Second Quarter

Face-to-Face meeting

Sept. 17 & 18, 2012 (New York City)

Topic: networking and virtualization

Logistics

Place and Subway Travel

Our face to face is taking place at MF/PL offices which are located in Alfredo's house. Alfredo's phone number is 347 675-0953

The address is

461 54th Street (between 4th and 5th Avenues) in Brooklyn NY

By train, you take the R train (BMT line) downtown into Brooklyn to the 53rd Street stop which leaves you on 4th Avenue. Walk half a block to 54th, make right and proceed up the block. It's a mild hill. The house is in front of the second fire pump.

We will be posting the addresses for other locations where people are staying on this page in a very short time.

Travel

• Ross, Kendra, Tomas: Arriving by car from Boston Sunday evening
• Miles: Arriving by Amtrak Sunday evening
• Langston Arriving Amtrak Sunday evening
• Rita -- Air flight booked
• Roberto Air flight booked

Accommodations

• Tomas: Housed with Jamie
• Roberto: Housed with Alfredo
• Langston: Housed with Alfredo
• Miles: self made arrangements
• Kendra: Housed with Hilary
• Rita: Housed with Hilary
• Ross: self made arrangements

Agenda

Pre-meeting reading materials

• ​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 networking
  • 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 ​virtual network devices (aka tap devices) and how to create them with the ip command
  • Understanding ​network bridges and the use of the brctl 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 bash programming
  • ​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