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Past Meeting Topics

Unigroup's Planned Meeting Topics

Unigroup has scheduled these meeting dates and topics (usually 3rd Thursdays):

2025-01-??: [Virtual] To-be-announced.
2025-03-??: [Virtual] To-be-announced.
2025-05-??: [Virtual] To-be-announced.

Unigroup's Proposed Meeting Topics

Unigroup is in the process of planning these meetings and topics:

Various Database Topics.
The State of the C++ Ecosystem.
Linux Clusters and High Availability
Xen / XenServer
VirtualBox
Building a Storage Server using ZFS.
DNS - Domain Name System
Implementing Luster and GPFS.
Anti-SPAM
Cloud & Grid Computing
Unix/Linux Authentication Mechanisms
Super-Computing Clusters
LaTex and Document Publishing

Unigroup is looking for speakers on the following topics:

Are there too many Linux distributions?
High Availability and Clustering
Open Source Development Tools
Nagios and Network Monitoring
Open Source OS Distributions - Round Table Discussion
LAMP - Part 3 - PHP
Samba 4
Computer Security Threats
Unix's 40th+ Birthday Celebration
Java Development
Unix/Linux Clustering Part 3: Beowulf
Samba
BGP Routing and Fault Tolerant Networking
Single "Floppy" Unix/Linux Distributions - Linux Router Project
Building a Firewall using FreeBSD and Linux
Unix Office Tools: Word Processors, Spreadsheets, Accounting Packages.
Cryptography / PKI
Emacs
Unix/Linux WiFi Security
Latest Storage Interface Technologies: iSCSI, Serial-ATA, Firewire, USB, etc.
PKI
Building a FreeBSD Firewall
Building a Linux Firewall
The Internet: How it Works
Electronic Commerce
LDAP
NTP
Emerging HTML Standards
Performance Benchmarking
Testing, Test Plans, Automated Testing Tools
Building Internet Servers
Internet/Network Security
Privacy & Encryption (including PGP / GnuPG)
Publically Available Unix Tools (including GNU utilities)
Unix System Administration Tools - crash & fsdb
What's New in Database Technology
Object Oriented Databases

Unigroup's Past Meeting Topics

Past Unigroup meetings have included the following topics (partial list):

