Previous Meeting Info

Date Chapter Location Subject Speaker Notes/Slides Attendees/
Pictures
12/5/1995 Central   First PLUG meeting.     7
11/6/1996 Central   "The New Hackers Dictionary" Eric Raymond    
1/8/1997 Central   "FVWM Configuration" LeRoy D. Cressy    
5/7/1997 Central   "Creative Chaos, Why the Linux world works." Eric Raymond    
10/1/1997 Central   "INSTALLING DOSEMU on Caldera OpenLinux Lite Vs 1.1" David E. Edwards    
12/3/1997 Central   "Posters, Letters, Brochures, Business Plans: Preparing High Quality Typeset Documents Under Linux" John Kirk    
2/3/1999 Central   Linux 2.2.x Kernels LeRoy D. Cressy    
3/3/1999 Central   "various Linux concerns and problems"      
4/7/1999 Central   "various Linux concerns and problems"      
5/5/1999 Central   "...having a Linux trade show at the Pennsylvania Convention Center."      
6/2/1999 Central   "...continue the discussion on having a trade show at the Pennsylvania Convention Center," and kernel recompiling      
7/7/1999 Central   Relocation      
8/4/1999 Central   Python Michael W. Ryan    
9/1/1999 Central   Linux Security Kurt Starsnic Securing Your Linux System  
10/6/1999 Central   Zope Chris McDonough Zope  
11/3/1999 Central   The History of Linux Adam Turoff    
12/1/1999 Central   Oracle Hugh Brock Installing Oracle 8i on Linux  
1/5/2000 Central   The History of Perl Adam Turoff    
2/2/2000 Central   GNU Emacs Hugh Brock The Beauty of Emacs  
3/1/2000 Central   WINE Nicolai Rosen    
4/5/2000 Central   Slashdot Emmett Plant   36
5/3/2000 Central   Data Display Debugger gleeson@zdial.com   39
6/7/2000 Central   Computer Crime Jon Nelson   40
7/5/2000 Central   Parallel Processing Wes Powers   29
8/2/2000 Central   Using QuickTk to Build Perl-Tk GUI Applications John Kirk   30
9/6/2000 Central   ext2 file undeletion Bill Jonas Ext2 File Undeletion 29
10/4/2000 Central   Internet Firewalls Michael W. Ryan   42
11/1/2000 Central   Regular Expressions Frank Gleeson   22
12/6/2000 Central   Journaling Filesystems Erik Yunghans   36
1/3/2001 Central   LinuxPPC Leonard Rosenthol   24
2/7/2001 Central   Backups Tony Dominello   44
3/14/2001 Central   Apache/MySQL/PHP Chris Beggy   40
4/4/2001 Central   Java Programming on Linux Chris Shank   41
5/2/2001 Central   Linux Kernel v2.4 Alan Willis   40
6/6/2001 Central   e-smith server and gateway distribution Kirrily Skud Robert   38
7/11/2001 Central   "Coexisting with the Evil Empire - or how to run Windows applications in Linux" Leonard Rosenthol & Michael Leone   48
8/1/2001 Central   PHP Scripting Bill Patterson Slides 34
9/5/2001 Central   XML Document Markup Language Wes Powers    
10/3/2001 Central   KDE Ian Reinhart Geiser    
11/7/2001 Central   PostgreSQL vs. MySQL (free Database software) Bernie Falor, RDA Consultants   26
12/5/2001 Central   ext2 internals Mark Jason Dominus Internals of ext2fs 31
1/9/2002 Central   IPTables (Linux 2.4.x firewalling) LeRoy Cressy IPTables presentation 40
2/6/2002 Central   Usenet, running a small site, and INN, the Insanely Configurable News Program. Rebecca Ore   26
2/21/2002 Central   ARM Linux on the iPAQ: Handheld Linux Paul L. Snyder   19
3/6/2002 Central   Graphics production and manipulation tools available on Linux (GIMP, ImageMagick, Sketch, Kontour, etc.) Leonard Rosenthol    
4/3/2002 Central   Beowulf Linux Clustering Guillermo Moyna    
4/18/2002 Central   NetBSD (and friends) Gabriel Rosenkoetter Some notes from the presentation 26
5/1/2002 Central   Regular Expressions Keith    
6/2/2002 Central   Installfest 12:30pm to 5:30pm - read the flyer John Karr    
6/5/2002 Central   KOffice, or application development on KDE Ian Reinhart Geiser    
7/3/2002 Central   Robotics with Linux Michael F. Robbins, Aaron Nissen    
8/7/2002 Central   MacOS X Len Rosenthol    
8/23/2002 Central   Bar Night M. Simons    
8/24/2002 Central   Swap Meet M. Simons    
8/25/2002 Central   Second Annual Linux Anniversary BBQ/Picnic M. Simons    
9/4/2002 Central   Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL) (a programming library for multimedia and games) Edward Smola    
11/3/2002 Central   RedHat Road Tour 4 RedHat engineers    
12/4/2002 Central   The implementation and internals of well-known Unix commands like 'cat', 'ls', 'mount', and 'pwd' Mark Jason Dominus Notes from the meeting  
1/08/2003 Central   Experience with Mason for Building a Web Site (using Apache-SSL, mod_perl and HTTP::Mason in a Debian GNU/Linux environment) John Kirk    
2/02/2003 Central USP Wing-It Wednesday
Impromptu talks on LEAF (Linux Embedded Appliance Firewall) and Mainframe Assembly Language		 Mike Leone and Bill Patterson    
3/05/2003 Central USP Lightning Talks - 5 minute topics:
  1. Running X apps remotely
  2. File locking tips and traps
  3. Debian Packaging Basics
  4. Awk one-liners
  5. Using GPG
  6. How to create a daemon
  7. PHP
  8. Linux and Synergetics
  1. Steven Gran
  2. Mark Jason Dominus
  3. John Lavin
  4. Jeff Abrahamson
  5. Gabe Roesenkoetter
  6. Walt Mankowski
  7. Bill Patterson
  8. CJ Fearnley
  2. Slides
  8. Slides
  
