LuftHans Free Software in 3D

Free Software as as business model is often questioned. How does a company make money? Well, RedHat has been proving for almost 20 years that a company can make money with Free Software.

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ABLEconf 2012 Phoenix is March 24th at UAT at 2625 W. Baseline Rd., Tempe, Arizona.

ABLEconf is a one day business-oriented Free Software conference organized by a coalition of many Arizona Free Software groups.

Registration opens at 07:30 with presentations from 08:00 to 18:00.

The next online meeting will be this Wednesday at 19:00 in AZLoCo's Big Blue Button instance. Any web browser that supports flash should be sufficient for participating.

We're coming up on ABLEconf and still have plenty to do before the conference. Please join the meeting and find out how you can help.

SCaLE 10x was once again an excellent experience. Thanks to the SCaLE volunteers who consistently put on an excellent, organized, enjoyable conference.

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ABLEconf's early bird deadline for the call for proposals is Sunday at midnight ( UTC-7 ).

Early bird proposals have a better chance of getting accepted because they help the proposals committee plan for the conference.

There's still time after Sunday, but we appreciate early bird proposals.

SCaLE's 10x call for proposals is closing Thursday. There is a bit of effort required for speaker registration, so don't wait until Thursday night to start.

Note that SCaLE 10x is a litte earlier in the year than past SCaLE conferences as it's now in January.

SCaLE 10x: January 20-22, 2012 at the Hilton Los Angeles Airport Hotel.

The next in person meeting will be at Iguana Macks in Mesa. The meeting starts at 18:00 and runs for an hour. The agenda is on the mailing list.

If you want to eat, hang out for the Free Software Stammtisch that starts at 19:00.

Iguana Macks
1371 N. Alma School Rd
Chandler, AZ 85224

For its 10th anniversary SCaLE is running an art contest. The winner gets a free trip, including airfare within the continental US, to Los Angeles for SCaLE 10x.

Look to SCaLE's page on the contest for details.

SCalE 10x is 2012Jan20-22.

November's first Wednesday of the month onlike meeting is this Wednesday, 2011Nov02.

The online meetings start at 19:00 and use AZLoCo's Big Blue Button instance. Enter a name and join the demo meeting to participate. Requires flash and javascript.

Topic: A physical demonstration using a powerbook g3 (powerpc based) with Vinux, a remastered version of the Ubuntu GNU/Linux Distribution optimised for visually impaired users.
Presenter: Eric

When: Fourth Wednesday of each month at 7:00PM
Where: DeVry University / Keller Graduate School of Management
Address: 6751 W Sunset Blvd, Glendale, AZ 85305

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There is an Arizona BoF Saturday night at SCaLE 9x. We will meet in Los Angeles C at 19:00 after der.hans' Moodle GIFT Question Format presentation.

The conference reception and weakest-geek show start at 19:30.

Monthly security presentation labs, with open community participation occur, on the Second and Third Saturday of every month in Chandler at Ganglplankhq.com.

David Huerta will be showcasing hayst.ac - his Firefox Security Plugin; but one of the many projects under the Haystack Project.

Saturday 19th of January, 2011, Hamachi network hackfest:
DO NOT CONNECT TO THIS NETWORK UNLESS YOU ARE CERTAIN OF YOUR SECURITY!
hackfest password = trustme
Hackfest ends on Sunday at 22:00. Have fun!

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Exploit Engineer Wanted: Get Paid for Open Source
After the incredible success of the Metasploit Express and Metasploit Pro product launches last year, we are happy to announce a new position on the Rapid7 Metasploit team. Effective immediately, we are seeking a self-driven Exploit Engineer to join the team of full-time Metasploit developers.

Job duties include researching vulnerabilities and writing exploit code in the form of Metasploit modules (Ruby). Exploit modules will be released to the public under the BSD open source license.

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CLOUD Targets/Rapid7 Scanner Presented

Steven Kaplan, MSC, BSEE, CISSP, CISA, (Senior Cyber Security Analyst, DOE Palo Verde Nuclear Facility) will be presenting a full blown (licensed) version of Rapid 7, while letting us bust his cloud.

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Monthly security presentation labs, with open community participation occur, on the Second and Forth Saturday of every month in Chandler at Ganglplankhq.com. This interactive lab and presentation format covers industry news, specific protection issues in linux, ongoing industry tool development, RFC scripts, exploits & net neutrality.

Ethical and legal, as well as liability aspects of security testing are covered as we investigate the strange world of computer insecurity from our powerful Penguin perspectives.

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Monthly security presentation labs, with open community participation occur, on the Second and Forth Saturday of every month in Chandler at Ganglplankhq.com. This interactive lab and presentation format covers industry news, specific protection issues in linux, ongoing industry tool development, RFC scripts, exploits & net neutrality.

Ethical and legal, as well as liability aspects of security testing are covered as we investigate the strange world of computer insecurity from our powerful Penguin perspectives.

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Senior Software Developer

Liquid Web Inc. is looking for an experienced Perl developer with system level development experience or strong system administration knowledge to help develop new hosting products. Job duties will include working with System Engineers to develop new software, and integrating these products into existing systems, such as Billing, Helpdesk, and Monitoring. The successful candidate will be able to write clean and modular code, communicate effectively with team members as project requirements evolve, and produce software that delivers end results.

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Monthly security presentation labs, with open community participation occur, on the Second and Third Saturday of every month in Chandler at Gangplankhq.com.

March 12, 2011 is CableModem SBHACKER demonstration Lab.

Bring your 5101, 5100, or 6100 Series Motorola Modems for us to revive with a fine linux test distribution/stack?

Ethical and legal, as well as liability aspects of security testing are covered as we investigate the strange world of computer insecurity from our lofty Penguin perspectives.

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David Huerta will be showcasing hayst.ac - his Firefox Security Plugin; but one of the many projects under the Haystack Project:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haystack_%28MIT_project%29#External_links

After arriving in Arizona from the posh, cosmopolitan enclave of
southeastern Idaho, David founded the DeVry Linux User Group (DeLUG)
in 2003, an originally student organization that drew members and
activities from the greater West Valley Free software community,
including students at GCC and ASU West. He is also the founder of

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Monthly security presentation labs, with open community participation occur, on the Second and Forth Saturday of every month in Chandler at Ganglplankhq.com. This interactive lab and presentation format covers industry news, specific protection issues in linux, ongoing industry tool development, RFC scripts, exploits and net neutrality.

Ethical and legal, as well as liability aspects of security testing are covered as we investigate the strange world of computer insecurity from our powerful Penguin perspectives.

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