The funeral will be on Friday, March 23, 2012, at 10:30 AM, at the Judean Memorial Gardens, 16225 Bachellors Forest Rd, Olney, MD 20832. People can feel free to call (301) 384–1000 for directions.

Solomon Rosenthal contributions to computing began back in the days of ENIAC where he led the team that did the actual wiring.  He served many roles for the DC ACM including Chair from 1960-1963.

He was also very active in the Community in which he lived, as one of the Founders of the Stonegate Citizens Association, one of its Presidents, the author of its Bylaws, and was serving as its Parliamentarian and as a member of its Board of Trustees at the time of his death. His friendship, cheerfulness, and wise counsel will be greatly missed by the Board.

Agenda

• Prior meeting minutes approval (PPD)

• Reports from the Officers

⁃ Chair

⁃ Overview of last year’s adopted strategy for the benefit of new attendees.

⁃ Nominations Committee

⁃ Elections are coming up. The elections committee will be formed by next meeting.

⁃ Vice Chair

⁃ Volunteer Recruitment

⁃ New volunteer postings

⁃ Secretary

⁃ Nothing to report

⁃ Treasurer

⁃ Mid-year budget review

⁃ No adjustments. Need to focus on revenue generating activities (Professional Development workshop)

⁃ Member-At-Large

⁃ Nothing to report

• Reports from the Committees

⁃ Programs

⁃ Resume Workshop – 1st week of March, RFA

⁃ Eric will contact Harry to check on room availability

⁃ Robert Neelbauer can coordinate resume consultants

⁃ Lecture Series – 3 events, 1 coordinator

⁃ Wikipedia mirroring lecture

⁃ Need to set a date. Kent Miller to present on his work regarding mirroring Wikipedia.

⁃ Distinguished Speaker Program

⁃ dsp.acm.org – a resource of speakers provided by ACM that can be used for lectures

⁃ Professional Development Seminar

⁃ GWU spring break week of 12 Mar

⁃ Target for the first week

⁃ Technical Focus Committee – Technology Startups

⁃ DC ACM supports NightOwls as part of a Technical Focus Committee on area technology startups

⁃ http://www.acm.org/chapters/professionals/toolkit/tech_focus

• New Business

⁃ Membership Benefits Discussion

⁃ Discussion on the value-add that Robert Neelbauer’s product can bring to the benefit of the membership

⁃ DC Tech transportation visual map

⁃ Andrew would like to start a project that compiles various data mappings about area technology. Details will be on the project page of the dcacm.org web-site. Volunteers welcome and encouraged

Volunteer Meeting (7pm – 7:40pm)

• Programs Committee Planning (20 minutes)
  • Work towards a draft program calendar
• Upcoming Distinguished Speakers
  • Identify volunteer needs, assign tasks
  • Q&A for new guests
• Communications Committee Planning (20 minutes)
  • Continue developing communications plan
  • Identify volunteer needs, assign tasks
  • Q&A for new guests

Members attending: Isaac Christoffersen, Eric Noriega, Andrew Conklin, Ken Spokas, James Imanian

Non-members attending: Robert Neelbauer, Mike Thomas and Tim Egan of Ohava Computers

No volunteers attended this meeting.  The agenda was quickly reviewed by executive committee for future action.

Executive Council Meeting

Board members attending: Isaac Christoffersen, Eric Noriega, Andrew Conklin, Ken Spokas
Non-members observing: Robert Neelbauer, Mike Thomas and Tim Egan of Ohava Computers

The meeting was called to order by Chair at 8:35pm

1.     Meeting Minutes

There were no minutes of the board meetings presented for approval.

2.     Reports of the Officers

Chair

• Nominations committee starting early
• Resume workshop in work – space to be determined

Vice Chair

Discussed:

10NOV Game Fest to held at University Maryland

11NOV Drupal Installfest leading to DC Week Closing Party, Location: Braddock Road

Treasurer

Statements are now on-line with Wells Fargo.  Reports next meeting.

Secretary

Nothing to report.

