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This is a place to organize talks and sketch out a schedule for VTLUUG in 20172018
== Goals ==
The general idea is to not have many '''Social Meetings''', in order to keep up interest
of membership, and make it worth people's time. Also, I don't want to be president next year,
and no-one else does, either, so we need people to do stuff. Socializing can happen before meetings in the form of [[PMS]].
In general, we should have meetings every week; about half-an-hour should be dedicated to news,
I'd like to see us have 3 talks each month:
* 1 industry-sponsored/provided tech/recruiting talk
** ideally, free Free food SHOULD ([https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2119 RFC 2119]) be provided** Preference should be providedgiven to the more libre of companies, if possible
** [[user:andreim|aam's]] facebook talk in 2016 was good
** Booz-Allen talk was also good
*** Intro to LaTeX
*** Intro to vimscript/vim
*** Intro to mutt
*** Beginners guide to Ubuntu Mate
**** Talk about how to replace MS word with LO^WLaTeX, etc
** These should be provided by members of the club
** Perhaps put some effort into reaching out for the more beginner-friendly ones
** Focus should be on free software rather than technologies (IPv6) or programming languages
* 1 "advanced" or project talk
** These can be by members or alumni, but also by non-memembersmembers
** not expected to be free-software focused (although prefered)
** [[user:btreecat|btreecat's]] talk on UAV was a great example of this, as was nluther's discussion of his thesis project
Non-talk meetings, or '''Social Meetings''' should have a call-for-talks the week before, to get short presentations /lightning talks by members. Otherwise, they'll just be discussions of news, tech, and FOSS, or quick tutorials on things people ask
questions about.
Ideas:
* [[Installfest]] (we already have 1 each semester)
* [[OSM Day]](co-hosted with the [[gp:Locations Club | Locations Club]]?)
* [[Keysigning Party]]
* Hackathons
** Setup luug infra
** Setup Ubiquiti for [[Darknet]]
* Some event advocating for free software or teaching people about it, in a context besides the Installfest
** Mass protests of proprietary software usage on campus
We should also make an effort to attend events hosted by other entities, and have a table, like:
* [[SELF]] (CLT, summer), [[CarolinaCon]] (RDU, april/may), [[All Things Open]] (RDU, october)* [[gp:VT Hacks|VT Hacks]]
* [[gp:Gobblerfest|Gobblerfest]]
* SEC Engineering Week
* That thing CEED O-Show for [[gp:Galileo|Galileo]]/[[gp:Hypatia|Hypatia ]] at the beginning of the year(generally weekend before classes)
==Talks People Want==
* jfranklin: survey of election software ==Talks People are Willing to Give==Ideas for talks can be found [[VTLUUG:Talks#Talk Ideas|here]].=== [[User:echarlie|echarlie]] ===* Intro to GPG (alternately: [[PGP]] Sucks!)* [[IPv6]]: A pep talk* Building a router with [[OpenBSD]]* Running [[gp:WUVT|a radio station]] with open source === [[User:telnoratti|telnoratti]] ===* ZFS* Linux and Unix Distro Sampler* Grub2* cgroups/LXC/docker* Puppet* timecube* I/O Queuing* Cults 101: Starting your first cult for fun and profit* Cults 102: Advanced Culting Techniques === [[User:pew|pew]] ===* Linux security structure (how LSMs work)* Ubertooth + demo* mutt (alongside gmail) === Lyle ===* Linux/Unix Hypervisors
== Companies that may be willing to give talks ==
* Facebook -- [[user:andreim|aam]] is an alum who works here; lots of people came and got interviews from this
* OnyxPoint -- CEO asked [[user:echarlie|echarlie]] when would be a good time to talk/recruit. [https://github.com/simp/simp-core SIMP] looks cool and is primarily their project.
* Booz-Allen had some folks come by to give talks last year
* [[gp:Randy Marchany|Randy]] from the ITSO would give a talk if we asked him (this barely counts for this category)
* Rackspace maybe? They're local* Get larger campus departments (e.g. VTTI/ECE) to give talks about their libre software usage
== Schedule: Fall 2017 ==
=== September ===
* 2017-09-07 Pre-gobbler/installfest planning meeting (off-campus)
* 2017-09-08 [[Gobblerfest2017|Gobblerfest]]* 2017-09-10 [[Installfest:2017-09-10|Installfest (speculated)]]* [[VTLUUG:2017-09-14|2017-09-14 ]] Some Intro talk* [[VTLUUG:2017-09-21 Industry Talk?|2017-09-21]] I'd like to have an industry talk. We'll see how that goes.* [[VTLUUG:2017-09-28 Social Meeting|2017-09-28]] Intro to LSM (pew)
=== October ===
* 2017-10-05
* 2017-10-12
* [[VTLUUG:2017-10-19|2017-10-19]] Facebook Talk. Different time/location: 19:00 (room from 18:30) in McB 129
* 2017-10-26
=== November ===
* [[VTLUUG:2017-11-02|2017-11-02]] distrowatch* [[VTLUUG:2017-11-09|2017-11-09]] Telnortalk on init* 2017-11-16Joint BAH talk with CSEC
* 2017-11-30
Probably the month to have the keysigning, and thus a GPG talk
Cyber Range Russ said he could probably do a talk this month
=== December ===
* 2017-12-07
* 2017-12-14 Reading Day; Social off-campus meeting?
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