PLUG's Upcoming Events

SECURITY MEETING ON NEW DAY

Please take note that the security meeting is moviong to a new day starting this month.  It will no longer be held on the second Tuesday and will from now on be held on the 3rd Thursday.  So this month's meeting will be on the 18th of January.

So on the 18th, please come join the Phoenix Linux Users Group at their Security Session and watch Aaron Jones tell us all the security related craziness that happened over 2017. We will be discussing major breaches, attacks, legal events, and all number of events from 2017. This is a round up of the biggest events to rock the cyber security world over the past year. We will attempt to explain the how for many of these events and the what in relation to actions we can take in 2018 to better protect ourselves. Hope to see you there!

If you would like to see Aaron's presentation on the 2016 security year end review you can see it here: https://youtu.be/8a1J6qF37_I

See you on the 18th

PLUG's end of year party!

It's December and time for our annual end of year pot luck.

Bring friends and family.

It's a pot luck, so bring some food or drinks to share if you can. It's a holiday party, meaning we'll likely have tons of snacks and deserts. This presents an opportunity to bring a main course, salad or veggie side dish. Or, cupcakes or pie if you prefer :).

We still meet at Desert Breeze.

Since we're eating for the party, we will not go out to a restaurant afterwards.

No alcohol.

As always, we're on the 2nd Thursday of the month.

Desert Breeze Substation
251 North Desert Breeze Blvd, Chandler, AZ 85226

December Security meeting: Intro to Cryptography - Modern Cryptography

At this month's meeting Anthony will present part 2 to his excellent presentation from September. If you missed that meeting, you can watch part 1 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oMn-rW7HJU

Anthony Kosednar: Intro to Cryptography - Modern Cryptography

Cryptography helps protect our communications every day but many do not understand it in-depth. This presentation aims to help people understand modern cryptography protocols and math works in an easy way.

About Anthony:
Anthony Kosednar is an Information Security Engineer with a background in Aerospace. He specializes in protecting critical infrastructure for large events and corporations.

For more information about this meeting see our website http://phxlinux.org/index.php/meetings/20-plug-security.html

The Meetings will be on the 2nd Tuesday of December (Dec 12th), starting at 7pm, at the Desert Breeze Substation located in Chandler AZ (Same location as the regular PLUG meeting).

Topics for November 9ths Meeting

We have 2 presentations this month:
Ed Nicholson will bring us "onBoarding for 4 free resources: Archive.org, MusicBrainz, OpenStreetMap and Wikipedia" and Stephen Partington will tell us about his adventures with LVM cache with "LVM Cache Round 2, now with some real use"

Ed Nicholson: onBoarding for 4 free resources: Archive.org, MusicBrainz, OpenStreetMap and Wikipedia

Description:
This presentation is 4 mini-presentations, each about you getting set up to contribute to free public digital assets.

onBoarding Archive.org - Get your library card to over 306 Billion web pages and have a place to host your own digital artifacts. And then, there is the WayBackMachine.

onBoarding MusicBrainz - Join the Open Misic Encyclopedia, the free and open source for music information and identification. Add your knowledge to MusicBrainz and have MusicBrainz annotate, update, and correct your music collection's meta data.

onBoarding OpenStreetMap - A map of the world, and you can make it a map of your world. join OSM and start mapping your roads, trails, cafés, railway stations, etc... developer? want to use OSM data? visit Mapbox.com for access and tools and community.

onBoarding Wikipedia - the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit, if you sign up for a log-in! Have something you want to follow? Doing research? Company or Organization data sheet? Sign up and get it into Wikipedia.

About Ed:
I have been involved with Free Software and how people, organizations and populations use, create and experience information. I enjoy The Prescott National Forest as my "office" and The Valley of The Sun as a home away from home. Personal systems run either Fedora, Project Atomic, Android or OpenBSD.

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Stephen Partington: LVM Cache Round 2, now with some real use.

Description:
Having Presented the LVMcache in using an SSD to speed up your system, single disk, or array some time ago, this will be a follow up with the real time experience and use of LVMcache and its application in day to day use.

About Stephen:
20+ years of Technology, Almost as many of that with at least some level of supporting or using Linux desktops and servers. Into gaming, Technology, Mobile devices, Linux, Photography and Maybe soon Blacksmithing.