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This month's Topics - Sensu and ZFS

Thom Duran - Sensu

Abstract: Sensu is an open source project that makes a custom monitoring system easy to configure. The Sensu stack consists of RabbitMQ, Redis, and Sensu itself. While Sensu is easy to setup and configure, high availability and scalability is still a concern. We will discuss the archticture that allows for high availability that easily scales as needed.

Bio: Thom Duran is a Phoenix native who has worked at GoDaddy for 7 years in multiple roles. He currently works as a Site Reliability/Zero Touch Engineer focusing on monitoring and automation.

Kevin Bowling - ZFS

Abstract: OpenZFS is a state of the art cross-platform filesystem for Linux, FreeBSD,
Illumos, and Mac OS X.  This talk will detail how it differs from
traditional UNIX file systems, the current status for the different
supported operating systems, an introduction to the userland control
programs, an overview of hardware considerations for system builders, and a
brief look at the internal structure.

Bio: Kevin is a systems developer at Limelight Networks and has experience with a wide range of UNIX implementations. Current interests include OS build and release engineering for large scale clusters like Limelight's FreeBSD footprint.

Topic: BSD panel featuring FreeBSD and OpenBSD

Panellists: Kevin Bowling, Darrin Chandler

Bio: Kevin is a systems developer at Limelight Networks and has experience with a wide range of UNIX implementations. Current interests include OS build and release engineering for large scale clusters like Limelight's FreeBSD footprint.

Bio: Darrin has been developing software for more than 25 years, most recently for the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter NASA mission, and is a long time user of OpenBSD and previously FreeBSD.

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PLUG's August topics will be CLI packet forensics and Blender.

Topic: CLI packet forensics

As Information Security evolves, more tools are being released that allow us investigate incidents quicker and easier, conversely making many analyst lazier. The sacrifice we have made to this idol of convenience is increasing layers of abstraction from the 'truth' of raw data, placing trust in tools we did not write using methods we do not know. While these high level tools are good to have, the ability to use simple, low-level tools is essential for security professionals.

This workshop will focus on using 'low-level' tools for network forensics. We will be using Wireshark's CLI tools, tcpdump, and Linux CLI tools to look at PCAPs to find and extract interesting information. A laptop with an Ubuntu VM is recommended, as all the tools we will be using should be 'apt-get'able. Please install these tools before the workshop if at all possible.

Topic: Basic Modelling Tools in Blender 3D
 
Basic introduction to  Blender, focusing on the modelling tools. The basic geometric techniques (extrusion, knife cut, radial cutting tool etc) along with the sculpting tools (and the dynamic topology sculpting tools). Then an example of how to use the boolean tools to create geometry as well. Finally a quick demonstration of what "UV unwrapping" is about, and how to utilize it.
 
BIO:
Phil Waclawski has been teaching Linux at Mesa Community college for about 15 years. He also teaches Web Development, Javascript, PHP, MySQL and basic Linux internet server set up. He has done summer camps for high school students teaching them the basics of 3D modelling with Blender. He first started in Linux with version 1.0 on Slackware back in 1994, and has been hooked every since.
 
Various hobbies include leatherwork, blacksmithing, wood work , archery (belongs to the Society for Creative Anachronism) and lately SCUBA. Was happily surprised to find out the Linux based software for his dive computer was written partly by Linus.

When and where: Info for Plug meeting Time and location

Upcoming topics include:

Improving (and measuring!) your home network experience
Monitoring applications and systems with Sensu
Chromakey with Free Software graphics and video tools
dealing with cruft
FreeBSD
ZFS

presentation:   WebID_-_W3C_Standard_for_a_Social_Network_You_Control

presenter:   Ed Nicholson at 0x1b, Freelance Information Architect of
Free Systems and Software.

Hello. My name is Mike and I like Free and Open-Source Software (FOSS). I'm attempting to find a group of people who are like minded. Presently, I'm looking for people who would be interested in socializing but in the future I plan on trying to hold computer-club meetings. The purpose of these meetings is both to be social and to try to teach about open source software. I know there is a computer club here in the Verde Valley but they charge for membership. We will meet at coffee shops and other such places so, as Linux is free, the club will be as well. A third thing I would like to do is to periodically have, what they call in Phoenix, installfests. Installfests are events where people, who wish to test FOSS gather together to install a FOSS operating system on their computers (usually as a dual-boot so as to preserve their windows installation). Please, contact me and we'll get together :) Name of the group? Why of course.... it is VVOSSS. (pronounced 'Voss')

http://flagstaff.craigslist.org/grp/4491576034.html

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  4. PLUG 2/13: Salt Stack
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