Topic: Holiday Demo & Social Party Presenter: You! When: Thursday, December 12, 7pm Where: SplatSpace, 331 W. Main St., Durham, NC Map: http://splatspace.org/location/ RSVP: Signup Form

You are invited to the Triangle Linux Users Group's annual Holiday Demo Party ! Come and socialize with other like minded Free and Open Source enthusiasts from all over the Raleigh Durham Chapel Hill area. We plan to do catering again like last year.

Please RSVP using the above form. This will enable us to budget food and space.

Demos Share your passion by bringing a project or product to show off. As we get more demos we'll try to keep the list up to date!

New Search for MediaWiki Nik Everett Day job is writing a new search for Mediawiki which is pretty cool. Can show it off if anyone cares to see it.

The Privacy-Protecting Tails Linux Distro Sean Alexandre Come try out Tails, a live USB Linux distro aimed at preserving your privacy and anonymity. https://tails.boum.org/

LibreOffice Base Demo Jeremy Davis I have built a couple of LibreOffice Base databases I would like to share. One I use weekly to publish the Triangle Area Career Development Newsletter. The DB helps to manage and gather meeting info of our local groups and builds the newsletter formatted with HTML. I have built a nice task tracker to show off as well, which was developed over time at my work place in MS Access but then recreated with LibreOffice Base as a project to compare the two. I will demonstrate valuable timesaving features of the awesome LibreOffice Base program, which comes free with most Linux distros.

Amateur Radio in the Digital Age Kevin Otte Laptops showing software, brochures, interactive discussion, (if internet) remote controlled transceiver

Travis Continuous Integration Michael Hrivnak I will show how TravisCI integrates with GitHub projects

Making PCB's Pete Soper Designing and fabricating PCB's for your Open Hardware projects

Pi AC Remote Ted Pudlik A web app running on the Raspberry Pi that I use to control my living room air conditioner. Extension to multiple rooms is a work in progress!

SpamAway Matt Brown A concept (nothing written yet) for a new approach to fighting spam

RPi rover Nathan Yinger Simple rover with a camera, controlled and viewed by browser

Automated brewery Darren Boss Partially completed automated beer brewing rig. Vessel filling, valve, heat, cooling, pump control are all automated by open source hardware and software.

Nerf mod Cate and Allie Grey Allie will demo her latest nerf mod

Topic: Crypto Keysigning / TriLUG Infrastructure When: Saturday, November 16, 10am - 4pm Where: Red Hat. 100 E Davie St, Raleigh NC. Parking is free in the building. Map: Google Maps RSVP: Please RSVP using this Form before 10am Friday 15 Nov.

Crypto Key Signing Learn about cryptographic keys and how to sign and verify GPG keys. Some people also want to do CA Cert Assurances. Don't forget to bring multiple forms of ID and you may also want to generate your key prior to the meeting.

TriLUG Infrastructure The TriLUG servers provide all sorts of services to our members. This workshop will continue our effort to update and improve these services. This is open to anyone who would like to learn and participate in maintaining our shared resources.

RSVP & Building Access Everyone should meet in the lobby promptly at 10am, and we'll go upstairs together. Latecomers should check in at the security desk and will be escorted from there.

Important: Red Hat security needs a list of attendees 24 hours in advance. Please RSVP. There may be some wriggle room here, but this is the first time we have tried this venue.

Topic: Cryptography and GPG Presenter: Sean Alexandre When: Thursday, 14th November 2013, 7pm (pizza from 6.45pm) Where: NC State Engineering Building II Room 1021, Centennial Campus Parking: The parking decks and Oval Drive street parking are free after 5pm Map: Google Maps Video: Hangout OnAir (during the meeting) YouTube Slides: gpg-presentation

Abstract:

Cryptography has been in the news a lot lately. We'll start with a quick overview of some of the major recent headlines, specifically about the NSA's attempts to circumvent and break encryption and what experts are recommending to stay as secure as possible online. This will be followed with a high-level overview of cryptography. We'll look at where it's been made easy to use, and were it's not so easy. Then we will dig into the details of using GPG from the command line, to encrypt documents and to verify software packages.

