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Meeting Notes and Articles

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Whirlpools, Maelstroms, and Maytags with Android's Sticks and Chips :: 17 April 2013; Brian DeLacey, Kurt Keville

  1. Brian's slides :: pdf

IPv6 on a Home Network :: 20 February 2013; Daniel Hagerty

  1. Daniel's slides from 2013 BLU meeting :: pdf
  2. Daniel's slides from 2010 BBLISA talk :: pdf

Android Sensors: What Can Your Android Sense For You :: 16 January 2013; Greg Milette and Adam Stroud

  1. IRC chat log :: Text
  2. Greg and Adam's slides :: GoogleDocs :: pdf :: pptx

Porting Linux to ARM Servers :: 21 November 2012; Jon Masters

  1. Audio of Jon's talk :: ogg

Moodle - Learning with the Power of Open Source :: 17 October 2012; Joseph Guarino

  1. Joseph's slides :: PDF
  2. Audio of Joe's talk :: mp4

Passwords: "The Death of Clever" :: 19 September 2012; Bill Ricker

  1. Joe Abley's "Trust Reflection" slides :: PDF
  2. Bill's slides :: OpenOffice Impress :: PDF
  3. Video of meeting :: YouTube
  4. Keyring from the BLU 2012 keysigning :: GnuPG keyring
  5. Tony Brett's PGP intro slides :: Powerpoint
  6. Bill's links :: OpenOffice Text :: Text
  7. Huij's PGP intro slides :: Powerpoint

Full-Disk Encryption :: 15 Februry 2012; Various presenters

  1. Lestra/Hughes crypto paper: "Ron was wrong, Whit is right" :: PDF
  2. Article: "No need to panic" :: HTML

Selling Open Source - Being Persuasive with Management :: 21 December 2011; Presented by Joseph Guarino

  1. Joseph Guarino's slides :: PDF

Rolling out IPv6 on Linux :: 16 November 2011; Presented by Chuck Anderson

  1. Video of meeting :: YouTube
  2. Chuck's slides :: PDF

Usability and Fotoxx :: 19 October 2011; Presented by Dick and Jill Miller

  1. Audio recording of meeting :: Ogg Vorbis
  2. Video of meeting :: YouTube

PGP/GnuPG Keysigning Party XII :: 21 September 2011; Presented by Bill Ricker

  1. Script to sign and email keys via Batch-SMTP shar archive :: Bash
  2. Video of meeting :: YouTube
  3. Bill Ricker's meeting notes :: OpenOffice :: PDF
  4. Participants' keys :: keyring
  5. List of participants :: HTML

Android Tablet Wars :: 17 August 2011; Presented by Brian DeLacey, Jerry Feldman, etc.

  1. Audio recording of meeting :: MP3 :: Ogg Vorbis
  2. Video of meeting :: YouTube
  3. Jerry Feldman's slides :: ODP

Arduino Hacking 101: Importing the Universe :: 20 July 2011; Presented by Federico Lucifredi

  1. Federico's OSCON Slides :: PDF

Net Neutrality and the FCC :: 16 February 2011; Presented by Caroline Hunter

  1. Caroline Hunter's discussion notes :: OpenOffice :: PDF

UNIX, Linux, and BSD: A Look Back (again) :: 15 April 2009; Presented by Clem Cole

  1. Clem's new slides :: PDF
  2. Clem's slides from 2000 :: PDF

Doc Searls on Vendor Relationship Management :: 18 March 2009; Presented by Doc Searls

  1. Audio of meeting :: Ogg Vorbis

Linux TCO in the Enterprise :: 18 February 2009; Presented by Frank Curran and Rich Braun

  1. Frank's TCO slides :: PDF
  2. Rich's slides :: PowerPoint 2007
  3. Frank's virtual appliances slides :: PDF

Free Fun - Open Source Video Games :: 15 October 2008; Presented by Joseph Guarino

