Unigroup's Past and Proposed Meeting Topics
Unigroup's Proposed Meeting Topics
Unigroup is working on putting together meetings on the following topics:
- Ruby-on-Rails Performance
- Linux Real-Time Messaging
- FreeBSD Networking Stack
- IPsec and IPv6 (working on this)
- Field Trip to Sun on Solaris 10 Networking Stack (in progress)
- Linux Real-Time Kernel (Novell/SuSE Linux Presenting)
- Nagios and Monitoring
- Asterix and Open Source VoIP
- Anti-SPAM
- LAMP - Part 2 - PHP
- Unix's 35th Birthday Celebration
- Samba
- Repeat Field Trip to Computer Associates on INGRES
- Field Trip to Novell on SuSE/OpenSuSE Linux
- Field Trip to HP
- Are there too many Linux Distributions?
- Unix/Linux WiFi Security
- DNS
- Latest Storage Interface Technologies: iSCSI, Serial-ATA, Firewire, USB, etc.
- Linux Clustering
- Single Floppy Unix/Linux Distributions - Linux Router Project
- PKI
- Building a FreeBSD Firewall
- Building a Linux Firewall
- The Internet: How it Works
- Electronic Commerce
- LDAP
- Emerging HTML Standards
- Computer Telephony
- High Availability
- Performance Benchmarking
- Testing, Test Plans, Automated Testing Tools
- NTP
- Building Internet Servers
- Internet/Network Security
- Privacy & Encryption (including PGP)
- Publically Available Unix Tools (including GNU utilities)
- Multimedia Enhanced EMail (MIME/Metamail)
- Unix System Administration Tools - crash & fsdb
- Object Oriented Databases
- What's New in Database Technology
Past Unigroup meetings have included the following topics:
- 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)
- Authentication and Data Privacy Technologies (Steve Moubray, V-One Corporation)
- LAN Technologies - Focusing on Fast Ethernet, Switching, Network Management and ATM (Ike Mustafa and Tony Stramandinoli from SMC)
- Internet Security Threats: The Next Generation (Perry Metzger of Piermont Information Systems)
- Disaster Recovery Planning (Martin Zam of Coopers & Lybrand)
- RAID Technology (Rick Ruskin of MTI)
- Strategic Technology Issues in the UNIX Industry (Doug Michels of SCO)
- High Speed Networking Technology (Art Tolda of Hewlett Packard)
- Switching LANs (Debby Goldman and John Garrison from XYLAN)
- UNIX on the PC - Sun's Solaris (Sun Microsystems)
- JAVA (Charles Francois of Sun Microsystems)
- The Telecomm Bill of 1996
(Shabbir Safdar, Steven Cherry of the VTW and SEA)
- IPv6 - Including new security proposals for IPv6 & IPv4 (Perry Metzger of Piermont Information Systems)
- NIS, NIS+ and NFS Protocols (Hal Stern of Sun Microsystems)
- NFS - Network File System (John Costa of Auspex Systems)
- The Distributed Transaction Model - Tuxedo (Peter Dessart of IMC)
- So You Want to Connect to the Internet (Panel: J.P. Radley of J.P. Radley Inc., Bob Tinkelman of N.Y. NET, Dan Wexler of Genesis Computer Corp., Robert Weiner of Programming Plus)
- Firewalls and Internet Security (Steve Bellovin of AT&T Bell Labs)
- Sendmail (David Feldman)
- Understanding OSF's Distributed Computing Environment - DCE (Saju Joseph of HP)
- Exploring the Internet using the World Wide Web (Tim O'Reilly of O'Reilly & Assoc., Liz Stokes of Panix)
- TCP/IP Network Management - SNMP (Cisco Systems)
- Personal Unix - Unix on Intel - Linux/SCO/others (Panel: Liz Stokes, Robert Weiner/Programming Plus, J.P. Radley, Dan Wexler/Genesis Computer Corp.)
- Firewalls (Marcus Ranum [formerly] of Trusted Information Systems)
- Kermit Communications Software (Frank da Cruz of Columbia University)
- High Performance Disk Architectures - RAID (Ben Monderer of Box Hill)
- Wide Area Networking (Wiltel)
- Internet Tools - Telnet, FTP, Archie, Gopher, WEB. (Brian Reynolds)
- PC X Applications including X-Terminals (Peter Auditore of Hummingbird)
- Unix Tools - Perl, AWK, SED, SH. (Steve Miano, Robert Weiner/Programming Plus)
- Unix War Stories (Panel)
- High Speed Communications - Modem Protocols (Joe Ben-David of Telebit)
Please contact us immediately if you know of potential speakers for any
of these topics and please feel free to suggest your own topics as well.
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