Topic: Apr 10 - Mobile Development in 2025: Working with React Native and Expo
Presenter: Brandon Mathis
When: Thursday, 10 April 2025 - 7:30 to 9:00pm
Where: North Carolina College of Textiles, room 2207 at 1020 Main Campus Drive, Raleigh NC, 27606
Parking: There is an underground parking deck next to the College at the Monteith Engineering Parking Deck. Parking is free after 5 PM. Detailed parking instructions can be found at https://trilug.org/meetings/
Map: Google Maps
Video: Will not be Recorded

Summary:

Join Brandon Mathis for a hands-on, live coding session where we dive into the world of modern mobile development with React Native and Expo. Learn how to leverage these powerful tools to build fully native mobile applications using only JavaScript —no prior native development experience required!

We'll walk through the entire process, from setup to deployment, covering key concepts, best practices, and common pitfalls. Expect an interactive, no-filter session where we’ll code together, troubleshoot in real-time, and embrace the inevitable mistakes along the way. Bring your questions and get ready to build!

Pizza and beverages will be provided!

If you can, RSVP on Meetup at https://www.meetup.com/trilug/events/306862740/

Note that TriLUG will be starting at 7:30 PM instead of 7:00 PM due to a change in venue availability. Please adjust accordingly

Call for speakers and topics

We are always looking for potential speakers! If you or someone you know would like to present on a topic please let us know. Contact the TriLUG Steering Committee by email at steering@trilug.org

Topic: Adventures in Basic Embedded Security: Design
Presenter: Maryam Abkar
When: Thursday, 13 March 2025 - 7:30 to 9:00pm
Where: North Carolina College of Textiles, room 2207 at 1020 Main Campus Drive, Raleigh NC, 27606
Parking: There is an underground parking deck next to the College at the Monteith Engineering Parking Deck. Parking is free after 5 PM. Detailed parking instructions can be found at https://trilug.org/meetings/
Map: Google Maps
Video: Will not be Recorded

Summary:

Maryam Abkar will speak on the considerations and pitfalls of learning Embedded Security on the fly for MITRE's eCTF competition with NCSU's cybersecurity club. She will explore some of the preliminary attacks we want to defend against, security concepts we can use to build a secure system, as well as some of the open problems we are grappling with.

Maryam Is an IT Specialist working for the US Forest Service and is currently part of the TriLUG Steering Committee. She recently graduated from North Carolina State University and is a former member of their cybersecurity club HackPack and their University LUG.

Pizza and beverages will be provided!

Note that TriLUG will be starting at 7:30 PM instead of 7:00 PM due to a change in venue availability. Please adjust accordingly

Call for speakers and topics

We are always looking for potential speakers! If you or someone you know would like to present on a topic please let us know. Contact the TriLUG Steering Committee by email at steering@trilug.org

Topic: 🦎 Tour De SUSE: An Overview of the SUSE Product Landscape 🦎
Presenter: local SUSE employees
When: Thursday, 13 February 2025 - 7:30 to 9:00pm
Where: North Carolina College of Textiles, room 2207 at 1020 Main Campus Drive, Raleigh NC, 27606
Parking: There is an underground parking deck next to the College at the Monteith Engineering Parking Deck. Parking is free after 5 PM. Detailed parking instructions can be found at https://trilug.org/meetings/
Map: Google Maps
Video: Will not be Recorded

Summary:

SUSE (SUSE Linux, Rancher, k3s) will be showcasing several products across the SUSE landscape including:

• Rancher (k8s orchestrator)
• k3s (k8s distro)
• SUSE AI
• OpenSUSE (operating system)
• SUSE Enterprise Linux (enterprise operating system)
• Harvester (virtualization)

If you'd like to learn more about what SUSE, feel free to visit their site at https://www.suse.com/

Pizza and beverages will be provided!

