This ALE-NW@SPSU meeting is being held Thursday March 13th, 2014 at 7:30pm in room J-202 of the Atrium (J) building on the SPSU campus. This is an open meeting. Everyone is invited, students, non-students, old and young.
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Topic:Backup simplicity with Duplicity
Date: 3/13 @ 7:30p – 9:30p-ish
Where: SPSU J-202
Presenter: Jeremy T. Bouse
Presentation: Link
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Will cover basics of what Duplicity is, what makes it the best choice for backups, the various GUI and CLI usage. Duplicity is one of the few backup tools that provides all the requirements of a Best Practices Backup Solution.
Bio:
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Jeremy is a Debian Developer, works as an Automation Engineer for Cox Media Group. Active Open-Source contributor.
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ALE-NW **usually** meets the 2nd Thursday of the month at the SPSU campus. Please mark this on your calendar as a reoccurring meeting. The group usually adjourns to the Marietta Diner after the formal meeting.
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Directions to ALE-NW Meetings
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ALE-NW@SPSU meetings are open events and we hope you will join us! We generally meet on the 2nd Thursday of the month, but always watch the ale.org email list for specifics. Also remember that topic suggestions and presentation offers for the meetings can be emailed to [ jdp (at) algoloma (dot) com] or [griggs (dot) andy (at) gmail (dot) com]
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ALE-NW works closely with the GA-400 Linux Group: http://www.meetup.com/GA-400-Linux-Group/ Meets most Sundays to discuss Linux. Very newby friendly group.
This ALE-NW@SPSU meeting is being held Thursday February 27th, 2014 at 7:30pm in room J-202 of the Atrium (J) building on the SPSU campus. This is an open meeting. Everyone is invited, students, non-students, old and young.
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Topic: [me@localhost]$ A Hands-on Introduction to the Linux Command Line
Date: 2/27 @ 7:30p – 9:30p-ish
Where: SPSU J-202
Presentation: Link
Anyone can use Linux systems with a mouse. But the real elegance and power is at the command line. Converting from a mouse master to a student of command line fu is less daunting with a hands-on session with some fun thrown in. We will be using a live DVD to work from so bring a Fedora 20 live DVD and a laptop that is known to work. If you use a different live OS some parts of the class will be rather different. No networking is required.
Bio:
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Jim Kinney was introduced to Linux in 1993. It became a major distraction in his pursuit of a Masters degree of Physics at GSU in 1997. However, it helped with his first job at Emory department of Physics in 1997 where he put students in front of Linux machines and built a loosely coupled cluster of those student machines at the same time NASA was building the first Beowulf clusters.
After Emory, Jim ran headlong to the darkside of Linux systems and IT support, design and administration. Jim founded and ran a consulting firm for 10 years and has worked at places such as Cox Communications, IBM, GaTech Research Institute and Google. Currently, Jim is back at Emory running HPC systems for research needs.
In his spare time Jim is a perpetual student of metalworking, beer production and taste testing, martial arts and general physical world hacking. At one point, Jim actually tried to make a policy difference in education and ran for DeKalb County school board.
He lives with wife (MS Geology), son (GT engineer wannabe), 5 cats and an old black lab who won’t chase the cats.
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ALE-NW **usually** meets the 2nd Thursday of the month at the SPSU campus. Please mark this on your calendar as a reoccurring meeting.
The group usually adjourns to the Marietta Diner after the formal meeting.
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For a campus map and a link to directions please see http://www.spsu.edu/visitspsu/campusmaps/index.htm
or visit the ALE-NW webpage page at http://tomshiro.org/twiki/view/ALE/AleNwOrg for information links from prior meetings.
Learn more about GA-400 Linux Group: http://www.meetup.com/GA-400-Linux-Group/ They informally meet most Sundays to discuss Linux. Very newby friendly group.
Free parking after 7pm in non-reserved spaces in the SPSU P60 deck is best. If you park before that time, you may get a ticket, boot, or towed or toed. ;) Building J, the Atrium building, is a short distance east of the parking deck.
