentation on ForgeRock, how and why we were founded, and a little of the events and decisions that led up to the founding. I will also discuss some of the various Open Source Business Models, and why we chose ours. I will cover some of the unique situations in which we find ourselves, and how we chose to address them. I will also discuss how Open Source is becoming more relevant in Enterprise, and how this shift seems to be reaching a tipping point. Allan works at ForgeRock with former Sun Microsystems Chief Open Source Officer Simon Phipps. Visit www.webmink.com for more about Simon. |
Thursday
Jul 7, 2011
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Portland Linux/Unix Group: Rapid Discussions on Any Topic – Portland State University FAB, Room 86-09 |
Thursday
Sep 1, 2011
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Portland Linux/Unix Group: Rapid Discussions on Any Topic – Portland State University FAB, Room 86-09 |
Thursday
Jul 5, 2012
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Portland Linux/Unix Group: systemd – PSU Maseeh Engineering Building Portland Linux/Unix Group Meeting It's a little known secret that systemd is extremely capable of starting, controlling and regulating more than just system services, but can easily start an entire Desktop UI. Not many people have sat down and implemented and worked out the problems of starting an X service, a few UI components, the session bus and DBus services for normal users with the mechanisms that systemd provides. The benefits are obvious: Systemd provides excellent service monitoring and restarting capabilities, provides socket and DBus activation for relevant services, and overall improves desktop startup by allowing user services to start well before core services like Xorg or wayland start. In effect, we're saying goodbye to XDG autostart entirely, and getting back reliability and scalability. We converted several desktop environments including Tizen's Mobile UI, Xfce4, Enlightenment and more to systemd user sessions. We "pop the hood" and take a look at the implications for startup, what's possible to further improve on the session startup and where we can do better. Auke Kok is a software engineer at Intel's Open Source Technology Center, and has been attempting to make Linux boot faster since 2007. In 2008, he co-presented the "5-second boot" with Arjan van de Ven at the first LPC. Since then, Auke has worked on further improving the Linux Core OS start sequence, first for Moblin and later with MeeGo, where we made the first switch to systemd. Auke now works on Tizen, which will heavily integrate systemd in the Core OS. Agenda: 7:00 - 7:15 Announcements 7:15 - 8:30 Presentation and Questions 9:00 - ... Beer
Follow PLUG on Twitter: @pdxlinux Michael Dexter PLUG Volunteer See you there! |
Thursday
Mar 5, 2015
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Portland Linux/Unix Group: The Future of Copyleft – PSU Maseeh Engineering Building Who: Bradley M. Kuhn Copyleft licenses, particularly the GPL and LGPL, are widely used throughout the Free Software community. However, recent for-profit corporate interest in Free Software development has led to a renewed preference toward non-copyleft licensing by for-profit entities. Meanwhile, many for-profit entities that do use copyleft for their own software now do so in a manner that most copyleft aficionados find, at best, distasteful and at worst, abusive. A long-standing truce exists in our community between fans of non-copyleft licensing and copyleft. No one in the copyleft communities disputes that non-copylefted Free Software is an important part of our community. However, copyleft faces new challenges that make past debates about the appropriateness of copyleft seem quite minor by comparison. This talk will discuss all aspects of the complicated situation facing copyleft, including younger developers apparent preference for non-copyleft licensing (as expressed, in part, in the "post-open source" debates), the widespread and common failures for companies to comply with GPL's relatively easy requirements, and how licensing choices are today, unlike in the past, rarely in the hands of individual developers, but instead their corporate employers. Bradley M. Kuhn is the President and Distinguished Technologist at Software Freedom Conservancy (sfconservancy.org) and on the Board of Directors of the Free Software Foundation (FSF). Kuhn began his work in the software freedom movement as a volunteer in 1992, when he became an early adopter of the GNU/Linux operating system, and began contributing to various FLOSS projects. He worked during the 1990s as a system administrator and software developer for various companies, and taught AP Computer Science at Walnut Hills High School in Cincinnati. Kuhn's non-profit career began in 2000, when he was hired by the FSF. As FSF's Executive Director from 2001–2005, Kuhn led FSF's GPL enforcement, launched its Associate Member program, and invented the Affero GPL. From 2005-2010, Kuhn worked as the Policy Analyst and Technology Director of the Software Freedom Law Center. Kuhn was the primary volunteer for Conservancy from 2006–2010, and has been a full-time staffer since early 2011. Kuhn holds a summa cum laude B.S. in Computer Science from Loyola University in Maryland, and an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Cincinnati. Kuhn's Master's thesis discussed methods for dynamic interoperability of FLOSS programming languages. Kuhn received the O'Reilly Open Source Award in 2012, in recognition for his lifelong policy work on copyleft licensing. Many will head to the Lucky Lab at 1945 NW Quimby St. after the meeting. Rideshares Available PLUG is open to everyone and does not tolerate abusive behavior on its mailing lists or at its meetings. |
Thursday
Oct 4, 2012
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Portland Linux/Unix Group: UEFI Secure Boot and Open Source – PSU Maseeh Engineering Building UEFI Secure Boot and Open Source. It's not a 'general war against computation' by Vincent Zimmer, Intel As 2012 platform firmware embraces UEFI 2.3.1 and ACPI5.0 support, the ability to interoperate with UEFI Secure Boot is imperative. This poses a unique challenge for open software that may not come pre-installed on the platform. With UEFI Secure Boot, though, infrastructure has been put in place to preserve openness, owner choice and control in addition to mitigating concerns of malware targeting the platform. This talk will provide a history of UEFI Secure Boot, an overview of the implementation, deployment practices, and details on the engagement with the open source community. Vincent Zimmer is a Principal Engineer with Intel Corporation. He has been working on various platform, networking, trusted computing and security technologies around EFI since 1999 and platform firmware since 1992. Vincent has spoken in various forums on this topic, co-authored 3 books, 10 papers, and several specifications in this area. Many will break for refreshments at the Lucky Lab NW at 1945 NW Quimby after the meeting The Portland Linux/Unix Group (PLUG) is a group of enthusiasts dedicated to teaching and learning about Linux, Unix and related projects. There is no membership fee to join and we welcome people of all levels of experience. PLUG has met since 1994 and hosts monthly General and Advanced Topics presentations plus a hands-on support Clinic. |
Friday
Nov 7, 2014
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Richard Stallman - Copyright vs Community in the Age of Computer Networks – Portland State University Hoffmann Hall
Presented by Portland State University Chapter of Association of Computing Machinery |
Friday
Nov 11, 2016
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SeaGL through Seattle Central College SeaGL is a grassroots technical conference dedicated to spreading awareness and knowledge about the GNU/Linux community and free/libre/open-source software/hardware. Our goal for SeaGL is to produce an event which is as enjoyable and informative for those who spend their days maintaining hundreds of servers as it is for a student who has only just started exploring technology options. SeaGL's first year was 2013. The SeaGL web site is built with Jekyll and we use OSEM for event management. The cost of attendance is free. Attendee Registration will not require the use of non-free software. You may attend SeaGL without identifying yourself, and you are encouraged to do so to protect your privacy. |
Saturday
Sep 17, 2011
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Software Freedom Day 2011 – Everywhere Today's the day to celebrate that you are viewing Calagator thanks to countless Free Software/Open Source Software tools that protect your software freedom. Celebrate in any way you see fit from a moment of reflection over a cup of coffee to making a donation to a foundation that works to guarantee your software freedom like the Software Freedom Law Center or Free Geek. There are dozens out there that need your help. Please update this post to include group activities as they're organized! Happy Software Freedom Day! |