From judyrussoniello at yahoo.com Thu Apr 1 11:21:50 2010 From: judyrussoniello at yahoo.com (Judy Russoniello) Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 11:21:50 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [oak perl] BALUG NEWS: 2010-04-20: Sameer Verma on: One Laptop per Child (OLPC) Project: Plan, Updates, Direction, Participation; + other news In-Reply-To: <20100331234009.15105bn1q0r2ch8o@webmail.rawbw.com> References: <20100331234009.15105bn1q0r2ch8o@webmail.rawbw.com> Message-ID: <101281.69716.qm@web51803.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Please delete me from your site? thank U?? paz y bien ________________________________ From: Michael Paoli To: oakland at pm.org Sent: Wed, March 31, 2010 11:40:09 PM Subject: [oak perl] BALUG NEWS: 2010-04-20: Sameer Verma on: One Laptop per Child (OLPC) Project: Plan, Updates, Direction, Participation; + other news BALUG NEWS: 2010-04-20: Sameer Verma on: One Laptop per Child (OLPC) Project: Plan, Updates, Direction, Participation; + other news ------------------------------ Bay Area Linux User Group (BALUG) Tuesday 6:30 P.M. 2010-04-20 Please RSVP if you're planning to come (see further below). For our 2010-04-20 BALUG meeting, we're excited to present: Sameer Verma[1] on: One Laptop per Child (OLPC)[2] Project: Plan, Updates, Direction, Participation. This presentation will address updates from the OLPC project (hardware, software, networks, schools, teachers, children, parents, etc), its achievements thus far (what works and what does not) and where it is headed in the near future (yes, its still alive).? We will also look at how various communities (such as BALUG) can participate in the educational, technological and social contexts. Profess by day, tinker by night.? Dr. Sameer Verma is an associate professor of Information Systems[3] in the College of Business[4] at San Francisco State University[5].? His research revolves around the diffusion and adoption of innovative technologies.? He also teaches a course titled "Managing Open Source" at San Francisco State University. In his free time, Sameer volunteers with One Laptop Per Child by organizing activities for the OLPC-San Francisco Bay Area[6] group.? He also runs his laptops, desktops, servers, tablets, phones, media systems, and car music player on Linux.? The toaster sadly remains unconverted (any day now). 1. http://verma.sfsu.edu/ 2. http://laptop.org/ 3. http://is.sfsu.edu/ 4. http://cob.sfsu.edu/cob/ 5. http://www.sfsu.edu/ 6. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_San_Francisco_Bay_Area So, if you'd like to join us please RSVP to: ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? rsvp at balug.org **Why RSVP??** Well, don't worry we won't turn you away, but the RSVPs really help the Four Seas Restaurant plan the meal and they help ensure that we'll be able to eat upstairs in the private banquet room. Meeting Details... ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 6:30pm ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Tuesday, April 20th, 2010 2010-04-20 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Four Seas Restaurant http://www.fourseasr.com/ ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 731 Grant Ave. ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? San Francisco, CA 94108 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Easy PARKING: ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Portsmouth Square Garage at 733 Kearny http://www.sfpsg.com/ Cost: The meetings are always free, but for dinner, for your gift of $13 ? ? ? cash, we give you a gift of dinner ticket to join us for a yummy ? ? ? family-style Chinese dinner - tax and tip included (your gift also ? ? ? helps in our patronizing the restaurant venue and helping to ? ? ? defray BALUG costs such treating our speakers to dinner). ------------------------------ Door prizes?? Giveaways?? We don't necessarily have such items at every meeting, but we do often have giveaways and/or door prize items.? E.g. at our 2010-03-16 meeting, over 14% of our of our attendees that donated $13 (and for which we provide gift of dinner and dinner/door prize raffle ticket) walked away with a brand new iPod shuffle 4GB Silver (MB867LL/B) [MSRP $79][7] courtesy of ScaleMP[8] - see also information on our 2010-03-16 meeting presentation further below. 7. http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shop_ipod/family/ipod_shuffle 8. http://www.scalemp.com/ We will have a supply of Ubuntu[9] 9.10 "Karmic Koala" i386 CDs on hand for our BALUG 2010-04-20 meeting, made possible by Ubuntu California[10] and other contributors/volunteers.? We may have other stuff too. 9. http://www.ubuntu.com/ 10. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam ------------------------------ Missed our 2010-03-16 meeting, or want to review materials from that meeting? The "slides"/deck from the talk/presentation on ScaleMP vSMP Foundation for SMP presented by Nir Paikowsky of ScaleMP are available online: http://www.archive.balug.org/2010/2010-03-16/ScaleMP_Technical_Introduction.pdf The earlier announcement on that talk/presentation: http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-announce-balug.org/2010-March/000147.html ------------------------------ "Working in the Business" (Linux/...) panel discussion We're working on putting together a panel discussion on working in the business - Linux and related areas - with emphasis on Linux and Open Source and in the San Francisco Bay Area, but we may also include related areas and comparisons (systems/network/database/security administration, programming/development Open Source and other environments, comparisons to other regions, etc.).? We're interested in potentially and and/or all of (for the relevant areas): o hiring managers o Human Resources personnel o persons with significant work experience in relevant areas o recruiters o agency client representatives o persons newly experienced entering the field (e.g. new degree within ? last 2 years) o persons with significant experience with any and/or all of the above ? (needn't necessarily be currently in the position) o panel moderator - person who can well wrangle and moderate a ? collection of the above folks ARE YOU OR DO YOU KNOW SOMEONE that you'd recommend for such a panel? If so, please drop us a note, including "Working in the Business" in the Subject and email to: balug-panel-2010 at balug.org and with your name and contact