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ALE-NW@SPSU meetings are open events and we hope you will join us! We generally meet on the 2nd Thursday of the month, but always watch the ale.org email list for specifics. Sign up here: http://ale.org/?page_id=5 Also remember that topic suggestions and presentation offers for the meetings can be emailed to [ jdp (at) algoloma (dot) com] or [griggs (dot) andy (at) gmail (dot) com]
This ALE-NW@SPSU meeting is being held Thursday January 9th, 2014 at 7:30pm in room J-202 of the Atrium (J) building on the SPSU campus. This is an open meeting. Everyone is invited, students, non-students, old and young.
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Topic: ALE-NW – “Tell us what you want…” Organizational Meeting
Date: 1/9 @ 7:30p – 9:30p-ish
Where: SPSU J-202
This meeting is being held to set the meeting topics for the next four months at ALE-NW meetings. An ad hoc panel will be created to answer Linux questions from the crowd after the “Tell us what you want…” part is done.
Agenda:
* Switchboard – getting help from the group – 15 min
* Announcements
* Tell Us What You Want – about 30 min
* Panel and Linux Questions from the Crowd – til 9:30p.
** Directory and File permissions will be the default topic
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ALE-NW **usually** meets the 2nd Thursday of the month at the SPSU campus. Please mark this on your calendar as a reoccurring meeting.
The group usually adjourns to the Marietta Diner after the formal meeting.
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For a campus map and a link to directions please see
or visit the ALE-NW webpage page at
meetings.
Learn more about GA-400 Linux Group: http://www.meetup.com/GA-400-Linux-Group/ They informally meet most Sundays to discuss Linux. Very newby friendly group.
Free parking after 7pm in non-reserved spaces in the SPSU P60 deck is best. If you park before that time, you may get a ticket, boot, or towed or toed. ;) Building J, the Atrium building, is a short distance east of the parking deck.
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ALE-NW@SPSU meetings are open events and we hope you will join us! We generally meet on the 2nd Thursday of the month, but always watch the ale.org email list for specifics. Sign up here: http://ale.org/?page_id=5 Also remember that topic suggestions and presentation offers for the meetings can be emailed to [ jdp (at) algoloma (dot) com] or [griggs (dot) andy (at) gmail (dot) com]
NOTE: For December this year we’ll be combining our
ALE CENTRAL meeting with our ALE-NW meeting (at their
usual time and place) with a GPG/PGP Key Signing party.
Then we’ll hope you’ll join us for the after party with a little
solstice season socializing at the Marietta Diner.
ALE GPG/PGP Keysigning Party
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7:30pm to ~9:15pm
SPSU Campus, Atrium “J” Bldg. rm J-202,
on Thursday, December 12th.
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Organized, introduced and presented by Jeremy Bouse,
with an intro covering some typical daily use cases along
with explanation of the web of trust and why we do
the keysigning events themselves,
(directions link and parking notes below)
Synopsis:
— For those who participate, the key signing party serves to confirm
the identity of other PGP Key users by connecting them to a “key ring”
and including them in the “web of trust” needed to validate their keys,
signatures and identities in the wider world.
— Our ardent GPG enthusiast, keymaster Jeremy “Clortho” Bouse, will
present a brief GPG/PGP introduction and direct the key signing process
using the Hash Based Method as described in
http://cryptnet.net/fdp/crypto/keysigning_party/en/keysigning_party.html
Fully detailed “How To” files with shell command line examples and background
information on the process can be found at these links:
http://ale.org/static_pages/keysign_party_131212.html
http://ale.org//static_pages/gpgstepbystep-131212.html
— Participation in the key signing requires advanced preparations,
including generating and verifying any new keys you want to have
signed. The official ALE Key Signing Event has been registered on
the Biglumber Key Server:
http://biglumber.com/x/web?ev=46341
…and ALL keys that participants want to have signed must be registered
at the official Biglumber Keyring:
http://biglumber.com/x/web?keyring=9655
— The deadline for uploading your key to the Keyring is midnight,
(12:00am) on Tuesday, December 10, 2013 (In other words, any
time _before_ Wednesday, December 11).
— The final step will be to download and print out Jeremy’s FINAL key ring
text file available on THURSDAY, 2013.12.12 (the day of the signing party).
