VTLUUG:2016-09-08

Our first meeting on the 2016 Fall semester.

Date, Time, and Location

• Thursday, 8 September
• 7:30pm - 9:00pm
• 261 Durham Hall

Announcements

• Rackspace Keysigning on Sept 15th, this will be our regular meeting for next week
• Consideration of new or alternative meeting location and date.
• Results of Gobblerfest and Installfest
• HokieTux stickers are here!
• 2016 is the year of the Linux desktop

Learning opportunities

• https://rbtc.tech/2016/09/cyber-security-forum-firmware-hacking-oct-4/
• http://www.meetup.com/Docker-Blacksburg/events/233642636

Talks

• marcusw will be giving a brief history of the club and where we are today.
• uncurlhalo will be talking about opportunities to help the club as well as ways the club can help members.

Hacking

• Gobblerpedia
• VTLUUG Wiki
• Wiki meeting page creation script -- this needs to happen so someone isn't doing it manually

Notes

• Jagged Talk Topics: 1) ARM Development or Embedded Development 2) Software defined radios
• aam Talk Topics: 1) Facebook Infra and how its managed
• New meeting times - Monday at 7:30, Tuesday at 6:30, Wednesday at 6:30
• Interest in a hackathon - Get some corporate sponsors to help (Altria, Rackspace, Qualcomm, Facebook)