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This is a list of talks people would like to see and (unscheduled) talks people are willing to give put together if they are nagged. Since there's no dedicated [[gp:Cyber Security Club|VTCSEC]] wiki, you can also list talks on this page that you'd like to see given there.
== Talks people are willing to give Talk Ideas == === Beginner Content === * [[User"Passing classes with only free software:telnoratti | telnoratti]] replacing proprietary tools in your workflow"* Introduction to Command-Line- Quantum CryptographyFu* [[User:matthazinski | Matt]] - Andrew File Basics of Bash scripting* Intro to tmux === Systemadministration and use === * [[User"1 PID1 to rule them all:matthazinski | Matt]] - ParproutedInit systems for the modern world"** SysV Init* [[User:matthazinski | Matt]] - Port bonding* Runit* [[User:mutantmonkey | mutantmonkey]] - IPv6, Chef* Finit* [[User:dyreshark | dyreshark]] - C++11 features* OpenRC* [[User:Jagged | Jagged]] - RF explained: modulation, antennas, and link budgets* Systemd* [[User:Jagged | Jagged]] - FCC Part 97 vs* Others... Part 15 operation* [[User:Jagged | Jagged]] - AXor use systemd* X.25Org and Wayland* Expert level Vim* Emacs* [[Userw:Jagged DragonFly BSD| JaggedDragonFly BSD]] - Linux utilities for amateur radio* Intro to OpenBSD, or "How to become [[Useruser:mr-black via| Mr. Blackvia]] - Browser Architecture"* Taskwarrior demo* [[User:mr-black | Mr. Black]] - Active DirectoryPlan 9 introduction === Servers and Computing ===
* Samba
* NFS (including NFS4)
* DNS (theory, caching/recursive, brief tutorial on how to make your own on Linux/BSD, DNSSEC)
* Mail
* "Mainframes on wheels: New directions in mobile computing"
* "IP man: Networking protocols of today and tomorrow"
=== Programming languages ===
* Dyretalks (dyreshark's talks on programming languages)
* Survey of archaic programming languages
* "Writing useful code in useless languages: An introduction to esoteric and obfuscated code"
* The evolution and justification of coding styles
* C14 features
* LaTeX
* "Lambda Calculus for Babies. Retarded Babies."
** [[User:ackthet|ackthet]]'s 10-part Xmonad talk starting from the basics of haskell
=== Miscellaneous ===
* Short presentation of how members use Linux/UNIX in their daily routines, thus making people hear about various tools they didn't know existed/haven't seen used. - nitin
* [http://www.timecube.com Timecube]
* [[Openstreetmap]] - [[User:mutantmonkey|mutantmonkey]]
* Multiboot on a RaspberryPi
* Firetalks day
* Ram should give a talk on mix networks
* Hacking Games for Fun and Profit
== Scheduled Talks==
This is a planning space for talks that people have agreed to give (or gave) in various semesters. Nag them if you want a copy of their slides.
===Spring 2014===
* telnoratti - Quantum Crypto
* telnoratti - Cults 102: Advanced Culting Techniques
* mhazinsk - Mail - Postfix/Dovecot, etc
* mhazinsk - Reversing EAS boxes (possibly at CSEC instead)
* nitin - Eliptic Curve Cryptography, Group Theory
* nitin - Intro to commandline stuff
* jkh - SSL, LDAP/Kerberos
* dyreshark - LLVM
* wallmani - ?
* sloafe - March 20th - window managers?
* [[User:dyreshark | dyreshark]] - April 3rd - Runtimes ([https://vtluug.org/files/2014/VTLUUG_Runtime_Presentation.pdf slides], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-N8Xwu2yts video])
===Fall 2013===
* telnoratti - ZFS - September 5th
* mhazinsk - "About VTLUUG" for new members - September 5th
* guzzles - Cable lacing - September 12th
* officers - Overview of VTLUUG services (for new members) - September 12th
* dyreshark - Go (programming language) [and maybe some optimizations too] - September 19th
* uncurlhalo - Linux From Scratch - September 26th
* mr-black - "How mr-black develops software" - workflow talk/discussion - October 17th
* mhazinsk - Ansible
* Jagged - Software-defined Radio (with HackRF, USRP)
* aam - Set up a solid Email Server with Dovecot, Postfix, Amavisd, Spamassassin, Clamav and Sieve (moved to Spring)
* telnoratti - Xen Cloud Platform (moved to Spring)
* telnoratti - Puppet (moved to Spring)
===Spring 2013===
* telnoratti - Cults 101: Starting your first cult for fun and profit
* telnoratti - LXC
=== Fall 2010 ===
* Ioannis Kokkinidis - Open GIS [http://vtluug.org/files/2010/OSFGIS.pdf Presentation slides (PDF format)] [http://vtluug.org/files/2010/OSFGIS.pptx Presentation slides (PPTX format)]
== Talks people are willing to give ==
Note: most of these members do attend meetings regularly, and many don't even live in Blacksburg. Some ([[user:mr-black|Mr. Black]]), are willing to give remote talks through jitsi meet or google chat.
