Presenters/speakers at CALUG meetings are welcome. If you have experience with an open-source hardware or software technology you find interesting, then please tell us about it at a monthly meeting. A list of potential topics is available here. The list is by no means all-inclusive. If you have a colleague who is doing interesting work with open-source, consider inviting your colleague to a CALUG meeting to speak. Presentations can be informal or formal, short or long, with or without props and slides - at the presenter's preference.
Our exciting planned/past meetings include/included the following speakers. Select the "Topic" column link to retrieve information presented by the corresponding speaker and/or relating to the topic.
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-03-09 | ||
| 2022-02-09 | ||
| 2022-01-12 | no meeting | |
| 2021-12-08 | no meeting | |
| 2021-11-10 | no meeting | |
| 2021-10-13 | no meeting | |
| 2021-09-08 | Open discussion | |
| 2021-08-11 | Open discussion | |
| 2021-07-14 | Rajiv Gunja | Security is the Responsibility of Everyone |
| 2021-06-09 | Meeting canceled. | |
| 2021-05-12 | Open discussion | |
| 2021-04-14 | Open discussion | |
| 2021-03-10 | Amanda McGlothlin | Joplin |
| 2021-02-10 | Open discussion | |
| 2021-01-13 | Jan-Piet Mens | OwnTracks (slides, transcript) |
| 2020-12-09 | Open discussion | |
| 2020-11-11 | Chuck Frain | ASCIIdoc & ASCIIdoctor |
| 2020-10-14 | Smallstep Labs | Open-source Certificate Management |
| 2020-09-09 | Open discussion | |
| 2020-08-12 | Chuck Frain | Creating Your Own Certificate Authority |
| 2020-07-08 | Thomas Delrue | Running Kubernetes on a Raspberry Pi |
| 2020-06-10 | RJ Pisciotta | Building a Home Lab |
| 2020-05-13 | Tim Spangler | Using Linux and Distributed Computing to Perform Science |
| 2020-04-08 | Chuck Frain | Linux Command Line Basics |
| 2020-03-11 | Nick Vissari | An Introduction to SaltStack: How to get started and operationalize your documentation. |
| 2020-02-12 | Chuck Frain | Password Managers, featuring Bitwarden |
| 2020-01-08 | Thomas Delrue | WireGuard (presentation, script) |
| 2019-12-11 | Brendan O'Leary | GitLab CI/CD |
| 2019-11-13 | Evan Bolt | Linux Mirroring Made Easy |
| 2019-10-09 | Open discussion | |
| 2019-09-11 | Open discussion | |
| 2019-08-14 | Chuck Frain | command-line interface (CLI) tools |
| 2019-07-10 | Phil Shapiro | The Most Affordable Computer project. |
| 2019-06-12 | Chuck Frain | Binary Representation of Data |
| 2019-05-08 | Chuck Frain | VPNs |
| 2019-04-20 | Field Trip! | NSA's National Cryptologic Museum (10:30-12:00). Reservations (sent to Chuck Frain) are required. |
| 2019-04-10 | Open discussion | |
| 2019-03-13 | Ray Lischner | Open Document Format: Inside-Out |
| 2019-02-13 | Chuck Frain | Org mode |
| 2019-01-09 | Thomas Delrue | Creating a Resume With LaTeX |
| 2018-12-12 | Matt Duren | #recruiterfail / #candidatefail |
| 2018-11-14 | Chuck Frain | NextCloud |
| 2018-10-10 | Thomas Delrue | Arch Linux |
| 2018-09-12 | Home Networks: Architectures, Maintenance, and User/Security-Management Approaches | |
| 2018-08-08 | Open discussion | |
| 2018-07-11 | Open discussion | |
| 2018-06-13 | Chuck Frain | Command-Line Basics (slides, notes) |
| 2018-05-09 | Tim Spangler | DIY Cable Boxes with Raspberry Pi and a HD Homerun |
