ABLEconf Free Software for Free Enterprise

Start: 10:00
End: 16:00

NOTE: We will be in Room 204 this time!

Where: University of Advancing Technology: 2625 W. Baseline Tempe, AZ 85283
(Baseline Road, just west of I-10 and Pointe Hilton South Mountain, south side of Baseline, near Fry's Electronics Tempe).

The monthly Installfest is co-sponsored by PLUG and the AZloco.

RSVP: InstallFest@PLUG.phoenix.az.us
- Your computer with specs and equipment, including monitor, keyboard, mouse, and network card.
- What you hope to accomplish and learn by installing Linux
- Encouraged to RSVP but not required

Who: Anyone who wants to see Linux or run it on their computer.
- Volunteers always needed, please e-mail your pledge for time.

Installations take 30 minutes to over two hours, please arrive within the first few hours.

We will also help with installing Free Software applications such as Firefox, OpenOffice.org, the GIMP, Blender and Inkscape on other operating systems.

A Scottsdale company is looking for someone to fill a paid Linux Internship. This requires knowledge in Red Hat based distros with a "nice to have" in LAMP type setups. The candidate would report directly or perhaps indirectly, to Mike Ballon; the position does have a good possibility of becoming full time.

Please send resumes to mike.ballon@gmail.com

Presentations This Month

Can a devout EMACS user find happiness using a GUI Editor

Dennis Kibbe, Mesa Community College Linux Instructor, will give a presentation on three useful extensions to the GNOME gedit text editor. See how you can make this simple editor more versatile and fun to use."

Saving Money by Using Linux with a virtualized Windows environment to ease the transition.
Brian will preview his ScaLE OSSIE talk

Ease the migration to Linux, save time and money, while keeping a no
maintenance version of Microsoft Windows desktop to pick up the slack on any software that does not have a Linux equivalent. Employees don't have a visible difference on their desktops. Companies get to save money and IT effort.

Using GNU/Linux to deploy Microsoft Windows in a multi-campus K12
environment reduces annual desktop and server licensing costs. In this
session, you'll learn how to realize many of the benefits of Free
Software without throwing out all your essential, windows only,
educational and administrative software. You can realize additional
savings by moving to Free Software applications.

Students, teachers and staff get to keep using the essential software
software they require to get their work done, but with better stability and flexibility. Using GNU/Linux as the deployment infrastructure also improves security and reduces firefighting for IT.

The presentation also includes tips on how to get users to accept and
even request Free software, as well as tips on when not try do a transition to Free and Open Source Software.

When: 7:00PM to about 9:00PM
Where: Sequoia Charter School in Mesa

Start: 2010 Jan 30 - 10:00
End: 2010 Jan 30 - 16:00
Timezone: Etc/GMT-7

Where: University of Advancing Technology: 2625 W. Baseline Tempe, AZ 85283
(Baseline Road, just west of I-10 and Pointe Hilton South Mountain, south side of Baseline, near Fry's Electronics Tempe).

The "monthly" Installfest is co-sponsored by PLUG and the AZloco. It is held the last Saturday of the month January through October. If one is held for November and December it is generally held on a Saturday early in December.

RSVP: InstallFest@PLUG.phoenix.az.us
- Your computer with specs and equipment, including monitor, keyboard, mouse, and network card.
- What you hope to accomplish and learn by installing Linux
- Encouraged to RSVP but not required

Who: Anyone who wants to see Linux or run it on their computer.
- Volunteers always needed, please e-mail your pledge for time.

Installations can sometimes take over two hours, please arrive within the first few hours.

We will also help with installing Free Software applications such as Firefox, OpenOffice.org, the GIMP, Blender and Inkscape on other operating systems.

Perl Programmers...

I spoke with a recruiter the other day who is looking for Perl programmers who can do Object Oriented Perl. The job(s) is in the valley (Phx) and it's contract-to-hire.

Her name is Dana Nilson, she is with TEKsystems, and her email is dnilson (at) teksystems.com. She knows I'm posting this to a user group, but not which one. If you reach out to her, tell her you heard from Bart Garst.

Agenda

• mtg intro
• assign note-taker
• Jan west side topic updates
• Feb devel topic updates
• find Feb east side topic
• start sysadm team

IRC meetings for planning PLUG activities and working on PLUG activities and infrastructure.

Be prepared to help out if you show up.

Meetings will take place on the first and third Sunday of the month at 20:00 in PLUG's IRC channel. We will skip dates that are holidays or on long weekends.

Date: First and Third Sunday of the month
Time: 20:00
Channel: #plugaz
Server: irc.freenode.net

Web interface for Freenode.

A associated company in Tempe (not Pegasus) is looking for six Linux Systems Admins for 9-week contract with options to hire. In this 9 weeks, they would be installing, configuring and troubleshooting 200 new Linux (RedHat) servers. Experience with Oracle RAC and Oracle App Servers is really important but if you think you are good enough to wing it let take a look.

