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Linux Hackfest at UAT from Noon until 15:00 on Saturday, January 10th

Join us as we welcome a one hour presentation from Kristy Westphal, CISO for the Arizona Department of Economic Security on forensics.

Kristy Westphal's bio:

Versatile security professional of 15 years with specific experience in the area of information security, Kristy is currently employed as the CISO of the Arizona Department of Economic Security. Skilled in troubleshooting and process analysis, specific expertise in security areas includes: forensics, operating system and network security, intrusion detection, incident handling, vulnerability analysis and policy development. Kristy has also been a CISSP since 2001.

January will be held At UAT:
http://www.UAT.edu/

2625 W Baseline Road, Tempe, AZ 85283

Follow the signs to the theatre once at the Tempe UAT.

Don't miss this great presentation!

We will follow up with a question answer session and review.

See http://hackfest.obnosis.com for HackFest History!

For the January Hackfest we're going go have a presentation from Kristy Westphal, CISO for the Arizona Department of Economic Security on forensics.

Kristy is currently employed as the CISO of the Arizona Department of Economic Security. She has a background in troubleshooting and process analysis, specific expertise in security areas includes: forensics, operating system and network security, intrusion detection, incident handling, vulnerability analysis and policy development. Kristy has also been a CISSP since 2001.

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December's Hackfest will be online via a couple of Hamachi networks.

See the comment for information about joining one of the networks.

Hop in #PLUGlabs on irc.freenode.net and participate.

The Hackfest is still noon to 15:00.

For January's Hackfest we have
special guest Kristy Westphal, CSO for the Arizona Department of Economic Security, coming in to talk about forensics.

The December east side meeting will be our annual end of year party.

We encourage bringing family and friends. This is a social event with no presentations.

We will have some giveaways including some new Free Software comics.

We also encourage bringing some food to share.

No alcohol because the meeting is at a school.

When: 7:00PM to about 9:00PM

Where: Sequoia Charter School in Mesa

Please send resume to kstevens@initiatesystems.com

The Performance Engineer is responsible for profiling the throughput and performance of the various Initiate products. This effort requires the use of rigorous process, extreme attention to detail, a firm grasp of analytical methods, and the ability to install, configure, and exercise the Initiate product. The Performance Engineer is also responsible for designing tests, data loads, and the collection of a diverse set of performance metrics.

Key responsibilities include:
* Work closely with other engineers and architects to drive requirements and understand the design and implementation for our diverse applications. This requires the ability to quickly learn the Initiate technology stack and APIs.
* Create and execute large scale performance test plans which demonstrate performance bottlenecks and prove that functional changes had the desired effect.
* Design and implement new testing procedures and hands on experimental code modifications which target latency and throughput improvements within a wide variety of product components.
* Develop scripting and automation necessary to automate collection, parsing and analysis of data from disparate data sources.
* Candidate will be required to conduct detailed time series analysis and bottleneck identification.

Qualifications:
* Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university in engineering, computer information systems or related discipline
* At least 5 years of experience working on enterprise scale server side systems using C/C++, Java/J2EE, JNI
* Proven experience designing, building, and maintaining test frameworks using common tooling, such as JMeter
* Proven experience collecting performance data from a wide variety of sources such as SAR, IOSTAT, NMON, Oracle AWR, and Windows Performance Monitor
* Experience with cross-platform database persistence, specifically MS SQL Server, Oracle, DB2

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Every year PLUG has an end of year party for the December east side meeting.

We encourage bringing family and friends. This is a social event with no presentations. We will have some giveaways including some new Free Software comics.

We also encourage bringing some food to share.

No alcohol because the meeting is at a school.

This will be the only in person PLUG meeting this month, so turn out and participate.

944 Media is hiring a PHP developer with a minimum of 3 years experience. Experience with Adobe Flex is desirable but not a requirement. For more information, or to apply online, visit

http://www.944.com/careers/117/

In November the Hackfest is moving to the 3rd Saturday, the 15th. It is also moving to Estrella Mountain Community College.