Bio:

Sean Alexandre is a Senior Software Developer at SAS Institute, where he's been working on different front-end applications for the past 12 years. Lately his interests have been on Linux and free software, with a focus on distributed systems and defensive security.

Keysigning and Infrastructure Workshop There will be a Keysigning and Infrastructure Workshop on Saturday 16 Nov 2013 if you want to sign keys.

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Topic: Choosing a secondary DNS server, now with data! Presenter: Aaron Joyner When: Thursday, 10th October 2013, 7pm (pizza from 6.45pm) Where: NC State Engineering Building II Room 1025, Centennial Campus Parking: The parking decks and Oval Drive street parking are free after 5pm Map: Google Maps Video: YouTube

Abstract: Are you responsible for a DNS domain, perhaps professionally, or a "vanity" domain for your personal email?  Have you given much thought to the DNS resolvers for that domain?  Every domain requires at least one DNS server, and everyone has probably heard that they should have a geographically disparate secondary server to hedge against catastrophic outages (network, building, etc).  Assuming you don’t have the luxury of a globally distributed set of datacenters, where should your secondary DNS server be hosted?  This talk will present one man's quest to answer that question, along with the data used to visualize and understand the available options.  There will also be a brief discussion of how that data was collected, and open source code (in Go, http://golang.org) to do it yourself.

Bio: Aaron S. Joyner is a Sr. Systems Engineer in the Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) group at Google. He has been working as a SysAdmin for more than 15 years at companies such as Global Knowledge, Intrex.net, and MWG Biotech. When living in Raleigh, he was actively involved with the Triangle Linux Users Group, serving on the steering committee as SysAdmin in 2004-2005, and giving talks on DNS for NC*SA and TriLUG. Since joining Google in 2005, he has helped to maintain their internal DNS infrastructure and been primarily responsible for designing, implementing, and supporting Google's serial console systems.  For the past ~4 years, he has been leading a team of SREs responsible for supporting production authentication and machine management systems.

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NCSU Host: A big thanks to the Office of Information Technology and NCSU for making the room available during Fall Break.

Topic: Open Source: the Nanotechnology of the Cloud Presenter: Michael Tiemann When: Thursday, 12th September 2013, 7pm Where: NC State Engineering Building III Room 2207, Centennial Campus Parking: The parking decks and Oval Drive street parking are free after 5pm Map: Google Maps Video: YouTube Slides: PDF

Michael Tiemann started the world's first open source software company, thereby placing the topic of open source into the field of economics.

Ignored for several years, open source has helped to rewrite the rules of economics, and has become an important subject among Nobel laureates. After reviewing 20+ years of Nobel Prize lectures in economics, Tiemann has synthesized a new perspective on the economics of cloud computing and the continued role that open source will play in the development of this new paradigm.

Topic: Patents and Linux in Context Presenter: Keith Bergelt When: Thursday, 8th August 2013, 7pm Where: NC State Engineering Building II Room 1025, Centennial Campus Parking: The parking decks and Oval Drive street parking are free after 5pm Map: Google Maps Video: YouTube

Keith will talk about intellectual property as a reality that shapes the context for open source software, particularly when overlaid against trends in technologies such as mobile and cloud computing, provide the history of Open Invention Network and its licensee community, and discuss Linux Defenders and other opportunities for community members to contribute proactively for the benefit of open source software.

Keith Bergelt is the chief executive officer of Open Invention Network® (OIN), the collaborative enterprise that enables innovation in open source and an increasingly vibrant ecosystem around Linux. In this capacity he is directly responsible for enabling, influencing and defending the integrity of the Linux ecosystem. Central to the achievement of his goals is the acquisition and transfer of patent rights designed to permit members of the Linux ecosystem to operate free of the threat of assertion and litigation from those whose business models are antithetical to innovation and global economic growth in information technology and computing.

Topic: Lightning Talks Presenter: TriLUG Community When: Thursday, 11th July 2013, 7pm Where: NEW LOCATION! Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, NC State Engineering Building II Room 1021, Centennial Campus (just across the street from Red Hat) Parking: The parking decks are free after 5pm, and street parking on Oval Drive. Map: Google Maps Video: YouTube RSVP: EventBrite (You don't actually need to bring a ticket to attend. Getting one just helps us prepare for refreshments so nobody goes without pizza!)

