January 2009

We had a short meeting this month to prepare for DC*BSDCon. Jason doled out responsibilities and we made preliminary plans for setting up the conference area.

We went to Frisco Burritos for food and beers (mmm…. good beers).

January Meeting (Update)

January 29, 2009
6:30 pmto8:30 pm

Meeting Update
The Tuesday meeting (for Jan. 27) is postponed to Thursday!

Because of bad weather, we’re moving our meeting this month to Thursday, January 29, 6:30pm EST at SRA/Raba in Columbia, MD (Suite 205).

We will still be discussing final details about DC*BSDCon. If you can, please join us to talk about how you can help with the conference.

After, we’ll go out for beers at Frisco Burritos.

Stay warm.

January Meeting

January 29, 2009
6:30 pmto8:30 pm

Update: This month we’ll be meeting on Thursday, January 29, 6:30pm EST at SRA/Raba in Columbia, MD (Suite 205).

Assuming we’re not all snowed in, we’ll be meeting to discuss final details about DC*BSDCon. If you can, please join us to talk about how you can help with the conference.

After, Jason will take all of us out for beers at Frisco Burritos. That, or you have to pay your own way. It depends on if you’re hallucinating or not. :)

December 2008

As usual, we met at my office in Columbia. Patrick gave a very interesting presentation on RADIUS and discussed how it can be used to authenticate wireless connections.

After the meeting, we adjourned to the Green Turtle for dinner and drinks.

December Meeting

December 16, 2008
6:30 pmto8:30 pm

This month we’ll be meeting on Tuesday, December 16, 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 should get back to normal in January.

Patrick Thomasson will give a presentation about using RADIUS for authenticating wireless connections. I will bring in my landisk that Maki helped me connect a serial port to and give a demo of it.

Then, we’ll head across the street for some food and drinks. Hope to see you there.

November 2008

For November, we had a very open “round table” discussion about PostgreSQL. And Jason gave us updates about DCBSDCON.

Then, we met at The Green Turtle for food and drinks.

November Meeting – PostgreSQL

November 18, 2008
6:30 pmto8:30 pm

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.

DCBSDCon

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!

October 2008

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.

October Meeting – Stupid Admin Tricks

October 28, 2008
6:30 pmto8:30 pm

This month we’ll be meeting on Tuesday, October 28, 6:30pm EST at SRA/Raba in Columbia, MD (Suite 205).

We will have a sort of round table discussion about SysAdmin best practices, tools and tricks.

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