| 2018-04-11 | Shawn Webb | BSD Malware |
| 2018-03-14 | Stephen Alexander | Amazon Web Services (AWS) |
| 2018-02-14 | n/a | Meeting canceled due to Valentine's Day. |
| 2018-01-10 | Thomas Delrue | Running an OpenVPN Server on your Raspberry Pi |
| 2017-12-13 | Chuck Frain | Importance of Documentation |
| 2017-11-08 | Eddie Roache | Gradle |
| 2017-10-11 | Open discussion | |
| 2017-09-13 | Thomas Delrue of Fundamental Software | Corporate Surveillance & Online Privacy (or rather, the lack thereof): DNS Poisoning Using ivyDNS |
| 2017-08-09 | Berend M. Tober | pass commmand-line password-manager |
| 2017-07-12 | Chuck Frain | Nextcloud |
| 2017-06-14 | Scott Taylor | Spacewalk |
| 2017-05-10 | n/a | Meeting canceled. |
| 2017-04-12 | Chuck Frain | Pi-hole |
| 2017-03-08 | Chuck Frain | Nextcloud |
| 2017-02-08 | Keith Fiske | Installation processes and how they differ on various *nix platforms |
| 2017-01-11 | Chuck Frain | Command-Line Basics (slides, notes) |
| 2016-12-14 | The Open Organisation of Lockpickers (TOOOL) | Lockpicking Training & Practice Course hosted by Unallocated Space at their facility |
| 2016-11-09 | Open discussion | |
| 2016-10-12 | Berend M. Tober | Command-Line Data Mining: Set Theory and Association Rules (presentation slides) |
| 2016-09-14 | Mike Goff | Data Science on the Command Line |
| 2016-08-10 | Ben Colombini | Asciidoc for the web: Creating a browser-based editor for Asciidoc for use with Drupal |
| 2016-07-13 | Berend M. Tober | Fairwinds multi-player on-line strategy and math game |
| 2016-06-08 | Eddie Roache | Introduction to Docker |
| 2016-05-11 | Tim Spangler | Git from a Developer Perspective (OpenDocument, PDF) |
| 2016-04-13 | Chuck Frain | AsciiDoc |
| 2016-03-09 | Open discussion | |
| 2016-02-10 | Chuck Frain | OpenVPN (OpenDocument, PDF) |
| 2016-01-13 | Home Networks: Architectures, Maintenance, and User/Security-Management Approaches | |
| 2015-12-09 | The Open Organisation of Lockpickers (TOOOL) | Lockpicking Training & Practice Course hosted by Unallocated Space at their facility |
| 2015-11-11 | Tim Spangler | Open Source Apache From a 10,000 Foot View |
| 2015-10-14 | Open discussion | |
| 2015-09-09 | Berend M. Tober | Fairwinds multi-player on-line strategy and math game |
| 2015-08-12 | Open discussion | |
| 2015-07-08 | Gareth Digby | Using a Linksys NSLU2 NAS Device with a Debian Linux Distribution to Create an Internet of Things (IoT) Appliance for Teaching Forensic Analysis |
| 2015-06-10 | Chris Tozzi | The History of FOSS |
| 2015-05-13 | Gareth Digby | Using the Texas Instruments MSP-430 LaunchPad with Linux |
| 2015-04-08 | Open discussion | |
| 2015-03-11 | Bert | Virtual/Augmented Reality Systems |
| 2015-02-11 | Erica Woods | 18 Suggestions for Improving your Interviewing Skills: Interview Prep Guide, and Interview Coaching Workshop |
| 2015-01-14 | Chuck Frain | XBMC On the Raspberry Pi Using the XBian Linux Distribution |
| 2014-12-10 | Open discussion | |
| 2014-11-12 | Open discussion | |
| 2014-10-08 | Keith Fiske | Don't Forget the Elephant: A Review of Modern PostgreSQL |
| 2014-09-10 | Erica Woods | Fourth Annual Baltimore GiveCamp! |
| 2014-08-13 | The Open Organisation of Lockpickers (TOOOL) | Lockpicking Training & Practice Course |
| 2014-07-09 | Open discussion | |
