Due to Emory student activities at our regular venue and
time, the December 2011 ALE CENTRAL Meeting
has been MOVED to the ALE NW venue:
SPSU Campus, Atrium “J” Bldg. rm J110,
7:30pm on THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8TH.
(directions link and parking notes below)
Activities will include:
An ALE GPG/PGP Keysigning Party
followed immediately by our
2011 Solstice Season Social
Synopsis:
Our December ALE NW Meeting and ALE Central meetings are being
combined as a PGP/GPG Keysigning Party (7:30pm to ~9:15pm) followed
by an ALE Solstice Season Social at a nearby eatery (starting by 9:30pm,
location to be announced).
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 David Tomaschik’s March 2011 presesntation on the topic.
Video of this presentation is available for download or streaming under
the file name “ale-20110317-gpg-tomaschik.mp4” at these URL’s:
http://arxion.net/ale/ and http://jimkinney.us/downloads/
A torrent is also available at
https: //s3.amazonaws.com/datalore/ale-20110317-gpg-tomaschik.mp4?torrent
The video file is ~443MB as h.264 encode in an mp4 wrapper.
For those who wishing to 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 identitiies.
Internationally recognized I.T. cryptography and security expert
Michael Warfield will present the GPG/PGP introduction and will
direct the key signing process.
COMPREHENSIVE DETAILS FOR PREPARATION AND PARTICIPATION
IN THE GPG/PGP KEY SIGNING PARTY ARE AVAILABLE AT:
http://ale.org/static_pages/keysign_party_111208.html
The documentation includes links to step by step GPG How To’s
and other helpful information on public key encryption, including:
http://ale.org//static_pages/gpgstepbystep-111208.html
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DIRECTIONS
Southern Polytechnic State University
Room J110 of the Atrium (J) building
Campus map and a link to directions please see
http://www.spsu.edu/visitspsu/campusmaps/index.htm
Parking in non reserved spaces in the P60 deck is best.
building J, the Atrium building, is a short distance east
of the parking deck.
The next ALE-NW@SPSU meeting is being held
Thursday, Nov. 10th, 7:30pm in room J110
of the Atrium (J) building on the SPSU campus.
The thematic banner for the meeting is
BACKUP-APALOOZA
with discussions focused on the practical considerations of data
backup through some compare and contrast overviews of a few
popular backup tools from the Linux / FLOSS universe.
Scheduled talking points include:
* Backup Religion – Get Saved Before Your Data Apocalypse
* Rsync
* Rdiff-backup
* Visit Snapshot City with Back-In-Time
* Duplicity
* Amanda
With Presenters:
* JD
* Aaron Ruscetta
* David Tomaschik
If you aren’t happy with your current backup solutions, one
of our featured tools will probably fit your needs nicely.
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For a campus map and a link to directions please see
http ://www.spsu.edu/visitspsu/campusmaps/index.htm
Parking in non reserved spaces in the P60 deck is best.
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! Also remember that topic suggestions
and presentation offers the meetings can be emailed to
[ jdp (at) algoloma ]
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DECEMBER MEETING NOTICE:
ALE-NW will NOT have a meeting for December, so
this will be the last meeting of 2011.
The next ALE-NW@SPSU meeting is being held
Thursday, Oct. 13th, 7:30pm in room J110**
of the Atrium (J) building on the SPSU campus.
The central topic for our meeting will be a presentation
and dialogue on how Linux users of any skill level can
more effectively utilize the extensive FLOSS community
resources available to them. Whether seeking solutions
for system issues or simply mining the FLOSS universe
pursuing education, interests and curiosity, knowing how
to frame your queries and where to present them is the
fastest path to useful answers and information:
Leveraging the Linux Community
(or how to ask a smarter question)
Presented by JD
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** For a campus map and a link to directions please see
http ://www.spsu.edu/visitspsu/campusmaps/index.htm
Parking in non reserved spaces in the P60 deck is best.
building J, the Atrium building, is a short distance east
of the parking deck.
Directions, parking suggestions and additional details
are also available on the ALE wiki:
http://tomshiro.org/twiki/view/ALE/AleNwOrg
We are happy to announce that, following up on a very
successful SPSU install fest event on August 25th,
the organizers of the new ALE-NW @ SPSU group
will be hosting their first monthly meeting on
Thursday, Sept. 8th, 7:30pm
in room J101 on the SPSU campus
The format plan for the ALE@ SPSU meetings is
to offer 2 to 4 short form presentations with an
emphasis on follow up discussion. A featured
presentation at this first meeting will be:
The Keys to Using SSH
with David Tomaschik
**UPDATE 2011.09.13**
Presentation slides are now available at David’s web site:
http://systemoverlord.com/presentations/keys-ssh
Synopsis:
— The Secure Shell, or SSH, is a powerful communications
tool most often used for securely accessing a command-
line session on a remote system. There is much more to
SSH than that. This talk will introduce SSH, and discuss
applications including secure file transfer, accessing
services behind a firewall, and running graphical
applications remotely. Specific topics include:
– Starting with SSH
– SSH Keys
– Secure File Copying (SCP)
– Port Forwarding
– X11 Forwarding
Additional short presentations are in the works
and presentation offers can be emailed to
jdp [at] algoloma.com
** For a campus map and a link to directions please see
http ://www.spsu.edu/visitspsu/campusmaps/index.htm
Parking in non reserved spaces in the P60 deck is best.
building J, the Atrium building, is a short distance east
of the parking deck.
‘Tis the season where our regular Emory Law School venue is
commandeered by students taking finals, thus providing our
group with a great excuse to get out of our “shells” and party…
Announcing the third annual
ALE SOLSTICE SOCIAL
a Family Friendly celebration taking place
7:00pm to 11:00pm on
Saturday, December 4th, 2010
Our event is being hosted by Geoffrey Myers at the
Chestnut Hill Community Clubhouse
5184 Lupine Ln NW
Acworth, GA 30102-6940
(near i75 at i575 in Cherokee county).
This is a BRING YOUR OWN WHATEVER event,
so all contributions of beverages and munchies for
yourself or for the sharing will be most welcome.
Note that the facility has a large gas grill that will
be fired up and available to satisfy the cooking needs
of both carnivores and fans of charred veggies.
Also, as a followup to November’s ALE Central
presentation on Classic Computing with David
Greelish, the evening will feature an
ANTIQUE TEQUENOLOGY SMACK DOWN!
Party goers are encouraged to bring along the
most obscure and antiquated systems, peripherals
and gadgets they can dig out of their piles of
old school techno-junk for a little “Stump the
Graybeards” show and tell contest of
“What the heck IS that thing, anyway?”
The three owners of the items judged most unique by
the crowd will win a KURO BOX PRO Linux NAS
(or whatever you want) box, courtesy of David Hamm.
RSVP helpful but not required. Also, help
with setup at 6pm, cleanup at 11pm, as well
as donations of $5 to $10 toward the $70 venue
rental will all be greatly appreciated. Please
email Geoffrey Myers to RSVP or volunteer
to assist with setup or cleanup.