I’m thrilled to announce that our ALE Central meeting for
7:30pm on Thursday, Nov. 21, 2013 will be following our
traditional format and will be held at our long running
Room 1C venue at Emory Law School’s Gambrel Hall.
(but please see note below)**
Our Featured Presentation will be
Using OpenVPN in a Monitored World
presented by Brian MacLeod
Synopsis:
— If there’s one thing the government folks can’t stand, it
is lots of work for little reward. Most of us will never be
interesting targets, and while many would say we’re safe
because of that, it doesn’t hurt to help protect yourself in
whatever way you can.
— I hope to prepare anyone looking to add a little secure
networking with advice on deploying OpenVPN in ways
that help make it harder for your information stream to be
captured and sifted or otherwise subjected to unwarranted
and malicious access.
Bio:
— Brian MacLeod is a Systems Engineer at the Georgia
Institute of Technology, supporting research on high
performance computing resources with the Partnership
for Advanced Computing Environment (PACE) team.
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The meeting will be held at Emory Law School in our
usual Gambrel Hall, room 1C venue.
Our meeting time frame is 7:30pm to ~9:20pm
Directions to Emory Law School can be found at
http://ale.org/?page_id=2
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**An important note that this will very likely be the last
time we will be able to host an ALE Central Meeting or
special event at this venue. Emory Law School’s newest
facilities management has decided to end the good will
policy of support for the wider local community and will
now be restricting facility use to Law School activities
exclusively.
Emory Law School, through the ongoing support and
involvement of ALE member Ben Chapman in their IT
department, has been generously providing ALE with
unused classroom space for meetings and special
events for more than ten years. We have been
exceptionally fortunate in receiving this long running
support for our organization and deeply appreciate
everyone at Emory Law School who has helped with
these arrangements over the years.
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As always, the announcement information is also
available on our web site:
Our ALE Central meeting for Thursday, Sept. 19 at
7:30pm will be:
A CASUAL GATHERING
over food and drink at
MELTON’S APP & TAP
Synopsis:
– For this casual meeting conversation topics involving Linux and crunchy
Open Source goodness will be welcome. We may also have some planning
discussions for a Fall Install Fest and deliberations on activity suggestions
for our regular meetings.
A Note of Apology:
– Seems I’ve been absent from the office a little too much this year and
I’m having trouble getting back in sync with my routines and commitments.
With apologies, I wasn’t planning enough ahead to arrange a formal venue
or speaker for this month’s ALE Central meeting. I am, however, promising
to do better for next month.
— Aaron Ruscetta, ALE Events Coordinator (etc)
see http://meltonsappandtap.com/ for directions and menu info, etc.
A SPECIAL NOTE that our regular Law School venue was not
available for this month, so we have arranged for an alternate
space in the Emory Psychology And Interdisciplinary Sciences
(PAIS) building, where we will be guests of the CCI / BMI Lab.
The venue is on the west side of the Emory campus, just off of
Oxford Road at 36 Eagle Row, Atlanta, GA 30322.
PLEASE SEE / DOWNLOAD / PRINT / READ
the map and directions PDF at the link below for essential details
on parking and finding our meeting room inside the PAIS building:
ALE AT EMORY PAIS MAP & DIRECTIONS
Once you arrive at our 7:30pm ALE Central meeting for Thursday,
August 15th our featured topic will be
An Informal Presentation on the Ins and Outs of
Computer Refurbishing and Electronics Recycling
with special guests David Brown and Marlon Williams.
– Presentation specifics will include a look at NTI’s recycling process
for electronics and computers, information on changes in environmental
protection laws that will soon affect everyone and details on how ALE
members and associates can recycle their used gear.
– David Brown and Marlon Williams are principles and managers
of NTI Recycling in Norcross, Georgia:
Naibun Trading International LLC o/a as
NTI Recycling
2980 Pacific Dr., Ste C,
Norcross, GA 30071
Toll Free: +1 855 624 7700
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Our meeting time frame is 7:30pm to ~9:30pm
Again, directions to this month’s Emory PAIS venue with maps
and important building details are available in this PDF file:
ALE AT EMORY PAIS MAP & DIRECTIONS
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Post meeting libations and conversation are usually enjoyed at
Melton’s App & Tap
Our ALE Central Meeting for Thursday, March 21, 2013
at 7:30pm will be:
The State of OpenSuSE
presented by Chuck Payne
Synopsis:
– Our resident Geek of the Gecko clan will be providing the latest
news and views on updates and project status for the OpenSuSE
Linux distro and development community.
Bio:
– Chuck Payne is a Linux System Administrator who has been an
an active member of the OpenSUSE community since October,
2009, becoming an Ambassador for OpenSUSE in April, 2009.
He has given talks at Atlanta, Texas and Southeast Linux Fests
to spread the word about OpenSUSE to the masses while
handing out a good bit of “Geeko†swag.
Related Links:
— OpenSUSE.org
— SUSE Studio
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The meeting will be held at Emory Law School in our
usual Gambrel Hall, room 1C venue.
Our meeting time frame is 7:30pm to ~9:30pm
Directions to Emory Law School can be found at
http://ale.org/?page_id=2
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Post meeting libations and banter are usually enjoyed at
Melton’s App & Tap
Our ALE Central Meeting for Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013
at 7:30pm will be:
Dynamically Dueling Distros:
A Multi-Part Compare & Contrast Presentation
featuring:
– RHEL/CentOS – presented by Jim Kinney
– SuSE SLES/SLED – covered by Allen Beddington
– Gentoo – discussed by Lawrence Hamblin
plus, pending travel opportunity,
– Bodhi – with Mike Harrison
THE PLAN is to cover strengths, weaknesses, likes, dislikes,
installation, usage, libraries, package managers, configuration,
security and programming of each distro in 10 minutes.
(Yeah, right!) As distro choice is almost a religious process,
be sure to bring your favorite barbs and jeers as well as your
misty-eyed remembrances. Please: No rotten fruits or other
spoiled vegetation as some of this material will stink enough
already (see gnome3).
– There is still room for a volunteer for Debian or Slackware.
– We may need to do a Ubuntu vs Fedora grudge match later.
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The meeting will be held at Emory Law School in our
usual Gambrel Hall, room 1C venue.
Our meeting time frame is 7:30pm to ~9:30pm
Directions to Emory Law School can be found at
http://ale.org/?page_id=2
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Post meeting libations and banter are usually enjoyed at
Melton’s App & Tap