[juneau-lug] Re: Next meeting

  • From: Nels Tomlinson <nelstomlinson@xxxxxxx>
  • To: juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 22:10:29 -0800

Hi, Justin,

The good thing about the university is parking: it has some.  That's 
more than we can say for downtown.  Since I live in the valley, the 
drive is tolerable for me.

I like the idea of an installfest eventually.  If we want to attract 
students, probably best to do this early in the semester.  Soon come 
midterms, and then finals, and all those tedious distractions that keep 
students from learning stuff for fun and profit.

If we are going to have an install fest, UAS would be a great place: 
parking, big rooms, bandwidth.

I could show up on a Saturday, and we'd better do an installfest on a 
weekend.  It can take hours to get some installs done.

Nels

Justin Burket wrote:

>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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