===for VTLUUG===
* [[User:telnoratti | telnoratti]] - Linux and Unix Distro Sampler
* [[User:telnoratti | telnoratti]] - Grub2
* [[User:telnoratti | telnoratti]] - ZFS
* [[User:telnoratti | telnoratti]] - XCP
* [[User:telnoratti | telnoratti]] - Puppet
* [[User:uncurlhalo | uncurlhalo]] - Linux From Scratch
* [[User:guzzles | guzzles]] - Condensation
* [[User:Egdeltur|Egdeltur]], [[User:mjh|Matt]] - Arduino/smartphone interfacing
* [[User:mr-black | Mr. Black]] - Browser Architecture
* [[User:mr-black | Mr. Black]] - Active Directory
* [[User:mr-black | Mr. Black]] - Hadoop and HBase
* [[User:andreim | AndreiM]] - OS X: UNIX tools and advanced power user techniques
* [[User:andreim | AndreiM]] - Intro to Web Development with unix tools
* [[User:andreim | AndreiM]] - Intro to easy VPS management
* [[User:ram | ram]] - OpenBSD router tutorial (pf, IPsec, IPv6, DNS, DHCP server) *
* [[User:ram | ram]] - IPv6
* [[User:ram | ram]] - Some basic IPC stuff (having fun(?) with unix domain sockets, pipes, etc)
* [[User:ram | ram]] - Vim (beginner or intermediate)
* [[User:Timelord | Timelord]] - Almost anything related to [http://www.openbsd.org OpenBSD]
* [[User:Timelord | Timelord]] - Comparative kernel architectures
* [[User:Timelord | Timelord]] - The run-time link-editor (aka {ld.so, ld-linux.so, rtld})
* [[User:Timelord | Timelord]] - High-performance computing (w/ focus on [http://www.arc.vt.edu/ ARC]?)
* [[User:Timelord | Timelord]] - Parallel computing
* [[User:Timelord | Timelord]] - [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPGPU GPGPU computing]
* [[User:Timelord | Timelord]] - HPC resources available to students at Virginia Tech
* [[User:Timelord | Timelord]] - Game hacking on OS X (strategies, tools, and lessons learned)
* [[User:Timelord | Timelord]] - launchd
* [[User:Timelord | Timelord]] - Digital LEGOs with [http://ldraw.org/ LDraw]
* [[User:Timelord | Timelord]] - Introduction to raytracing with [http://povray.org/ POV-Ray]
* [[User:Angelicstrike | angelicstrike]] - Haskell
* [[User:Angelicstrike | angelicstrike]] - Programming TCP/IP Sockets
===for [[gp:Cyber Security Club|VTCSEC]]===
* [[User:ubervert | ubervert]] - Full disk encryption.
* [[User:telnoratti | telnoratti]] - Quantum Cryptography
* [[User:telnoratti | telnoratti]] - Intro to Modern Cryptology
* [[User:Timelord | Timelord]] - Reverse engineering
* [[User:Timelord | Timelord]] - PGP (GnuPG)
* [[User:Timelord | Timelord]] - Return-oriented programming
* [[User:Timelord | Timelord]] - Binary patching at runtime, and anti-debugging evasion techniques
* [[User:Timelord | Timelord]] - Exploit mitigation techniques (ASLR, W^X, etc.)
* [[User:Timelord | Timelord]] - [https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/security/capsicum/ Capsicum]: practical capabilities for UNIX
== Old talks ==
These are things from the old '''VTLUUG:Roadmap''' page, and may get added if there is sufficient interest. Most of these were added a couple years ago, so their status is unknown
* Real-time talk in March
* [[Android]] talk
* [[PIM]] talk
* [[OpenStreetMap]] talk
** Educational portion
** Showoff portion
*** osm3d
*** [http://terpnav.cs.umd.edu/map/ TerpNav]
* Others ([http://www.alwaysinnovating.com/home/index.htm Always Innovating], [[gp:Randy Marchany|Randy Marchany]], [[gp:John Harris|John Harris]], [[gp:Godmar Back|Godmar Back]], [[gp:Ico Bukvic|Ico Bukvic]]?)
== Other meeting ideas ==
* Slideshare roulette
* Key exchange parties
* Android rooting event (combined with or separate from installfest)
* [[VTLUUG:Karaoke night|Karaoke night]]
== Round tables ==
* (CS, ECE software side - Hacking open source projects for grades)
* ECE hardware side - Free Software for digital and analog circuits
** Using QUCS in class
** Free Software schematic capture, simulation, routing and layout software for the [[Open Electronics Lab]] - Fedora electronics remix
* CoE - Chat with Dean Scales, faculty technology committee about the [[computer requirement]]
* Engineering education
* OCS - i.e. improving assignment notification
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