[PLUG-ANNOUNCE] Announcement: October PLUG Meeting: UEFI Secure Boot and Open Source

[Michael Dexter]

Portland Linux/Unix Group Meeting Announcement

Who: Vincent Zimmer, Intel
What: UEFI Secure Boot and Open Source. It's not a 'general war against 
computation.'
Where: PSU, 1930 SW 4th Ave. Room FAB 86-01 (Lower Level)
When: Thursday, October 4th, 2012 at 7pm
Why: The pursuit of awesome, open technologies.

See location H-10 on the PSU map at http://pdxLinux.org/campus_map.jpg

As 2012 platform firmware embraces UEFI 2.3.1 and ACPI5.0 support, the 
ability to interoperate with UEFI Secure Boot is imperative. This poses 
a unique challenge for open software that may not come pre-installed on 
the platform. With UEFI Secure Boot, though, infrastructure has been put 
in place to preserve openness, owner choice and control in addition to 
mitigating concerns of malware targeting the platform. This talk will 
provide a history of UEFI Secure Boot, an overview of the 
implementation, deployment practices, and details on the engagement with 
the open source community.

Vincent Zimmer is a Principal Engineer with Intel Corporation. He has 
been working on various platform, networking, trusted computing and 
security technologies around EFI since 1999 and platform firmware since 
1992. Vincent has spoken in various forums on this topic, co-authored 3 
books, 10 papers, and several specifications in this area.

Calagator Page: http://calagator.org/events/1250462851
PLUG Page with information about all PLUG events: http://pdxLinux.org/

Agenda:

7:00 - 7:30  Announcements
7:30 - 8:30  Presentation and Questions
9:00 - ...   Refreshments

The Lucky Lab Northwest Beer Hall
1945 NW Quimby
Portland, Oregon

Follow PLUG on Twitter: http://twitter.com/pdxlinux

Michael Dexter
PLUG Volunteer

See you there!