I want to take a moment and thank Paul Frields for coming up last night and giving us a great presentation on remixing Fedora. I've already received several private emails from attendees saying how much they enjoyed the talk and information. <br>
<br>If you are interested in finding out more about the Fedora project point your browser to <a href="http://fedoraproject.org" target="_blank">http://fedoraproject.org</a><br>
<br>Also a quick thanks to Ben Figueroa for the Linux Format magazines. <br><br>As promised, here are more details of the announcements I made at the beginning of the evening.<br><br>Ubuntu Bug Jam<br>Feb 21 from 9am-1pm at the Howard County Library Miller Branch Computer Lab <br>
I will be giving a talk on using Launchpad to report new bugs and triage existing reports. The rest of the day will be spent putting into practice what you learn. This is a great way to start giving back to the Ubuntu project if you are looking for a way to do that. More details can be found at <a href="http://gbj.ubuntu-maryland.org" target="_blank">http://gbj.ubuntu-maryland.org</a><br>
<br>Dojosec<br>Marcus Ranum, Chief Securty Officer of Tenable Network Security, will be talking at DojoSec on March 5. He will be giving his talk 'Cyberwar is B!)*&#!t
' and he describes it as:<br><br>There has been a great deal of irresponsible and inaccurate
<br>talk about "cyberwar" in the last decade, in spite of the fact that
<br>it's technologically and militarily impractical. Its counterpart,
<br>"cyberespionage" makes a bit more sense, and is less mythical
<br>but falls under the category of "nothing new." In this presentation
<br>we'll look past the hype at the reality of "cyberwar".
<br><br>DojoSec has been billed as 'dinner theater for security geeks' and is a great place to meet new people and gain valuable information. <br><br>Marcus Carey of Sun Tzu Data started and runs the organization. More information can be found at <a href="http://www.dojosec.com" target="_blank">http://www.dojosec.com</a><br>
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FOSE Booth<br>March 10-12 Tues-Thurs<br>David Cafaro recently sent out an email to the list asking for volunteers to man the Tux.org booth at this year's FOSE event in DC. In trade for a few hours of your time you get a pass for the show. Not a bad deal.<br>
<br>Finally I've set up an <a href="http://identi.ca" target="_blank">http://identi.ca</a> group for passing information about CALug events. I don't know how or how often we'll be taking advantage of it but if you're there feel free to utilise it. <a href="http://identi.ca/group/calug" target="_blank">http://identi.ca/group/calug</a><br>
<br>I think that's about it for now. I'll be posting some details about Sean Wilkerson's talk scheduled for our March 11th meeting in the coming weeks.<br><br>Chuck<br>