4/02/2003 Central USP DocBook, a mark-up language for writing documentation Fred K Ollinger    
5/07/2003 Central USP A Compressed Summary of Diff Jeff Abrahamson    
6/04/2003 Central USP Using Linux to improve IT/Security Chris Mann    
7/02/2003 Central USP Cryptography Theory and the GPG application Gabe Rosenkoetter Slides  
8/06/2003 Central USP Integrating MySQL and PHP Bill Patterson Slides  
9/03/2003 Central USP The Ins and Outs of Procmail Andreas Ringstad    
10/01/2003 Central USP Linux as a Web Application Server Platform W. Chris Shank Slides  
11/05/2003 Central USP The Ruby Programming Language Walt Mankowski Slides  
12/3/2003 Central USP Lightning Talks - 5 minute topics:
  1. New features in PHP 5.0
  2. KDE desktop services
  3. Enigmail
  4. One-Time Passwords (OPIE)
  5. Lightweight web browsers
  6. screen(1) tricks
  7. The joe editor
  1. Bill Patterson
  2. Ian Geiser
  3. LeRoy Cressy
  4. Michael Toren
  5. Tom Boutell
  6. Walt Mankowski
  7. John Karr
  4. Slides
  6. Slides
  
1/7/2004 Central USP GD Graphics library Tom Boutell    
2/4/2004 Central USP How to Avoid Writing Kernel
Modules, for fun and non-profit.		 Michael Toren Slides  
3/3/2004 Central USP KOLAB groupware server Ian Geiser and Jason Nocks Slides  
4/7/2004 Central USP Perl DBI Michael Bryman    
5/5/2004 Central USP IPTables LeRoy Cressy    
6/2/2004 Central USP Linux on the Ipaq Jon Nelson Slides  
7/7/2004 Central USP Cryptography Theory and the GPG
    application, Part 2		 Gabriel Rosenkoetter Slides  
8/4/2004 Central USP Morphix Application: A live CD for remote
    installation & administration		 Edward T. Arrington  
9/1/2004 Central USP Topics in Telephony and Linux Telephony Todd Lieberman Slides  
10/6/2004 Central USP MythTV: A Linux-based open-source PVR Mike Joseph Slides  
11/3/2004 Central USP HP & Open Source: An Insider's View Bob Mader Slides 17
12/1/2004 Central USP Internals of the qmail mail system Mark Jason Dominus Slides 22
1/5/2005 Central USP Introduction to LDAP Jason Stelzer Slides 23
2/2/2005 Central USP Lightning Talks, Round 3
  1. Advanced screen(1) Hacks
  2. Data Structures
  3. The SFS File System
  4. Open Source Software for Higher Mathematics
  5. A Beginner's Guide to Gentoo
  6. Five Damian Conway Modules in Five Minutes
  7. Introduction to SQL-Ledger
  1. Michael C. Toren
  2. Bill Patterson
  3. Jeff Abrahamson
  4. CJ Fearnley
  5. David Kaplowitz
  6. Walt Mankowski
  7. Eric Lucas
  1. Slides
  2. Slides
  3. Slides
  4. Slides
  5. Slides
  6. Slides
  7. Slides
  
