There will be a special screening of "The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz" before February's PLUG east side meeting at 17:00 on 2015Feb12.
The Free Software Stammtisch has moved to Boulders on Southern, near Fiesta Mall in Mesa. We're happy to return to Boulders and the new location will work better.
The original, Boulders on Broadway, was great, but has little parking and a very popular Tuesday night trivia. The owner is glad to have us return to the new location. He came by our first night to make sure everything was running well for us.
ANNOUNCEMENT: Job Night @ Stammtisch! The Free Software Stammtisch is hosting a job fair at this coming east valley event on Tuesday, 2014Jul15. The goal is to bring in engineers and managers from groups that are hiring as well as job seekers and recruiters. For technical positions it's much better to talk directly to the team that is hiring.
Heartbleed is a recently discovered security flaw that affects millions of web servers.
Heartbleed affects enough servers that you should just change all your web site passwords. It allows theft of the server's security key, your credentials, your session with the web site and cookies that can be used to impersonate you.
Because the security certificates could be stolen, there are some extra steps.
We filled the room for the Tech Resume Workshop. It was great to see a good turnout of both job seekers and those volunteering to help with resume feedback and practice interviews.
Thanks to the volunteers who showed up to help!
We will likely hold another job event either in November or January. Still debating. The next event will be a job night. The goal is go have sysadmins, developers and hiring managers from companies that are hiring come out looking for people to fit the openings. We had some of that this time around as well :).
This Thursday Kibana creator Rashid Khan will talk scalable log storage and analysis at PLUG. His talk will cover patterns for log shipping, the problems in traditional centralized log storage, as well as issues with syslog shipping overall. We'll explore the options in the open source space, and define a stack that can be gradually merged into a legacy syslog network, with further optimizations as we later spin down the legacy redundant logging infrastructure.
CentOS has started a new series of one day conferences. The second CentOS Dojo is taking place in Scottsdale this Friday. Karanbir Singh is in town to lead the conference.
Scheduled talks cover topics such as Logstash ( scalable log management and searching ), Sensu ( scalable monitoring framework ), CentOS Linux kernel tuning, high volume metrics collection, CentOS and Xen virtualization, ARM architecture servers and SSH.
