Because of a small turnout due to the weather last month the election for the Board of Directors will be held this month.

At this time, the following people have been nominated:

    Brown, Duane       Accepted
    Castro, Jorge      declined
    Glutting, Jim      Accepted
    Harding, Rick      Accepted   New
    McQuillan, Jim     Accepted
    Nichols, Gibson    Accepted   New
    Satwicz, Dave      Accepted
    Williams, Dick     Accepted

The nomination period is still open and will remain open until just before the election on Tuesday evening, Feb 13, 2007. If you would like to nominate someone, including yourself, please send an email to board@mug.org stating who you'd like to nominate.

Main Topic: NX from NoMachine

Quoting the NoMachine website "NoMachine NX is a Terminal Server and Remote Access solution based on a comprising set of enterprise class open source technologies."

Ryan is an IT professional who believes that the free flow of information benefits the global society. Ryan has been using open source and Linux for over 5 years and has contributed to the following OSS projects:

• ORPP (http://orpp.sourceforge.net) - Open Robotics Peripheral Platform
• Gaim - Gaim multi-protocol instant messenging client
• GASH (http://gash.sourceforge.net) - GAim SHell perl plugin for Gaim
• CPR Backup (http://forge.novell.com/modules/xfmod/project/?cpr-backup) - NetWare-centric backup facility with Rsync, Cron, and Perl

Secondary Topic: SSH

Using SSH for more than logging on to remote machines.

Things we've asked Flavio to cover (and then some):

1. Creating SSH tunnels (How and Why)
2. X-Forwarding
3. Compression
4. Choosing cyphers
5. ssh key management - creating & using keys, agents, and verifying host fingerprints, etc.
6. Remote shell scripts via ssh, this has been a topic of interest on the mdlug list. Flav's tips and tricks for running commands

Where:

The MUG meetings are held at:

Farmington Community Library - Main Branch
32737 W. 12 Mile Rd.
Farmington Hills, MI 48334-3302

Click here for a map of the area.

When:

the meetings are on the 2nd Tuesday of each month.

6:00pm	Doors open, registration
6:30pm	Meeting starts, Mug business
6:45pm	Main presentation
8:15pm	2nd Presentation
8:45pm	Meeting adjourns
9:00pm	Dinner at a local establishment