We have a meeting this Thursday night at Altera. Once again, it’s time to meet and discuss. See calendar date and time. I’ll have some commentary regarding the CISSP exam I’m writing this weekend.

This year Open Source Weekend (OSW) is planning an open source fun day on May 14, following BSDcan. We will have a full weekend event in the fall, in conjunction with a national event. The May 14th OSW event will be in the form of a small number of 1-hour talks, and ongoing 20-minute workshops/demos throughout the day. If you have a neat open source hack, and would like to show and tell others about it we’d like to hear from you.

I ran across this on Newsforge yesterday and I thought I’d pass it along. Sun is offering 60 day trials of their new T2000 opeteron servers. According to the article, if you write a comprehensive technical review of the box, you may be invited to keep the machine. The specs are pretty impressive, and the power requirements appear to be quite low given what we have under the hood. I have not determined if an individual qualifies for the deal, but I think I’ll check it out.

It appears there will be an LPI exam in May. The OSW people are interested in sponsoring this one and would like to hold it at the University of Ottawa. The tentative date is Sunday, May 14, 2006.No details are available yet, but some informal discussion would indicate that level 1 and level 2 exams will be available. Sign up information will be available soon.

The architect at Layer 7 Tech sent me a nicely formatted message which I pasted here - any formatting abnormalities are my fault. –bjb Technical Services Specialist Overall Purpose Layer 7 Technologies is seeking to fill a position of Technical Services Specialist. The purpose of this position is to provide pre and post sales technical support for Layer 7 Technologies’ SecureSpan suite of products. In addition to assisting the sales team and Layer 7’s clients, the Technical Services Specialist works closely with the sales and product development teams to provide a conduit of communication between them.