Member At Large

Nothing to report.

3.     Reports from the Standing Committees

Communications

Covered above

Membership

Nothing to report.

Programs

• DC Week was discussed
• December Resume Workshop was discussed

Professional Development

• Cloud Workshops was discussed
• Additional Workshops to be determined

Awards

Nothing to report.

4.     Reports from the Ad-Hoc Committees

Historical

Nothing to report.

Nominations

As mentioned above Chair has started process early.

5.     Unfinished Business

None

6.     New Business

• DC ACM Resume Workshop, Robert Neelbauer
  • Robert talked to the group about tools and processes that would help members connect with employment and project opportunities
  • Proposal from Ohava, regarding Computer Donations
    • Ohava Computers has a line of desktops, laptops and servers running open source operating systems and applications
    • They run a “BootUp Camp”  where they teach computing skills over a week long session and give participants a free computer at the end
      • Currently being run at Arlington employment center
  • Ohava is looking for donations from ACM members – DC ACM will consider sending out an e-mail requesting hardware and monetary donations from members supporting the “BootUp Camp” events
  • There was a discussion on “Is there a way to develop a “train the trainer” program (so other organizations could provide the same educational opportunity)?”  This could be a professional development event.  Ohava said there may be an organization that could develop the required syllabus.

Action: Need to talk to ACM legal department on how DC ACM can properly collect monetary donations for transfer to another non-profit organization.

Meeting adjourned at 8:50 PM

Board members attending: Isaac Christoffersen, Eric Noriega, Andrew Conklin, James Imanian,

Members attending: Roger Fujii

Non-members observing: None

The meeting was called to order by Chair at 7:25pm

1.     Meeting Minutes

No minutes of previous board meetings were submitted for approval.

2.     Reports of the Officers

Chair

• Budget approved last meeting
• Goal now for chapter is to get schedule prepared and then execute

Vice Chair

Nothing to report.

Treasurer

Nothing to report.

Secretary

Nothing to report.

Action: Move previous meeting minutes into Word Press.  Use DCACM_min as tag.

Member At Large

Not applicable

3.     Reports from the Standing Committees

Communications

Discussed Home page

Action: Eric to re-write first paragraph.

Discussed MeetUp platform and its functionality

Discussed strengths and weaknesses of Eventbrite for membership management (especially concerning dues) vs Mail Chimp

Chapter Meetings (invites) to be posted on MeetUp

Discussion on what contact manager DCACM will use.  We could possibly use Highrise CRM.

Lanyrd a social conference directory was discussed as another member contact manager possibility.

Membership

Nothing to report.

Programs

Nothing to report.

Professional Development

Amazon Web Services (AWS) a possibility along with other cloud service development.

Code Jams with Phase Two Technologies as a partner another possibility for a PD program.

ACM’s Distinguished Speaker Program @ dsp.ACM.org is a resource for picking speakers and presentation length.

The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at George Mason University (http://www.olli.gmu.edu/) could be a venue for DC ACM program

There was a discussion on “What does event coordinator do?”  Answer was initially event coordinator is responsible for arranging for the space, and food needed to support the event.  PD chair or another designated person would be responsible for the speaker and any support arrangements (e.g. travel, hotel, presentation requirements)

“What night of the week is best for an event?” was asked.  This should be worked out thru DC Tech Events and Meetup.

4.     Reports from the Ad-Hoc Committees

Historical

Nothing to report.

Nominations

Nothing to report

5.     Unfinished Business

6.     New Business

n/a

Meeting adjourned at 8:45 PM

For more info and to rsvp, go here:

http://meetup.dcacm.org/events/39072362/

The vulnerability that Julian targeted was a result of the Same Origin Policy (SOP) changes proposed by the HTML5 spec. The SOP is a mandate over the browser’s scripting language, JavaScript, to prevent an open exchange of methods, properties, and cookies between websites. The separation is intended to protect a website’s session and other sensitive data within the client browser, from any other website, safe or malicious. The SOP previously defined same origin for domains and documents. The HTML5 spec removes the requirement for same domain origin. Documents of different origins and owners can be changed to matching owners by using the innerHTML JavaScript method. In so doing, one website, malicious or safe, can access another website’s cookies and sensitive data.

