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This is a place to organize talks and sketch out a schedule for VTLUUG in 2017
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This is a place to organize talks and sketch out a schedule for VTLUUG in 2018
  
 
== Goals ==
 
== Goals ==
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The general idea is to not have many '''Social Meetings''', in order to keep up interest
 
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,
 
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.
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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,
 
In general, we should have meetings every week; about half-an-hour should be dedicated to news,
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I'd like to see us have 3 talks each month:
 
I'd like to see us have 3 talks each month:
 
* 1 industry-sponsored/provided tech/recruiting talk
 
* 1 industry-sponsored/provided tech/recruiting talk
** ideally, free food should be provided
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** Free food SHOULD ([https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2119 RFC 2119]) be provided
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** Preference should be given to the more libre of companies, if possible
 
** [[user:andreim|aam's]] facebook talk in 2016 was good
 
** [[user:andreim|aam's]] facebook talk in 2016 was good
 
** Booz-Allen talk was also good
 
** Booz-Allen talk was also good
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*** Intro to LaTeX
 
*** Intro to LaTeX
 
*** Intro to vimscript/vim
 
*** Intro to vimscript/vim
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*** Intro to mutt
 
*** Beginners guide to Ubuntu Mate
 
*** Beginners guide to Ubuntu Mate
**** Talk about how to replace MS word with LO, etc
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**** Talk about how to replace MS word with LO^WLaTeX, etc
 
** These should be provided by members of the club
 
** These should be provided by members of the club
 
** Perhaps put some effort into reaching out for the more beginner-friendly ones
 
** 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
 
** Focus should be on free software rather than technologies (IPv6) or programming languages
 
* 1 "advanced" or project talk
 
* 1 "advanced" or project talk
** These can be by members or alumni, but also by non-memembers
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** These can be by members or alumni, but also by non-members
 
** not expected to be free-software focused (although prefered)
 
** 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
 
** [[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 by members. Otherwise, they'll just be discussions of news, tech, and FOSS, or quick tutorials on things people ask
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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.
 
questions about.
  
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* [[Keysigning Party]]
 
* [[Keysigning Party]]
 
* Hackathons
 
* Hackathons
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** Setup luug infra
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** Setup Ubiquiti for [[Darknet]]
 
* Some event advocating for free software or teaching people about it, in a context besides the Installfest
 
* 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
 
** Mass protests of proprietary software usage on campus
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We should also make an effort to attend events hosted by other entities, and have a table, like:
 
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)
 
* [[SELF]] (CLT, summer),  [[CarolinaCon]] (RDU, april/may), [[All Things Open]] (RDU, october)
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* [[gp:VT Hacks|VT Hacks]]
 
* [[gp:Gobblerfest|Gobblerfest]]
 
* [[gp:Gobblerfest|Gobblerfest]]
 
* SEC Engineering Week
 
* SEC Engineering Week
* That thing for [[gp:Galileo|Galileo]]/Hypatia at the beginning of the year
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* CEED O-Show for [[gp:Galileo|Galileo]]/[[gp:Hypatia|Hypatia]] at the beginning of the year (generally weekend before classes)
  
 
==Talks People Want==
 
==Talks People Want==
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* jfranklin: survey of election software
  
 
== Talks People are Willing to Give ==
 
== Talks People are Willing to Give ==
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Ideas for talks can be found [[VTLUUG:Talks#Talk Ideas|here]].
 
=== [[User:echarlie|echarlie]] ===
 
=== [[User:echarlie|echarlie]] ===
 
* Intro to GPG (alternately: [[PGP]] Sucks!)
 
* Intro to GPG (alternately: [[PGP]] Sucks!)
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* Building a router with [[OpenBSD]]
 
* Building a router with [[OpenBSD]]
 
* Running [[gp:WUVT|a radio station]] with open source
 
* Running [[gp:WUVT|a radio station]] with open source
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=== [[User:telnoratti|telnoratti]] ===
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* ZFS
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* Linux and Unix Distro Sampler
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* Grub2
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* cgroups/LXC/docker
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* Puppet
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* timecube
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* I/O Queuing
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* Cults 101: Starting your first cult for fun and profit
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* Cults 102: Advanced Culting Techniques
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=== [[User:pew|pew]] ===
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* Linux security structure (how LSMs work)
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* Ubertooth + demo
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* mutt (alongside gmail)
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=== Lyle ===
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* Linux/Unix Hypervisors
  
