Capital Area BSD Users Group

This month we’ll be meeting on Tuesday, November 18, 6:30pm EST at SRA/Raba in Columbia, MD (Suite 205). Note: this is a change from our normal “last Tuesday of the month” to accommodate the holidays.

We will have a sort of general discussion about PostgreSQL including its license (BSD!), some best practices and possibly some demonstrations.

Starting this month, we’re going to add a new “monthly agenda item” to the meetings. Patrick Thomasson suggested that we encourage our meeting participants to share a small “admin trick” each month. Many of us learn so much from the simple little things others do each day. I think this is a great idea. So, during each month prior to the meeting, if you do something cool in your work, make a note of it and share it with us at the next meeting! Patrick says he already has some to share with us on the 18th.

There will also be updates about DCBSDCon.

After the meeting, we’ll convene for food and drinks at a local establishment.

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Coming in 2009: DCBSDCon!

Our very own Jason Dixon posted the Call For Papers announcement: Sorry for the late post here, Jason!

The DCBSDCon conference has opened up a Call for Papers for the 2009 event. Speakers are welcome to submit any topic of interest, although security themes are preferred. This conference leads up to the very popular ShmooCon hacker convention in Washington, D.C. where OpenBSD developers and users are always in attendance.

Main Website: http://www.dcbsdcon.org/
Call For Papers: http://www.dcbsdcon.org/cfp.html

P.S. ShmooCon registration opens Saturday, November 1 at 12pm EDT. If you’re planning to attend both events, make sure you register for their event. Previous attendees know how hard it can be to get tickets.

ShmooCon: http://www.shmoocon.org/registration.html

It would be great if we could have a large CapBUG involvement with this conference!

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This month, we met at our office and talked about some SysAdmin best practices and tricks. We talked about different tricks to manipulate output of commands using awk in for loops in the shell and several other things.

Then, the big announcement: DCBSDCon 2009! Jason Dixon is organizing the event, with my (and others’) help. If you’d like to be involved, please send us email.

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