Autumn 2012

Hello everyone!

This Thursday, November 29 at 7:00pm in Dreese Labs 266, The Ohio State University Open Source Club will present "Personal Projects."

This talk will have members of the club giving small bits on what they are doing in their spare time. If you have interest in speaking, please email me  at wallace [dot] 586 [at] osu [dot] edu with your topic.

Ryan Karason will be demonstrating open source hardware. The purpose of the lecture is to discuss the basic principles of electricity as applied to circuitry and to introduce the open hardware prototyping platform created by Arduino. If you are interested in getting involved in making your own circuits or better understanding others' circuits so you can hack them, show up this Thursday; November 15, 2012 at 7PM in 266 Dreese Laboratory.

This week's meeting will include a presentation by C. Matthew Curtin, the first faculty advisor of our club as well as a Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. He is the founder of Interhack, a computer expert firm with offices in Columbus and Chicago. With clients across North America, Interhack consults in high-stakes situations including data breaches, mission-critical system failure, and forensic analysis of computer systems and data in complex litigation.

This Thursday, November 1st at 7:00PM in Dreese Labs 266, Joel Friedly will be presenting an overview of OpenStack.

OpenStack is an open source counterpart to the software behind Amazon Web Services (EC2, S3, etc.). Since being started in 2010 by NASA and Rackspace Hosting, more than 150 companies have joined the project, including AMD, Intel, Canonical, SUSE Linux, Red Hat, Cisco, Dell, HP, IBM and Yahoo!. It is free open source software released under the terms of the Apache License.

Thursday, October 25th at 7:00PM in Dreese Labs 266, Daniel Thau will be presenting an overview of various advanced functionality for the Vim text editor. This talk is not intended to fully educate the audience on the use of the discussed functionality so much as make the audience aware of the advanced functionality Vim has to offer in order to have something to work towards. Comfort with the basics of Vim would be useful but not required.

Hey everyone,

This Thursday, 2012/10/18 at 7pm in Dreese Labs 266, The Ohio State Open Source Club will be presenting "What NOT to do with your F/OSS Operating System."

This talk will be done a little more casual, with members sharing disaster stories of what they have done to their operating systems.

I encourage everyone to participate, I just ask that you email me back with these three fields so that I may make you a slide:
- Operating System
- What broke
- Solution if there was one

Thursday, October 11th at 7:00PM in Dreese Labs 264, Daniel Thau will be presenting an introduction to the Vim text editor. Vim is known for having a difficult learning curve, but for many of those who do any appreciable amount of work editing text (such as, but not limited to, programming), the benefits can far outweigh the costs.

This Saturday, from 12:00pm - 10:00pm in the Ohio Union Interfaith Prayer and Reflection Room, The Ohio State University Open Source Club will present it's second LAN Party of the autumn semester. Come out and join, meeting Open Source Club members and playing games (both open and closed source).

Hello everyone!

This Thursday, October 4th, at 7pm in Dreese Labs 264, Chris Wallace will be presenting "Open Source and Your Music."

This Thursday, September 20 at 7:00 pm in Dreese Labs 266, Steffan Pease will be presenting the Blender 3D Computer Graphics Software. Blender is a powerful open source application used for creating animated films, visual effects, interactive 3D applications or video games (source). This will be interactive, as we will be making an example mesh, and texturing it with ambient occlusion and color.

Good news everyone!

This Saturday, September 22 2012, from 12:00pm - 10:00pm in the Ohio Union Interfaith Prayer and Reflection Room, The Ohio State Open Source Club will present it's first LAN Party of the autumn semester. Come out and join, meeting Open Source Club members and playing games (both open and closed source).

This Thursday, September 13th at 7:00 pm in Dreese 266, Maxim Kim will be presenting the Emacs text editor.

GNU Emacs is a famous text editor proved to be extremely versatile and powerful.

This Thursday, September 6th at 7:00 pm in Dreese 266, Brad Hollander will be presenting the Android operating system. Android is Google's open-source mobile operating system for smartphones and tablets, built on top of a customized Linux kernel. Applications are written in Java and are compiled to be run on the Dalvik virtual machine. All are welcome and as always, there will be pizza.

I, Michael Yanovich, will be covering Wi-Fi Hacking on 2012/08/30 at 7:00pm (20120830T1900-0400 for those who love ISO8601 compliant dates) in Dreese Labs 266. What I want people to walk away from this talk with is the knowledge of how to try to protect their Access Points (AP) the best they can with currently available technology. I will start off with a basic introduction into simple Electricity and Magnetism (E&M) and quickly move into some of the layers of the OSI Model of networking involved. The bulk of the talk will be a live demonstration of testing the security of WEP and WPA (1 and 2). I encourage people to follow along and learn the most they can about wireless security. I'm bringing my own equipment for us to attack and I'm giving permission to those who attend to help out and to help show off the weakness of various types of security implementations that I will be demonstrating. I also have surprise raw data information about wifi access points in the Columbus area that will definitely be a treat!

DISCLAIMER: We do not encourage the use of any of the software and/or techniques to be used on any equipment besides equipment that you either own or are given explicit permission from the owner of said equipment. Also we are NOT responsible for the actions people take using these techniques learned at this meeting. All information that is being taught is very easily available on the Internet via your favourite search engine.

Thursday, August 23rd at 7:00 PM in Dreese Labs room 266, The Ohio State University Open Source Club will have its first meeting of the 2012-2013 academic year. Paul Schwendenman, this year's president, will be giving an introduction to what it means for something to be Open Source- hopefully helping to explain to any potential new members what the club is really about.

As always, pizza will be provided.

SystemTap is a scripting language for your kernel. It allows for profiling or otherwise analyzing a running system, both at the kernel and userspace levels. I will start my talk by reviewing some of the other profiling and debugging tools available on a Linux system, then will illustrate how SystemTap can do all of that and a whole lot more.