Wireless Networking: Wi-Fi 6/6E (Extreme Networks/David Coleman).
Oracle Linux for CentOS Users (Oracle/David Gilpin).
Intel Processor/Technology Roadmap and Update - Part 2of2 (Intel/Charles Milo).
Intel Processor/Technology Roadmap and Update - Part 1of2 (Intel/Charles Milo).
IBM AIX Operating System and Power CPU Update (IBM/Carl Burnett).
Microservices and Kubernetes Design Patterns - Best Practices for Container Design and Orchestration (Red Hat/Robert Sedor).
Understanding Kubernetes and Kubernetes Clusters (AuriStor/Gerry Seidman).
Linux Kernel AFS (Distributed Filesystem) on Fedora 31 (AuriStor/Jeffrey Altman).
SDN/SDP - Software-Defined Network Perimeter with Data Center Trends Update (Cyxtera).
Open Source Computer Security: Offense and Defense (BTB Security).
Zenko Open-Source Multi-Cloud Data Controller (Scality/Candida Valois).
Networking+DataCenter Standards Update [including: 2.5+5Gb Ethernet, Cabling+Labeling Standards] (Leviton/Peter Helfrich).
Mini-Talks: Networking, Security, Cloud Infrastructure, Cloud Database Development (Blue Moon Technology/Matt Rothman, Programming Plus/Robert Weiner).
AMD Processor Technology Roadmap (AMD).
Solaris 11.4 Release Meeting w/SPARC CPU Update (Oracle/Bill Nesheim).
Software Defined Storage via iSCSI Storage Technology (Datera/Richard Ens).
Intel Processor/Technology Roadmap [including Meltdown/Spectre v4] (Intel/Charles Milo).
Computer/Network Security: Anatomy of a Hack (Palo Alto Networks/Chris Motley).
IBM Power9 AIX+Linux+OpenPOWER Update and Trends (Speaker: IBM/Ajit Gangaram).
SUSE Linux Update and Meltdown/Spectre (Speaker: SUSE Linux NYC Team).
OpenConfig / Vendor-Neutral Open Network API Programmability (Speaker: Arista Networks/Daniel Hertzberg).
Linux Performance Tuning (Speakers: Red Hat/Joe Mario+Larry Woodman).
The Latest C++ Standards (Speaker: Bloomberg/Alisdair Meredith).
Optical Fiber Networking (Speaker: OCC/Optical Cable Corp./Brian Smith).
A Brief Introduction to High-Performance Computing (HPC) (Speaker: PPPL/Prentice Bisbal).
Data Center Structured Cabling Trends (Speaker: Leviton/Peter Helfrich).
The Latest WiFi Standards (Speaker: ITsavvy/Conor Lyons).
Red Hat Enterprise Linux RHEL 7.3 Release Meeting (Speaker: Red Hat/John Priddy).
Fundamentals of Using Object Storage (Speaker: Scality/Candida Valois).
IT/Computing War Stories (Speaker Panel: Chris Lent/The Cooper Union; Matt Rothman/Blue Moon Technology; Robert Weiner/Programming Plus).
Oracle Solaris 11.3 Kernel Engineers Meeting (Speakers: Oracle/Solaris Operating System Team).
Dense Computing Architectures (Speaker: HPE/Isaac Rozenfeld).
Monitoring Docker Containers (Speaker: DataDog/Matt Williams).
Intel CPU Architecture Technology Roadmap (Speaker: Intel/Charles Milo).
2015-12-14: NYC Technical Groups Holiday Party
Solaris 11.3 and SPARC M7 Processor Release Meeting (Speaker: Pavel Anni+Jeff Victor/Oracle).
An Introduction to the Raspberry Pi (Speaker: Brian Reynolds).
High Speed Interconnect Fabrics: Infiniband & Ethernet: 100Gbps and Beyond (Speaker: Eitan Rabin/Mellanox Technologies Ltd).
Modern Data Center Infrastructure Overview: Trends, Challenges & Opportunities (Speaker: Robert McFarlane/Shen, Milsom & Wilke, LLC).
A Taste of DTrace on FreeBSD (Speaker: George Neville-Neil/The FreeBSD Project)
The Open Compute Hardware Platform (Philip Pokorny/Penguin Computing)
FreeBSD Kernel Debugging (using the Bhyve Hypervisor) (John Baldwin/The FreeBSD Project)
NYC Tech Groups Holiday Party.
Multi-Topic: Security Vulnerability Hot Topics; Debian Linux Mail Server Topics (Robert Weiner/Programming Plus+Unigroup; Chris Knadle).
FPGA Hardware Acceleration using OpenCL (Ron Huizen/BittWare & Nick Finamore/Altera).
The FreeBSD Test Suite (Julio Merino/The FreeBSD Project & Google).
Linux+AIX on Power8 CPU Architecture (Ajit Gangaram+Ann McDermott/IBM).
Functional Programming Languages - Panel Discussion (Community Panel)
Apache Hadoop (Charles Levesque/Cloudera)
Linux Cloud Computing - SuSE Linux Cloud & SuSE Enterprise Linux (Anthony Tortola+Alejandro Bonilla/SuSE)
