BLU Desktop GNU/Linux SIG Meeting - Meshnets - Weds, Mar 4, 2015

When: Wednesday, March 4, 6:30 - 8:30PM

Location: Akamai, 8 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA

Directions
http://www.akamai.com/html/about/driving_directions.html
Also easily accessibly by T.

Notes

1) Please note the location
is different from BLU's
standard MIT meeting location.

2) Akamai has generously
agreed to provide space and
'free as in food' for this
meeting. Thank you to our
sponsor!
http://www.akamai.com/

3) Akamai is hiring! Email
me for recruiter contact
info.

4) Free pass & t-shirt to
LibrePlanet for volunteers
(see below).

Summary

We are excited to
welcome Will Fleurant for a
presentation Meshnets. A
meshnet is a decentralized
network built on secure
protocols for routing traffic
over private mesh or public
internetworks independent of a
central supporting
infrastructure.

Will recently attended
31C3More in Germany and brings
with him pipeline news from
Project Meshnet hackers. More
details about Project Meshnet
here:
https://projectmeshnet.org/

Volunteers Needed

The FSF is seeking volunteers
to help at the LibrePlanet
2015 conference, March 21 - 22
at MIT. Volunteers recieve
gratis conference admission
and a LibrePlanet 2015
t-shirt.

Please see
https://libreplanet.org/2015/volunteer/
or email Chrissie Himes at
info@fsf.org

More Upcoming Meetings

GNU/Linux Installfest LV Sat,
Mar 14 at MIT (all day)
http://blu.org/cgi-bin/calendar/2015-ifest5

Linux Soup 15 with Christoph
Doerbeck Weds, Mar 18 at MIT
http://blu.org/cgi-bin/calendar/2015-mar

LibrePlanet 2015 Sat & Sun,
Mar 21 - 22 at MIT
https://libreplanet.org/2015/




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Boston Linux Meeting Wednesday, February 18, 2015 - CANCELLED

Based on factors such as lack of parking, unreliable rapid transit, and
snow forecasted for Wednesday we have decided to cancel the February 18,
2015 meeting.

Our next installfest is planned for Saturday March 14th, and our next
monthly meeting is on Wednesday March 18th (Linux Soup XV).

Please refer to our website, http://www.blu.org for further information.
--
Jerry Feldman <gaf@blu.org>
Boston Linux and Unix
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Boston Linux Meeting Wednesday, February 18, 2015 - SoC Update : How embedded Linux is changing the PC ecosystem

When: February 18, 2015 7PM (6:30PM for Q&A)
Topic: SoC Update : How embedded Linux is changing the PC ecosystem
Moderator: Kurt Keville


Location: MIT Building E51, Room 315**
Please note room change

Please note that Wadsworth Street is under construction. You can enter
Ames St from Memorial Drive, and take a right onto Amherst St.

Summary

Kurt discusses the latest news regarding System-on-a-Chip (SoC)



For further information and directions please consult the BLU Web site
http://www.blu.org
Please note that there is usually plenty of free parking in the E-51
parking lot at 2 Amherst St, or directly on Amherst St.

After the meeting we will adjourn to the official after meeting meeting
location at The Cambridge Brewing Company
http://www.cambridgebrewingcompany.com/

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Jerry Feldman <gaf@blu.org>
Boston Linux and Unix
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Tonight - BLU Desktop GNU/Linux SIG Meeting - CryptoParty - Weds, Feb 4, 2015

*Sorry for the last minute notice. Some extenuating family (health) issues
have slowed me down as of late. If you plan to attend tonight, please
email me at willrico@gmail.com so I can give a proper headcount to Akamai
and they can order enough food.

When: Wednesday, February 4, 6:30 - 8:30PM

Location: Akamai, 8 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA

Directions
http://www.akamai.com/html/about/driving_directions.html
Also easily accessibly by T.

Cost: Free

Notes

1) Please note the location is different from BLU's
standard MIT meeting location.

2) Akamai has generously agreed to provide space
and 'free as in food' for this meeting.
Thank you to our sponsor!
http://www.akamai.com/

Summary

Albert Willis along with Steve Revilak, Quartermaster for the Massachusetts
Pirate Party <https://masspirates.org>, will show us how to protect
ourselves online. Topics will include:

* How Packet Sniffing Works and Why You're Vunerable

* Securing Email (PGP)

* Securing Web Browsing

* Q & A for other topics of interest (e.g. chat, VOIP, etc.)

Plus, Jérémie Astori will present cryptic
<https://github.com/astorije/cryptic> [github.com], a script to very easily
split root and home partitions when installing Ubuntu on a fully encrypted
disk.

More events and announcements:

Natick FOSS
Thurs, Feb 5 at Natick Community-Senior Center at 117 East Central Street
http://natickfoss.org/

Mesh Nets with William Fleurant
Weds, Mar 4 at Akamai
http://meetu.ps/2G5Rkm

Linux Soup 15 with Christoph Doerbeck
Weds, Mar 18 at MIT
http://blu.org/cgi-bin/calendar/2015-mar

LibrePlanet 2015
Sat & Sun, Mar 21 - 22 at MIT
https://libreplanet.org/2015/
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