We'll be putting the July meeting in the hands of the TriLUG community by holding a series of Lightning Talks. Lightning talks are short talks of about 5-15 minutes long that give the audience a taste of a topic rather than going into the great detail associated with formal presentations. If you've been working on a cool project lately or learned something cool about technology, you are qualified to present something!

If you have an idea for a talk, please pitch it on the TriLUG mailing list and the community will help you cultivate it into a presentation you can be proud of. Prepend your subject line with "LT:" to make it easy to find (ie subject = "LT: Using Inkscape"). The Steering Committee will then collate a list of the topics and speakers from the mailing list posts. There isn't a set theme yet, but we expect a theme will emerge from the discussions in the next couple of weeks.

• Cracking Password Hashes (Slides) - Scott Miller
• Booting Linux on EFI using rEFInd - Matthew Frazier
• Electric Cars and Open Source Cars (Slides) - Jeremy Davis
• Network testing with iperf (Slides) - Bill Farrow
• Networking Tools (Slides) - William Chandler
• Flashback - a better way to backup -Alan Porter
• Open Source Ecological Solutions - Moustapha Barry
• Ceph storage platform (Slides) - Jack Hill

Topic: Open Learning in the Classroom and Online Presenter: Cathy Davidson When: Thursday, 13th June 2013, 7pm Where: NOTE! NEW LOCATION! Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, NC State Engineering Building II, Centennial Campus (just across the street from Red Hat) Parking: The parking decks are free after 5pm, and street parking on Oval Drive. Map: Google Maps Video: G+ Hangout Live and on YouTube [live stream and then archived on youtube] RSVP: EventBrite (You don't actually need to bring a ticket to attend. Getting one just helps us prepare for refreshments so nobody goes without pizza!)

We are extremely fortunate to have Cathy Davidson speaking June 13th at TriLUG! Make sure you do not miss this rare opportunity! Cathy Davidson is an extraordinary individual and a brilliant minded speaker, who is a highly influential player in the world of open education in the universities. She is the first educator to serve on the six-person Board of Directors of the Mozilla Foundation! She'll include in her talk, discussion of her two current peer-taught, peer-evaluated classes and her upcoming work to prepare for a Coursera MOOC entitled "The History and Future of Higher Education". Make sure your schedule allows for you to attend this special event. Also, spread the word to your fellow digerati and invite them to attend.

Please note that this meeting will be held at a new venue, so there will be some shifts in the usual schedule. NCSU does not permit food in its classrooms, so we are going to begin the meeting with a reception/networking over our usual pizza in the atrium of Engineering Building 2. At about 7:30 we'll move to 1021 to begin businesss, community announcements, and the presentation.

About CATHY N. DAVIDSON

Cathy Davidson teaches at Duke University, where she co-directs the Ph.D. Lab in Digital Knowledge and holds two distinguished chairs (Ruth F. DeVarney Professor of English and the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies). She served as Duke’s first Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary Studies and helped to create over seventy programs including the Program in Information Science + Information Studies and the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience as well as the University Scholars Program (in partnership with and supported by Melinda French Gates and Bill Gates) . She is a co-founder of the global learning network HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Technology, and Science Alliance and Collaboratory), which administers the annual $2 million HASTAC/MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning Competitions. Her more than twenty books include Thirty-Six Views of Mt Fuji, Revolution and the Word, and The Future of Thinking (with David Theo Goldberg). Her latest book, Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn (Viking, 2011) was named a "top 10 science book" of the year by Publisher's Weekly and has been the occasion for over eighty invited lectures in the U.S. and internationally, including in Canada, Australia, the UK, Hong Kong, and Thailand. A frequent speaker and consultant on institutional change at universities, corporations, and non-profits around the world, she writes for Harvard Business Review, Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Washington Post, Times Higher Ed, and many other publications in the U.S. and abroad. In July 2012 she was named the first educator on the six-person Board of Directors of the Mozilla Foundation. She was recently appointed by President Obama to the National Council on the Humanities and received the 2012 Educator of the Year Award (with HASTAC cofounder David Theo Goldberg) for "Visionary Contribution to Science and Technology in Education."