NYC Technical User Groups Holiday Party 2013 (Field-Trip) (Unigroup/NYLUG/NYCBUG/LOPSA-NYC/others)
Data Center Infrastructure Field-Trip and Tour (Telehouse & ISPnet).
Data Center Networking: Current Architectures from the OS to Flow-Based Switching (Nick Ciarleglio/Arista Networks).
The OWASP BWA (Broken Web Application) Project - "When bad PHP apps are good" (Mordecai Kraushar/OWASP-NYC).
Building a High-Performance Low-Power White-Box Server Running CentOS 6.4 Linux (Robert Weiner/Programming Plus).
Oracle/Sun Solaris 11.1 Release Meeting (Isaac Rozenfeld/Oracle).
Oracle/Sun Solaris Kernel Engineers Meeting - Joint Meeting with LOPSA-NYC (Oracle/Sun Solaris Kernel Engineers).
Comparison of Configuration Management Systems (Sam Kottler/Red Hat/The Foreman Project)
Linux Remote Desktop Access using NoMachine NX (Robin Polak)
Hurricane Sandy Aftermath and War Stories (Panel Discussion: Robert Weiner/Programming Plus, Bob Hunt/Microsoft, Phillip Koblence/NYI, others)
NYC Technical User Groups Holiday Party 2012 (Unigroup/NYLUG/NYCBUG/LOPSA-NYC/others)
AMD Processor Roadmap & Features (Lynn Lewis/AMD)
Clustered PostgreSQL Databases (Mason Sharp/StormDB)
Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) Internals (Alex Scotti/Bloomberg)
SysAdmin Tools Round Table - Panel Discussion (Panel: Doug Hughes/D.E. Shaw Research, Justin Lintz/Bitly, Robert Weiner/Programming Plus)
The Hunt for the Lowest Network Latency (Jason Tesarz/TorreyPoint)
Oracle/Sun Solaris 11 Kernel Engineers Meeting - Zones/Management (Kernel Engineers/Oracle)
Oracle/Sun Solaris 11 Release Meeting (Isaac Rozenfeld/Oracle)
OpenAFS & The Andrew File System Distributed Storage Model (Jeff Altman/Your File System Inc.)
NFS and NFS Caching for Performance (Larry Boucher and Chris Harrer/Alacritech)
Intel Architecture & Processor Roadmap - Part 2 (Charles Milo/Intel)
Preventing SQL Injection Attacks with MySQL (Anthony Ferrara)
Deploying IPv6 (Perry Metzger/Metzger, Dowdeswell & Co.)
Special: The Latest in Malware Threats and Removal (Per Hollander)
HPC Cluster Parallel Filesystems & Storage Architecture: Lustre & GPFS (Ercan Kamber/RAID Inc.)
HP Unix and Hardware Briefing: BCS Roadmap, HP-UX Roadmap, HP-UX Comparison to Oracle/Sun Solaris (HP BCS Competitive Solutions Team: Billy Garcia, Tariq Khan, John Kuhr)
Unix/Linux Command Line Tips and Tricks : Part 2. (Jeff Jonas/Ferretronix.com, Robert Weiner/Programming Plus)
Unix/Linux Command Line Tips and Tricks : Part 1. (Jeff Jonas/Ferretronix.com, Robert Weiner/Programming Plus)
Embedded Linux Development for Financial Markets. (Wind River)
Solaris/OpenSolaris/Oracle/Sun Update (Isaac Rozenfeld, Oracle/Sun Microsystems); and
Panel Discussion: Your Favorite Operating Systems - Bootable Distributions and Tools. (Panel: Robert Weiner/Programming Plus, Chris Lent/The Cooper Union, Isaac Rozenfeld/Oracle, Matt Hirsch/Unigroup)
BASH Shell Programming and The Ubuntu UPSTART Init Daemon (Mark Sobell/Sobell Associates)
Intel Server Processor Roadmap (Charles Milo/Intel Corporation)
Computer Network Security: IPsec Configuration and EZ-VPN (Maritza Johnson/Columbia University)
Behavior-Based Emergency Preparedness and Response (Steven M. Crimando/XBRM)
Kerberos/LDAP Authentication with Active Directory Integration (Eric Hombo/Beyond Trust)
Evolution of the Solaris Installer Technology (Dave Miner/Sun Microsystems)
Copyright and Copyleft Open Source Software Licensing (James Hanft/Darby & Darby P.C.)
AIX Performance Tuning and Virtualization (Ken Milberg/PowerTCO, Joefon Jann/IBM)
Converged Networks: Infiniband/FibreChannel/10GbE/iSCSI (Vince Sykes/Blade Network Technology)
Implementing Low Latency Systems, with Novell/SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time (Novell SUSE RT Kernel Group)
The FreeBSD Networking Stack (George Neville-Neil/The FreeBSD Project Team)
Linux Real-Time Messaging (Tervela)
Solaris 10 Release Meeting and OpenSolaris Update: Field Trip to Sun Microsystems (Sun Microsystems)
