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This is our main meeting.  This meeting usually takes the form of 1 or usually more presentations.  We try to keep a good balance of novice and advanced subjects so that nobody will be overwhelmed of bored.  Just show up, and we hope you learn something.

If you would like some examples of what to expect at this meeting, check out some of the videos that have been made of our presentations.

Topics:
Various topics ranging form beginner's to advanced, user to administrator.
When: Second Thursday of each month at 7:00PM
Where: Currently we are only meeting online at https://lufthans.bigbluemeeting.com/plu-yuk-7xx , please check if there is an announcement with an alternative address.  We hope to start meetings in person again soon.

What to expect(For in person meeting):

  • 6:30 - mingling/networking and last minute setup
  • 7:00 - Formal meeting starts with announcements and other PLUG business
  • 7:15 - Presentation(s)
  • 9:00 - Clean up and CAT (Chat About Technology) at a local restaurant. (We sit around and talk about Linux and other geeky stuff over food) We usually meet up at BJ;s in the Chandler fashion center mall located at:
    3155 W.Chandler Blvd.
    Chandler, AZ  85226 (Map to BJ's)

We have 4 topics this month

Austin Godber will be doing a demonstration of how he uses IPython for data analysis tasks.

IPython has multiple components.  First it provides an advanced command line python REPL replacement.  IPython also has a useful web based notebook interface that is well suited for interactive data analysis and visualization.  Both of these features will be addressed with focus being on the web notebook component. 

Bio:
Austin Godber (@godber) is a developer and system administrator at Arizona State University and works on the camera team for NASA's MER and MSL Mars rovers.  He has been using Linux for nearly 20 years and programmed in Python, Ruby, IDL, and C. 

 

Brian Cluff will demonstrate damaged photo restoration using the gimp.  He will show off several techniques and tools to repair damage, and how to get the best results.

 

Jerry Snitselaar will give us "Highlights of the 2014 Linux Collaboration Summit"

A quick overview of some of the things discussed at this year's Linux Collorabtion Summit held in March in Napa, CA.

Bio:
Jerry Snitselaar - Senior Member of Technical Staff in Oracle's Linux and Virtualization Group working on the Linux Kernel. Originally from Iowa, but I have been in the valley since going to work for Lucent in 2000. 

 

der.hans: "Heartbleed and me"

Abstract: In our continueing short talks on security, we will cover the Heartbleed bug from the desktop user's perspective. 

der.hans demonstrated how encrypted traffic is used within an email environment.

Dennis Kibbe presented an SVG based presentation system using Inkscape called sozi

 

Topic: Salt Stack

Abstract: Are you still managing your Linux servers manually, one by one?
Are you using Puppet, Chef and / or CFEngine to manage your Linux
infrastructure and they having you feel down in the dumps?

If you answered "yes" to any of those questions come to Michael's
SaltStack presentation on Nov 14th. He will be demonstrating SaltStack
basics using Vagrant and then there will be a demonstration of using
SaltStack to orchestrate a chorus of servers around the world!

Bio: Michael was one of the first original seven PLUG members. He hosted
the first Installfest in 1993 featuring the SLS distribution.

Michael has dedicated his career to helping in the automation of
every aspect of IT infrastructure for organizations of all sizes. This
automation has been applied to all portions of the businesses, from
development to operations to customer support.

http://blogs.isostech.com/author/michael_march/

 

We have 2 presentation's this month.

Bryan O'Neal will be presenting:

Big Data: MongoDB

Bryan has been in IT for 20 years. He has managed small teams for
developers and operations. He has led architecture for a technology
startup. He has 7 as a DBA, including several conversions from
undocumented, proprietary, embedded databases. His knowledge of many data
platforms ( MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis, MySQL, Hadoop, and many more )
ensures an informative talk. 

der.hans will be presenting a short talk on:

Basic Secure Site Verification in Firefox

 

Topic: etckeeper - putting /etc/ into revision control

Abstract: Ever debug a problem for hours just to discover it was a new
typo in a configuration file? Ever have someone (maybe you) bork a conf
file and not realize it for days? Put /etc/ into revision control and
track what changes and when.

etckeeper uses the revision control system of your choice to track changes
in /etc/. It ties into package management systems for automagic checkins
after updates. It also tracks metadata such as permissions and ownership
that revision control systems usually do not track.

Bio: der.hans is the founder of the Free Software Stammtisch, Chairman for
PLUG and repeat speaker for SCaLE. He's a DBA at Limelight Networks and
moonlights as an adjunct instructor at Mesa Community College.

In his free time he likes to go camping, learn about sustainable culture
and annually not set himself on fire. He is slowly learning gardening and
loves to brag about his grandma's cheesecakes and Spätzle.

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