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

Unigroup's Past Meeting Topics

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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