[Gslug-general] November Taclug Meeting Announcement - Infosec - Francois - Captive Portals - Virtualization - Drupal

[Andrew Becherer]

The next Taclug meeting is Saturday November 17th, 2007 (third
Saturday of the month) at 12:30 PM. The main topic will be Linux
virtualization. The location of the meeting will be at the University
of Washington, Tacoma in the Cherry Parkes building room 105. We have
several exciting things planned for this meeting

This will be the first meeting held in cooperation with the University
of Washington Tacoma's Grey Hat Group, a student computer security
group. Don McLane, lecturer at the Institute of Technology and the
faculty adviser to the Grey Hat Group, will be leading an information
security workshop preparing the students for the annual Cybersecurity
Exercises held in the Spring. Sponsored jointly by West Point, Fort
Lewis and the University of Washington Tacoma, the event consists of
cyber attack/defense exercises. This workshop will be open to Taclug
attendees and will run from 10:30 AM to 12:30 PM. Another email will
be sent to the Taclug list with additional information including the
specific topics and the location of the workshop.

Following the information security workshop we will have a standard
Taclug meeting. Francois Caen has offered to present to the group on a
topic of his expertise. Jeff Maxwell and I will be creating a WiFi
captive portal for a local business using a surplus PC and the
m0n0wall distribution of FreeBSD. Joel Carlson is interested in
experimenting with virtualization technologies. Dave Hazel is
interested in working with others interested in the Drupal web content
management system.

I'm going to open mailing list threads on all 5 of the topics for the
November meeting so we can coordinate and gauge interest, I apologize
for the flood of email. We have two rooms available to us for the
November meeting, a large classroom and a large conference room, both
with projectors and wireless internet access.

Useful Links

Taclug Wiki:
http://www.taclug.org

Institute of Technology:
http://www.tacoma.washington.edu/tech/

Don McLane: http://www.tacoma.washington.edu/tech/about_us/faculty_detail.cfm?employee_id=252

Cybersecurity Exercise Informaiton:
http://andrewfry.blogspot.com/2007/06/briefing-on-cybersecurity-excercise.html

-- 
Andrew Becherer
Undergraduate, Computing and Software Systems
University of Washington, Tacoma