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Second Quarter
Face-to-Face meeting
Sept. 17 & 18, 2012 (New York City)
Topic: networking and virtualization
Logistics
Travel
- Ross, Kendra, Tomas: Arriving by car from Boston Sunday evening
- Miles: Arriving by Amtrak Sunday evening
- Langston ?
- Rita ?
- Roberto ?
Accommodations
- Tomas: Housed with Jamie
- Roberto: Housed with Alfredo
- Miles: self made arrangements
- Kendra: ?
- Langston: ?
- Rita: self ?
Agenda
Pre-meeting reading materials
- ? link to article on racism and technology
- overview of IPv4
- Wikipedia article on Virtualization
Sept. 17
- 9:00 - 10:00 am Participants' Initial Reactions to Course - Go Round
- 10:00 - 12:00 Presentation and Discussion: Role of Racism in Technology
- 12:00 - 1:00 pm Lunch
- 1:00 - 3:00 pm Interactive lecture on core competancies Part I
- What's an IP address?
- Understanding dhcp (watching dhcp sessions by using ifup/ifdown)
- Configuring network manually, Part 1
- Understanding netmask and CIDR notation (e.g. "/27 network")
- Configuring network manually, Part 2
- understanding network bridges and the use of the brctl command
- understanding virtual network devices (aka tap devices) and how to create them with the ip command
- DNS: using dig to query name servers
- Using dnsmasq to setup your own dhcp/dns server on your local computer
- 3:00 - 3:15 pm Break
- 3:15 pm - 5:15 pm Interactive lecture on core competancies Part II
- Introduction to Bash programming (executing commands, defining functions, if/then statements)
- Assignment: write bash script to create a bridge, add two virtual network devices to the bridge, and assign them ip addresses.
- 5:15 - 5:30 pm Wrap up
- 6:30 pm: Group Dinner
September 18
- 9:00 - 9:30 Reflections on previous day
- 9:30 - 11:30 Putting it all together to launch a virtual machine
- Understanding the bash script
- Downloading a Debian installer iso file and launching a virtual instance to install it
- 11:30 - 12:00 wrap up
Second Quarter's Work
Over the course of the second quarter, mentees will be assigned the tasks of setting up virtual servers to perform the following tasks:
- Web Environment [link to how to], Deadline: October 15
- Email system [link to how to], Deadline: November 15
- File Server/Samba server [link to how to]: December 8
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