[tlug] [announcement] 2008-09-13 TLUG Technical Meeting

[Edward Middleton <emiddleton@example.com>]

-=-=-=- Announcement: 2008-09-13 TLUG Technical Meeting -=-=-=-=-

  Meeting information

  Date: September 13 (Saturday)
	
  Time: 14:00 - 16:30
        (doors open 13:30)

  Place: SUN Microsystems, Inc.
         SBS Tower, 27th floor
         4-10-1 Yoga
         Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, Japan

     *** note the change from the usual venue ***

  Details:
http://www.tlug.jp/wiki/Meetings:Locations:Yoga:Sun

  Main Topic)

         "ModSecurity - A Web Application Firewall that actually works"
         by Tomoyuki Sakurai

  Short Talk)

         "Introduction to Detaxe group"
         by Francois Cartegnie

  Lightning Talk)

         "Scalable filesytem and storage"
         by Gosuke Miyashita

         "Varnish high-performance HTTP accelerator"
         by Edward Middleton

This month, Tomoyuki Sakurai will introduce GPL-licensed ModSecurity[1],
which is the most widely deployed Web Application Firewall. The talk
will include an overview of ModSecurity, its use cases, deployment, its
latest feature as well as a Perl module Sakurai-san has developed to
help deployment and operation.

Our second speaker Francois Cartegnie will introduce the Detaxe Group
and talk about the work they have done against the linked sales of
operating systems with hardware.

We will also be having a number of lightening talks.

Gosuke Miyashita will talk about his goal of setting up a Scalable
filesytem and storage and give an overview of the technologies he has
tried (Red Hat Cluster, CLVM, GNBD, GFS/GFS2 and DRBD).

Edward Middleton will give an introduction to the Varnish[2] web
accelerator.

If you are involved in a project or have something you would like to
talk about, we are always looking for presenters.

Other items on the agenda are:
1. Introduction of new members, news about Linux/Open Source,
general announcements, Q&A
2. Auction

All Linux users and supporters of open source code and free software
are invited to attend this Tokyo Linux Users Group (TLUG) meeting.
Membership is open to anyone. There are no membership dues or entrance
fees.

After the meeting, we will continue chatting over a few beers.

About TLUG
----------
TLUG is a non-profit, non-political organization established in June
of 1994 to exchange information on the use of Linux and Free Software
Foundation tools. TLUG has an active mailing list, home page, and
regular physical meetings. Discussions are primarily held in English,
but non-English speakers are encouraged to come and participate.
We especially want to encourage Japanese people to attend and will make
efforts to support a bilingual meeting.

TLUG generally hosts technical meetings every odd month on the 2nd
Saturday, and a nomikai (social event at a pub) every even month on the
2rd Friday.

The TLUG home page is available at http://www.tlug.jp

For any instructions or info before the meeting:
    Edward Middleton ............. 090-3689-0292
    Pietro Zuco .................. 070-6648-7988

1. http://www.modsecurity.org/
2. http://varnish.projects.linpro.no/