PLUG - Phoenix Linux User Group

Presentations This Month

Can a devout EMACS user find happiness using a GUI Editor

Dennis Kibbe, Mesa Community College Linux Instructor, will give a presentation on three useful extensions to the GNOME gedit text editor. See how you can make this simple editor more versatile and fun to use."

Saving Money by Using Linux with a virtualized Windows environment to ease the transition.
Brian will preview his ScaLE OSSIE talk

Ease the migration to Linux, save time and money, while keeping a no
maintenance version of Microsoft Windows desktop to pick up the slack on any software that does not have a Linux equivalent. Employees don't have a visible difference on their desktops. Companies get to save money and IT effort.

Using GNU/Linux to deploy Microsoft Windows in a multi-campus K12
environment reduces annual desktop and server licensing costs. In this
session, you'll learn how to realize many of the benefits of Free
Software without throwing out all your essential, windows only,
educational and administrative software. You can realize additional
savings by moving to Free Software applications.

Students, teachers and staff get to keep using the essential software
software they require to get their work done, but with better stability and flexibility. Using GNU/Linux as the deployment infrastructure also improves security and reduces firefighting for IT.

The presentation also includes tips on how to get users to accept and
even request Free software, as well as tips on when not try do a transition to Free and Open Source Software.

When: 7:00PM to about 9:00PM
Where: Sequoia Charter School in Mesa

Presentations This Month

Presentation 1

Discussion regarding how Infusionsoft implements open source solutions within a corporate environment, This discussion will include how Linux, and other open source tools are used within a corporate environment to efficiently and effectively replicate costly solutions. These topics will include: Setting up an automation system across the back-end with bash; how to configure a fully redundant set of Tomcat web nodes, and MySQL database nodes, with easily activated fail-over capabilities; remote management, and installation; feasible backup solutions; and routing capabilities with Iptables.

Presentation 2

Overview of new features in KDE SC 4.4, the upcoming release of the KDE Software Compilation. Ryan Rix will go over some of the new capabilities of the desktop and will be on hand with live USB images for installation.

Topics: Various topics ranging form beginner's to advanced, user to administrator.
When: Fourth Wednesday of each month at 7:00PM
Where: DeVry, 2149 W. Dunlap Ave., Phoenix, AZ 85021

Start: 2010 Jan 30 - 10:00
End: 2010 Jan 30 - 16:00
Timezone: Etc/GMT-7

Where: University of Advancing Technology: 2625 W. Baseline Tempe, AZ 85283
(Baseline Road, just west of I-10 and Pointe Hilton South Mountain, south side of Baseline, near Fry's Electronics Tempe).

The "monthly" Installfest is co-sponsored by PLUG and the AZloco. It is held the last Saturday of the month January through October. If one is held for November and December it is generally held on a Saturday early in December.

RSVP: InstallFest@PLUG.phoenix.az.us
- Your computer with specs and equipment, including monitor, keyboard, mouse, and network card.
- What you hope to accomplish and learn by installing Linux
- Encouraged to RSVP but not required

Who: Anyone who wants to see Linux or run it on their computer.
- Volunteers always needed, please e-mail your pledge for time.

Installations can sometimes take over two hours, please arrive within the first few hours.

We will also help with installing Free Software applications such as Firefox, OpenOffice.org, the GIMP, Blender and Inkscape on other operating systems.

Perl Programmers...

I spoke with a recruiter the other day who is looking for Perl programmers who can do Object Oriented Perl. The job(s) is in the valley (Phx) and it's contract-to-hire.

Her name is Dana Nilson, she is with TEKsystems, and her email is dnilson (at) teksystems.com. She knows I'm posting this to a user group, but not which one. If you reach out to her, tell her you heard from Bart Garst.

Agenda

• mtg intro
• assign note-taker
• Jan west side topic updates
• Feb devel topic updates
• find Feb east side topic
• start sysadm team

IRC meetings for planning PLUG activities and working on PLUG activities and infrastructure.

Be prepared to help out if you show up.

Meetings will take place on the first and third Sunday of the month at 20:00 in PLUG's IRC channel. We will skip dates that are holidays or on long weekends.

Date: First and Third Sunday of the month
Time: 20:00
Channel: #plugaz
Server: irc.freenode.net

Web interface for Freenode.

Searching for Java Open Source Gurus that either live or can relocate to the Phoenix area! To apply please e-mail Mindy Outzen at m.outzen@richardmichaelgroup.com

Job Description:

To Design, Develop and implement web-based Java Applications, Resolve technical issues for clients, Work with a team of developers, designers, QA etc., Regular travel is required to client sites for Trainings, Implementations, etc.

Requirements:
Must have a Bachelor’s Degree.

Must have knowledge of SQL.

Must have at least 5 years of Java experience.

Must have at least 1 ORM technology experience.

Must have experience with more than one MVC framework.

Environment:

Casual Atmosphere, Flex Schedules available! Full time (between 40-50 hours per week depending on the project you are working on)

Benefits: A full benefits package after 90 day contract is up and you are hired as a permanent employee.

