Title: October Meeting
Location: The Pythian Group
Link out: Click here
Description: This will be an open topic meeting, so bring a few questions. I want to talk about some tools I’ve seen recently and some of the happenings in the community.
Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2010-10-21
End Time: 21:30

We had a great presentation by Jeff Green on his ethical hacking site group51. He provided the slides that were presented and I’ve placed them in the download section of the site.

Jeff also encouraged the members to sign up and contribute. He needs assistance on the site management and daily maintenance as it is becoming more than a single person job. If you have the bandwidth and the inclination, help out.

Title: September Presentation
Location: The Pythian Group
Link out: Click here
Description: We are having a short presentation on ethical hacking concentrating on Linux by Jeff Green, founder of group51.org.

One of the key objectives of the website is a proof of concept. We take systems we find in peoples garbage and insert them into a cloud computing environment connected through an open source intranet. We want to be the most powerful garbage pile in the world. At the same time we have a number of other projects all linked where we create a “playground” for people to learn on real equipment and for students to polish their resume with real world experience. People can administer various applications and services that are found in the enterprise environment. 95% of what we do is Linux based.

For those who didn’t know, the Ontario GNU/Linux Fest in Toronto has been canceled. You can read more about it on the official site, but the short answer is it’s a lot of work to get one going and to organize it.

When I found out about it (Thanks Jim), I made a comment about possibly trying to get a similar event off the ground here. It’s certainly not impossible, but it will take work. We already have BSDCan, pgcon, The Ottawa Linux Symposium, so is there room for an additional conference here in the capital? This is currently a single day event and held on a weekend, so it’s not a long event commitment and it certainly is not Ohio Linux Fest!

For those who are unaware, the LISA 2010 conference registration has been opened.

Visit the Usenix event page for detailed information and to register.

For the unknowing or uninformed, LISA is the big annual System Administration conference sponsored by Usenix. LOPSA has a hand in there as well.

If you are really going to make this a career and not just a job, you should attend one of these conferences. Words do not really describe the experience, ask Kelly some time.