[wplug-board] Possible group outing, possible future GUM presentation

[Justin Smith]

I don't care for baseball or the Pirates, myself, but if it's something 
the members would be interested in, I'm all for it.

/If/ we do this, I'd like to work this into our advertising like I tried 
to do for January's GUM. We could say something like "How much do 
baseball tickets and stadium food usually cost? Join WPLUG and get free 
tickets to the game, free food, /and/ a membership in the hottest Linux 
user group in Pittsburgh!"

If we're ever going to get more paying members, we need to run 
promotions like this from time to time.

In regard to the presentation...like Joe said, we need a presenter for 
February, so feel free to proceed. Say, do you know anything about 
OpenVPN, Pat? Since certificates are a part of it, maybe you could 
include that as part of your presentation. Lots of people use free 
public Wi-Fi; you could make it about how to protect against 
eavesdropping while you're doing it with OpenVPN on Linux /and/ Android.

(Disclaimer: this is something I've tried and failed to set up on my 
home server.)

*Justin S. Smith*
WPLUG vice chair/secretary
http://www.js-wordsmith.com

On 01/23/2013 11:35 AM, Pat Barron wrote:
> Two quick things:
>
> 1)  Not sure how relevant this is to open source, but as sort of a
> social outing as we've been discussing recently ... I noticed that
> Wednesday, April 4th is "Buc Night" at PNC Park.  There are a block of
> grandstand tickets available for $1.00 each, and $1.00 hot dogs and
> popcorn at concession stands.  At this price, we could easily buy two
> tickets for every member of the organization, and it would cost very
> little (n.b. - assuming the tickets could be picked up in person at PNC
> Park will-call window without surcharge, and they don't add like $3.00
> in fees on top of each $1.00 ticket...).  Not sure how many members
> would be interested in such a thing, but it could be a fun social
> outing.  Unfortunately, it wouldn't be the sort of thing where we could
> get our group name on the scoreboard or anything - for that, you need to
> go through their group sales team, and pay full price, and we wouldn't
> be able to afford that.  But at least *we* would know that WPLUG is
> there, even if no one else does... ;-)
>
> 2)  I'm thinking of putting together a presentation on "Build Your Own
> X.509 Certificate Authority Using xca".  One of the random ideas we
> occasionally float is the idea of providing a CA for members of the
> organization, and this is probably the best tool to use to do that.  Not
> sure how much our attendees would be interested in hearing about PKI
> infrastructure and making their own private CA, but I'd certainly be
> willing to put that together if we want to do it.
>
> --Pat.
>
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