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Meeting Notes and Articles

UNIX, Linux, and BSD: A Look Back (again)

15 April 2009; Presented by Clem Cole

1. Clem's slides from 2000 (pdf) :: history20000912.pdf
2. Clem's new slides (pdf) :: History20090415_v1.pdf

Linux TCO in the Enterprise

18 February 2009; Presented by Frank Curran and Rich Braun

1. Frank's TCO slides (pdf) :: fcurran-tco-presentation.pptxv1BLU_GH_02-14-09final.pdf
2. Frank's virtual appliances slides (pdf) :: fcurran-virtualappliances_on_SUSE_Linux_Enterprise_Server.pdf
3. Rich's slides (pdf) :: richb_TCO_18Feb.pdf
4. Rich's slides (Powerpoint 2007) :: richb_TCO_18Feb.pptx

Free Fun - Open Source Video Games

15 October 2008; Presented by Joseph Guarino

1. Joseph's slides :: open_source_gaming_free_fun.pdf

PGP Keysigning Party 2008

17 September 2008

1. Checklist from keysigning event :: checksheet.php
2. GnuPG public keyring of participants' keys :: pubring.gpg
3. Script to generate a checksheet :: ring-a-party

Linux Soup X: Red Hat 5 Virtualization

21 March 2007; Presented by Christoph Doerbeck

1. Meeting Notes (odf) :: meeting-notes.2007-03-21.odt
2. Meeting Notes (text) :: meeting-notes.2007-03-21.txt

Dynamic Network Mapping (PBNJ + Nmap)

17 January 2007; Presented by Josh Abraham

1. Josh Abraham's slides (pdf) :: dynamic-network-mapping-BLU-01-17-07.pdf
2. Josh Abraham's slides (text) :: dynamic-network-mapping-BLU-01-17-07.txt

Porting the Linux kernel

15 November 2006; presented by Jon Masters

1. Jon Masters' slides :: Kernel_Porting.pdf

The Linux startup process

21 June 2006; Presented by Jerry Feldman

1. Jerry Feldman's slides (odf) :: Linux_Startup.odp
2. Jerry Feldman's slides (pdf) :: Linux_Startup.pdf

SELinux Overview

21 September 2005; Presented by Daniel J Walsh

1. Daniel J Walsh's slides (pdf) :: SELinuxSummit.pdf

An overview of POSIX Threads (Jerry Feldman)

18 May 2005; Presented by Jerry Feldman

1. Jerry's slides :: An_overview_of_POSIX_threads.pdf
2. Archive of Jerry's slides and examples :: ThreadsTalk.tar.gz

Two Topics: RouteWord, and MythTV

19 May 2004; Presented by Andrew Odewahn and Jeffrey Perry

1. Andrew Odewahn's slides :: blu_routeword.zip
2. Jeff Perry's slides (ppt) :: blu_talk_mythtv_slides.ppt

Beowulf Update

19 November 2003; Presented by Kurt Keville

1. Kurt Keville's slides (pdf) :: NovBlu.pdf

Gentoo Linux

15 October 2003; Presented by Dan Barrett and Rajiv Manglani

1. Slides from the talk (pdf) :: gentoo_presentation.pdf
2. Slides from the talk (Postscript) :: gentoo_presentation.ps
3. Slides from the talk (flash) :: gentoo_presentation.swf
4. Slides from the talk (staroffice) :: gentoo_presentation.sxi

PGP/GnuPG Keysigning Party IV

17 September 2003

1. Keyring with participants' keys :: pubring.gpg

GNU Privacy Guard: HOWTO

16 Jul 2003; Presented by Jerry Feldman

1. Jerry's notes :: gnu_privacy_guard_howto.pdf

CUPS: Common Unix Printing System

16 Apr 2003; Presented by Vince McHugh

1. Vince's slides (StarOffice) :: cups_and_imaging_for_BLU.sdd

PGP/GnuPG Keysigning Party III

15 Jan 2003; post-keysigning talk by Bill Horne

1. keyring with participants' keys :: pubring.gpg
2. MS-Windows GnuPG :: winpt/gnupg-w32cli-1.2.1-1.zip
3. Signature for MS-Windows GnuPG :: winpt/gnupg-w32cli-1.2.1-1.zip.sig
4. MS-Windows PGP :: winpt/winpt-0.5.13-installer.exe

VMWare and IBM on VMWare ESX

18 Dec 2002; Presented by Sean Shea

1. "Server Consolidation Technologies: A Practical Guide" (PDF) :: paper.pdf

The State of Beowulf Clustering

16 Oct 2002; Presented by Kurt Keville

1. Kurt's full talk (64mb; Quicktime) :: blu-2002-10-16.mov

LinuxSoup V: Linux in the Enterprise

20 Mar 2002; Presented by Christoph Doerbeck

1. Christoph's Enterprise slides (pdf) :: Definition.pdf
2. Christoph's Enterprise slides (text) :: Definition.txt
3. Christoph's Kickstart slides (pdf) :: Kickstart.pdf
4. Christoph's Kickstart slides (text) :: Kickstart.txt