If you or anyone you know is interested, let me know as these contract positions will need to be filled quite quickly. Please call my cell phone 24/7 (below).

Here are the position details (duties and skill) - my guess is that someone in HR threw it together. So don't let the official skill worry you as if you got what it takes then we will try to make it work:

POSITION DUTIES
- Ongoing technical support for servers
- Installation and configuration of technical systems
- Acting as third level support for operating systems, enterprise applications, server hardware and other technology
- Performing technical analysis on problems to provide the best overall solution
- Assist/Support in the deployment of a 200-server development environment.

SKILL REQUIREMENTS
- Minimum of 5 yrs IT experience and a minimum of 3 yrs experience functioning as a Linux System Administrator. Red Hat preferred
- Must have background in installing, configuring, and administrating Unix, Linux operating systems including Sun Solaris, SUSE Linux and especially RedHat.
- Install, configure, and maintain multiple RHEL servers include ERP, Oracle RAC, Oracle Application Server, WebSphere, and web server builds.

MY LINKEDIN PROFILE is http://www.linkedin.com/in/kennyhopkins
Kenneth L. Hopkins
Manager, Application Development Services
Pegasus Solutions, Inc. - Scottsdale
kenneth.hopkins@pegs.com
602-930-6531 (cell)
480-624-6280 (office)
Pegasus Solutions

Searching for Java Open Source Gurus that either live or can relocate to the Phoenix area! To apply please e-mail Mindy Outzen at m.outzen@richardmichaelgroup.com

Job Description:

To Design, Develop and implement web-based Java Applications, Resolve technical issues for clients, Work with a team of developers, designers, QA etc., Regular travel is required to client sites for Trainings, Implementations, etc.

Requirements:
Must have a Bachelor’s Degree.

Must have knowledge of SQL.

Must have at least 5 years of Java experience.

Must have at least 1 ORM technology experience.

Must have experience with more than one MVC framework.

Environment:

Casual Atmosphere, Flex Schedules available! Full time (between 40-50 hours per week depending on the project you are working on)

Benefits: A full benefits package after 90 day contract is up and you are hired as a permanent employee.

Pay Range:
Contract basis for 90 days then Salary is between $70-90k plus up to a $10k bonus potential per year

GoDaddy's excellent security team is recruiting for a Security Analyst 1.

Please note: This is an overnight shift from 9PM to 9AM with a 3 day weekend every other week.

What does the job entail?

Conducting forensic analysis and remediation of security incidents,vulnerability and penetration testing, monitoring intrusion detection and prevention systems, performing security audits of current infrastructure and applications, monitoring security bulletins, determining applicability and coordinating action plans, managing anti-virus systems, installing security agents on new systems, writing access control lists and updating firewalls as needed and using a SIM to weed out the noise.

Skills/Requirements

Three years experience in implementing and supporting information security technologies.

Two years experience working in a heterogeneous network/host environment; ISP environment is preferred Strong Linux and Windows and networking administrative experience.

Forensic analysis experience.

Strong SNORT Intrusion Detection experience with rule creation experience.

Strong vulnerability and penetration testing experience in IIS and Apache.

Ability to secure a global network against ever growing list of threats.

Additional valuable skills:

Experience using environmental tools such as Nessus and Nikto.

Cisco Firewall and IPTables
Experience using tools such as tcpdump, WinDump and Wireshark to analyze packet captures
SIM or HIPS MYSQL and/or MS SQL Server, and Strong scripting skills, python, shell, vb, perl.

The Ideal candidate will have
a College Degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent job experience and a
CISSP or GIAC Certification.

Our final meeting and presentation for 2009 is December 3rd and we are very happy to have Jeff Savit from Sun Microsystems* presenting on OpenSolaris.

Title: OpenSolaris

Jeff Savit will describe Sun Microsystems' open sourced OpenSolaris operating, show its relationship to the Solaris 10, and describe some of its more interesting and unique features, such as DTrace, Solaris Containers, Crossbow network virtualization, CIFS and COMSTAR iSCSI services, OpenHA cluster. Other features for datacenters and for developers will be discussed.

* OpenSolaris and Solaris
* New features in OpenSolaris
* SPARC and Intel support
* Crossbow network virtualization
* Advanced and customized install
* CIFS and COMSTAR iSCSI target support
* OpenHA cluster
* support model and pricing
* New features for the desktop
* New features for the developer
* The Road Forward with Solaris and OpenSolaris

*This should be a very interesting presentation, especially when you consider that OpenSolaris & Solaris will likely be "the" cross platform Oracle solution (IMHO) in the not so distant future (with or without the EC).

Jeff Savit is a Sun Microsystems Principal Field Technologist working in areas including
Solaris, Virtualization, performance, Java, migration, and application and system architecture.
Jeff is expert in virtualization and systems performance on multiple platforms, and has
internals-level experience ranging from mainframe OSes like MVS and VM, to Linux, and
of course Solaris and other Unix variants.