3/2/2005 Central USP Hardware Monitoring with
lm_sensors and Smartmontools		 Mark M. Hoffman Slides  
4/6/2005 Central USP PHP and XML Bill Patterson Slides  
5/4/2005 Central USP Advanced Emacs Features Eric J. Roode Slides  
6/1/2005 Central USP Monitoring with Nagios Sean Finney Slides 24
7/6/2005 Central USP Statistics Programs Greg Dean No slides available; speaker did not appear for presentation 14
8/3/2005 Central USP Using Graph Theory to Detect Security Policy Violators Walt Mankowski Slides 31
9/7/2005 Central USP Greenplum Bizgres Overview Ken Brown No slides available; speaker did not appear for presentation  
10/5/2005 Central USP System administration and security with cfengine Harry Hoffman    
11/2/2005 Central USP Packet Radio and APRS with Linux Paul J. Morris Slides  
11/14/2005 North Borders Books in Montgomeryville Social Mixer/General Linux Discussion     8
12/7/2005 Central USP History of Classic Unix Security Holes Mark Jason Dominus Slides  
1/4/2006 Central USP Time Management for System Administrators Tom Limoncelli Slides and Video  
1/16/2006 North Home of Jesus Arocho, Telford Text-based communication in Linux Elizabeth Krumbach related notes here and here 7
2/1/2006 Central USP Two related 30-minute presentations on Computer Hardware:
  1. PIC Microcontrollers
  2. RealTime Linux

  1. Mark M. Hoffman
  2. Nathan Schlehlein
  1. Slides
  2.  
 
3/1/2006 Central USP Asterisk IP-PBX and Asterisk at Home Lee Marzke Slides  
3/20/2006 West The Drafting Room, Exton PLUG West Linuxbiernacht General meeting   22
4/5/2006 Central USP The Bazaar-NG Revision Control System James Blackwell    
4/17/2006 West Unisys, Malvern Mission-Critical Enterprise Linux Steven Meyers Slides 30
5/3/2006 Central USP Integrated Windows and Linux Authentication Services Jeremy Moskowitz    
5/15/2006 North Home of Lee Marzke, Collegeville Asterisk@Home w/ live demonstration Lee Marzke   7
5/18/2006 West Unisys, Malvern Asterisk IP-PBX and Asterisk@Home Lee Marzke Slides  
6/7/2006 Central USP Integrated Exchange and Postfix Scenarios Thomas Boutell    
6/19/2006 West Unisys, Malvern M and the GT.M High-Performance Database K. S. Bhaskar    
7/5/2006 Central USP InfiniBand Christopher Barry    
7/17/2006 North Sly Fox Brewpub Royersford The Subversion (svn) Version Control System Mike Joseph   9
7/20/2006 West Unisys, Malvern Lightning Talks (multiple)    
8/2/2006 Central USP Google Internals Toby DiPasquale Slides  
8/21/2006 West Unisys, Malvern Xen Virtualization Steven Meyers    
9/6/2006 Central USP Web Development Frameworks:
  1. Django
  2. Ruby on Rails
  1. Gabriel Farrell
  2. Randy Schmidt
  2. Slides
  
9/21/2006 West Unisys, Malvern Hardware Monitoring with lm_sensors and Smartmontools Mark M. Hoffman    
10/4/2006 Central USP Web Development Frameworks:
  1. Zope
  2. Cake
  1. Lee Marzke
  2. Darian Anthony Patrick
  1. Slides
  
10/16/2006 West Unisys, Malvern Approximation Algorithms Walt Mankowski Slides  
11/1/2006 Central USP Software RAID Julien Wallior Slides  
12/6/2006 Central USP A Gentle Introduction to MUMPS K.S. Bhaskar    
12/18/2006 West Unisys, Malvern TCP Connection Retention after an IP Address Change Paul L. Snyder    
1/3/2007 Central USP Open Source Web GUI Toolkits Nathan Schlehlein Slides  
1/15/2007 North Home of Lee Marzke, Collegeville Women in F/OSS Elizabeth Bevilacqua Slides 5
1/18/2007 West Unisys, Malvern Zimbra mail server Andrew Libby    
2/7/2007 Central USP Here Be Dragons: The Path to KDE4 Matthew Rosewarne Slides  
2/19/2007 West Unisys, Malvern Open Source Web GUI Toolkits Nathan Schlehlein Slides  
3/7/2007 Central USP Building Internet Kiosks with Linux and Firefox James Barrett Slides  
3/15/2007 West The Drafting Room, Exton PLUG West Linuxbiernacht General meeting    
4/4/2007 Central USP Cross-Platform Digital Audio Streaming Michael Bevilacqua Slides 16
4/16/2007 West Unisys, Malvern Zenoss - Better than Nagios W. Chris Shank    
5/2/2007 Central USP Lightning Talks, Round 4
  1. Nethack
  2. Venkman
  3. PAPI
  4. The Basics of Debian Packaging

