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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2010-06-09 | ||
| 2010-05-12 | ||
| 2010-04-14 | ||
| 2010-03-10 | ||
| 2010-02-10 | 1. Jonathan Riddell 2. Justin Kirby |
1. Kubuntu Community and Technology 2. Making the Leap from KDE User to Contributor |
| 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 | none | Open discussion / Install Fest |
| 2006-02-08 | Jason Dixon, DixonGroup Consulting | Packet Filtering with OpenBSD |
| 2006-01-11 | none | Open discussion / Install Fest |
| 2005-12-14 | none | 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 | none | Open discussion |
| 2005-08-10 | none | 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 | none | Open discussion |
| 2005-02-09 | Jim Sansing | Subversion (OpenDocument, PDF) |
| 2005-01-12 | none | 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 | none | 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 | none | 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, NSA and Steven Smalley, NAI Labs |
NSA Security-Enhanced Linux, (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 |