| 2014-06-11 | Dan McDonald | Illumos Home Data Center |
| 2014-05-14 | Gareth Digby | Using Virtualization to Teach Computer Forensics |
| 2014-04-09 | Open discussion | |
| 2014-03-12 | Chuck Frain | Better Mobile Email presentation using Paul Frields' slides and configuration files |
| 2014-02-12 | n/a | Meeting canceled due to inclement weather. |
| 2014-01-08 | Jeremy Potter | How Technological Advances are Driving Collaborative Ocean Exploration |
| 2013-12-11 | Shawn Webb | Transparent tor Proxy with FreeBSD and pf |
| 2013-11-13 | Eric Sproul | Introduction to the Z File-System |
| 2013-10-09 | Shawn Webb | Runtime Process Insemination |
| 2013-09-11 | Dinner and open discussion at the Columbia Maryland Fuddruckers | |
| 2013-08-14 | Charles Hessifer | How to Easily Secure Your Linux-based Personal Computer |
| 2013-07-10 | David Quigley | Preview of Demystifying SELinux: WTF is it saying? presentation scheduled for O'Reilly OSCON 2013 |
| 2013-06-12 | Charles Hessifer | Using KVM to kickstart Your Home Lab |
| 2013-05-08 | Forgotten | Information Security Challenges for Training, Evaluation, and Fun (e.g. Capture the Flag) |
| 2013-04-10 | Gareth Digby | Tiny Tiny RSS (OpenDocument, PDF) |
| 2013-03-13 | Chuck Frain | Live XBMC (as implemented on the Xbian Linux distribution) demonstration |
| 2013-02-13 | Keith Fiske | PostgreSQL (as applied at OmniTI for practical example) |
| 2013-01-09 | Gareth Digby | Moodle on Ubuntu 12.04 Server |
| 2012-12-12 | Jared Smith | Asterisk, VOIP, and the Future of Telephony |
| 2012-11-14 | Etan Reisner | Gitolite |
| 2012-10-10 | Matt Ryanczak | OpenVPN |
| 2012-09-12 | Chuck Frain | Using Linux to Serve Multimedia |
| 2012-08-08 | Matt Wood | Encrypted File Systems |
| 2012-07-11 | Open discussion | |
| 2012-06-13 | Chuck Frain | The future of CALUG and Tux.org |
| 2012-05-09 | Travis Pinney | OpenStreetMap |
| 2012-04-11 | Kevin Whipp | HSMM-MESH |
| 2012-03-14 | Jared Smith | FOSS Distros and Communities |
| 2012-02-08 | Jim Sansing | FOSS for Music and Video Composition/Production (OpenDocument, PDF) |
| 2012-01-11 | Dale Vogel | Introduction to Git |
| 2011-12-14 | Charlie Fullerton | The Arduino and BeagleBone hardware platforms (OpenDocument, PDF) |
| 2011-11-09 | Lewis Berman | Audacity In-Depth |
| 2011-10-12 | Rajiv Gunja | Mandriva Linux Desktop, DigiKam photo-editing, and Kdenlive video-editing |
| 2011-09-14 | Mike Cramer | OpenVPN |
| 2011-08-10 | Jim Sansing | FOSS for Music Composition and Production. |
| 2011-07-13 | Chuck Frain | GNU Privacy Guard: Basic use and key-signing |
| 2011-06-08 | Chuck Frain | Safe and Insecure Wireless Surfing: How to SSH home and proxy the Web Epilogue: Annotated example of Port Forwarding thru an encrypted tunnel |
| Gareth Digby | Setting up an IPv6 Tunnel using Hurricane Electric's tunnel-broker service on an Ubuntu-based computer | |
| Bill Scrivens | T3 with Haiti | |
| 2011-05-11 | Eric K. Dickinson | Linux on the Mainframe: zLinux (OpenDocument, PPT) |
| 2011-04-13 | David A. Lane [KG4GIY] | Linux for HAM Radio |
| 2011-03-09 | Jim Sansing | Hosting Projects on SourceForge (OpenDocument, PDF) |
| 2011-02-09 | Andrew Ruef | The Read-Copy-Update Synchronization Mechanism in the Linux Kernel |
| 2011-01-12 | James P. Howard II and Peter M. Van Buren | Using DVCS Frameworks for Homogeneous Systems Management |