  1. Matthew Rosewarne
  2. Bill Patterson
  3. Walt Mankowski
  4. James Barrett

  1. Slides
  3. Slides
  4. Slides
14
5/14/2007 North Tangeis, LLC & Kenetic Web Building Debian packages Matthew Rosewarne Slides (sig) 8
5/17/2007 West Unisys, Malvern Meldware Communications Suite: Groupware for Linux Andrew Oliver Slides  
6/6/2007 Central USP The Erlang Programming Language Toby DiPasquale Slides  
6/18/2007 West Unisys, Malvern Database Internals: Inside GT.M K. S. Bhaskar Slides  
7/4/2007 Central   Meeting cancelled for July 4th Holiday.   See you in August!
7/9/2007 North Unisys, Blue Bell Cross-Platform Digital Audio Streaming Michael Bevilacqua Slides 13
7/26/2007 West Unisys, Malvern Linux + HDTV Amul Shah Slides 31
8/1/2007 Central USP Meldware Communications Suite: Groupware for Linux Andrew Oliver
8/20/2007 West Unisys, Malvern The Erlang Programming Language Toby DiPasquale Slides 16
9/5/2007 Central USP Debian kiosks & Debian Live James Barrett 12
9/10/2007 North Unisys, Blue Bell The Erlang Programming Language Toby DiPasquale Slides 13
9/15/2007 North PACS, Hatboro Special Event: Software Freedom Day @ PACS Several   75+
9/20/2007 West Unisys, Malvern Nagios Brian Stempin Slides 16
10/3/2007 Central USP Common Debian Build System Matthew Rosewarne Slides (sig)  
10/15/2007 West Unisys, Malvern Cross-Platform Infrastructure and Development K. S. Bhaskar   13
11/7/2007 Central USP Tux Droid Chris Keeler   18
11/12/2007 North Unisys, Blue Bell Building Internet Kiosks with Linux James Barrett Notes/How-To 8
11/15/2007 West Unisys, Malvern Using iSCSI with Linux Jim Trocki    
12/5/2007 Central USP What's a file? Mark Jason Dominus Slides 20
12/17/2007 West Unisys, Malvern zsh: My Shell Can Beat Up Your Shell Paul Snyder    
1/2/2008 Central USP Natural Language Processing with Perl Walt Mankowski Slides 15
2/6/2008 Central USP Linux and F/OSS at Dell
(Dell is bringing in Bailey from their office in Texas
to do this talk. Refreshments provided by Dell
following presentation.) 		Peter Bailey, Dell Linux Technologist   45
2/18/2008 West Fidelity National Information
Services, Malvern 		Natural Language Processing with Perl Walt Mankowski Slides 16
3/5/2008 Central USP Parallels Workstation and other virtualization technologies James Barrett Slides  
3/17/2008 West Unisys, Malvern PDL, the Perl Data Language John Kirk Slides 13
4/2/2008 Central USP The April Fools RFCs & Is "Software as a Service" (SaaS)
the end of System Administration? 		Tom Limoncelli   22
4/21/2008 West Unisys, Malvern Introduction to LISP Kyle R. Burton Slides 16
5/7/2008 Central USP Enter the Elephant: Massively Parallel Computing With Hadoop Toby DiPasquale Slides 23
5/12/2008 North Unisys, Blue Bell bash: JP's Choice Recipes JP Vossen Slides 8
5/19/2008 West Unisys, Malvern Introducing PIP: Developing transaction processing database apps K. S. Bhaskar    
6/4/2008 Central USP Lightning Talks: Image Editing in Linux
  1. Making a Square in The Gimp
  2. SNG (Scriptable Network Graphics)
  3. Krita

