MetaBUG

Hiya campers, its september which means its time for our annual
september meeting. all the burners are back from burning man, the
bridge is open again, and all the school kids are back in town. so
lets go to the metreon and talk about none of those things, but instead
focus on OpenBSD.

Tuesday the 4th, 7pm, food court of the Metreon. details and maps at
http://sfobug.org.

Meeting time is 02:00 UTC

This month, we’ll meet at the Raba office in Columbia again at 6:30 PM ET. We are considering moving the meetings to PROTEUS in the future, but this month the meeting is at “the usual place”.

Johan will give a short talk on FreeBSD’s GEOM. Bret will stop being a straphanger and give a short talk about contributing code/diffs to OpenBSD. After the talks, if we have time and interest, I can possibly do a demo on starting a port.

After the talks, we’ll then head over to Nottingham’s or The Green Turtle for a couple beers.

Note: the meeting starts at 02:00 UTC.

Location: Casey Moore’s Oyster House Map

This month we will cool off with some brewski and chat.

For any FreeBSD people with a nostalgic side I have a bunch of FreeBSD CDs to give away ranging from 2.x to 6. This isn’t a complete set, but very close! These should go to a loving home, not just the mildly curious.

Note: the meeting starts at 01:30 UTC.

This month, we’ll meet at the Raba office in Columbia again at 6:30 PM ET (22:30 UTC). I will give a short talk on Yaifo. Barring anyone else having a topic to discuss, we’ll then head over to Nottingham’s for a couple beers.

Update: Prior to or following my Yaifo talk, Patrick will give a talk on OpenVPN.

The presentation will be Using PF for Home Broadband by dwc. We will cover some basics of protecting your home network, as well as a little traffic shaping to make home broadband a little more responsive and friendly.

Our gracious host, Wayne Porter, in addition to offering us a venue, will be providing homemade guacamole and chips for us! Yum!

After the meeting we will meeting for drinks and chat at Casey Moore’s on 9th and Ash.

The meetings are held at the GIOS factility in ASU Tempe Center, on the SE corner of University and Mill. GIOS is in the corner, to the East of Sack’s. Parking in the lot is free to the public beginning at 7pm.

Note: the meeting starts at 02:00 UTC.

This month, we’re not having a meeting. We’re just going to meet at Nottingham’s in Columbia for Beer and BSD (stolen from PhxBUG) at 6:30 PM EDT (22:30 UTC).

Nottingham’s Address:
8850 Stanford Blvd, Suite 1100
Columbia, MD 21045

See you there!

It’s just that time of year, so this month will be a Beer & BSD gathering at Casey Moore’s!

More information is available on the PhxBUG web site.

Note: the meeting starts at 01:30 UTC.

Peter Hessler will be giving a talk about the OpenBSD-Newbies mailing list, including some stats, some useful lessons learned, and the few bad things that happened!

Usual details: June 5, 7pm , Metreon at 4th and Mission in San Francisco. Easy access to BART/Muni and my new job :). More information is available on the SFOBUG website.

Note: the meeting starts at 02:00 UTC.

Our May CapBUG meeting will be May 29 at 6:30 PM (22:30 UTC).

This month, we’ll have Marcus Ranum give his talk on dumb ideas in computer security. From his website:

“Let me introduce you to the six dumbest ideas in computer security. What are they? They’re the anti-good ideas. They’re the braindamage that makes your $100,000 ASIC-based turbo-stateful packet-mulching firewall transparent to hackers. Where do anti-good ideas come from? They come from misguided attempts to do the impossible - which is another way of saying ‘trying to ignore reality.’ Frequently those misguided attempts are sincere efforts by well-meaning people or companies who just don’t fully understand the situation, but other times it’s just a bunch of savvy entrepreneurs with a well-marketed piece of junk they’re selling to make a fast buck. In either case, these dumb ideas are the fundamental reason(s) why all that money you spend on information security is going to be wasted, unless you somehow manage to avoid them.”

This meeting will also be broadcast as part of MetaBUG.

We will again hold this month’s meeting at Raba in Columbia, MD.

Location:
ASU, Tempe Center Map

Time:
April 3, 2007: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM PST

Details:
This month is a Mystery Presentation! Either Darren Spruell, Darrin Chandler, or some random person will be presenting LDAP or something completely unrelated to LDAP! Chances are good that we’ll be meeting at GIOS, at ASU’s Tempe Center. This month’s presentation will also be broadcast live over the Internet, unless it isn’t.

Whatever happens, it is EXTREMELY likely that we’ll meet for libations and grub after the presentation at Casey Moore’s Oyster House.

Tempe Center is located on the Southeast corner of Mill Ave & University Dr. GIOS is in the Southeast corner of the plaza. Free parking beginning at 7pm MST (not MDT).

Note: the meeting starts at 02:00 UTC.