Upcoming Meetings

Upcoming Speakers

Date Speaker Topic
July 3, 2013 John Skarbek Hail to the Vagrant!
August 7, 2013 Speaker Needed Contact me at ryanleefrantz[AT]gmail[dot]com
September 4, 2013 Speaker Needed Contact me at ryanleefrantz[AT]gmail[dot]com
October 2, 2013 Speaker Needed Contact me at ryanleefrantz[AT]gmail[dot]com
November 6, 2013 Speaker Needed Contact me at ryanleefrantz[AT]gmail[dot]com
December 4, 2013 Speaker Needed Contact me at ryanleefrantz[AT]gmail[dot]com
January 8, 2014 Speaker Needed Contact me at ryanleefrantz[AT]gmail[dot]com

Past Speakers

Date Speaker Topic
March 2, 2011 Theo Schlossnagle What System Administrators Can Do to Enable Better Organizational Accountability
April 6, 2011 Open Forum What’s in your Bash.rc file?
May 4, 2011 Open Forum Internal Documentation Systems
June 1, 2011 Eric Sproul ZFS
July 6, 2011 Timothy Webster It’s Not Paranoia, Yes They Really Are Out to Get You
August 3, 2011 Open Forum SSDs, Log Aggregation and Analysis, and Sys Admin Ethics
September 8, 2011 Tom Loveland Discussion of Google Fibre and Repealing the Maryland Tech Tax
October 5, 2011 Ryan Frantz Implementing Web Load Balancing on a Shoestring Budget
November 2, 2011 Open Forum ZFS Troubleshooting, RAID, and Migrating to GMail in a Corporate Environment
December 7, 2011 Holiday Meetup Dinner and Drinks at Longhorn Steakhouse
January 4, 2012 Scott Roberts High Performance Computing at Johns Hopkins University – Rocks Clusters
February 1, 2012 John Coale The Convergence of Social Media Technologies – How Gaming, Virtual Worlds, and Social Networking are Coming Together
March 7, 2012 Open Forum Patching *nix Systems
April 4, 2012 Tom Limoncelli The Ganeti Open Source Virtualization Project (and Why a Time Management Guru Loves It)
May 2, 2012 Round Table Discussion Configuration Management (i.e. Puppet, Chef, CFEngine, “glue” scripts)
June 6, 2012 Lewis Berman IPv6 Basics
July 4, 2012 Carolyn Rowland and David Pullman Releasing 9/11 Data to Satisfy FOIA: It’s Just a Simple Web Site, Right?
August 1, 2012 David Lang Building a Logging Infrastructure to Handle 100K Lines of Logs/sec
September 5, 2012 Nick Acks Hierarchical Storage Management at the NASA Center for Climate Simulation
October 3, 2012 David Quigley An Introduction to SELinux
November 7, 2012 Baltimore Technology Park Datacenter Tour
December 5, 2012 Edge Web Hosting Datacenter Tour
February 6, 2013 Jason Dixon The State of Monitoring
March 6, 2013 Snowquester Meeting Postponed Due to Terrible Weathermen
April 3, 2013 Bryan Fafaul Balancing Risks for Glory
May 2, 2013 LOPSA-East Conference Cancelled Due to LOPSA-East Conference in NJ
June 5, 2013 Roundtable Discussing Future Plans for the Crabby Admins