After our discussion, we came up with a list of topics for future meetings.

I’m going to do a talk on the environmental monitor unit I brought with me based on the Raspberry Pi and a few add-ons for May

We have the following items listed, with a couple of volunteers so far:

• Basic firewalls - re-purposing EOL gear for ongoing use (August)
• OpenVPN
• Security, an example would be the SANS Top 20
• Zabbix (maybe June)
• Coursera experiences talk  and discussion (July)
• Small NAS appliances such as Synology including:
  • Package Creation
  • encfs
  • sshfs
  • deduplication
  • NFS
  • ipkg
  • Third party software packages
• Crypto basics(using OpenSSL)
• Pen Testing with Metasploit (tentatively in November)
• Hardware simulation on different platforms
• Using the XBMC API for message and video injection
• Online learning experiences (panel type presentation)
• Diskless Raspberry Pi
• Network and Automated installs of almost everything
• Configuration management with current tools
• Screencasting/training
• Good looking documentation with open source tools
• Wordpress usage cases

For anyone interested, Bruce mentioned that Udemy has their top 1500 courses on for $10.00 each.

Don’t forget, BSDCan is on next month at the University of Ottawa and there will be a Puppet Meetup on the Thursday night before the conference starts.