Just my suggestion.

I suggest that the senior people at plug create a schedule on how to
tackle this and set a deadline?

Say 1 week brainstorming - 
- presentation of suggestions backed up with facts/detailed experience
on preferred/suggested distro or home brewed linux.
 - Set a voting criteria. who are allowed to vote. What are their vote
weights. People who volunteers matters since they are the one who is
going to implement things. say Eric, Jijo will have a heavier vote
weight since they volunteered themselves. Skill Level also matter, say I
volunteered, my vote weight should be _less_ than Eric and Jijo's vote
weights, or I my vote weight is 0 since my I feel Im only there to
assist or do tasks that was given to me.
 
1 week planning - after selection, maybe division/delegation of work,
who gets assigned to what service and make some indepth research on
history, possible/upcoming vulnerabilities on that service. AFAIK
vendors are notified and given 2 weeks to patch things up before they
release the vulnerability to the public. And since the speakers are
themselves hackers they themselves might know something that is not yet
released to the bugtraq community and can use that to breakin on the
system.

1 week implementation - implementation and continued tracking on
vulnerabilities, in house pen testing. Further hardening.
1 week testing - pen testing, ie, will this be open to public. continued
tracking on vulnerabilities. etc. Further hardening

then deploy (harden more 3 days before the event).

It is better to be prepared than rush things up later when the event is
near. Also maybe set the target goal.Show that Linux is at least better
than Windows on most respects. It goes to say that there is really an
low cost alternative that is more reliable and more secure.

As for me I would prefer a distro that really embodies the Spirit of
GNU/Linux. But it really matters most to choose something that is really
geared for Secure Computing. :)

Just my two cents.

Dax


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