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The University of Washington, Tacoma will be holding a forum to discuss the campus master plan on Wednesday January 16th at 12:45 PM in the Cherry Parkes building room 108. This will be a good opportunity for anyone who had questions following the last Economic Development Committee meeting. Details below:

You are cordially invited to participate in an open campus forum on January 16, 2007 from 12:45 to 1:45 in room CP 108 to share your views as we engage in a review of the campus master plan. The review will allow the campus to assess the impact of four-year institutional status on the current master plan and prepare an update to the 2003 plan.

The UW Tacoma Campus master plan update will build upon UWT’s strategic plan currently in the final stage of development. Issues to be considered include the need for future residence halls and student space required to support a residential population including recreation, student center and other student support services. Impacts on facilities related to a four-year campus will also be reviewed including the need for expansion of academic programs, academic support space and library space.

To guide this process, Chancellor Spakes established and appointed the Building Advisory and Design Review Committee as a standing committee early last fall. This committee, whose charge is to represent the university community in the on-going physical development of the campus, will help to guide this activity. The firm of Mithun Architects + Designers + Planners, based in Seattle, is helping to lead the effort.

The master plan update will be accomplished in three phases - information gathering (winter 2008), options development/evaluation (spring 2008) and final plan presentations and approvals (summer 2008). Presently, the master plan update process is in a first phase information gathering stage. Additionally, a website is under development to provide additional detailed information.

Please join the campus discussion to offer your input by attending this open forum, future charrettes or via the website.

If you were as bummed as I was that Tacoma Dorkbot won’t be meeting again until late winter / early spring you should know there are other outlets for your geeky attributes in this, America’s Most Wired City.

Every third Saturday the Tacoma Linux Users Group, Taclug, meets at the University of Washington, Tacoma. This meeting should be an interesting one. With the Cyber Defense Workshop kicking things off, open source network monitoring geekery, WiFi hacking and virtualization shenanigans it is one not to miss.

Francois Caen (RHCE, CCNA), long time member and former president of Taclug, will be lecturing on open source network management tools. Folks, it gets geekier than SNMP but not much. Francois is also the president of Turbosphere, a provider of turn-key proactively managed dedicated servers for your business applications and soon to be published author.

In addition to Francios’ presentation there will be a hack session on creating WiFi captive portals. What is a captive portal? When you open your laptop in Starbucks or Firehouse Coffee (sorry, Origin 23 Degrees) you are redirected to a page before being given access to the Internet. This hands on session will be centered around creating a captive portal for everybody’s favorite local watering hole, Doyle’s Public House. Several people are bringing a variety of computer hardware to experiment with different WiFi captive portal solutions.

Finally, in addition to the WiFi captive portal hack session there will be a hack session on Linux virtualization technologies. These technologies include Xen, OpenVZ, LKVM, QEMU and more.

More information is available at the Taclug website.

A Cyber Defense workshop will be held at the University of Washington, Tacoma this Saturday, November 17, from 10:00 to 1:00. Anyone is welcome to attend–students, faculty, staff, friends, relatives, anyone interested in the technical aspects of network security. This workshop will be a Network Mapping Challenge with an expected focus on Nessus and Nmap. It will start in the Embedded lab, Cherry Parkes 206D. Linux experience helpful, but not required. Participants who already have network mapping software on their laptops, will be able to use their own machine.

Immediately following the Cyber Defense workshop the Tacoma Linux Users Group, Taclug, will be meeting in Cherry Parkes 105.