This is an overly simplified recap on the presentation.  For further information, and details on how Facebook and Twitter used to be exposed to this vulnerability, check out Julian’s blog post on this topic.

Education:
BS, Computer Information Systems

Professional Experience:
More than 10 years in IT Management, including strategic direction, budget preparation, vendor relationships, and planning and operation of Network Operations Centers. Currently the President and Owner of Kainos Enterprises, Inc., a provider of Professional Services in the areas of Data Center Automation, Virtualization and Infrastructure and Platform service solutions.

ACM Activities:
Professional Member, ACM, 2005- present
Membership Chair, DC ACM, 2009 – 2010
Historical Chair, DC ACM, 2009 – present
Vice Chair, DC ACM, 2008 – 2009
Chair, DC ACM 2010-present

Other Activities:
International Association of Software Architects (IASA), Full Member
IEEE Computer Society (IEEE CS), Affiliate Member
Open Source for America, Infrastructure Team

Position Statement:
I will continue to steer the Chapter in our efforts to connect and engage the DC ACM professional community. My main focus will be on growing the membership and increasing the opportunities for our members to excel both professionally and academically.

My goals for the coming year are to:
- Recruit 5-10% of the area ACM members to join DC ACM through outreach efforts to local ACM members, Academic institutions and joint promotion campaigns with ACM Headquarters.
- Increase total DC ACM membership by 20% by engaging local area technical user groups and improving the membership program benefits.
- Continue to Increase volunteer participation and hours by 20% through the expansion of our recruitment strategies to include other volunteer matching organizations.
- Hold at least 2 joint programs with area Technical User groups as part of a continued effort to advance the practice of computing through collaboration and cross-pollination.
- Hold at least 2 joint workshops and/or lectures with area ACM Student Chapters and Universities so as to build a strong relationship with the DC Area Metropolitan academic community.

Candidate for Vice-Chair: Andrew Conklin

Education:
BS, Magna Cum Laude, Computer Science, Western Michigan University

Professional Experience:
Software Developer since 2004, primarily in C++, Java, and Web development. Currently working on the Unified Financial Management System for the Justice Management Division of the Department of Justice. Formerly worked on training simulation software for various Department of Defense projects.

Software Engineer, CGI Federal, 2009 – present
Software Engineer, Systems Management Technology, 2004 – 2009

ACM Activities:
Communications Chair, DC ACM, 2010 – present
Secretary, DC ACM, 2009 – present
Volunteer, Professional Development Committee, DC ACM, Fall 2009
Volunteer, Programs Committee, DC ACM, 2009 – present
Member, Washington DC Chapter of ACM, 2008 – present
Member, Association for Computing Machinery, 2009 – present
Member, Association for Computing Machinery, 2004 – 2007

Other Activities:
Volunteer, Social Matchbox DC, Spring 2010
Volunteer, Food for All DC, 2009

Position Statement:
I will assist the Chair in leading DC ACM’s effort to further our mission by engaging the local community and connecting tech professionals with their interests in the areas of academic, career, and technical focus.

Assist in creating programs involving technical user groups, universities, and public policy institutions
Grow our subscriber base and recruit volunteers to review events and publications for our CompuTopics newsletter
Recruit volunteers to explore new venues and expand on our program format options
Seek out additional discounts and free tickets to paid seminars and conferences for our members

Candidate for Treasuer: Janet Dianda

Education:
MBA, University of Chicago
MS in Computer Science, Illinois Institute of Technology

Professional Experience:
Senior Manager in the telecommunications industry with a focus on cloud based services for industry verticals. Experienced product manager, principal technology strategist, and software developer of telecommunications switches, feature servers, Business Support Systems and web services (C, Java, C#, .NET). Responsibilities have included developing multi-million dollar sales quotes & Master Service Agreements, and managing multi-million dollar software development budgets. Awarded 6 U.S. patents. Publications include: IEEE 2006 International Conference on Communication Technology, Guilin, China, author, “Indoor Wireless Service Signal Distribution via Broadband”. World Telecommunications Conference 2000, Birmingham, England, author and presenter, “A multimedia services architecture for converged voice and data networks”. Bell Labs Technical Journal Vol. 5, No. 3, “Programmable Service Platforms for Converged Voice/Data Services”.

