[juneau-lug] Next meeting

  • From: Justin Burket <zorton@xxxxxxxx>
  • To: Juneau Lug <juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 00:43:13 -0400 (EDT)

Has a location for the next meeting been set in stone?  I spoke to some
people here at the University about borrowing a room for the next meeting
if anyone here is interested.  I am hoping to do a couple of presentations
next meeting and feel that a projector would be very beneficial.  So how
about it?  After talking to several people in the library I feel confident
we could manage to wrangle up a room somewhere in this vast campus.  The
advantages I see are.

-Good connectivity.  The entire campus is wired for 802.11b and signal
strength is good throughout.  Not to mention each room has at least one
CAT-V jack that would be happy to serve out multiple DHCP leases, assuming
the switch/hub on the other end would be willing to cascade for us.  If
not we could NAT it again.

-Table room and most importantly a projector.

However I think the disadvantages are.

-Location.  It stinks having to drive out to campus late at night and
drive back especially if you live downtown.  I could help out with this
somewhat by carpooling from downtown.  However I only have room for 3-4
extra people in my car, and room for about two monitors and towers in the
boot.

I also wanted to ask if anyone would be interested in learning a bit more
about SSH.  I think my presentation last meeting on SSH was a bit
ummwellspontaneous and I would love to take another shot at it.  I have
begun to learn the black art of SSH tunneling and have had some success at
conjuring up various solutions to common security problems.  If anyone
would be interested I would like to do a general getting to know your
favorite secure shell server presentation.

Topics I could include would be
-X11 forwarding (very very cool and sexy)
-Creating local and remote tunnels
-Using web proxies with SSH created tunnels
-Anonymous web browsing techniques.
-SSH server configuration and common pitfalls and security measures.
-Firewall penetration and VPN setup.
-Authentication techniques and issues.

If the room thing works out I would also be interested in doing an install
fest.  I dont know much about the history of such fests here in Juneau but
I feel it would be a good way to get people on board.  It seems to me that
at least here at the University there are enough students and such that an
install fest could go really well.  Of course this hinges on the building
scheduling.  Im hoping that we can at least get a room big enough for
10-20 people and enough time to do a proper install fest.  As far as what
I can contribute, Id be willing to do the following

-Provide distribution CDs for anyone interested in installing.  I have a
small (23gigs free at the time of this writing) firewire/usb drive that I
could load up with ISOs for x86/powerpc.  Couple this with a cd burner and
we could crank out cds for the people installing.
-Have a few (I could maybe afford 2 or 3) manuals printed and bound.  This
could be given to anyone serious in learning about Linux.  I would think
some common HOWTOs as well as the installation manual for popular
distributions would be good.  Perhaps a page with good web links and such.
-Print and post flyers.  Ive been doing a lot of driving around lately
looking for work so it wouldnt be too much of a stretch for me to staple
some flyers up around the campus and common bulletin boards around town.
Heck we could even contact KTOO and see if they would be willing to do a
PSA.

I dont know how many people we could get hooked up but I say the more the
merrier.  We have enough talent in this town to really explode the growth
of Linux locally.  I know that when I was first starting out I would have
loved to be able to go to an install fest and have someone around that
knew more than I did.

Another idea would be to use some people networking and get the word out
to some of the admins around the town.  Contacting ITG and the various IT
department heads along with the school district, and federal building
would be a great way of getting technically minded people interested.  I
have one person in ITG that I could probably contact and get the word out
but I think most of the rest of you would be better equipped for that.

Let me know what you think.   I say let do it!  Perhaps if we get enough
Linux users in town we could start giving back to the OSS movement.


Justin Burket



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