Title Post date Meeting Information
Maker World by Jason Kohles 2012-02-05 11:01

TOPIC: Makereize Me
SPEAKER: Jason Kohles
DATE: 11 February 2012
TIME: 10 a.m.
LOCATION: Palantir 1660 International Drive, 8th floor, McLean, VA

How (and more importantly, why) to become a maker. With an overview of what's hot in maker technology right now (and also what has changed since I did a similar talk this time last year).
Share your Linux (14 January Meeting) 2012-01-13 10:47

LOCATION: 8230 Greensboro Drive, Mclean, VA
TOPIC: Share something about your use of Linux
TIME: 10 a.m.

We are in the building labeled:
BRANDYWINE REALTY TRUST
http://g.co/maps/9h88z

You can park in the Palantir lot and walk to the building to the left. It is the parking lot where Sport and Health is located.

You will have to wait outside, 8230 is the number of the building.

Someone will let you in and the meeting is on the 3rd floor.

We will start by 10:15 and there is no promise someone will let you in after that time.

Bring a laptop and expect to spend a few minutes talking about how you use Linux and maybe showing a tool or two.

We have coffee, tea, soda, water and snacks.
NO DONUTS or LUNCH will be served.
Open Source Linux IP PBX Phone Systems 2011-12-04 21:09

TOPIC: Open Source Linux IP PBX Phone Systems
SPEAKER: Daniel Green
DATE: 10 December 2011
TIME: 10 a.m.
LOCATION: Palantir 1660 International Drive, 8th floor, McLean, VA

Come and learn about one of the most demanding data and voice applications run on a LAMP Stack – building a Linux phone system. We will configure a phone system's extensions, IVR scripts, dialplan, call-forwarding, conference bridge, voicemail, DIDs, firewall port-forwarding, ACL list, and connect to a telco provider. The presentation will include a live demonstration of a production SaaS based IP PBX.
Beginner's How To: finding information, debugging, and asking for help 2011-12-04 20:44

TOPIC: Beginner's How To: finding information, debugging, and asking for help
SPEAKER: Greg
DATE: 8 October 2011
TIME: 10 a.m.
LOCATION: Palantir 1660 International Drive, 8th floor, McLean, VA

We will show you how to install, configure, and debug Fedora Linux. One of the topics we will cover is the layout of the new Gnome 3 desktop.
Idea to Beta and Beyond 2011-10-05 09:53

TOPIC: Idea to Beta and Beyond
SPEAKER: Brian and Greg
DATE: 8 October 2011
TIME: 10 a.m.
LOCATION: Palantir 1660 International Drive, 8th floor, McLean, VA

It started with an idea, joining a NoVALUG and building a prototype over the summer. Only free tools were used and we are moving towards a beta. Learn how to take an idea and move towards a product.
BtrFS, Fedora and Red Hat 2011-09-06 07:02

TOPIC: BtrFS, Fedora and Red Hat
SPEAKER: 'American' Dave
DATE: 10 September 2011
TIME: 10 a.m.
LOCATION: Palantir 1660 International Drive, 8th floor, McLean, VA

A presentation about Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Fedora, and the
next-generation Linux filesystem Btrfs.  Learn about Red Hat's role in
the future of Linux and storage.  
13 August 2010: OpenIndiana and ZFS 2011-08-01 11:05

TOPIC: OpenIndiana and ZFS
SPEAKER: RJ Bergeron
DATE: 13 August 2011
TIME: 10 a.m.
LOCATION: Palantir 1660 International Drive, 8th floor, McLean, VA

A planned 1 hour talk on OpenIndiana, a fork of Oracle/Sun's
OpenSolaris distribution. This will include a brief timeline of
OpenIndiana and OpenSolaris, hardware it currently supports, and
several of the features of this OS.

Following that will be a shorter talk (1/2 hour or so) on ZFS, detailing what it brings to the table in terms of manageability and some comparison on the features it offers above traditional filesystems. Finally, a short Q&A session on both
topics afterwards.
Zabbix, 9 July 2011 2011-06-19 07:04

TOPIC: Zabbix
SPEAKER: Andrew Nelson
DATE: 9 July 2011
TIME: 10 a.m.
LOCATION: Palantir 1660 International Drive, 8th floor, McLean, VA

Come and learn what is Zabbix is and why you care.

  • What is Zabbix
  • How does Zabbix work (data flow)
    • Showing it in action
    • Showing an existing system
    • Zabcon (my command line utility)
    • Adding new items
    • Overview of more advanced topics like Distributed monitoring
    • Hacking the code to add new features
  • Questions
Open source development with Eclipse or Why you want to use an IDE 2011-05-30 07:28

DATE: 11 June 2011
TIME: 10 a.m.
LOCATION: Palantir 1600 International Drive, 8th floor, McLean, VA
SPEAKER: Peter Larsen

To develop more than a "hello world" program, programmers often find themselves trying to balance lots of utilities, libraries, standards and more so, complex interdependencies of code, metadata and configuration files. Without an IDE to help this task would be daunting. This session will show some of the many things an IDE can help with and together we will build a small web application to boost.
Project Byzantium 2011-05-05 03:44

DATE: 14 May 2011
TIME: 10 a.m.
LOCATION: Palantir 1600 International Drive, 8th floor, McLean, VA

Project Byzantium is an effort at HacDC (http://hacdc.org/) to develop a rapidly deployable communication system using mesh networking by which users can share information in the absence of convenient access to the Internet. The project's use cases aim to help solve the Katrina Problem (a natural disaster knocks out large portions of the infrastructure) as well as the Egypt Problem (a hostile entity shuts off the infrastructure). Our design goals involve low cost, improvisability (ideally, a small group of people should be able to patch together a sizable Byzantium mesh using stuff they have laying around the house),
and the ability for wi-fi enabled nodes to make use of the mesh without having to run the mesh routing software (but it would be nice if they did to help). A Byzantium mesh will provide services to its users including wikis, collaborative word processing environments, microblogs, and realtime chat, as well as Internet access if one of the nodes has an active link. The project will eventually produce and maintain a LiveUSB distribution which can be used to set up mesh nodes in a short period of time, full documentation, and a toolkit of open source applications.

Project page: http://wiki.hacdc.org/index.php/Byzantium

Questions will be taken after the presentation.

Speaker Bios:
Bryce A. Lynch has worked as a system administrator, security engineer, and consultant for fifteen years in the public and private sectors. He is interested in cryptography, privacy and anonymity technologies, electronics, music of all kinds, security research and penetration testing. His other hobbies include designing and building synthesizers, constructing biofeedback devices, chasing high-altitude balloons, scanning the RF bands, and writing code that other people don't understand the purpose of. When stuck in traffic he has been known to sing beltway karaoke and hold animated conversations with himself. He is the partner of one wife, no children or pets, seven computers, and too many books. His sense of humor is implemented in LOGO, and he is actually very shy.

Ben "the Pyrate" Mendis is a Unix/Linux administrator, network administrator, and software developer. In his spare time he teaches an introductory class on Computer Science at HacDC. His interests include computer security, cryptography, and esoteric programming languages. He is very passionate about food, and has been trying to master the art of barbecue with his home-made smoker. Also enjoys killing (virtual) zombies and preparing for Z-day.