Ohio LinuxFest, which takes place October 12-13, 2018 at the Hyatt Regency in Columbus, Ohio, will offer a training course, Introduction to Wireless Ethical Hacking with Kali Linux, at this year's conference.

The OpenAFS Guardians are happy to announce the availability of the first prerelease candidate for OpenAFS 1.8.1.

SNA Principle Engineer Neale Ferguson will be speaking at the upcoming VMWorkshop 2018. His presentation is entitled Managing and Orchestrating Docker Containers with OpenShift. VMWorkshop takes place June 28-June 30, 2018 at NCA&T in Greensboro, NC.

The abstract of Neale's presentation reads:

The staff of Ohio LinuxFest is excited to announce that Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph will keynote Ohio LinuxFest 2018!

The countdown to the 2018 VM Workshop at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University in Greensboro, NC continues with a little over a month to complete your registration. Please keep in mind that in order to receive a complimentary polo shirt and the dinner reception, your registration must be received by May 31.

The Missouri University Lab for Educational Games (MULE) is sponsoring a student programming competition, using the C# language and many 3D content creation tools in the Unity game engine.

The OpenAFS Guardians are happy to announce the availability of  thefirst release in a new stable series of releases, OpenAFS 1.8.0. Source files can be accessed via the web at: https://www.openafs.org/release/openafs-1.8.0.html.

This section contains presentations made by the Hillgang Group, a Mainframe Linux and VM user group which meets in the Washington D.C. area. There are also selected presentations by representatives from other companies, posted here with permission of the authors.