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Kyle Burton will be visiting us for the next CPLUG meeting on Tuesday, September 14, 2010 at 6:30 PM….

Leveraging Chef-Solo for Less than Enterprise Scale Deployments

“When you’re a small, and I mean small, company with an even smaller IT department you can’t afford not to automate provisioning and system administration. Developing a culture of automation early on is vital for ensuring that your infrastructure group can scale itself as your business grows. Chef is an up and coming system administration automation framework that makes installing and managing cloud computing systems take less time and produces more consistent results. This talk will cover the architecture of Chef-Solo, getting started, core features and best practices for maintaing a cluster of systems.”

After the meeting, we’ll head next door to LBC for some food and drink.

Feel free to RSVP on the Meetup page: http://www.meetup.com/Central-PA-Linux/calendar/14611818/

See you then!

We’re gearing up for this year’s Central PA Open Source Conference (CPOSC), which will be held on Saturday, October 16, 2010 at Harrisburg University. Tickets include include access to all three tracks including 21 awesome speakers, breakfast, lunch, an afternoon snack break.

The number of tickets available is limited based on the size of our venue, and last year tickets were sold out before the conference. Don’t miss your chance to register!

So, head on over to www.cposc.org to register, and we’ll see you in October! :)

Thank you to everyone that came out last night for my talk on Jailbreaking SOHO Routers. Presentation slides are now available online:

• OpenOffice Impress
• PowerPoint

Thanks again to Brian Bellinger for sharing a little bit about the FON hardware and what can be done with them as well.

If you have questions or would like to discuss alternative firmware further, please email the CPLUG mailing list. Thanks!

-Dennis

The next CPLUG meeting will be on Tuesday, August 10, 2010 at 6:30 PM at ITT in Harrisburg.

Dennis Little will be talking about ways to get more out of consumer router/firewalls, including OpenWRT, DD-WRT, and Tomato:

• Identifying compatible routers
• Loading firmware steps, licenses, implications, etc.
• OpenVPN (server and endpoint)
• Dynamic DNS
• Network monitoring
• Perhaps QoS and VLANs

See you then!

The next CPLUG meeting will be on Tuesday, July 13, 2010 at 6:30 PM. Gino will be talking about the wonders of GRUB 2. Be there!

The Central PA Open Source Conference (CPOSC) is a small, low-cost, one-day conference about all things Open Source. This year’s conference will be our third annual event, and will be held on Saturday, October 16, 2010 at Harrisburg University.

The Call for Participation (CFP) is now open, so we are looking for interesting speakers and talks. If you are interested in speaking at this year’s conference, check out the Speaker FAQ and submit a proposal. Can’t decide on a topic? No problem! Feel free to submit more than one.

The only requirements are a good understanding of your topic and some enthusiasm! :) The deadline to submit talk proposals is Friday, July 9, 2010.

The next CPLUG meeting will be Tuesday, June 8, 2010 at 6:30 PM.

Ryan Duff (@ryancduff) will be talking about what’s new and awesome in the upcoming WordPress 3.0 release. Whether you are new to WordPress or an expert, there should be some interesting bits for everyone.

See you then!

Doug will be doing a talk on RAID at tonight’s meeting (ITT @ 6:30 PM). Mostly about software RAID, but he’ll be talking about when hardware RAID is appropriate as well. You can check out a preview of his slides here: PDF or ODP.

CTI Networks / PA.net is graciously paying for the pizza for tonight’s meeting.

See you tonight!

The next CPLUG meeting will be Tuesday, May 11, 2010 at 6:30 PM.

Doug will be talking about all things RAID! RAID, an acronym for redundant array of independent disks or also known as redundant array of inexpensive disks, is a technology that allows high levels of storage reliability from low-cost and less reliable PC-class disk-drive components, via the technique of arranging the devices into arrays for redundancy.

See you there!

We have a CPLUG meeting tonight (4/13/2010) at ITT…

Vik will be talking about Apache CouchDB. CouchDB is a free and open source document-oriented database written in the Erlang programming language. It is a NoSQL solution designed for local replication and to scale vertically along a wide range of devices. The documents in a collection need not share a schema, but retain query abilities via views. Views are defined with aggregate functions and filters are computed in parallel, much like MapReduce.

After that, Nathan will be doing a lightning talk about OpenDS. OpenDS Software is a free, open source directory service, written in Java, and developed as part of the OpenDS project. OpenDS Software implements a wide range of Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) and related standards, including full compliance with LDAPv3 but also support for Directory Service Markup Language (DSMLv2).

Feel free to RSVP on the Central PA Linux Meetup page.

See you tonight!