Unigroup's Proposed Meeting Topics
Unigroup is in the process of planning these meetings and topics:
- 2010: IPsec and IPv6
- 2010: Unix/Linux Authentication Mechanisms
- 2010: Anti-SPAM
- 2010: Cloud & Grid Computing
- Super-Computing Clusters
- Solaris Kernel Topics (Sun Microsystems Presenting)
- Field Trip to HP (working on this)
- Embedded Linux Development
- LaTex and Document Publishing
Unigroup is looking for speakers on the following topics:
- Are there too many Linux distributions?
- Open Source Development Tools
- Nagios and Network Monitoring
- Open Source OS Distributions - Round Table Discussion
- LAMP - Part 3 - PHP
- Samba
- Computer Security Threats
- Unix's 35th Birthday Celebration
- Java Development
- DNS - Domain Name System
- Unix/Linux Clustering Part 3: Beowulf
- Samba
- BGP Routing and Fault Tolerant Networking
- Are there too many Linux Distributions?
- Single Floppy Unix/Linux Distributions - Linux Router Project
- Building a Firewall using FreeBSD and Linux
- Unix Office Tools: Word Processors, Spreadsheets, Accounting Packages.
- Cryptography / PKI
- Emacs
- Unix/Linux WiFi Security
- DNS
- Latest Storage Interface Technologies: iSCSI, Serial-ATA, Firewire, USB, etc.
- PKI
- Building a FreeBSD Firewall
- Building a Linux Firewall
- The Internet: How it Works
- Electronic Commerce
- LDAP
- NTP
- Emerging HTML Standards
- High Availability
- Performance Benchmarking
- Testing, Test Plans, Automated Testing Tools
- Building Internet Servers
- Internet/Network Security
- Privacy & Encryption (including PGP / GnuPG)
- Publically Available Unix Tools (including GNU utilities)
- Unix System Administration Tools - crash & fsdb
- What's New in Database Technology
- Object Oriented Databases
Past Unigroup meetings have included the following topics (partial list):
- Behavior-Based Emergency Preparedness and Response (Steven M. Crimando/XBRM)
- Kerberos/LDAP Authentication with Active Directory Integration (Beyond Trust)
- Evolution of the Solaris Installer Technology (Dave Miner/Sun Microsystems)
- Copyright and Copyleft Open Source Software Licensing (James Hanft/Darby & Darby P.C.)
- AIX Performance Tuning and Virtualization (Ken Milberg/PowerTCO, Joefon Jann/IBM)
- Converged Networks: Infiniband/FibreChannel/10GbE/iSCSI (Vince Sykes/Blade Network Technology)
- Implementing Low Latency Systems, with Novell/SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time (Novell SUSE RT Kernel Group)
- The FreeBSD Networking Stack (George Neville-Neil/The FreeBSD Project Team)
- Linux Real-Time Messaging (Tervela)
- Solaris 10 Release Meeting and OpenSolaris Update: Field Trip to Sun Microsystems (Sun Microsystems)
- The Asterisk Open Source PBX/Telephony System: From The Ground Up! (Paul Charles Leddy)
- The Laconica Project and Micro-Blogging Based on XMPP Standards (Evan Prodromou)
- Server Performance: Deploying and Scaling (Ruby on) Rails (Brian Gupta/Brandorr Group)
- Web Development: The Joomla! Content Management System (Anthony Ferrara/Bigtrue INC.)
- Serving High Performance Web Sites - Where Apache Fails (Anthony Ferrara/Bigtrue INC.)
- FreeBSD 7 Launch Meeting (George Neville-Neil/The FreeBSD Project Team)
- Experiences with the CentOS and Fedora Lunux/GNU Operating Systems (Robert Weiner/Programming Plus)
- Creating Great Software with RUBY and RAILS (Heow Eide-Goodman)
- IBM AIX 6.1 and POWER 6 (Bharvi Parikh/IBM)
- OpenSolaris Project Indiana (Ian Murdock/Sun)
- UBUNTU Linux (Nathan Eckenrode)
- TCL from a SysAdmin's Point of View (Marc Spitzer)
- Site Reliability at Google (Tom Limoncelli)
- Field Trip to Sun Microsystems: Solaris 10 Networking, Virtualizaion, Hardware and other topics of interest. (Various Speakers from Sun)
- Internet Security: TCP/IP Security Retrospective (Steven M. Bellovin)
- AJAX and Advanced Javascript (Dan Phiffer/ShiftSpace)
- The AMANDA Open Source Enterprise Backup System (Ian Turner/Zmanda)
- The MySQL Database (Hans Zaunere/New York PHP)
- Novell OpenSuSE Linux (Ross Brunson/Novell)
- Time Management for System Administrators (Tom Limoncelli/Cibernet Corp)
- Computing Compliance using Unix/Linux (Athena Archiver)
- The INGRES Open Source Relational Database (Sam Somashekar/Computer Associates)
- Getting Your Manager to Approve the Use of Open Source (Maria Winslow)
- The OpenAFS Distributed Filesystem (Jeff Altman/Secure Endpoints)
- Solaris 10 Post-Release Field Trip (Sun Microsystems)
- ZOPE - An Open Source Web Development Framework (Rob Page/Zope Corporation)
- Wireless Access Around NYC and Introduction to WiFi (Ben Serebin/NYCwireless, Dan Wexler/Genesis Computer Security, Rob Weiner/Programming Plus)
- Apple OS/X Operating system and Comparison to *BSD (Apple Computer Panel)
- Web Services (XML, SOAP, WSDL, UDDI) (Bruce Grant, SCOx)
- Migrating From Windows NT 4.0: Linux or Windows Server? (Tony Iams/D.H. Brown Associates, Inc.)