The Asterisk Open Source PBX/Telephony System: From The Ground Up! (Paul Charles Leddy)
The Laconica Project and Micro-Blogging Based on XMPP Standards (Evan Prodromou)
Server Performance: Deploying and Scaling (Ruby on) Rails (Brian Gupta/Brandorr Group)
Web Development: The Joomla! Content Management System (Anthony Ferrara/Bigtrue INC.)
Serving High Performance Web Sites - Where Apache Fails (Anthony Ferrara/Bigtrue INC.)
FreeBSD 7 Launch Meeting (George Neville-Neil/The FreeBSD Project Team)
Experiences with the CentOS and Fedora Lunux/GNU Operating Systems (Robert Weiner/Programming Plus)
Creating Great Software with RUBY and RAILS (Heow Eide-Goodman)
IBM AIX 6.1 and POWER 6 (Bharvi Parikh/IBM)
OpenSolaris Project Indiana (Ian Murdock/Sun)
UBUNTU Linux (Nathan Eckenrode)
TCL from a SysAdmin's Point of View (Marc Spitzer)
Site Reliability at Google (Tom Limoncelli)
Field Trip to Sun Microsystems: Solaris 10 Networking, Virtualizaion, Hardware and other topics of interest. (Various Speakers from Sun)
Internet Security: TCP/IP Security Retrospective (Steven M. Bellovin)
AJAX and Advanced Javascript (Dan Phiffer/ShiftSpace)
The AMANDA Open Source Enterprise Backup System (Ian Turner/Zmanda)
The MySQL Database (Hans Zaunere/New York PHP)
Novell OpenSuSE Linux (Ross Brunson/Novell)
Time Management for System Administrators (Tom Limoncelli/Cibernet Corp)
Computing Compliance using Unix/Linux (Athena Archiver)
The INGRES Open Source Relational Database (Sam Somashekar/Computer Associates)
Getting Your Manager to Approve the Use of Open Source (Maria Winslow)
The OpenAFS Distributed Filesystem (Jeff Altman/Secure Endpoints)
Solaris 10 Post-Release Field Trip (Sun Microsystems)
ZOPE - An Open Source Web Development Framework (Rob Page/Zope Corporation)
Wireless Access Around NYC and Introduction to WiFi (Ben Serebin/NYCwireless, Dan Wexler/Genesis Computer Security, Rob Weiner/Programming Plus)
Apple OS/X Operating system and Comparison to *BSD (Apple Computer Panel)
Web Services (XML, SOAP, WSDL, UDDI) (Bruce Grant, SCOx)
Migrating From Windows NT 4.0: Linux or Windows Server? (Tony Iams/D.H. Brown Associates, Inc.)
Launch Event... Solaris 10 - The Next Generation Datacenter OS (Ambreesh Khanna, Andrew Deally, Jarod Jenson/Sun Microsystems)
MIT Kerberos 5: Introduction to Authentication and Cross-platform Interoperability (Jeff Altman/Secure Endpoints, Inc.)
AIX / AIX 5L Overview and Futures (Bill Sandve/IBM)
IPv6 and IP Management (Lucent Technologies)
Remote Monitoring with SNMP (Jozef Skvarcek, Mark Spitzer)
Internet Security: Firewall Intelligence (Arpan Lakra, Larry Reed/Checkpoint Software Technologies)
Log Collection, Auditing and Preservation (Manos Megagiannis/Totally Secure)
Unix Technology Update: 64-bit Hardware and Operating Systems (Marty Poniatowski/HP)
Python and Twisted (Itamar Shtull-Trauring/Zoteca)
IT DISASTER RECOVERY: "Running a Winning Relay Race" (Sharon Williams/HP BCRS)
Building Integrated Wireless Applications Using Java Technology (Carl Sayres/Data Representations)
Japple - A Rapid Web Application Development Environment (William Thompson/Saucon Technologies)
Building a Virutal Workplace (Tamar Newberger/Tarantella, Inc.)
Linux Multimedia Tools: Audio, Video and Imaging (Marco Scoffier)
How do sysadmins write books: Internet Collaboration (Tom Limoncelli/Lumeta Corp; EverythingSysadm.Com)
LTSP - Linux Terminal Server Project (Andrew Williams/VarTech Solutions;LTSP)
Wireless Networking (Andrew Raver, Dang Nguyen/Enterasys Networks)
Firewalling using Stateful Inspection Packet Filtering (Jeff Mow & Dan Chevrie/Netscreen)
Intrusion Detection (James Licata)
NetBSD: A Freely Available and Highly Portable Unix OS (Perry Metzger/Wasabi Systems)
Linux Clustering: Fault Tolerant High Availability Clusters (Nick Carr/Mission Critical Linux)
Linux Clustering: Beowulf Clusters (Jozef Skvarcek/Datek Online)
Security Protocols and Technologies (Jeff Allman/The Kermit Project at Columbia University)
