2009-09-03 Meeting Minutes

From CSLabsWiki

Contents 1 Announcements 2 Lightning Talks 3 Projects 4 Presentation Request/Offers/Ideas 5 Mentors 6 Coding Sessions

Announcements

• Reintroductions (sp?)
• Trying to take minutes on The Wiki.

Lightning Talks

• Todd - deshantm
• Erin - kennede
• Pat - wilburpf

Projects

• Resurrected
  • Honeypot (collect malware from attackers) - User:appletrp
  • Sociable Robotics (AI is awesome) - User:kennede
  • OSCKAR (play with malware in an enclosed environment) - User:deshantm,User:wilburpf
    • KIOSCKAR (the kiosk of your dreams)
    • You should always have at least two sub-bullets
  • DIGITALLIFELINES.com (DIGITAL LIFELINES, not DIGITALLI FELINES) - User:jnm
    • Code updates
    • Awesome website creation
  • OSP - User:torreyji
  • FANG - User:torreyji

• Infrastructure
  • Linux builds (prior experience not required) - User:huwj,User:shephezj
  • SODA FUNd (we put the FUN in SODA) - User:wilburpf

• Project ideas
  • We have resources! Just ask... - User:shephezj,User:jnm
    • Servers
    • Lab/research boxes
  • BenchVM (automated benchmarking of various VMMs) - User:shephezj,User:deshantm
  • Cloud computing
    • libcloud (FOSS cloud computing API) - User:shephezj
    • Eucalyptus (FOSS cloud computing system) - User:yangt
  • SpyWatch (FOSS watch computer) - User:wilburpf

Presentation Request/Offers/Ideas

• Workshop presentations (~one hour long, usually after meetings)
  • SoftwareFreedom.org people (legalities and legal issues involving FOSS) - User:wilburpf
  • Nessus - Gula
  • Snort - Marty
  • z/VM and the History of Virtualization - User:jonessm,User:wilburpf
  • Game of Life - User:kennede
  • +PHP Scripting and Authentication - User:appletrp
  • +Low-level programming and OSes - User:torreyji
  • Rootkits - User:torreyji
  • Web programming in general - User:shephezj
  • Python - User:shephezj
  • AJAX, JQuery - User:lewisrj #remotely or next semester?#
  • Git - User:torreyji
  • ++Ksplice and DKMS (default in Ubuntu 9.10)

• Lightning talks
  • Game of Life - User:kennede
  • LiveCDs - User:clappcj #NEXT WEEK#
  • BladeCenter - User:mccarrms

Mentors

• General information
  • Not allowed to laugh at you, but might laugh with your mistakes
  • Direct you to useful information/people
  • Accountability partner

Coding Sessions

Tuesdays and Thursdays from 8pm-10pm. Bring your homework and party!