Presentation: Dr. Bob presented some humorous dialogs from staff trying to support non-technical people. Also Carl led a discussion about html, languages, xml, css, and html5 in the series about website development.

Election Results: President – Dr. Bob Meier Vice President – Gib Nichols Treasurer – Bill Lingner Secretary – Carl Miller Official Business: The elections were held in accordance with the bylaws. Bill gave the treasurer’s report, saying that the $67… Read more2017-01-14 Meeting

Official Business: We took nominations for officers and discussed their roles. Presentation: SSL Certificates. Dr. Bob talked about certificates, chains of trust, and the Let’s Encrypt service.

Presentation: We held an open discussion about MDLUG, our current meeting place, proposed new meeting locations and funding for non-free locations. Among other topics, we talked about Certificate Authorities and how certificates are used by servers and clients.

Presentation: The MDLUG meeting was held at the Conclave Science Fiction Convention. There were presentations and demos about Raspberry PIs, Arduinos, Copters and other cool devices.

Presentation: Tony Bemus explained what an IT security professional has to look at and how to keep networks safe. He demonstrated some hacks with Kali Linux and what countermeasures to prevent the attack.

There was no meeting today.

Presentation: Dr. Robert Meier installed an *HTTPS* static website on a bare linux box.

Presentation: Carl created a simple website to store and retrieve data from a database. This “LAMP” website demo included a brief mention of Linux, a quick session on Apache, an introduction to MySQL, and various web pages using PHP.

Presentation: We had several topics for discussion, including the use of projectors and planning for future topics for presentations.