  1. Joseph's slides :: PDF

Linux Soup X: Red Hat 5 Virtualization :: 21 March 2007; Presented by Christoph Doerbeck

  1. Meeting Notes :: OpenOffice :: Text

Dynamic Network Mapping (PBNJ + Nmap) :: 17 January 2007; Presented by Josh Abraham

  1. Josh Abraham's slides :: PDF

Porting the Linux kernel :: 15 November 2006; presented by Jon Masters

  1. Jon Masters' slides :: PDF

The Linux startup process :: 21 June 2006; Presented by Jerry Feldman

  1. Jerry Feldman's slides :: OpenOffice :: PDF

SELinux Overview :: 21 September 2005; Presented by Daniel J Walsh

  1. Daniel J Walsh's slides :: PDF

Programming with POSIX Threads :: 18 May 2005; Presented by Jerry Feldman

  1. Jerry's slides :: Tarball (compressed) :: PDF

Two Topics: RouteWord, and MythTV :: 19 May 2004; Presented by Andrew Odewahn and Jeffrey Perry

  1. Jeff Perry's slides :: PowerPoint :: Zip archive

Beowulf Update :: 19 November 2003; Presented by Kurt Keville

  1. Kurt Keville's slides :: PDF

Gentoo Linux :: 15 October 2003; Presented by Dan Barrett and Rajiv Manglani

  1. Slides from the talk :: StarOffice :: Flash :: Postscript :: PDF

PGP/GnuPG Keysigning Party IV :: 17 September 2003

  1. Keyring with participants' keys :: PGP keyring

GNU Privacy Guard: HOWTO :: 16 July 2003; Presented by Jerry Feldman

  1. Jerry's slides :: PDF

CUPS: Common Unix Printing System :: 16 April 2003; Presented by Vince McHugh

  1. Vince's slides :: StarOffice

PGP/GnuPG Keysigning Party III :: 15 January 2003; Post-keysigning talk by Bill Horne

  1. Keyring of participants' keys :: PGP keyring

VMWare and IBM on VMWare ESX :: 18 December 2002; Presented by Sean Shea

  1. Server Consolidation Technologies: A Practical Guide :: Text :: PDF

LinuxSoup V: Linux in the Enterprise :: 20 March 2002; Presented by Christoph Doerbeck

  1. Automate System Builds with Kickstart :: Text :: PDF
  2. Christoph's slides :: Text :: PDF

PGP/GnuPG Keysigning Party :: 19 December 2001; Talk by Bill Ricker

  1. Keyring of participants' keys :: PGP keyring
  2. V. Alex Brennen's checksheet generator script :: Perl script

Postfix: An Overview :: 21 November 2001; Presented by Courtney Eckhardt

  1. Postfix: An Overview - 2nd hour (467mb; MPEG1) :: Video
  2. Postfix: An Overview - 1st hour (518mb; MPEG1) :: Video

PHP Web Development :: 21 February 2001; Presented by David Kramer

  1. David Kramer's demo :: Offsite

Enterprise Management and OpenNMS :: 20 December 2000; Presented by Shane O'Donnell

  1. Shane's slide show :: StarOffice :: HTML :: StarOffice (compressed)

Linux Home Automation with X10 :: 21 June 2000; Presented by David Kramer

  1. David Kramer's presentation :: Offsite

Open Source, Linux, and Apache :: 19 January 2000; Presented by Rich Braun of Shore.Net; Gary Trujillo of AIP; and Joshua Freeman, Kurt Gray, and Bruce Twickler of Andover.Net

  1. David Kramer's meeting notes :: HTML

Network Security :: 14 December 1999; Presented by Eric Cole

  1. Eric's slides :: HTML
  2. David Kramer's meeting notes :: HTML

MicroOptical Displays :: 17 November 1999; Presented by Mark B. Spitzer

  1. Model EG-7, qVGA Invisible Monitor (320x240 pixels) :: JPEG
  2. Model CO-3, VGA Clip-on Monitor (640x480 pixels) :: JPEG
  3. David Kramer's meeting notes :: HTML

