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This month CapBUG is meeting Thursday, August 26 (6:30 PM EST) at OmniTI’s Columbia Office ([Google Maps]).

Mike Erdely (me) will be giving a small talk about using softraid crypto in OpenBSD. Todd Carson may speak briefly about using softraid for redundancy.

Then we’ll head to Victoria Gastro Pub for some food, beer, cider, and fun. See you there!

There is a London *BSD Meetup [meeting details] happening on the 26th [of August], 7pm [BST] at the Cleveland Arms pub in Bayswater.

Courtesy (with edits) from Sevan / Venture37

GUBUG has been invited to participate at the UTOSC ‘09! A booth has been secured and GUBUG representatives will be on-site for the duration of the event to answer questions about the BSD family of operating systems and its derivatives.

Early bird registration has expired, but there is still time to sign up! Please visit http://attend.utosc.com/ to do so.

A GUBUG meeting will be held at 12:30pm on October 8. The tentative topic for this meeting is “What’s New in FreeBSD.” We will also have some free (as in free) BSD goodies to give away at this meeting, so be sure to come!

While a registration and fee are required to attend the rest of the conference, admission to this meeting is free for all GUBUG members.

Immediately following the GUBUG meeting at 1:45pm, a unique opportunity to take the BSDA Certification Exam will be offered. Details about this event are available at http://2009.utosc.com/presentation/142/. Exam participants must register for a BSDCG ID at https://register.bsdcertification.org//register/get-a-bsdcg-id.

The BSDA is currently the certification for BSD administration. Do not miss this opportunity to become BSD certified!

This conference will definitely be a blast. There are some very worthy presentations, keynotes, workshops, and Birds of a Feather sessions scheduled.

Hope to see you all there!

This month, we will be meeting on May 26 at 6:30 PM EDT at OmniTI’s Columbia Office ([Google Maps]). (NOTE: Be sure to go to OmniTI and not SRA/RABA!)

This month Jason will be doing a firewall/networking interactive lab. We will be using OmniTI’s lab machines along with a custom OpenBSD 4.5 Live CD that Jason created to play with VLANs and PF. Jason has been kind enough to make enough CDs so that you can take one home with you.

After, we will adjourn to a local establishment for refreshments.

Note: The meeting starts at 22:30 UTC

This month, we will be meeting on April 28 at 6:30 PM EDT at OmniTI’s Columbia Office ([Google Maps]).

NOTE THE CHANGE IN VENUE!

One of our new members, Devon O’Dell, will be giving an introduction to Plan 9. He will be showing off some of the basics:

(stuff about using rio, mouse chording, editing the terminal buffer, etc). It’d get into plumbing (e.g. RFC:1234 + middle click = you get to read RFC 1234), private namespaces (goodbye $PATH), and importing / exporting the network stack, which will be demonstrated to work both ways using different network stacks.

If time permits, I might get a bit into some of the differences between Plan 9’s implementation of C and its C library as well. (For instance, Plan 9 has polymorphism in structs, and a `typestr’ keyword which allows for operator overloading, among other things).

This sounds interesting. Thanks, Devon.

After the meeting, we’ll find a nearby place to grab some food and drink.

Note: The meeting starts at 22:30 UTC

This month we’ll be meeting on Tuesday, March 31, 6:30pm EDT at SRA/Raba in Columbia, MD (Suite 205).

We’ll discuss using BSD on the desktop (or laptop). Feel free to bring a machine for a demonstration. I will, of course, be demonstrating scrotwm on top of OpenBSD. Like you didn’t already know that.

After the meeting, we’ll head to a nearby watering hole for refreshments.

I’m sad to report that there will be no CapBUG meeting this month.

I have some personal issues that came up this weekend that will be taking all my time this week. Plus school. Plus I have to figure out how to work my job in sometime too.

We’ll try to plan the March 2009 meeting as soon as life calms down in the next week or so.

BeerSD X

Where: Parque Sarmiento (Sports place)
Address: Av Ricardo Balbín 4750 – Saavedra – Buenos Aires DC.
Buses: 21, 28, 29, 41, 67, 71, 93, 110, 117
When: Saturday December 6th, 1 PM (1900 UTC) approx, we meet in the grills for food and beer.
Questions to the list: bug@dc.uba.ar

This month we’ll be meeting on Tuesday, November 18, 6:30pm EST at SRA/Raba in Columbia, MD (Suite 205). Note: this is a change from our normal “last Tuesday of the month” to accommodate the holidays.

We will have a sort of general discussion about PostgreSQL including its license (BSD!), some best practices and possibly some demonstrations.

There will also be updates about DCBSDCon.

After the meeting, we’ll convene for food and drinks at a local establishment.

The BSD User Group of Argentina is meeting at Ciudad Universitaria UBA on Wednesday, November 5, 2008, at 21:00 local time (-03:00 UTC). More information is available at http://bug.dc.uba.ar/.