The PLUG Development Meeting is held monthly on the first Thursday of each month. Of late topics and presenters of topics have been hard to come by. The meeting will be suspended for the months of November, December and January.

We have no presentation lined up for the meeting tomorrow. I don't think it helps to "make stuff up" on the evening of the meeting. The quality of the discussion is usually very good but we don't attract attendees without planned topics.

I propose the following:

- The PLUG Developer Meeting will be suspended for the months of November, December and January.
- During the suspension we will discuss and form a team of three people, including myself or not, to run our Developer Meeting.
- Then we will open the new year in February with a great line-up and a sustainable meeting infrastructure!

(I added January to the suspension because the first Thursday is the 1st, which I don't think will be well attended.)

Please discuss the meeting planning and future in the plug-devel email list.

I can be contacted at recruiting@infusionsoft.com

Job Title: Sr. Systems Administrator

Why work for us?
Infusionsoft has been recognized for its continued growth, entrepreneurship, product excellence, passionate culture and superb working environment:
• Named one of the “Best Places to Work” by Phoenix Business Journal
• Named “Top Arizona Company to Watch” by the Arizona Small Business Association
• Ranked in Inc. Magazine’s list of 500 fastest growing private companies in America
• Recipient of 2007 CRM Excellence Award for “Top Small Business Marketing Software”
• Recipient of Spirit of Enterprise Award from the W.P. Carey School of Business at ASU

Job Description:
Infusionsoft is seeking a full-time Systems Administrator in our Gilbert, Arizona office. The primary function of this position is to manage and improve the systems that host the web-based Infusionsoft application.

Responsibilities Include:
• Monitor system utilization, and assist in growth analysis and capacity planning.
• Troubleshoot database, systems, and applications to identify and correct malfunctions and other operational problems.
• Review current systems and make technical/process recommendations for improving efficiency.
• Provide on-call technical support to various users/clients regarding operational/applications issues.
• Incorporate best practices in operational procedures and documentation.
• Assist in the evaluation of new hardware and software technologies.
• Install and debug new and/or upgraded software on server platforms.
• Stay up to date with relevant state-of-the-art technology, equipment, and/or systems.

Requirements Needed:
• BS in CS, CSE or in a related field and 2 -4 years of related professional experience OR equivalent experience.

Required Technology Skill:
• Linux server management
• MySQL
• Apache and Tomcat

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Summary: We are looking for an energetic and self-motivated leader to manage the IT needs of a fast-growing, fast-moving open-source software company. This role will initially be completely responsible for managing and performing tasks in a wide variety of areas associated with technology. In the future, this position will also manage a small team to help perform these duties.

Contact us at jointheteam@rsmart.com

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
The following are common elements of this position. Other duties may be assigned.

1. Provide end-to-end oversight for all rSmart IT-related systems. This includes everything from procurement of hardware when it is determined that demand sufficiently outstrips capacity to developing, disseminating, and implementing IT policies to the day-to-day management of servers, networks, and user accounts. Tasks will range in scope from strategic to immediate. A random sampling of specific duties:
   • Disaster recovery planning and implementation.
   • Development of data retention and security policies.
   • Management of email, DNS, JIRA, Confluence, etc.
   • Management of physical and virtual servers.
   • Database administration.
   • VMWare administration and configuration
   • Hardware and server monitoring using Nagios.
   • Primary point of contact for tech support issues faced by other rSmart team members (passwords, wireless issues, printing, VPN, etc.)
   • Evaluation of new tools and technologies that may prove of value to the IT aspect of the organization (e.g., Google Apps, Zimbra, OpenExchange)
   • Management of phone/voicemail system.
   • Planning, procurement , and installation of hardware, software, bandwidth, etc. as needed.
   • Plan and maintain IT infrastructure and support for remote employees (email, VPN, phones, web conferenceing, etc)
     

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ASULUG will be hosting its Fall InstallFest on Saturday October 11th from 9am to 7pm in the Memorial Union Arizona Ballroom (MU 221).