  1. James Barrett
  2. Toby DiPasquale
  3. Matthew Rosewarne
   
6/16/2008 West Unisys, Malvern bash: JP's Choice Recipes JP Vossen Slides  
7/2/2008 Central USP Hacking the eeePC Brent Saner   15
7/14/2008 North Coredial, Plymouth Meeting Introduction to Git: Fast Version Control System Robert Di Marco Slides 10
7/21/2008 West Unisys, Malvern Perl One-Liners
Spam Source Analysis 		Walt Mankowski
Michael Greb 		Slides
Slides 		 
8/6/2008 Central USP A Survey of Fuzzy String Matching Algorithms Kyle R. Burton Files 10
8/11/2008 North Coredial, Plymouth Meeting Introduction to LISP Kyle R. Burton Slides 8
8/18/2008 West Unisys, Malvern Cloud Cover: An Unauthorized Biography of EC2 Toby DiPasquale Slides  
9/3/2008 Central USP Comprehensive Anticipatory Systems Administration CJ Fearnley Slides 22
9/8/2008 North Coredial, Plymouth Meeting Test Driven Development Toby DiPasquale Slides 13
9/15/2008 West Unisys, Malvern Introduction to OpenStreetMap Richard Weait   12
10/1/2008 Central USP Cloud Cover: An Unauthorized Biography of EC2 Toby DiPasquale Slides 14
10/13/2008 North Coredial, Plymouth Meeting Why be in a bind9? Use djbdns Michael Bevilacqua   11
10/20/2008 West Unisys, Malvern
  • bash vs. dash
  • SSH Port Forwarding as Mini-VPN
JP Vossen 6
11/5/2008 Central USP Introduction to OpenStreetMap Richard Weait    
11/10/2008 North Coredial, Plymouth Meeting
  • bash vs. dash
  • SSH Port Forwarding as Mini-VPN
JP Vossen 12
11/17/2008 West Fidelity National Information Services, Malvern Exploring Linux Virtualization Jonathan Simpson   10
12/3/2008 Central USP Atypical Typing Mark Jason Dominus Slides 35
12/8/2008 North Coredial, Plymouth Meeting Perl One-Liners Walt Mankowski Slides
 
12/15/2008 West Fidelity National Information Services, Malvern Lightning Talks Various   10
1/7/2009 Central USP Lightning Talks: Desktop Applications
  1. Gnome-Do
  2. BitPim
  3. Asciio
  4. Semantik (formerly kdissert)
Speaker
  1. Alex Launi
  2. Rachel Rawlings
  3. Walt Mankowski
  4. Matthew Rosewarne
   
1/12/2009 North Coredial, Plymouth Meeting zsh: My Shell Can Beat Up Your Shell Paul Snyder Slides
Demos 		14
1/19/2009 West   CANCELLED DUE TO INCLEMENT WEATHER      
1/21/2009 East Digital Wave Technologies, Huntingdon Valley Munin Kam Salisbury Slides 8
2/4/2009 Central USP Clustered file systems and Lustre Julien Wallior   11
2/9/2009 North Coredial, Plymouth Meeting Cloud Cover: An Unauthorized Biography of EC2 Toby DiPasquale Slides 11
2/16/2009 West Fidelity National Information Services, Malvern djbdns Michael Bevilacqua    
2/18/2009 East Digital Wave Technologies, Huntingdon Valley zsh: My Shell Can Beat Up Your Shell Paul Snyder Slides
Demos 		 
3/4/2009 Central USP Building websites with CodeIgniter Eric Lucas   14
3/9/2009 North Coredial, Plymouth Meeting Secure Shell Scripting JP Vossen Slides 9
3/16/2009 West Fidelity National Information Systems, Malvern Secure Shell Scripting JP Vossen    
3/18/2009 East Digital Wave Technologies, Huntingdon Valley djbdns Michael Bevilacqua    
4/1/2009 Central USP OpenWrt Brent Saner Notes & Slides  
4/13/2009 North Coredial, Plymouth Meeting OpenWrt Brent Saner Notes & Slides 8
4/20/2009 West Fidelity National Information Services, Malvern M/DB K.S. Bhaskar    
4/22/2009 East Digital Wave Technologies, Huntingdon Valley OpenWrt Brent Saner Notes & Slides 7
4/25-26/2009 ALL Ewing Township, New Jersey Trenton Computer Festival Table details, wiki sign-up Wrap-up blog entry  
5/6/2009 Central USP Introduction to Git Kyle R. Burton Slides 28
5/11/2009 North Coredial, Plymouth Meeting Introduction to Git Kyle R. Burton Slides 8
5/18/2009 West Fidelity National Information Services, Malvern Introduction to Git Kyle R. Burton Slides  
6/3/2009 Central USP LinuxCAD Presenter never showed. Robert Weaver    
6/8/2009 North Coredial, Plymouth Meeting Contributing to Open Source Projects Elizabeth Krumbach Slides 12
6/15/2009 West Fidelity National Information Services, Malvern Multicast DNS (mDNS) and avahi Amul Shah    

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