ACM Activities:
Member, DC ACM
Member, ACM

Other Activities:
Beta Gamma Sigma International Business Honors Society; Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE).

Position Statement:
As treasurer, I will seek to maintain a healthy budget to enable DC ACM to reach its goals, to grow its membership, and to increase its impact on the DC computing community:

· Manage the DC ACM financial accounts to maximize return and minimize risk
· Maintain accurate financial records following accounting best practices for not-for-profit organizations
· Prepare financial reports for the National ACM as required by the Bylaws
· Report financial status to the DC ACM Executive Council

Candidate for Treasurer: Ken Spokas

Education:
BS, Computer Science
MS, Software Engineering

Professional Experience:
More than 10 years in full life-cycle software development for both government and commercial projects. Currently a Senior Developer at Vizuri, an advanced partner with Red Hat that offers expert level consulting for their line (JBoss, Hibernate, ESB etc.) as well as general support for software development best practices.

ACM Activities:
Member for last several years, recently joined national ACM.

Other Activities:
Communications Coordinator for George Mason’s Volgenau School Alumni Chapter
Freelance web developer

Position Statement:
After being a passive member of the DCACM for awhile, I feel it is time to give back. I hope to assist the Chair and Vice-Chair continue to grow the chapter in a fiscally responsible manner.

Candidate for Secretary: James Imanian

Education:
BS, Political Science, United States Naval Academy
MS, Computer Science, Naval Postgraduate School

Professional Experience:
Has served in four separate fighter squadrons including an instructor tour. Recently served as Assistant Chief of Staff for C5I on the Commander Carrier Strike Group Three staff where he
lead the C5I syndicate in planning and executing strike group command and control missions across nine ships and a carrier airwing. Ashore, has served as the Flag Lieutenant for the Commander Naval Safety Center; and in, Assured Information Sharing Division , J6, Joint Staff; Cyber Division (Strategy and Policy), J5,Joint Staff. Also was the Afghan National Police Communications Division Chief, Combined Security Transition Command, Kabul, Afghanistan where he advised, mentored and assisted the Afghan Ministry of Interior Information and Communication Technology staff organize, train and equip Afghan National Police forces.

ACM Activities:
Volunteer, Programs Committee, DC ACM, November 2010 – present
Professional Member, Association for Computing Machinery, 2004 – present

Other Activities:
Secretary, IEEE Richmond Section, March 2011 – present
Volunteer, IEEE Richmond Section, 2007 – 2008
Certified Information System Security Professional, March 2008 – present

Position Statement:
I will support the Chairman and the rest of the executive committee fulfill their vision for improving our ACM chapter by keeping accurate records of discussions and decisions. I will
also use my professional training to ensure assigned tasks are completed on time and those chapter volunteers that need help, get the resources they need to complete an assigned task. I particularly look forward to fostering the continuous growth and reinvigoration of the DC ACM community, allowing for our members to excel both professionally and academically.

Candidate for Member-At-Large: George Romas

Education:
BS in Computer Science and Economics

Professional Experience:
I have over 28 years’ experience within the Intelligence Community, providing my knowledge and expertise across a wide range of technologies, to include: modeling and simulation, systems programming, database development, systems engineering, information assurance enterprise architecture and engineering processes. In addition to my work in the federal sector, I co-founded an Internet startup in July 2000 and worked for a Boston-based startup in 1990. I am currently Chief Technology Officer for a large business group in a federal contracting company.