Pay Range:
Contract basis for 90 days then Salary is between $70-90k plus up to a $10k bonus potential per year

East Side Meeting

The December east side meeting will be our annual end of year party.

We encourage bringing family and friends. This is a social event with no presentations.

We will have some giveaways.

We also encourage bringing some food to share.

No alcohol (dry site) because the meeting is at a school.

When: 7:00PM to about 9:00PM

Where: Sequoia Charter School in Mesa

East Side Meeting

Co-sponsored by LOPSA-US-AZ.

Presentations This Month

• Virtualization In The Open Enterprise
• Recollections of founding a distribution and doing business with big business

GoDaddy's excellent security team is recruiting for a Security Analyst 1.

Please note: This is an overnight shift from 9PM to 9AM with a 3 day weekend every other week.

What does the job entail?

Conducting forensic analysis and remediation of security incidents,vulnerability and penetration testing, monitoring intrusion detection and prevention systems, performing security audits of current infrastructure and applications, monitoring security bulletins, determining applicability and coordinating action plans, managing anti-virus systems, installing security agents on new systems, writing access control lists and updating firewalls as needed and using a SIM to weed out the noise.

Skills/Requirements

Three years experience in implementing and supporting information security technologies.

Two years experience working in a heterogeneous network/host environment; ISP environment is preferred Strong Linux and Windows and networking administrative experience.

Forensic analysis experience.

Strong SNORT Intrusion Detection experience with rule creation experience.

Strong vulnerability and penetration testing experience in IIS and Apache.

Ability to secure a global network against ever growing list of threats.

Additional valuable skills:

Experience using environmental tools such as Nessus and Nikto.

Cisco Firewall and IPTables
Experience using tools such as tcpdump, WinDump and Wireshark to analyze packet captures
SIM or HIPS MYSQL and/or MS SQL Server, and Strong scripting skills, python, shell, vb, perl.

The Ideal candidate will have
a College Degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent job experience and a
CISSP or GIAC Certification.

Our final meeting and presentation for 2009 is December 3rd and we are very happy to have Jeff Savit from Sun Microsystems* presenting on OpenSolaris.

Title: OpenSolaris

Jeff Savit will describe Sun Microsystems' open sourced OpenSolaris operating, show its relationship to the Solaris 10, and describe some of its more interesting and unique features, such as DTrace, Solaris Containers, Crossbow network virtualization, CIFS and COMSTAR iSCSI services, OpenHA cluster. Other features for datacenters and for developers will be discussed.

* OpenSolaris and Solaris
* New features in OpenSolaris
* SPARC and Intel support
* Crossbow network virtualization
* Advanced and customized install
* CIFS and COMSTAR iSCSI target support
* OpenHA cluster
* support model and pricing
* New features for the desktop
* New features for the developer
* The Road Forward with Solaris and OpenSolaris

*This should be a very interesting presentation, especially when you consider that OpenSolaris & Solaris will likely be "the" cross platform Oracle solution (IMHO) in the not so distant future (with or without the EC).

Jeff Savit is a Sun Microsystems Principal Field Technologist working in areas including
Solaris, Virtualization, performance, Java, migration, and application and system architecture.
Jeff is expert in virtualization and systems performance on multiple platforms, and has
internals-level experience ranging from mainframe OSes like MVS and VM, to Linux, and
of course Solaris and other Unix variants.

Before joining Sun, he was a Vice President at Merrill Lynch, where he had technical and
managerial roles in development, systems management, market data, architecture, and web
applications. He introduced the first use of TCP/IP protocol to Merrill Lynch, wrote
market data portions of Merrill Lynch's Internet trading applications, and created
one of the Internet's first stock quote web sites.

Mr. Savit is the author of the Sun Blueprint "Energy Efficiency Strategies: Sun Server
Virtualization Technology", and the Virtualization chapter of the "Datacenter Reference
Guide" Blueprint". He also wrote or coauthored several books: "Enterprise Java",
"VM & CMS: Performance and Fine Tuning", "VM/CMS Concepts and Facilities", and
"IBM Mainframes", and contributed to others: "VM Applications Handbook", "The REXX Handbook",
and "The VM/ESA Handbook". He has also been published in SIGPLAN Notices, a journal of the
Association of Computing Machinery. Mr. Savit has been a featured speaker at conferences
including those listed above, InternetWorld, SHARE, GUIDE, Australasian SHARE/GUIDE, and
the Modula-2 Users Group. He also served on a computer science delegation to the People's
Republic of China.

So, If you are interested in some serious free computing - or just have a boss that checks this crazy big list twice..
Come to the PLUGDev presentation by Jeff Savit from Sun Microsystems in room 203 at UAT on Thursday, December 3rd 7:30PM.

Please delay your bringing of festive foods and cheesecakes and all edibles for another week, as much as they would be appreciated, UAT likes to keep it's classrooms clean and well, there are rules...

I look forward to seeing you all this Thursday - Ed