Note that TriLUG will be starting at 7:30 PM instead of 7:00 PM due to a change in venue availability. Please adjust accordingly

Call for speakers and topics

We are always looking for potential speakers! If you or someone you know would like to present on a topic please let us know. Contact the TriLUG Steering Committee by email at steering@trilug.org

Topic: Improving the Machine IQ of Devices with Docker and Raspberry Pi
Presenter: Dr. Warren Jasper and Shivan
When: Thursday, 09 January 2025 - 7:30 to 9:00pm
Where: North Carolina College of Textiles, room 2207 at 1020 Main Campus Drive, Raleigh NC, 27606
Parking: There is an underground parking deck next to the College at the Monteith Engineering Parking Deck. Parking is free after 5 PM. Detailed parking instructions can be found at https://trilug.org/meetings/
Map: Google Maps
Video: Will not be Recorded

Summary:

Dr. Jasper and Shivam will be presenting the topic 'Improving the Machine IQ of Devices with Docker and Raspberry Pi'. Come join us to learn more!

Note that TriLUG will be starting at 7:30 PM instead of 7:00 PM due to a change in venue availability. Please adjust accordingly

Call for speakers and topics

We are always looking for potential speakers! If you or someone you know would like to present on a topic please let us know. Contact the TriLUG Steering Committee by email at steering@trilug.org

If you are interested in presenting at TriLUG or have concerns for the Steering Committee, reach out to steering@trilug.org with your topic and the Steering Committee will reach out to you.

Topic: TriLUG Holiday Social and Project Showcase with Pizza and Potluck!
Presenter: You!
When: Thursday, 12 December 2024 - 7:00 to 9:00pm
Where: North Carolina College of Textiles, room 2207 at 1020 Main Campus Drive, Raleigh NC, 27606
Parking: There is an underground parking deck next to the College at the Monteith Engineering Parking Deck. Parking is free after 5 PM. Detailed parking instructions can be found at https://trilug.org/meetings/
Map: Google Maps
Video: Will not be Recorded
Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/trilug/events/303610815/

Summary:

Save the date!! Thursday, December 12th at 7pm, is the traditional TriLUG Holiday Social and Project Showcase Event! It is your chance to show off your toys, projects, and fun stuff that you have discovered in the past year or more.

Food will be in the lobby and projects will be in the lecture hall.

TriLUG is providing pizza and everyone is encouraged to bring a potluck food item.

As is tradition, we invite YOU to come show off any interesting project you are doing this year, and enjoy some food.

Is your project half finished, a mere inkling in the making? a nifty homelab setup? open source contributions you are proud of? We want to hear about it!

If you are bringing a food item or a project to present, please let us know via the spreadsheet at this link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1uCtvu3H_gEj2OlyMt4iGJM268NkauA8Alilo8fWScxc/

The TriLUG Steering Committee would like to extend a huge thanks to Dr. Warren Jasper for reserving and providing this room at NCSU!!

Call for speakers and topics

We are always looking for potential speakers! If you or someone you know would like to present on a topic please let us know. Also, please let us know if you have topics in mind that you would like to see presented. Contact the TriLUG Steering Committee by email at steering@trilug.org

If you are interested in presenting at TriLUG or have concerns for the Steering Committee, reach out to steering@trilug.org with your topic and the Steering Committee will reach out to you.

Topic: To be announced
Presenter: To be announced
When: Thursday, 8 August 2024 - 7:00 to 9:00pm
Where: Online, Jitsi
Parking: Virtual
Map:
Video: Will not be Recorded
Speaker notes:
Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/trilug/events/302278575/
Jitsi Meeting Link: https://meet.jit.si/TriLUG (If prompted, the meeting password is "TriLUG")

Summary:

Call for speakers and topics

We are looking for potential speakers! If you or someone you know would like to present on a topic please let us know. Also, please let us know if you have topics in mind that you would like to see presented. Contact the TriLUG Steering Committee by email at steering@trilug.org

Venue Ideas

We are looking for options where TriLUG could meet in person. If you know of a meeting space that we could use for physical meetings please let us know.

Results from the Election

John Harris - I'm a systems administrator for General Dynamics. I'd like to help as a systems administrator

Maryam Abkar - I am a recent NCSU computer science graduate and was (and am still!) very active in their NCSU LUG. I used to come around to TriLUG a long time back before I was a college student! I really appreciated the atmosphere of TriLUG when I attended and would love to strengthen the ties this club has to enthusiastic younger members at NCSU and colleges across the triangle. I especially would like to aid in the infrastructure improvements, It feels like a great learning opportunity and an excellent way to contribute back to the community.