 
== Companies that may be willing to give talks ==
 
== 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
 
* 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
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* 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
 
* 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)
 
* [[gp:Randy Marchany|Randy]] from the ITSO would give a talk if we asked him (this barely counts for this category)
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* 2017-09-07 Pre-gobbler/installfest planning meeting (off-campus)
 
* 2017-09-07 Pre-gobbler/installfest planning meeting (off-campus)
 
* 2017-09-08 [[Gobblerfest 2017|Gobblerfest]]
 
* 2017-09-08 [[Gobblerfest 2017|Gobblerfest]]
* 2017-09-10 Installfest (speculated)
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* 2017-09-10 [[Installfest:2017-09-10|Installfest]]
* 2017-09-14 Some talk
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* [[VTLUUG:2017-09-14|2017-09-14]] Some Intro talk
* 2017-09-21 Industry Talk?
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* [[VTLUUG:2017-09-21|2017-09-21]] I'd like to have an industry talk. We'll see how that goes.
* 2017-09-28 Social Meeting
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* [[VTLUUG:2017-09-28|2017-09-28]] Intro to LSM (pew)
  
 
=== October ===
 
=== October ===
 
* 2017-10-05
 
* 2017-10-05
 
* 2017-10-12
 
* 2017-10-12
* 2017-10-19
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* [[VTLUUG:2017-10-19|2017-10-19]] Facebook Talk. Different time/location: 19:00 (room from 18:30) in McB 129
 
* 2017-10-26
 
* 2017-10-26
  
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=== November ===
 
=== November ===
* 2017-11-02
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* [[VTLUUG:2017-11-02|2017-11-02]] distrowatch
* 2017-11-09
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* [[VTLUUG:2017-11-09|2017-11-09]] Telnortalk on init
* 2017-11-16
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* 2017-11-16 Joint BAH talk with CSEC
 
* 2017-11-30
 
* 2017-11-30
  
 
Probably the month to have the keysigning, and thus a GPG talk
 
Probably the month to have the keysigning, and thus a GPG talk
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Cyber Range Russ said he could probably do a talk this month
  
 
=== December ===
 
=== December ===
 
* 2017-12-07
 
* 2017-12-07
 
* 2017-12-14 Reading Day; Social off-campus meeting?
 
* 2017-12-14 Reading Day; Social off-campus meeting?
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[[Category:VTLUUG:Administration]]

Latest revision as of 01:50, 23 March 2018

This is a place to organize talks and sketch out a schedule for VTLUUG in 2018

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, club updates, and business. The rest of the meeting (1 to 2 hours) should be dedicated to the talk.

Talks

I'd like to see us have 3 talks each month:

  • 1 industry-sponsored/provided tech/recruiting talk
    • Free food SHOULD (RFC 2119) be provided
    • Preference should be given to the more libre of companies, if possible
    • aam's facebook talk in 2016 was good
    • Booz-Allen talk was also good
  • 1 "beginners" or intro talk to some subject
    • e.g.
      • 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-members
    • not expected to be free-software focused (although prefered)
    • 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.

Events

I'd like to have at least 3 events during the semester (about 1 every month), outside of talks. These should be about free software, open data, or anything else interesting.

Ideas:

  • Installfest (we already have 1 each semester)
  • OSM Day (co-hosted with the 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:

Talks People Want

  • jfranklin: survey of election software

Talks People are Willing to Give

Ideas for talks can be found here.

echarlie

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

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 -- aam is an alum who works here; lots of people came and got interviews from this
  • OnyxPoint -- CEO asked echarlie when would be a good time to talk/recruit. SIMP looks cool and is primarily their project.
  • Booz-Allen had some folks come by to give talks last year
  • 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

October

  • 2017-10-05
  • 2017-10-12
  • 2017-10-19 Facebook Talk. Different time/location: 19:00 (room from 18:30) in McB 129
  • 2017-10-26

This would be a good month to have an OSM day; perhaps around the 14

I'd also like to have OnyxPoint in this month, if possible

November

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?