ACM Activities:
Member, DC ACM
Member, ACM
Member-at-Large, DC ACM
Volunteer, Privacy Policy Committee, DC ACM

Other Activities:
Coaching soccer and soccer goalkeepers, reading, cultural events, exercise, writing, and travel.

Position Statement:
I will leverage my experience as a CTO to improve and expand DC ACM and its relationships to the community, other organizations, academia, and the professional workforce.

Candidate for Member-At-Large: Ingrid Mihai

At our first SIG-BEER, on May 25th at7pm,  will be the organizer of the Capital Area Cloud Computing User Group, Andy Zhang.  Our last venture with Andy was our fall lecture: “Cloud Computing, is it Really New?” at the Washington Academy of Sciences.  

Andrew, our Communications Chair, will also be in attendance for anyone interested in talking about DC ACM and what it has been up to in the past year, and what we’re thinking about in the future.  Eric our PD chair may share what classes may be upcoming.

Danielle, our event organizer and hostess supreme of the happy hour has arranged specials for the group of $2.50 Cocktails, Draft Beer, and House wine.

Draft Beer: Miller Lite, Bud Lite, Heavy Seas IPA, Blue Moon, Brooklyn Lager, Guinness, Evolution Exile ESB, Stella, Yuengling, Sam Seasonal (Noble Pilsner), #9, Sierra Nevada.

Please come out and spend time with your fellow hacker, stackers, nerds, geeks, wonks and wannabees and let Andy Zhang know what you think about Cloud Computing or just the beer you’re quaffing.

Please RSVP here so we have a head count:
http://dcacm-may25th2011.eventbrite.com/

Congratulations to Jamie Whitacre on winning the free ticket to COM.Geo Conference 2011 next week. The ticket has an $800 value to it, and includes full access to the conference, as well as the river cruise dinner at the end of day three.

The slides can be found here: http://www.slideshare.net/dcacm/patterns-of-human-error

Walter focused on ways to design failure out of systems and how the D Language alleviates coding results from some common programming errors. I had the pleasure of attending the lecture and was very impressed with how knowledgeable and engaged the audience was.

Walter did an excellent job in presenting his case that we should make it difficult to make these simple errors. For example, ask Google “What happens if you connect a car battery up and get the terminals the wrong way around?” and you’ll find over 63,000 results to this question. If the result is so catastrophic, why is it so easy to do? Wouldn’t it be better if the terminals looked more like a 9-volt battery?

Why haven’t we gotten rid of buffer overflows in C? Why is the answer to that issue center around code inspections, unit tests, and training? Wouldn’t we want to make it harder to make this mistake? Or for a simpler example, ‘x = 64l’ or ‘x = 64L’ may be syntactically correct and equal, the introduction of the lower case L creates an opportunity for human error as this can be confused with the number 1. The answer – make lower case letters illegal.

These are just a few of the questions that Walter Bright posed and it is good to hear that D has implemented many of these improvements in its language. D can be downloaded from the Digital Mars site, http://digitalmars.com/d/index.html. Implementations exist for the OS platform of your choice and the language is open source with a healthy community behind it. The drawbacks on D are the same as all new languages – the need for a more robust library of functions for reuse. However, the language is open source and as the community grows, the richness of available libraries will only improve.

In addtion, congratulations to the folks at Digital Mars for becoming mentors to 3 Google Summer of Code projects:

http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2011/cristicbz/36001

http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2011/dolsh/17001

http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2011/klickverbot/27001

Finally, I’d like to thank Walter Bright for taking the time to deliver a thought-provoking and educational talk; Jyh-Ming Lien and George Mason University for being gracious hosts and providing the facilities to host this lecture; and William Fielder, our former Chair, who once again demonstrated his unique talent to find good speakers and interesting subjects that are of benefit to our members.

Walter Bright graduated from Caltech in 1979 with a degree in mechanical engineering. He worked for Boeing for 3 years on the development of the 757 stabilizer trim system. He switched to programming, specializing in compilers, and has been writing them ever since.

Event RSVP and additional Info here:
http://dcacm2011-04.eventbrite.com/

Walter Bright