Brian McCullough - I have been a member of TriLUG for quite a few years and want to see it continue.

Jeff Moore - I have been the Steering Committee Chair for several years now. I have lofty visions for TriLUG - some of which I have already begun to work toward and believe that with a larger Steering Committee, we can get exponentially more accomplished than in prior years.

Jeremy Davis - I served on the TriLUG Steering Committee years ago as PR Officer. I was the organizer of BarcampRDU 2013, and helped to promote All Things Open when it started in Raleigh. It is good to be back and I hope to help restore the social aspect of TriLUG where people come together to share ideas.

As always, if you are interested in presenting at TriLUG or have concerns for the Steering Committee, reach out to steering@trilug.org with your topic and the Steering Committee will contact you.

Meeting Link
The meeting link is https://meet.jit.si/TriLUG. If prompted, the meeting password is TriLUG.

Topic: State of the LUG
Presenter: Jeff Moore, Chair, TriLUG
When: Thursday, 13 June 2024 - 7:00 to 9:00pm
Where: Online, Jitsi
Parking: Virtual
Map:
Video: Will not be Recorded
Speaker notes:
Meetup: <hhttps://www.meetup.com/trilug/events/301139789/>

Summary:

Greetings and it's been a while!

TriLUG tries to offer a lot to its members - including shell access, membership portal, IRC, mail server, wikis, DNS, and more! With the technological landscape changing over the years and the churn of members of TriLUG's governing body - the Steering Committee, it may not feasible to support all of those services in addition to doing talks/topics/other events. With that in mind, part of this meeting is intended to solicit the parts of TriLUG its members deem the most valuable. A discussion around that will likely influence the direction of TriLUG over the next few years.

Additionally, there have been various questions across IRC/email about the infrastructure surrounding TriLUG. The Steering Committee is making space to answer and and all questions surrounding TriLUG infrastructure including current plans.

Finally, TriLUG elections are overdue. The current plan for the next two months is to answer any TriLUG/Steering Committee/State Of questions this month and having Steering Committee elections in July. That election will be a shorter term from July - May to avoid changing the overall election cycle.

For those interested in volunteering for the Steering Committee, fill out the form at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdlHqySln-koSTX7jihLdsUvnmG-7Of8opcKBAbS3p6KE5L_Q/viewform?usp=sf_link after reviewing the descriptions of Steering Committee roles at https://trilug.org/policies/ Article IV.

As always, if you are interested in presenting at TriLUG or have concerns for the Steering Committee, reach out to steering@trilug.org with your topic and the Steering Committee will reach out for scheduling.

Meeting Link
The meeting link is https://meet.jit.si/TriLUG. If prompted, the meeting password is TriLUG.

Topic: Building a Niche App to Visualize Events with Grafana and AWS
Presenter: Jeff Moore, Chair, TriLUG
When: Thursday, 13 October 2022 - 7:00 to 9:00pm
Where: Online, Jitsi
Parking: Virtual
Map:
Video: Will not be Recorded
Speaker notes:
Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/trilug/events/283038981/

Summary:

In many organizations, there is a need to see important events like app deployments, internal infrastructure changes, and external events in one place. Grafana offers the ability to create and manage these events through its Annotations API. Come see how Jeff Moore built an app to implement a specific API endpoint, why he built it, and the lessons learned along the way in one of his most ambitious projects to date.

Here are some of the topics covered during this talk:

• Building a Golang Dockerfile from the ground up
• Working with Makefiles
• Terraform commands, plans and directories
• Building Go code for AWS Lambda
• Capturing an AWS Lambda in Terraform
• Capturing AWS user/role/policy generation within a Terraform module
• Capturing Grafana service account/role generation within a Terraform module
• Exposing an AWS Lambda to a wider audience
• CloudWatch Logs and Metrics in Grafana Cloud

There are likely too many topics to go into in depth within the time slot, so the talk will likely gravitate towards the audience's interests.

The work lives in GitHub at https://github.com/geoffmore/grafana-annotate.

Meeting Link
The meeting link is https://meet.jit.si/TriLUG. If prompted, the meeting password is TriLUG.

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