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Re: open source tools help (contract) in DC area?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Howard C. Berkowitz)
Mon Jul 25 20:42:19 2005

In-Reply-To: <p0620070bbf0adc83ef08@[10.0.0.120]>
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 20:41:47 -0400
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: "Howard C. Berkowitz" <hcb@gettcomm.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


At 8:27 PM +0200 7/25/05, Brad Knowles wrote:
>At 1:12 PM -0400 2005-07-25, Howard C. Berkowitz wrote:
>
>>  I need to get some short-term contract help on setting up a lab dealing
>>  with SP security issues, in the Washington DC area.  Please contact me
>>  offline if interested. I am the technoid and will pass you on for the
>>  mercenary aspects.
>
>	I'm not convinced that this is an appropriate on-topic 
>posting for NANOG.  It seems to me that you would be much better off 
>going through SANS or SAGE to find local groups in the area that 
>could be helpful to you.

Actually, the interest is in open-source ISP tools.

>
>	For example, I believe that if you contact the folks at 
>dc.sage (see www.dc-sage.org), they are more likely to be able to 
>help.  I know there are several security and network-knowledgeable 
>system administrators in dc.sage.  I imagine that at least one or 
>two of them should be consultants/contractors who can help you.
>
>
>	But it does seem to me that a more targeted search for 
>assistance would have been appropriate.
>
>--
>Brad Knowles, <brad@stop.mail-abuse.org>
>
>"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little
>temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
>
>     -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), reply of the Pennsylvania
>     Assembly to the Governor, November 11, 1755
>
>   SAGE member since 1995.  See <http://www.sage.org/> for more info.


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