PGP/GnuPG Keysigning Party

19 Dec 2001; Talk by Matthew Brodeur

1. keyring containing participants' keys :: pubring.gpg

PHP Web Development

21 Feb 2001; Presented by David Kramer

1. Offsite slides :: http://thekramers.net/phpdemo/

Enterprise Management and OpenNMS

20 Dec 2000; Presented by Shane O'Donnell

1. Shane's slide show (HTML) :: LUG.htm
2. Shane's slide show (StarOffice) :: LUG.sdd
3. Shane's slide show (StarOffice, compressed) :: LUG.SDD.gz

Linux Home Automation with X10

21 Jun 2000; Presented by David Kramer

1. David's slides :: http://thekramers.net/hademo/

Open Source, Linux, and Apache

19 Jan 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 :: meeting_notes.html

Network Security

14 Dec 1999; Presented by Eric Cole

1. David Kramer's meeting notes :: meeting_notes.html
2. Eric's slides :: presentation.htm

MicroOptical Displays

17 Nov 1999; Presented by Mark B. Spitzer

1. David Kramer's meeting notes :: meeting_notes.html
2. MicroOptical home page :: http://www.microopticalcorp.com

FreeBSD

20 Oct 1999; Presented by Robert A. Getschmann

1. David Kramer's meeting notes :: meeting_notes.html

DDD: The Data Display Debugger

15 Sep 1999; Presented by Massimo Morin

1. Massimo Morin's slides (StarOffice) :: ddd-seminar.tgz
2. David Kramer's meeting notes :: meeting_notes.html

SourceXchange

18 Aug 1999; Presented by Frank Willison

1. David Kramer's meeting notes :: meeting_notes.html

Running Linux, 3rd Edition

16 Jun 1999; Presented by Lar Kaufman

1. David Kramer's meeting notes :: meeting_notes.html

CodeWarrior

19 May 1999; Presented by Tom Thompson

1. David Kramer's meeting notes :: meeting_notes.html

Meet the Members

21 Apr 1999

1. David Kramer's meeting notes :: meeting_notes.html

XTC - The X Tool Collection

17 Feb 1999; Presented by Eugene O'Neill

1. David Kramer's meeting notes :: meeting_notes.html

SmallTalk and VisualWorks

20 Jan 1999; Presented by James Robertson

1. David Kramer's meeting notes :: meeting_notes.html

Video4Linux

16 Dec 1998; Presented by Christoph Doerbeck

1. David Kramer's meeting notes :: meeting_notes.html

Linux Soup

19 Aug 1998; Presented by Christoph Doerbeck

1. David Kramer's meeting notes :: meeting_notes.html

Lucent Technologies' Inferno

15 Jul 1998; Presented by Ted Kochanski, Ph.D

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

IP Masquerading

17 Jun 1998; Presented by Eric Kidd

1. David Kramer's meeting notes :: meeting_notes.html

CORBA and Linux

15 Oct 1997; Presented by Marc Laukien

1. Marc's slides :: corba-talk.tar.gz

Volunteer Meeting

10 Jan 1996

1. Notes from the volunteer meeting :: admin.html

First Annual Linux/Unix BBQ

Saturday, August 5, 1995; MDC Camp Nihan

1. Annoucement of the BBQ :: announcement.html

Volunteer Meeting

11 Oct 1995

1. Notes from the volunteers meeting :: admin.html

Volunteer Meeting

13 Sep 1995

1. Notes from the volunteers meeting :: admin.html

Troubleshooting Your Linux System

19 Jul 1995; Presented by Matt Welsh

1. Matt's slides :: bcs-meeting.tar.gz
2. Matt's slides, untarred :: slides.html

Andrew User Interface System

21 Jun 1995; Presented by Bill Cattey

1. Richard Weld's meeting report :: meeting_report.html
2. AUIS logo, recreated in Illustrator by Jabr (eps) :: Andrew_Logo.eps
3. AUIS logo, recreated in Illustrator by Jabr (jpg) :: Andrew_Logo.jpg

Linus Torvalds Comes to Boston!

17 May 1995; Presented by Linus Torvalds

1. Notes from the Volunteers meeting :: admin.html
2. Rodney Thayer's meeting report :: meeting_report.html

Linux on Digital Alpha AXP

15 Mar 1995; Presented by Jim Paradis

1. Jim's slides in HTML :: slides.html
2. Jim's slides in other formats (doc, rtf, txt, wps, wri) :: slides.tar.gz
3. Jim's slides (MS Word) :: linuxtlk.doc
4. Jim's slides (Plain Text) :: linuxtlk.txt

TCL and TK

15 Feb 1995; Presented by Robert Luoma

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

What Next?

16 Nov 1994; Presented by Roland Kenschaft

1. Notes from the volunteers meeting :: admin.html
2. Meeting notes by John Abreau :: meeting_notes.html

Providing Internet Services

6 Sep 1994; Presented by Rich Braun

1. Meeting report by Richard Weld :: meeting_report.html

Linus Torvalds at DECUS

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

1. Jerry Feldman's slides :: DECUS-Linux-Intro.ps.gz
2. Linus Torvalds' slides :: DECUS-Linux-Kernel.ps.gz
3. Meeting report by Richard Weld :: meeting_report.html