Spring 2009

This Thursday, June 4^th, the Open Source Club leaders for the 2009-2010 school year will be discussing changes for the following year. All club members are strongly encouraged to use this opportunity to give their feedback about how the next year should be run.

This Thursday, June 4^th, we are reviewing and revising the club constitution, as well as working out the logistics of what we will be doing in the next year. Please come ready to offer feedback. Also, as of today the website is open for commenting. Please post any ideas about changes you have on the constitution page. Registration required.

This Thursday (May 28^th), in Dreese Labs room 317, we elected club officers for the 2009-2010 year.

Those who ran for an officer position are listed below. Active members were only allowed to run for one position, And members were required to attend for their vote to be counted. Only full-time students who will be enrolled full-time at OSU were allowed to apply.

On Tuesday May 19th, Embedded designer, musician, and ex-Imagineer Jamie Robertson will be giving a talk on embedded systems in the art and entertainment world.

This Thursday, Robotics guru Scott Preston will show us how to engineer and program mobile robots with web cameras for vision and microcontrollers for communicating with onboard sensors, all from an Ubuntu PC.

The meeting will be held in Dreese Labs room 113 at 7:00.

This Thursday, 4/23/09, Tom Henretty came to show us some more advanced bash techniques. Tom demonstrated some of the stuff that Jim Dinan didn't have time to get to back when he did his awesome bash talk in December.

A tentative outline for this event was:

This Thursday, April 16^th, Catherine Devlin will be giving us an introduction to the Python programming language.

This presentation is a quick introduction to Python programming using a live graphical demonstration. A simulation of solar system dynamics is built in gradual steps, with Python concepts and syntax demonstrated as we go. This presentation is suitable for anyone who'd like to get started with Python, or who just likes seeing planets blow up.

This Thursday, April 9^th, in Dreese 317 , Alek Rollyson will be giving a talk on how to secure your shell server through effective configuration.

Tricks will include:
--Disable root login
--Public/private keys
--Disable X11 forwarding
--Login attempts/timeout
--Only allow certain usersnames to login
--Only allow certain groups to login
--Interaction with PAM
--Allow by ip address
--Block by ip address

This Thursday [04/02/09] we will be giving an overview of to expect this quarter.

Topic that will be discusses are:

-- Upcoming events
-- Future meeting topics
-- Elections for next years officers

You will also have a chance to suggest:

-- Meeting topics
-- How we spend the money we got from e-council
-- Possible events we can attend as a club

As always, the meeting will be at 7p in Dreese 266.