[ale] Greetings Linux Enthusiasts (new to the area)

[arxaaron]

Hey, Derek!

I'm Aaron Ruscetta, and for several years I've been serving this
loosely disorganized group as the  "Event Coordinator [etc]",
(: which just means I made the error of volunteering to scare up
monthly presentations for our ALE Central meetings. :)

That's an impressive history you've listed and it sounds like
you and ALE founding member Michael Warfield should get
together and share encrypted messages over a few ale's
some time.

And, as the officially unofficial "[etc]" guy for the group, let me
say welcome to ALE!  I've taken the liberty of penciling you in to
do the presentation for our November 18th meeting -- you've
got a few weeks to decide on the topic and submit the
synopsis. :-)

peace
aaron



On 2010/09/03, at 16:22 , Derek Atkins wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I (relatively recently) moved into the general Atlanta area from the
> Northeast.  While I'm new to Atlanta, I'm certainly not new to Linux  
> and
> F/OSS.  In Boston I've been an online member of the BLU for nearly a
> decade (possibly more, but my mail archives of the list only seem to  
> go
> back to 2002).  Being new to the area I'd like to introduce myself,  
> give
> you a little history about me, and hopefully get the chance to learn
> about you all and meet some of you eventually.
>
> I've been a Linux user since 1992 (the first computer I owned that ran
> Linux used Slackware with kernel version 0.99pl15) and did some major
> Kernel Development back in 1994.  Over the years I've been  
> significantly
> involved in some open source projects like (MIT) PGP, ipsec-tools,
> OpenAFS, and GnuCash, and minorly involved in others, like MythTV.
>
> In real life I'm a Security Software Engineer, where I get to take  
> cool
> algorithms like RSA, AES, and SHA-256 and apply them to interesting  
> uses
> like authentication systems, encrypted email, and encrypted hard  
> disks.
>
> Like I said, I'm new to the area so I hope to learn more about the  
> local
> traditions and ins-and-outs of local High Tech community.
>
> *waves*
>
> -derek
> -- 
>       Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
>       Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board  (SIPB)
>       URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/    PP-ASEL-IA     N1NWH
>       warlord at MIT.EDU                        PGP key available
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