- Launch Event... Solaris 10 - The Next Generation Datacenter OS (Ambreesh Khanna, Andrew Deally, Jarod Jenson/Sun Microsystems)
- MIT Kerberos 5: Introduction to Authentication and Cross-platform Interoperability (Jeff Altman/Secure Endpoints, Inc.)
- AIX / AIX 5L Overview and Futures (Bill Sandve/IBM)
- IPv6 and IP Management (Lucent Technologies)
- Remote Monitoring with SNMP (Jozef Skvarcek, Mark Spitzer)
- Internet Security: Firewall Intelligence (Arpan Lakra, Larry Reed/Checkpoint Software Technologies)
- Log Collection, Auditing and Preservation (Manos Megagiannis/Totally Secure)
- Unix Technology Update: 64-bit Hardware and Operating Systems (Marty Poniatowski/HP)
- Python and Twisted (Itamar Shtull-Trauring/Zoteca)
- IT DISASTER RECOVERY: "Running a Winning Relay Race" (Sharon Williams/HP BCRS)
- Building Integrated Wireless Applications Using Java Technology (Carl Sayres/Data Representations)
- Japple (William Thompson/Saucon Technologies)
- Building a Virutal Workplace (Tamar Newberger/Tarantella, Inc.)
- Linux Multimedia Tools: Audio, Video and Imaging (Marco Scoffier)
- How do sysadmins write books: Internet Collaboration (Tom Limoncelli/Lumeta Corp; EverythingSysadm.Com)
- LTSP - Linux Terminal Server Project (Andrew Williams/VarTech Solutions;LTSP)
- Wireless Networking (Andrew Raver, Dang Nguyen/Enterasys Networks)
- Firewalling using Stateful Inspection Packet Filtering (Jeff Mow & Dan Chevrie/Netscreen)
- Intrusion Detection (James Licata)
- NetBSD: A Freely Available and Highly Portable Unix OS (Perry Metzger/Wasabi Systems)
- Linux Clustering: Fault Tolerant High Availability Clusters (Nick Carr/Mission Critical Linux)
- Linux Clustering: Beowulf Clusters (Jozef Skvarcek/Datek Online)
- Security Protocols and Technologies (Jeff Allman/The Kermit Project at Columbia University)
- Linux Overview: Today & Tomorrow (Pat Villani/Compaq)
- Unix Telephony - Bayonne - A GNU IVR Server (David Sugar/GNU Maintainer)
- Technology Brief: Data Storage Technologies (Dan Kalagher/Dot Hill Systems)
- Web-To-Database Integration with Perl (John Paxton/WestLake Internet Training)
- DSL and Web Proxy Gateways (Dan Budne/Budne Software Consulting, Ram Tanamy/Ultinet, Robert Weiner/Programming Plus, Toni Wuersch/SIAC)
- FreeBSD (Chris Masto, NetMonger Communications)
- SENDMAIL: Overview, New Features, Anti-Spamming Techniques (Blair Brown, Roger Klorese)
- Cross-Platform Connectivity: SAMBA (Ed Weinberg, DeTel, Inc)
- Building and Running a High Traffic Unix Web Site (Jack Cate, Edmund Publications)
- Unix-Based Anti-Virus Solutions, Real Time Scanning at the Firewall (James Glynn, Trend Micro)
- E-Business Management Systems (Chris Riley, Segue Software)
- The Postfix Mail Server (Wietse Venema, IBM)
- Virtual Private Networking (Mike Devine, Compatible Systems)
- Unix Security Tools (Panel Discussion: Dan Budne, Robert Weiner/Programming Plus, Dan Wexler/Genesis Computer Corp.)
- The Must-Have List Freely Available Software (Panel Discussion: Dan Budne, Michael Smith, Jay Sulzberger [of LXNY], Robert Weiner/Programming Plus)
- The Year 2000 Problem: UNIX and Distributed Systems: The Current Year 2000 Hotspot (Leon Stevens, Millennium Technologies Group)
- LAN Diagnostics: The rise and fall of Network Analyzers (Richard Whitehead, Micromuse)
- NFS on Small Iron - Making PCs Interoperable (Fred Whiteside, Hummingbird Communications/Beame & Whiteside)
- The Development of a Security Policy (William Garner, North American Performance Group)
- The Future of Unix: Development of the 64-Bit Unix Operating System
(Tamar Newberger, SCO)