Linux Overview: Today & Tomorrow (Pat Villani/Compaq)
Unix Telephony - Bayonne - A GNU IVR Server (David Sugar/GNU Maintainer)
Technology Brief: Data Storage Technologies (Dan Kalagher/Dot Hill Systems)
Web-To-Database Integration with Perl (John Paxton/WestLake Internet Training)
DSL and Web Proxy Gateways (Dan Budne/Budne Software Consulting, Ram Tanamy/Ultinet, Robert Weiner/Programming Plus, Toni Wuersch/SIAC)
FreeBSD (Chris Masto, NetMonger Communications)
SENDMAIL: Overview, New Features, Anti-Spamming Techniques (Blair Brown, Roger Klorese)
Cross-Platform Connectivity: SAMBA (Ed Weinberg, DeTel, Inc)
Building and Running a High Traffic Unix Web Site (Jack Cate, Edmund Publications)
Unix-Based Anti-Virus Solutions, Real Time Scanning at the Firewall (James Glynn, Trend Micro)
E-Business Management Systems (Chris Riley, Segue Software)
The Postfix Mail Server (Wietse Venema, IBM)
Virtual Private Networking (Mike Devine, Compatible Systems)
Unix Security Tools (Panel Discussion: Dan Budne, Robert Weiner/Programming Plus, Dan Wexler/Genesis Computer Corp.)
The Must-Have List Freely Available Software (Panel Discussion: Dan Budne, Michael Smith, Jay Sulzberger [of LXNY], Robert Weiner/Programming Plus)
The Year 2000 Problem: UNIX and Distributed Systems: The Current Year 2000 Hotspot (Leon Stevens, Millennium Technologies Group)
LAN Diagnostics: The rise and fall of Network Analyzers (Richard Whitehead, Micromuse)
NFS on Small Iron - Making PCs Interoperable (Fred Whiteside, Hummingbird Communications/Beame & Whiteside)
The Development of a Security Policy (William Garner, North American Performance Group)
The Future of Unix: Development of the 64-Bit Unix Operating System (Tamar Newberger, SCO)
Authentication and Data Privacy Technologies (Steve Moubray, V-One Corporation)
LAN Technologies - Focusing on Fast Ethernet, Switching, Network Management and ATM (Ike Mustafa and Tony Stramandinoli from SMC)
Internet Security Threats: The Next Generation (Perry Metzger of Piermont Information Systems)
Disaster Recovery Planning (Martin Zam of Coopers & Lybrand)
RAID Technology (Rick Ruskin of MTI)
Strategic Technology Issues in the UNIX Industry (Doug Michels of SCO)
High Speed Networking Technology (Art Tolda of Hewlett Packard)
Switching LANs (Debby Goldman and John Garrison from XYLAN)
UNIX on the PC - Sun's Solaris (Sun Microsystems)
JAVA (Charles Francois of Sun Microsystems)
The Telecomm Bill of 1996 (Shabbir Safdar, Steven Cherry of the VTW and SEA)
IPv6 - Including new security proposals for IPv6 & IPv4 (Perry Metzger of Piermont Information Systems)
NIS, NIS+ and NFS Protocols (Hal Stern of Sun Microsystems)
NFS - Network File System (John Costa of Auspex Systems)
The Distributed Transaction Model - Tuxedo (Peter Dessart of IMC)
So You Want to Connect to the Internet (Panel: J.P. Radley of J.P. Radley Inc., Bob Tinkelman of N.Y. NET, Dan Wexler of Genesis Computer Corp., Robert Weiner of Programming Plus)
Firewalls and Internet Security (Steve Bellovin of AT&T Bell Labs)
Sendmail (David Feldman)
Understanding OSF's Distributed Computing Environment - DCE (Saju Joseph of HP)
Exploring the Internet using the World Wide Web (Tim O'Reilly of O'Reilly & Assoc., Liz Stokes of Panix)
TCP/IP Network Management - SNMP (Cisco Systems)
Personal Unix - Unix on Intel - Linux/SCO/others (Panel: Liz Stokes, Robert Weiner/Programming Plus, J.P. Radley, Dan Wexler/Genesis Computer Corp.)
Firewalls (Marcus Ranum [formerly] of Trusted Information Systems)
Kermit Communications Software (Frank da Cruz of Columbia University)
High Performance Disk Architectures - RAID (Ben Monderer of Box Hill)
Wide Area Networking (Wiltel)
Internet Tools - Telnet, FTP, Archie, Gopher, WEB. (Brian Reynolds)
PC X Applications including X-Terminals (Peter Auditore of Hummingbird)
Unix Tools - Perl, AWK, SED, SH. (Steve Miano, Robert Weiner/Programming Plus)
Unix War Stories (Panel)
High Speed Communications - Modem Protocols (Joe Ben-David of Telebit)

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