FreeBSD :: 20 October 1999; Presented by Robert A. Getschmann

  1. David Kramer's meeting notes :: HTML

DDD: The Data Display Debugger :: 15 September 1999; Presented by Massimo Morin

  1. Massimo Morin's slides (StarOffice) :: Tarball (compressed)
  2. David Kramer's meeting notes :: HTML

SourceXchange :: 18 August 1999; Presented by Frank Willison

  1. David Kramer's meeting notes :: HTML

Running Linux, 3rd Edition :: 16 June 1999; Presented by Lar Kaufman

  1. David Kramer's meeting notes :: HTML

CodeWarrior :: 19 May 1999; Presented by Tom Thompson

  1. David Kramer's meeting notes :: HTML

Meet the Members :: 21 April 1999; Open Mike Night

  1. David Kramer's meeting notes :: HTML

XTC - The X Tool Collection :: 17 February 1999; Presented by Eugene O'Neill

  1. David Kramer's meeting notes :: HTML

SmallTalk and VisualWorks :: 20 January 1999; Presented by James Robertson

  1. David Kramer's meeting notes :: HTML

Video4Linux :: 16 December 1998; Presented by Christoph Doerbeck

  1. David Kramer's meeting notes :: HTML

Linux Soup :: 19 August 1998; Presented by Christoph Doerbeck

  1. David Kramer's meeting notes :: HTML

Lucent Technologies' Inferno :: 15 July 1998; Presented by Ted Kochanski, Ph.D

  1. Ted's description of what he planned to talk about :: HTML

IP Masquerading :: 17 June 1998; Presented by Eric Kidd

  1. David Kramer's meeting notes :: HTML

CORBA and Linux :: 15 October 1997; Presented by Marc Laukien

  1. Marc's slides :: HTML :: Tarball (compressed)

Volunteer Meeting :: 10 January 1996

  1. Notes from the volunteer meeting :: HTML

Volunteer Meeting :: 11 October 1995

  1. Notes from the volunteers meeting :: HTML

Volunteer Meeting :: 13 September 1995

  1. Notes from the volunteers meeting :: HTML

First Annual Linux/Unix BBQ :: Saturday, August 5, 1995; MDC Camp Nihan

  1. Annoucement of the BBQ :: HTML

Troubleshooting Your Linux System :: 19 July 1995; Presented by Matt Welsh

  1. Matt's slides :: HTML :: Tarball (compressed)

Andrew User Interface System :: 21 June 1995; Presented by Bill Cattey

  1. AUIS logo :: JPEG :: Encapsulated Postscript
  2. Richard Weld's meeting report :: HTML

Linus Torvalds Comes to Boston! :: 17 May 1995; Presented by Linus Torvalds

  1. Rodney Thayer's meeting report :: HTML
  2. Notes from the Volunteers meeting :: HTML

Linux on Digital Alpha AXP :: 15 March 1995; Presented by Jim Paradis

  1. Jim's slides :: HTML :: WordPerfect :: RTF :: Word97 :: Tarball (compressed) :: Text

TCL and TK :: 15 February 1995; Presented by Robert Luoma

  1. Robert's handout :: HTML
  2. Guy Bzibziak's write-up of the meeting :: HTML

What Next? :: 16 November 1994; Presented by Roland Kenschaft

  1. Meeting notes by John Abreau :: HTML
  2. Notes from the volunteers meeting :: HTML

Providing Internet Services :: 6 September 1994; Presented by Rich Braun

  1. Meeting report by Richard Weld :: HTML

Linus Torvalds at DECUS :: 2 August 1994; Audio Pre-recorded at DECUS; Linus' slides handled by Jerry Feldman

  1. Meeting report by Richard Weld :: HTML
  2. Linus Torvalds' slides :: Postscript (compressed)
  3. Jerry Feldman's slides :: Postscript (compressed)
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