August 2010 Meeting

This month we're meeting Thursday, August 26 (6:30 PM EST) at OmniTI's Columbia Office ([Google Maps]).

Mike Erdely (me) will be giving a small talk about using softraid crypto in OpenBSD. Todd Carson may speak briefly about using softraid for redundancy.

Then we'll head to Victoria Gastro Pub for some food, beer, cider, and fun. See you there!

July 2010 Meeting

This month, we're pushing our July meeting back a week to accommodate two guests: Dru Lavigne and Mark Peoples. We're meeting today, Thursday, August 5 (6:30 PM EST) at OmniTI's Columbia Office ([Google Maps]).

Mike Erdely (me) will be giving a talk some of the changes in OpenBSD's pf that were implemented with OpenBSD 4.7. I will also talk about using disk UIDs in OpenBSD. And, Dru will talk for a few minutes about BSD Certification.

Then we'll head to Victoria Gastro Pub for some food, beer, cider, and fun. See you there!

Update: Slides are available from Mike's pf talk and Dru's BSD Certification talk.

March 2010 Meeting

This month, we're meeting Thursday, March 25 (6:30 PM EST) at OmniTI's Columbia Office ([Google Maps]).

Johan Huldtgren will be giving a talk about his experience migrating his mail/web server from FreeBSD to OpenBSD.

Then we'll head to Victoria Gastro Pub for some extremely healthy food, beer, cider, and wine. See you there!

March 2010 Beer & BSD

We will be having Beer & BSD for March at Victoria Gastro Pub on Thursday, March 11. The time will depend on the reservation, which I will make on the 8th at ~7 PM. Sign up for reservations on the mailing list mailing list to save a spot.

See you there!

February 2010 Meeting

This month, we're meeting Thursday, February 25 (6:30 PM EST) at OmniTI's Columbia Office ([Google Maps]).

Jason Crawford will be giving a talk on the Cell Processor.

Then we'll head to Victoria Gastro Pub for some extremely healthy food, beer, cider, and wine. See you there!

January 2010 Meeting

Happy New Year!

This month, we're meeting Thursday, January 28 (6:30 PM EDT) at OmniTI's Columbia Office ([Google Maps]).

Nick Hasser will be giving a presentation about Snort on OpenBSD.

Then we'll head to Victoria Gastro Pub for some extremely healthy food, beer, cider, and wine. See you there!

Please email me or reply on the mailing list if you are going to join us at Victoria's.

New Site Engine

Jason Dixon has created a new Blog engine called Blogsum. He and I have worked to migrate the CapBUG site from Wordpress to Blogsum. This is a work in progress, but the site should be usable at this point.

About CapBUG

The Capital Area BSD Users Group is a group of BSD users and developers getting together to discuss, promote and share BSD related topics and free/open software.

If you're interested in joining and/or contributing, you are welcome to join our misc mailing list. If you have topic suggestions for future meetings, please suggest them on the list. We're also at #capbug on chat.freenode.net.

Mailing List

The purpose of the misc mailing list is to discuss Capital Area BUG related topics. Some off-topic chatter is allowed, but within reason. For more general BSD discussions, please join us at talk@metabug.org.

There are three types of subscriptions to the list: normal (receive each message as sent), digest (receive a daily digest of messages) and nomail (no messages are received, but this subscription can post to the list).

November 2009 Meeting

We're meeting on Thursday again this month.

This month, we're meeting Thursday, November 19 (6:30 PM EDT) at OmniTI's Columbia Office ([Google Maps]).

This is a special meeting time to accommodate the Thanksgiving holiday.

I will demonstrate my Nagios configuration again and Devon will talk about something cool.

Then we'll head to Victoria Gastro Pub for some extremely healthy food, beer, cider, and wine. See you there!