| 2010-12-08 | Open discussion | |
| 2010-11-10 | Etan Reisner | Lua scripting-language |
| 2010-10-13 | Michael B. Rash | Single Packet Authorization |
| 2010-09-08 | Chuck Frain | Using GNU Screen and Byobu |
| 2010-08-11 | Open discussion | |
| 2010-07-14 | Joe Klein | IPv6 |
| 2010-06-09 | David Quigley | SELinux (presentation slides, example code) | 2010-05-12 | Mackenzie Morgan | Ubuntu Development Processes |
| 2010-04-14 | Daniel T. Chen | Making Ubuntu Audio Not Suck |
| 2010-03-10 | Justin Kirby | Making the Leap from KDE User to Contributor |
| 2010-02-10 | n/a | Meeting canceled due to inclement weather. |
| 2010-01-13 | Ron Swift | Asterisk PBX in a Flash (PiaF) for Small Business/Residential Settings: PiaF without Tears. (presentation slides) |
| 2009-12-09 | Marcus J. Carey | MetaSponse: MetaSploit for Incident Response |
| 2009-11-11 | Phil Shapiro | Inkscape |
| 2009-10-14 | Jim Sansing | Convertator: Dimensional Analysis/Conversion Calculator |
| 2009-09-09 | Theo Schlossnagle | Reconnoiter: Monitoring and Trend Analysis tool. |
| 2009-08-12 | Software Freedom Day suggestion collection, followed by open discussion. | |
| 2009-07-08 | Chuck Frain | GnuPG in the FOSS Community: Why You Should Care (OpenDocument) |
| 2009-06-10 | Brad Ackerman | Android software development, and HTC Magic phone demo. |
| 2009-05-13 | Chuck Frain | Byobu: Adding Bling to GnuScreen, key-signing, and open discussion |
| 2009-04-08 | Celeste Lyn Paul of the KDE Usability Project | The Importance of Usability |
| 2009-03-11 | Sean Wilkerson | Centralizing Security Data - Current Threats, Trends, and Deployment Considerations (OpenDocument, PDF) |
| 2009-02-11 | Paul W. Frields | The Fedora Project: Learn how to re-mix Fedora to create your own custom Fedora distribution and Live CD. (OpenDocument) |
| 2009-01-14 | Lightning presentations, Q&A, and open discussion. | |
| 2008-12-10 | Jason Dixon, DixonGroup Consulting | NetFlow Dashboard |
| 2008-11-12 | Amy Begg De Groff, Howard County Public Library system Director of Information Technology | How the Howard County Public Library system uses FOSS to improve and expand services while lowering costs. |
| 2008-10-08 | Barry Grundy | Data-recovery using FOSS |
| 2008-09-10 | Andrew Robbins | How the Haskell programming language promotes bug-free software by enforcing heavy restrictions on source code, and on several open source software projects that use Haskell for this purpose (darcs, parsec, xmonad, yi). (OpenDocument, PPT) |
| 2008-08-13 | Dustin Mitchell | Amanda - An Introduction to the Application, Plans for the Future, and Thoughts About Today's Open Source Development Environment |
| 2008-08-02 | Field Trip! | NSA's National Cryptologic Museum (10:00-11:30). Followed by a GPG key signing party (11:30-12:00). Reservations (sent to Chuck Frain) are required. |
| 2008-07-09 | John Alan Hastings | Public/Private Key Cryptography using GNU Privacy Guard (GPG) |
| 2008-06-11 | Barry Grundy | Linux and Computer Forensics |
| 2008-05-14 | Jim Sansing | Realeyes Network IDS demonstration. (PDF) |
| 2008-04-09 | Christopher Gragsone | Ad Hoc Networking with Linux |
| 2008-03-12 | Chuck Fullerton | Giving back to the community as a technologist. (OpenDocument, PPT) |
