Suggested by Margaret Wendall, based in part on reading about her in Linux Journal

Jesse has offered to give this talk

Jesse has offered to give this talk

Have you ever wanted to learn beat-mixing or electronic music composition? Want to get started with software that's completely free and community-based? Jordan will cover the basics of DJing and introduce you to the free / open-source MIXXX digital DJ software. Then, we'll move on to tracker-based music composition using LittleGPTracker, which Jordan will demonstrate both on laptop and the Game Park handheld. LittleGPTracker is free and designed especially for 8-bit (GameBoy-style) music.

"STARPAUSE" (a.k.a. Jordan Gray) is a chiptune producer and founder of the Mp3Death netaudio label, which publishes music under the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial ShareAlike 2.0 license.

Elena Petrova of Unicon proposed that Unicon give a product demonstration of this product development toolkit for Linux handheld devices.

Mentioned by Julio C. Acosta of Infoblox as a possible speaker. He (Cricket) now works at Infoblox, and last spoke to SVLUG in August, 2007.

Cricket Liu is author of the classic reference DNS and BIND for O'Reilly and Associates.

Based on the Australian System, where source code is freely published for public review, the Open Vote Project's initial goals are to make a touchscreen voting system fully compatible with California election law, including a voter-verifiable receipt and easy access for the disabled. Once accomplished, the project will then expand into a global standard for secure, reliable, and full featured voting machine software, including features such as multi-lingual ballots, vote-anywhere technology, and onsite voter registration.

The Open Vote Foundation is an organization dedicated to the development and implementation of open, secure standards for electronic voting machines. Based in California, the foundation's chief focus is the development of the Open Vote Project, is an open source effort to develop free software for Direct Recording Electronic (DRE) voting machines.

Offer made to SVLUG Volunteers list.

Suggested as a possible future speaker on SVLUG Volunteers list.

Suggested as a possible future speaker on SVLUG Volunteers list. (Miller last spoke at SVLUG in 1998, at the time the Linux 2.2 kernel arrived -- at which time, he drew a crowd of 200 people.)

Suggested by member Aniruddha Mulay. May 2008 update: Bryan suggested that September 2008 or so would work for him.

Ed Cherlin speculated that he might be able to get John Gage to talk about "where technology is heading worldwide and also show us some of the latest toys."

John was formerly Chief Researcher at Sun, and now (June 2008) a principal at Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield, and Byers.

Andrew Fife reported that fyodor's July 2008 nmap talk would need to be rescheduled. "fyodor" (a pseudonym) is a very entertaining speaker (who has spoken at BayLISA), and an expert on network and system security.

fyodor is author/maintainer of the famous nmap security-probing utility.

Aniruddh Mulay suggested a speaker from that project (http://hadoop.apache.org/, which is an open source (Java) implementation of Google's MapReduce (http://labs.google.com/papers/mapreduce.html), which Yahoo is backing and running on thousands of servers.

Unknown.

Aniruddah Mulay listed Devicescape as a possibility.

Unknown.

Aniruddh Mulay listed Li as a possibility.

Unknown.

Rick Moen reminded us that past SVLUG speaker Kyle Rankin can speak on a variety of subjects, and quoted this lecture description from NBLUG's February 2008 talk: "In this talk Kyle Rankin will provide an introduction to performing forensics analysis on Linux machines using the popular Sleuthkit tools with their easy-to-use Autopsy web-based front-end. The talk will cover initial installation and configuration of Sleuthkit and Autopsy, basic concepts and considerations for a forensics investigation, and at the end there will be a demo with a compromised Linux image."

Kyle Rankin is a systems architect for Quinstreet, Inc., the current president of the North Bay Linux Users Group, the author of Knoppix Hacks, Knoppix Pocket Reference, Linux Multimedia Hacks, and Ubuntu Hacks, and has contributed to a number of other O'Reilly books. Kyle is also a columnist for Linux Journal, and has had articles featured in PC Magazine, TechTarget, and other publications. He most recently spoke to SVLUG in March 2009, on "Where'd my Files Go? - A Guide to the Modern Ubuntu Distribution".

Heather reminded us about inviting Robert, and Rick Moen commented further: Rob Harker is a fabulous speaker. I'd forgotten, until you mentioned him. My recollection, though, is that he lives in the Sierra Nevada foothills, above Sacramento, so I don't know how often he's in the Bay Area. Best guess on current contact info:
harker@harker.com
530-210-1101
http://www.harker.com/people/robert.html

To come.

Mark Weisler listed Gerald Combs (Wireshark developer) as a strong possibility.

To come.

Todd suggested someone from his firm as a speaker about (impliedly) either or both of these two open source projects, the first being broadly useful software for administering Uninterruptable Power Supplies (UPSes) from Linux/*ix, and the other a PDU management package.

To come.

Owen kindly posted offering to present on "Migrating IPv4-only Applications to IPv4/IPv6 dual stack, with working code examples", and adds that he can "also discuss a variety of IPv6 topics in a Q&A format", and that presentations and supporting materials can be found at http://owend.corp.he.net/ipv6/.

Andrew Fife mentioned in Nov. 2009 that he'd written asking about interest in speaking to SVLUG.

Andrew Fife mentioned in Nov. 2009 that he'd written asking about interest in speaking to SVLUG.

Andrew Fife mentioned in Nov. 2009 that he'd written asking about interest in speaking to SVLUG. This might be redundant the Jan. 2010 talk Mark Terranova will be giving about Ubuntu Linux 9.10 "Karmic Koala", but wouldn't be if it occurred after some passage of time. (There are new things to say, and Grant's a good speaker on his own merits.)