The link for that is http://undergrid.net/ale13/ksp-ale13.txt
This link will also be announced with reminders to download on the ALE
mailing list. After downloading, fill in the checksum information for all
of the keys you have registered in the ring so you can easily confirm their
authenticity.
A reminder that fully detailed “How To” pages with command line examples
and background information on the process are found at these links:
http://ale.org/static_pages/keysign_party_131212.html
http://ale.org//static_pages/gpgstepbystep-131212.html
If you still have questions or need clarifications AFTER reviewing all of
the instructions above, you can email Jeremy via jbouse[AT]debian.org.
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ADDITIONAL PGP / GPG INFORMATION ON VIDEO:
— For those unfamiliar with PGP or interested in learning more about the
GnuPG implentation of PGP cryptography and the value of protecting your
privacy and your identity with PGP signatures, we suggest you review our
video of David Tomaschik’s March 2011 presesntation on the topic,
“Protecting Privacy, Identity & Systems with GnuPGâ€
This is available for download or streaming under the file name
“ale-20110317-gpg-tomaschik.mp4” at this URL:
http://arxion.net/ale/
The video file is ~443MB as h.264 encode in an mp4 wrapper.
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DIRECTIONS
Southern Polytechnic State University
Room J-202 of the Atrium (J) building
For a campus map and a link to directions please see
http://www.spsu.edu/visitspsu/campusmaps/index.htm
AFTER 7:00pm there is Free Parking in non reserved
spaces of the P60 deck. Parking there before 7:00pm
may get you ticketed, booted or towed.
Building J, the Atrium building, is a short distance
directly east of the P60 parking deck.
NEW ROOM!
Title: Linux Server Security: A beginner’s guide
Presenter: Jonathon Meek
Date: 11/14 @ 7:30p – 9:30p-ish
Where: SPSU J-202
Abstract:
As we see more and more attacks against maintainers of data, it has prompted many people to move their data from the cloud to their own home server. However, this means learning the ins and outs of Linux server security. This talk is geared towards starting on the ground level and do the “low-hanging fruit” within Linux server security such as setup of services, using sudo & doing backups “The Right Way” along with the tools to complete the job.
Bio:
Jonathan Meek is an Application Developer Specialist with AT&T IT Operations. His work has been on developing software to recover un-provisioned network elements and helping design the next generation of provisioning workflow within the company. He was Research Scientist for Georgia Tech Research Institute for three years, doing work in the Quality Assurance Department of the Electronic Systems Lab. He holds a bachelors and a masters degree in computer science from Southern Polytechnic State University. He started working with Linux in 2006 at the suggestion of one of his professors. Previous to his work at Georgia Tech Research, he worked at King & Spalding LLP on the IT Support team. His hobbies include running, writing, movie trivia. He holds memberships with the National Eagle Scout Association and Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity.
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ALE-NW meets the 2nd Thursday of the month at the SPSU campus. Please mark this on your calendar as a reoccurring meeting.
In December, we will merge with ALE-Central for a Key Signing Party and Solstice Social. Be certain to mark your calendars!
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The group usually adjourns to the Marietta Diner after the meeting.
For a campus map and a link to directions please see
<http ://www.spsu.edu/visitspsu/campusmaps/index.htm>
or visit the ALE-NW webpage page at
<http://tomshiro.org/twiki/view/ALE/AleNwOrg> for information links from prior meetings.
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Learn more about GA-400 Linux Group: http://www.meetup.com/GA-400-Linux-Group/ We informally meet most Sundays to discuss Linux.
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Free parking after 7pm in non-reserved spaces in the P60 deck is best. If you park before that time, you may get a ticket, boot, or towed. Building J, the Atrium building, is a short distance east of the parking deck.
ALE-NW@SPSU meetings are open events and we hope you will join us! We generally meet on the 2nd Thursday of the month, but always watch the ale.org email list for specifics. Also remember that topic suggestions and presentation offers the meetings can be emailed to [ jdp (at) algoloma (dot) com] or [griggs (dot) andy (at) gmail (dot) com]