| 2008-02-13 | n/a | Meeting canceled due to inclement weather. |
| 2008-01-09 | Eldon Ziegler | AJAX (OpenDocument, PDF) |
| 2007-12-12 | Jim Sansing | vi: Our Favorite Editor (OpenDocument, PDF) |
| 2007-11-14 | Distro-Party: Bring a machine with your favorite Linux distribution to compare/share your ideas! | |
| 2007-10-10 | Sean Wilkerson | Log Aggregation: Tips, strategy, working solutions, and horror stories. |
| 2007-09-12 | Keith Fiske | Gaming in Linux: Wine and nVidia driver installation/configuration over Ubuntu; configuring/playing World of Warcraft; overview of Starcraft and other DOS-based games using DosBox; overview of Darwinia, Doom 3, and Quake native Linux clients. |
| 2007-08-08 | Dan Deighton | Overview of existing virtualization technologies followed by a real-world example featuring Xen. Tips, tricks and gotchas will be covered. (PDF) |
| 2007-07-11 | Chuck Fullerton and Chuck Frain | TCP/IP in-depth, port scanning, and general Linux networking configurations. (OpenDocument, PPT) |
| 2007-06-13 | Sean Wilkerson | Making a failed COTS solution useful with FOSS: How we overcame a technical limitation with a proprietary solution using a little creativity and FOSS to convert 100 COTS IDS appliances into our own security platforms. |
| 2007-05-09 | John Harmon and Terry Dunlap | VoIP: Asterisk over Linux on both general-purpose and embedded computers. |
| 2007-04-11 | Ron Gula | Linux in the Marketplace |
| 2007-03-14 | Jim Sansing | RenaissanceCore network IDS |
| 2007-02-14 | n/a | Meeting canceled due to Valentine's Day. |
| 2007-01-10 | Chuck Fullerton and Jim Sansing | Linux Security: Nessus3, Security Websites |
| 2006-12-13 | Etan Reisner | Version Control Software (part 1) |
| 2006-11-08 | ssh, Tips/Tricks/Tools | |
| 2006-10-11 | Chuck Fullerton | Organization direction / Open discussion |
| 2006-09-13 | SELinux | |
| 2006-08-09 | ||
| 2006-07-12 | David Wheeler | Open Document Format, Open Standards Security (OpenDocument, PDF) |
| 2006-06-14 | John Szakmeister | Linux High Availability |
| 2006-05-10 | Christopher Worsley, HP | Familiar Linux |
| 2006-04-12 | Andrew L. | Packet Filtering with OpenBSD |
| 2006-03-08 | Open discussion / Install Fest | |
| 2006-02-08 | Jason Dixon, DixonGroup Consulting | Packet Filtering with OpenBSD |
| 2006-01-11 | Open discussion / Install Fest | |
| 2005-12-14 | Open discussion / Install Fest | |
| 2005-11-09 | Marc Curry | Advanced iptables |
| 2005-10-12 | Eric Smith | Using tb-sshdfilter to Thwart Automated ssh Attacks |
| 2005-09-14 | Open discussion | |
| 2005-08-10 | Open discussion | |
| 2005-06-08 | Ray Lischner | HDTV MythTV |
| 2005-05-11 | Wind River Systems | Embedded Linux Development Tools |
| 2005-04-13 | John Gorski | SGI and Linux |
| 2005-03-09 | Open discussion | |
| 2005-02-09 | Jim Sansing | Subversion (OpenDocument, PDF) |
| 2005-01-12 | Open discussion; Meet and mingle at new meeting location. | |
| 2004-12-09 | Jason Dixon | *BSD night (Intro to BSD PDF, CARP PDF) |
| 2004-11-10 | Karl MacMillan | Security Enhanced Linux (OpenDocument) |
| 2004-10-13 | Donald Becker | Scyld Beowulf Clustering |
| 2004-09-08 | Bruce Potter | MacOSX and Linux (PPT, OpenDocument, PDF) |
| 2004-08-11 | John Unekis | Exploring OpenLDAP (PPT) |
| 2004-07-14 | Jason Dixon | Secure Email Solutions (OpenDocument, PDF) |