For more information please see the ASULUG InstallFest event poster (PNG format).

How to get there:

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Presentation: Open Source Telephony with a focus on Asterisk
Jame Finstrom would like to also announce the launch and creation of the Phoenix Open Source Telephony User Group The goal is to introduce Asterisk and some of the things you can do with it and in turn peak interest within the community to grow the telecommunications aspects of open source.

Presenter Bio
James Finstrom is the community manager for Rhino Equipment corp. He is in charge of support and community development. He works mostly on building the community and making life easier for end users. James spend allot of time developing scripts in bash, php, Perl and whatever gets the job done. His focus is to take the most complex aspects of open source to a level where the average user can make it happen. James has been Windows free for 3 years and working with open source software for 6. James grew up on DOS and my first computer was a IBM XT with dual 5.25 floppies. His current employment and free time focus around open source telephony applications such as Asterisk, FreeSwitch and other similar apps. James has spent a majority of the last 2 years conquering Asterisk the primary open source PBX and meeting much of the community that makes the Asterisk world go round.

Presentation: GMANE
Get too much email? Can't keep up with all your maillists? Gmane, the maillist archive can help you cope. Read posts conveniently as a web forum or in your favorite news reader like Pan or emacs gnus. Keep the clutter out of your mailbox.

Dennis will give a short presentation at the PLUG East Side meeting introducing you to gmane.org.

Presenter Bio
Dennis Kibbe is a long time member of PLUG.

When: 7:00PM to about 9:00PM

Where: Sequoia Charter School in Mesa

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PLUG is starting a new security lab on the second Saturday of every month. We'll be meeting from noon until 15:00 at UAT.

A security tool will be presented and then we'll work on using it. Bring a laptop and be prepared to use Live CDs to experiment with various Free Software security tools.

Thanks to UAT for providing a space for us to meet and especially for allowing us to run a security lab on their network.

Join us for a free, half-day open source seminar on your turf.

Phoenix, AZ
Oct. 21, 2008
Camelback Inn, JW Marriott

Check out the schedule:
8 a.m.- 9 a.m. Continental breakfast
9 a.m.- 12 p.m. Keynote and Breakout Sessions
12 p.m. Lunch and networking

Get an authoritative look at open source and its future directions. Choose from two tracks: infrastructure or middleware. Then take a close look at tools to build enterprise open source
solutions.

* Learn from specific technology roadmaps, demos and use cases in virtualization, middleware, management, messaging, real-time, and grid.
* Hear users share their experiences
* See for yourself what open source, Red Hat and JBoss can do for your IT.

Patricipate in lunchtime roundtables
Talk about linux security, open source middleware trends, storage and clustering, management, virtualization, and data integration.

Keep an eye out for your official 2008 Red Hat Road Tour invitation in the next couple of weeks.

---->Learn more.
http://www.redhat.com/roadtour08/?sc_cid=70160000000HXCn

--->Or register now.
http://www.info.redhat.com/forms/NARSFall2008

Where: Adtron Corporation
4415 E. Cotton Center Blvd., Suite 100
Phoenix, AZ 85040
(Google map)

The mostly square building directly south of the traffic circle in the road.

Topic: Intro to OpenDDS

Description:
An introduction to Object Management Group's (OMG) Data Distribution Service (DDS) specification and its open source implementation, OpenDDS. DDS is a publish & subscribe communication framework.
See more about the open source implementation at http://www.opendds.org/ .
See the DDS specification at http://www.omg.org/cgi-bin/doc?formal/07-01-01 .

Presenter:
Scott Harris is a Principal Software Engineer at Object Computing, Inc. http://www.ociweb.com Scott was a lead on the initial development of OpenDDS and has a lot of experience supporting a popular open source CORBA implementation, TAO.

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NO Internet access are available.

We have a candy machine and soda machines that will take your money for refreshment. You are welcome to bring your own food. No alcohol please.