Before joining Sun, he was a Vice President at Merrill Lynch, where he had technical and
managerial roles in development, systems management, market data, architecture, and web
applications. He introduced the first use of TCP/IP protocol to Merrill Lynch, wrote
market data portions of Merrill Lynch's Internet trading applications, and created
one of the Internet's first stock quote web sites.

Mr. Savit is the author of the Sun Blueprint "Energy Efficiency Strategies: Sun Server
Virtualization Technology", and the Virtualization chapter of the "Datacenter Reference
Guide" Blueprint". He also wrote or coauthored several books: "Enterprise Java",
"VM & CMS: Performance and Fine Tuning", "VM/CMS Concepts and Facilities", and
"IBM Mainframes", and contributed to others: "VM Applications Handbook", "The REXX Handbook",
and "The VM/ESA Handbook". He has also been published in SIGPLAN Notices, a journal of the
Association of Computing Machinery. Mr. Savit has been a featured speaker at conferences
including those listed above, InternetWorld, SHARE, GUIDE, Australasian SHARE/GUIDE, and
the Modula-2 Users Group. He also served on a computer science delegation to the People's
Republic of China.

So, If you are interested in some serious free computing - or just have a boss that checks this crazy big list twice..
Come to the PLUGDev presentation by Jeff Savit from Sun Microsystems in room 203 at UAT on Thursday, December 3rd 7:30PM.

Please delay your bringing of festive foods and cheesecakes and all edibles for another week, as much as they would be appreciated, UAT likes to keep it's classrooms clean and well, there are rules...

I look forward to seeing you all this Thursday - Ed

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Linux Kernel Developer

Required Skills:
- 6+ years experience as Linux Developer
- 5+ years experience with Linux Kernel, including Kernel subsystems and Kernel hacking
- Experience with Linux Driver Development
- Linux Stack experience, Linux IPSec Stack specifically

A notification went out tonight about an Installfest scheduled for 11/28. I do not know how that originated but it was in error.

The Installfest for November and December is scheduled for 12/5 from 10am to 4pm at UAT. Everything is the same except the date since we never do the last Saturday in November or December.

Join us for the Noob's Guide to MetaSploit!

December is MetaSloit Month with Brian Fields aka AZ Rune! This is going to be a great introduction into real use of this great pentest cracking tool! See you there!

Monthly security presentations and lectures, with open PLUG participation occur, on the first Tuesday of every month. Ethical and legal, as well as liability aspects of testing, using linux security distro tools, are covered as we investigate the strange world of computer insecurity from our powerful Penguin perspectives.

The Hackfest itself is specially scheduled demonstration that includes open cracking exploits and IDS. Quarterly Hackfests are open encroachment/IDS events with designated targets and competition that require registration and agreement to acceptable use, as well as understanding of liability and self protection. Extensive setup and tear down, forensics and IDS are required so these events are limited to make the best experience for all attendees.

Don't learn to hack; hack to learn. Hack test your installations and source using Linux Security distro tools. Arrangements are happily accepted to coordinate extra credit with local college teachers.

Facilities generously provided by John C. Lincoln Hospital Cowden Center Room #1AB

Plan on being able to use live CDs if you bring your laptop to lab presentations, but open network cracking is limited to HackFests with pre-registration.

There is an open call for Backtrack or Security Distro presentations and participants, especially for IDS and forensics.

September's BT4 (Kachold) Presentation

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Phoenix Linux Security Lab Team shirts are now available.

Two colors brown/white and grey/black in larger sizes. These are beefy tees with plain writing.

They are priced to sell at cost.

Contact lisakachold@obnosis.com for more information.

Phoenix Linux Security Lab Team shirts are now available.

Two colors are available. These are beefy tees with plain writing.

They are priced to sell at cost.

Contact lisakachold@obnosis.com for more information.

Open Source Web Developer

We’re Mindspace. We’re growing. And we’re expanding our web development department in our cool office space in Tempe.

We’re looking for someone who has been doing Web development using Open Source technologies for several years, and who has the wherewithal to create custom content management systems, or apply their experience with existing CMS’s, boxed or custom, and modify them for optimal use.
The right person enjoys and excels at tackling business challenges and coming up with new and creative online tools and websites that exceed the expected solutions. The selected candidate will enjoy both building and having input into the final deliverable.

Other must haves: Fluent in JavaScript, PHP, CSS, HTML. Superior knowledge of browser differences. The ability to communicate technical challenges in a way that they relate to business. A relentless pursuit of perfection, and the ability to achieve it quickly. A whacky sense of humor, or a tolerance for those who do.
 
Pluses: Front end, flash, mobile device coding, Web 2.0 experience, social media experience beyond being a user.
 
Please email your resume (including salary requirements) and examples of your recent coding accomplishments. Resumes received without examples will not be considered, nor will consultants. Contact HR@mindspace.net

About Mindspace:

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