information, and if you're recommending someone other than or in addition to yourself, please mention that and include their name and contact information. We'll follow-up with more information. ------------------------------ Feedback on our publicity/announcements (e.g. contacts or lists where we should get our information out that we're not presently reaching, or things we should do differently): publicity-feedback at balug.org ------------------------------ http://www.balug.org/ _______________________________________________ Oakland mailing list Oakland at pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/oakland -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu Thu Apr 29 20:31:25 2010 From: Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu (Michael Paoli) Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 20:31:25 -0700 Subject: [oak perl] BALUG NEWS: 2010-05-18: Sam Bowne: Attacking Web users and servers with SSLstrip; & other BALUG news Message-ID: <20100429203125.15305536dtoblpgk@webmail.rawbw.com> BALUG NEWS: 2010-05-18: Sam Bowne: Attacking Web users and servers with SSLstrip and Slowloris; & other BALUG news In this issue (details further below): 2010-05-18: Sam Bowne: Attacking Web users and servers with SSLstrip and Slowloris "Working in the Business" (Linux, IT, etc.), panel discussion "slides" from BALUG 2010-04-20[1]: Sameer Verma on: One Laptop per Child (OLPC) Project: Plan, Updates, Direction, Participation ------------------------------ Bay Area Linux User Group (BALUG) Tuesday 6:30 P.M. 2010-05-18 Sam Bowne: Attacking Web users and servers with SSLstrip and Slowloris[1] Please RSVP if you're planning to come (see further below). For our 2010-05-18 BALUG meeting, we're excited to present: Sam Bowne Instructor, City College San Francisco (CCSF)[2], Computer Networking and Information Technology Department[3] Many Websites mix secure and insecure content on the same page, like Facebook[4]. This makes it possible to steal all the data entered on such a page easily, using Moxie Marlinspike[5]'s SSLstrip tool. Sam Bowne will explain and demonstrate this attack. Slowloris is a very new layer 7[6] denial-of-service attack[7] created by RSnake[8] that stops Apache web servers completely with very low bandwidth--one packet every 2 seconds. The Apache developers were notified of this vulnerability and decided it was unimportant and not worth patching. Sam will explain and demonstrate this attack, and discuss various ways to protect your Apache servers. Sam will provide complete instructions so that anyone can easily set up both these attacks on their own machines. Sam Bowne has been teaching computer networking and security classes at CCSF since 2000. He has given talks at DEFCON[9] and Toorcon[10] on Ethical Hacking, and taught classes and seminars at many other schools and teaching conferences. He has a B.S. in Physics from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania[11] and a Ph.D. in Physics from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign[12]. His Industry Certifications are: Certified Ethical Hacker, Microsoft: MCP[13], MCDST[14], MCTS[15]: Vista; Network+, Security+, Certified Fiber Optic Technician. 1. http://samsclass.info/defcon.html 2. http://www.ccsf.edu/ 3. http://www.ccsf.edu/Departments/Computer_Networking_and_Information_Technology/ 4. http://www.facebook.com/ 5. http://thoughtcrime.org/about.html 6. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osi_7_layer_model#Layer_7:_Application_Layer 7. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial-of-service_attack 8. http://ha.ckers.org/ 9. http://www.defcon.org/ 10. http://www.toorcon.org/ 11. http://www.edinboro.edu/ 12. http://illinois.edu/ 13. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Certified_Professional 14. http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/certification/mcdst.aspx 15. http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/certification/mcts.aspx So, if you'd like to join us please RSVP to: rsvp at balug.org **Why RSVP??** Well, don't worry we won't turn you away, but the RSVPs really help the Four Seas Restaurant plan the meal and they help ensure that we'll be able to eat upstairs in the private banquet room. Meeting Details... 6:30pm Tuesday, May 18th, 2010 2010-05-18 Four Seas Restaurant http://www.fourseasr.com/ 731 Grant Ave. San Francisco, CA 94108 Easy PARKING: Portsmouth Square Garage at 733 Kearny: http://www.sfpsg.com/ Cost: The meetings are always free, but for dinner, for your gift of $13 cash, we give you a gift of dinner ticket to join us for a yummy family-style Chinese dinner - tax and tip included (your gift also helps in our patronizing the restaurant venue and helping to defray BALUG costs such treating our speakers to dinner). ------------------------------ "Working in the Business" (Linux, IT, etc.), panel discussion BALUG is working to assemble panel (and moderator) for "Working in the Business" (Linux, IT, etc.), panel discussion Should make for very interesting, lively, informative and useful discussion/presentation/"talk/debate". For more information, and also if you know someone you'd like as panelist or moderator (or are yourself interested), and/or if you have specific topics/questions you'd like to see covered by the panel, PLEASE HAVE A LOOK AT: http://www.balug.org/#panel At the present time we're ACTIVELY GATHERING INFORMATION ON POTENTIAL PANELISTS, MODERATORS, available dates, etc., to plan and coordinate this event. Please also do feel free to pass this information along to any contacts you feel appropriate that may be interested. ------------------------------ "slides" from BALUG 2010-04-20[1]: Sameer Verma on: One Laptop per Child (OLPC) Project: Plan, Updates, Direction, Participation Missed our 2010-04-20 meeting, or want to get a better look at or grab some information from those slides? slides available: http://www.slideshare.net/sverma/olpc-project-plan-update-direction-participation (copy also archived at: http://www.archive.balug.org/2010/2010-04-20/balug-olpc-100426233751-phpapp01.odp ) 1. http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-announce-balug.org/2010-March/000149.html ------------------------------ Feedback on our publicity/announcements (e.g. contacts or lists where we should get our information out that we're not presently reaching, or things we should do differently): publicity-feedback at balug.org ------------------------------ http://www.balug.org/