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M E E T I N G L O C A T I O N We usually meet every month. On Mondays, although it varies from time to time. We always meet from 6-8 pm. Membership in the Neon Guild is free. No dues, no fees. No by-laws. No committees. Free pizza and beer and soft drinks at every meeting. We offer a fantastic resource for the tech community. We have only one rule. If you want to get the benefits of our community, you have give something. That something is YOU. In person. It's all about connecting with others. To join, you need to physically show up to at least one meeting. That's how you get on our private mailing list where a lot of action happens. We request that you attend in person at least once per quarter to stay on the list. Just to make things perfectly clear, please don't write the Guildmaster requesting to be added to the list. She will write back to you and invite you to come to a meeting! Next Neon Guild meeting: Monday March 29, 6-8pm This "straight from the battlefield" presentation will provide case studies that describe in detail the most recent computer security incidents that Mandiant (Rob Lee is Director) has responded to on behalf of the organizations. The three or four anonymous in-depth case studies about the recent complex hacks against commercial and financial organizations will be covered. The talk will go into how the intruders are gaining access, what they are doing, and a discussion of the malware used in the attacks. Finally, Rob will discuss proper mitigation and prevention techniques that could be utilized in preventing these attacks. Speaker: Rob Lee is a Director for MANDIANT (http://www.mandiant.com/), a leading provider of information security consulting services and software to Fortune 500 organizations and the U.S. Government. Rob is also the Curriculum Lead for Digital Forensic Training at the SANS Institute (http://forensics.sans.org/). Rob has more than 13 years experience in computer forensics, vulnerability and exploit discovery, intrusion detection/prevention, and incident response. Rob graduated from the U.S. Air Force Academy and served in the U.S. Air Force as a foundingmember of the 609th Information Warfare Squadron, the first U.S. military operational unit focused on Information Operations. Later, he was a member of the Air Force Office of Special Investigations where he conducted computer crime investigations, incident response, and computer forensics. Prior to joining MANDIANT, he directly worked with a variety of government agencies in the law enforcement, Dept. of Defense, and intelligence communities where he was the technical lead for a vulnerability discovery and exploit development team, lead for a cyber forensics branch, and led a computer forensic and security software development team. Rob also coauthored the bestselling book, Know Your Enemy, 2nd Edition. Rob earned his MBA from Georgetown University in Washington D.C. Finally, Rob was awarded the "Digital Forensic Examiner of the Year" from the Forensic 4Cast 2009 Awards. Location: Inova Solutions Directions from downtown C-ville: Go East on Market St to 9th. P A S T M E E T I N G S February 2010 In carpool line the other day, Mark Cave counted seven out of ten cars with a Dad in it. What's going on here? This presentation took a fascinating look at the modern father/male, how he juggles parenting and career, how he integrates technology into his life, and how society views this bizarre phenomenon. November 2009 Back in February, Neon Guildmaster Debra Weiss was whining that she suspected she was paying too much for telephone, internet access and cable TV, and that there must be a better solution for communication, especially if home is also office. Many suggestions were offered at that meeting, and that set her off on what she's calling a Life Audit, where all expenses are looked at with a fresh eye. What she found surprised her. Debra revealed how she has saved more than $500 per month so far, and she's not finished! October 2009 Michael J. Prichard of WillowTree Consulting Group, Inc. talked about the mobile development market and the players in the next generation smartphone arena. He will take you through the ways to make applications for the iPhone and how to distribute them on the App Store. He also talked about the business of the iPhone and the realities and, more likely, the chances you will be the next millionaire app developer. May 2009 One of the reasons the Neon Guild is still going strong after over 15 years is that it succeeds as a community. Members share knowledge, information and conversation with others and in turn get value back. The same principles that made the Neon Guild community a success can be used with your own personal and professional communities, from getting (and keeping) clients to finding (or keeping) a job, to getting solid professional advice, or just having fun March 2009 Our presenter, Duane Gran, shared examples of tools that work (and some that don't) from his 10 years of experience doing web application development. Come prepared to share what tools you like best for invoicing, contact management, communication and the like. February 2009 December 2008 Social Media tools like Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook are changing the way people interact. But how do we use them to produce revenue building opportunities and relationships? October 2008 Greed and corruption on Wall Street were the exacerbating factors that of led to the necessity of the financial bailout earlier this month. Or so our politicians tell us. But what if (gasp!) software and the people who wrote it were partially to blame, too? September 2008 Topic: High Tech Cville HighTechCville.com attempts aggregate existing information from
multiple place about people, organizations, events, and companies working
in the field of hi-tech in Cville. May 2008 Jack talked about his experience with Elance.com regarding hiring technology professionals from all over the world. He also be talked about what it's like to get work from places like this. March 2008 Links to resources mentioned during the meeting: Riva FLV Encoder - Transcode your existing video files to the advanced Flash Video (FLV) format with this free Riva FLV Encoder. SlideShowPro - A complete photo and video publishing solution. JW FLV Media Player - Free player for audio, images and video. January 2008 Everyone seems to be looking for videoconferencing solutions, and there are a lot of options out there. Which one is best for your organization? Links to resources mentioned: Access Grid - www.accessgrid.org - Group to Group interactions across the grid - free software - full featured - not a quick install. Agora - agora.lancs.ac.uk - part of Sakai (www.sakai.org) desktop and audio sharing - free - uses a Java Tomcat server as the "bridge" Will be installed and available at UVa Real Soon Now. Polycom - AV conferencing - www.polycom.com - peer to peer and multicast conferencing - Full range of hardware and software products. Aethra - AV conferencing - the Engineering School as a Vega X5 which does video and data "dual stream" transmissions. Elluminate at www.ellumiinate.com - desktop and audio sharing - Very professional and full featured for live remote classroom sessions. UVA's SCPS has a site license. Camtasia - Windows application that records a screen or a PPT presentation with audio. It has very good editing capability and can publish in AVI, WMV, MOV and Flash format. Publishing takes 2-3 times as long as the run time. You make a 30 minute movie in 70-90 minutes. Skype - video and Voice Over IP - free live communications The School of Continuing and Professional Studies is the main resource at UVa for AV topics. http://www.scps.virginia.edu/vdl/videoconferencing.php October 2007 If you thought your dusty old library card was good for just taking out books, you would have been delighted know there's A LOT more you can do with it, and much of it can done without ever leaving the hou8se! More info on jmrl.org. September 2007 A series of short presentations about some fun and useful geeky tech things that our members explored over the summer break. June 2007 Purely a social event, we provided burgers, dogs, veggie burgers, sides and beverages. Nearly 100 people showed up! April 2007 Scrum is an iterative, incremental process for developing any product or managing any work. It produces a potentially shippable set of functionality at the end of every iteration. More info: www.controlchaos.com/ March 2007 Whether you work in a group, or work by yourself with your clients, we all have our horror stories of projects that have gone terribly awry. Dave presented some his own, and everyone attended was welcome to contribute their stories. The real value here came from our interaction. Presenter: Dave Portfield February 2007 Everyone's looking for affordable health insurance solutions for themselves, their families and their employees. There have been some new developments lately with the advent of hybrid plans -- group rates, but individually underwritten-- as well as health savings accounts (HSA) and health reimbursement accounts (HRA). If you couldn't make it and/or are interested in getting info or quotes, contact:
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