We held our April 2016 meeting at the Apple Store. Our continued thanks to Joe Hutsko and his team for hosting us! Also, thanks to JAMF Software for providing food and refreshments!
Serge presented What’s New:
Allister Banks returned to talk about Python Plus osquery.
See you at our May 2016 meeting, hosted at AIM Academy!
We held our March 2016 meeting at Saint Joseph’s University. SJU generously provided food and refreshments.
Serge presented What’s New:
Tyler Morgan then gave a security overview with Encryption Power Crunch.
See you tomorrow at the Apple Store!
We held our February 2016 meeting at the Apple Store on Walnut Street. Our thanks to Joe Hutsko and his team for having us! JAMF Software generously sponsored the food and refreshments.
Serge presented What’s New:
Our special guest, Andrew Feierabend, then presented The Shell & You, an introduction to the command line.
See you next month at Saint Joseph’s University! Details to follow.
We held our first meeting of 2016 at The Hun School at Princeton University. Many thanks to The Hun School for providing a meeting space and dinner for all of the attendees!
Serge presented on What’s New:
Afterwards, we held an open group discussion.
We held our December 2015 meeting at the Apple Store on Walnut Street. As always, our thanks Joe Hutsko and his team for hosting us!
Serge presented on What’s New:
Jesse Shipley gave an excellent AWK Talk, detailing a lot of cool stuff you can do with the ‘awk’ command.
We held November 2015’s meeting at Monetate. Many thanks to Monetate for providing great food, an excellent meeting space, and cool swag for everyone!
Serge presented What’s New:
Jeremy Reichman presented on Versions.
On October 22nd, we returned to the Apple Store – big thanks, as always, to Joe Hutsko and his team for hosting us! Serge opened the meeting with the monthly What’s New segment, and spoke about JNUC, iOS 9.1, OS X 10.11 El Capitan’s release, and Apple’s new captcha for their warranty check site. Afterwards, Mike spoke about Munki, an open source Mac patch management system.
See you at the November’s meeting, next week!
Video:
Slides:
Our fourth meeting was on Thursday, September 17th. Interphase Systems graciously hosted us at their offices in Blue Bell, PA. They also provided soda and excellent pizza! Serge covered What’s New with the newly released iOS 9, the upcoming OS X 10.11 El Capitan, and more. Ben Rush spoke about Small Scale Mac Support on a Budget.
We broadcasted the presentations over Google Hangouts. Hope to see you at the October meeting!
Serge’s presentation:
Ben’s presentation:
Our third meeting was on Thursday, August 20th. Our effusive thanks goes to the Walnut Street Apple Store and Joe Hutsko’s team for graciously hosting us this month. And the community continued to prove their interest with another great showing of attendance.
Serge started the meeting off with “What’s New” a potentially recurring segment that keeps up with all the recent news and events and things of interest to our community. This month we highlighted OS X 10.10.5 update, the iOS 8.4.1, Office 2016 for Mac shipping, and “Tpwn,” the new privilege escalation exploit in OS X that was recently discovered. Jesse Shipley presented and demo’d his new tool for Casper that provides more robust and verbose checkins, called “Deadpool. ” It’s free and available to use on his Github repo: here.
Again, we broadcasted the meeting through Google Hangouts. Here’s the video:
Slides:
If you’d like to present, please get in touch. See you at the next meeting!
On Wednesday, July 22nd, we held our second meeting. Many thanks to AWeber, in Chalfont, for graciously hosting us and providing pizza, soda, and swag. Jesse Shipley spoke about launchd, and our special guest Allister Banks spoke about iOS Security (he wrote a book on the subject!). Allister’s slides can be found here, and the video for his talk can be found below.
Ben Rush got a Google Hangout working, so people could livestream the presentations online. Allister brought his own Periscope setup, as well.
If you’d like to present, please get in touch. See you at the next meeting!
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