| 2004-06-09 | David Cafaro | Mobile Linux |
| 2004-05-12 | Mike Atamas (Website) | Lua and dynamic standardized config files. (OpenDocument) |
| 2004-04-14 | William DeSalvo Platform Computing | Parallel Job Execution on Linux HPC Clusters (PPT, OO, PPT, OO2) |
| 2004-03-10 | Luis Salazar and Mike Ricksecker | Linux @ Your Library |
| 2004-02-11 | Open discussion (Q&A) | |
| 2004-01-14 | Rod Gomez | How to use autoconf/automake to automate installation of software on Unix-like OS'es. |
| 2003-12-10 | Hardware Swap | |
| 2003-11-12 | David Cafaro | RHL Where to go? (OpenDocument, PDF) |
| 2003-09-10 | Raven Alder | Pen-Testing (OpenDocument, PDF) |
| 2003-08-13 | Jason Dixon | Securing 802.11b Wireless Networks (OpenDocument) |
| 2003-07-09 | Mike Atamas | Gentoo and Portage (OpenDocument, Jpeg) |
| 2003-06-11 | Rod Gomez | Live Linux CD's |
| 2003-05-14 | Jason Cooper | LFS (Linux From Scratch) |
| 2003-04-09 | David Cafaro | SAMBA: Windows net on Linux (PDF, OpenDocument) |
| 2003-03-12 | Aaron Davis | Mac OS X |
| 2003-02-12 | Jason Dixon | LAMP: Linux Apache MySQL Perl (PDF, PS) |
| 2003-01-08 | Rod Gomez and David Cafaro | Linux Multimedia - playing Quicktime (and others) with Mplayer software and DVDs under Linux. |
| 2002-12-11 | n/a | Meeting canceled due to inclement weather. |
| 2002-11-13 | John Lewis | Information Assurance Demo (PDF) |
| 2002-10-09 | Kelly 'STrRedWolf' Price | Apache used to support 6,000+ websites. |
| 2002-09-11 | David Cafaro | The Sharp Zaurus |
| 2002-08-14 | Jason Dixon | Red Hat Certified Engineer Overview |
| 2002-07-10 | Dave Dodge | Linux on the PlayStation 2 |
| 2002-06-12 | Paul Ritchie | Introduction to Snort |
| 2002-05-15 | Judy Novak | Using tcpdump for Network Analysis |
| 2002-04-10 | Bryan Warnock | 15 Quick and Easy Perl Tricks |
| 2002-03-13 | David Boyes | Linux on IBM Mainframes |
| 2002-02-13 | Bob Gillette | Win4Lin |
| Rod Gomez | User Mode Linux | |
| 2002-01-09 | Paul Everitt and Matt Kromer, Zope Corp | Zope |
| 2001-12-12 | Neal Norwitz, MetaSlash Inc. | PyChecker |
| 2001-11-14 | Lewis Berman, Systems Alliance | The Bugzilla Bug Tracking System |
| 2001-10-10 | Jason Dixon | DNS Setup and Use |
| 2001-09-12 | Larry Ricci | Embedded Linux Systems |
| 2001-08-08 | Dr. Gary Goldstein and Associates | Open Source collaboration with the Kennedy-Krieger Institute |
| 2001-07-11 | Russell Pavlicek | Effective Linux Advocacy |
| 2001-06-13 | Mary Ann Fisher | Linux at IBM |
| 2001-05-09 | Jon Lasser | Think Unix, Bastille-Linux |
| 2001-04-11 | Billy Ball | Linux on Laptops, Linux for the PowerPC |
| 2001-03-14 | Pete Loscocco and Steven Smalley, NAI Labs |
SELinux, (meeting slides) |
| 2001-02-07 | Bruce Gotwols, JHU/APL | Real-Time Linux Over Greenland, (meeting slides) |
| 2001-01-10 | Marcus Ranum | Security (burglar alarms) |
| 2000-12-13 | Rod Gomez | Building GUIs with GLADE |
| 2000-11-08 | Eric Billings | LoBoS Beowulf Cluster |
| 2000-10-11 | Jason Dixon | ipchains and firewalls |
| 2000-09-13 | Frank Hecker | Mozilla Update |
| 2000-08-09 | Robin Miller | Open Source |
| 2000-07-11 | Guido van Rossum | Python |
| 2000-06-14 | Eric Newton | Recall: Eric's Excellent Open-Source Adventure |
| 2000-05-09 | Bill Rye | Linux Certification |
| 2000-04-11 | Mark Butler | Linux Security |
