Current speaker schedule (For 2002 Quarterly meetings) * March: IBM (IBM's Linux strategy and new Linux products) * June: Ximian (talk to Paul) * October: VMware/EXS * December: maddog Some of the ideas that have been floated for meetings are: * Gaming (and games) on Linux * Mail filtering (complete and end-all) * Realtime * Conferencing software (Video, whiteboard, audio, etc.) * Demo night of various small applications (organization needed) * Neat Hardware * How to choose hardware * How to choose hardware that works well with Linux * Cablemodems: tricks of dealing with (Ben Boulanger ben@blackavar.com) * Marketing Linux to your: Boss, Someone Else's Boss (Maddog will take this on) * Licenses of Open Source (what do they mean) * IPV6: what is it, will it ever arrive, and how to deal with it when it does. * Lilipad: Music typesetter * e-commerce * accounting software * alan cox * esr * rms * doc searles * ken coar [I am not sure if the last five are to give a talk about a topic or just stand on the stage and glow...but this was brainstorming, and I did not want to break the flow of consciousness to ask. - md] * PHP - rasmus * mySQL - nusphere * intro to security (Ben Boulanger ben@blackavar.com) * perl (Ben Boulanger ben@blackavar.com) [break the topic up] * IDE tools - Kylix * JAVA - IBM * Guile * Glade * Apache Configuration (Rich Cloutier 20 Apr 2002) * Java on Linux (Paul Courchene; 4 Jan 2002) * Virtual Machines and Linux (") * X10 - control your home/office from your Linux box! * LinuxCollaborationTools - an overview of Linux based collaboration tools. * <nop>LinuxClustering - Making several Linux boxes perform as one. * <Nop>OfficeAutomation - Linux Office applications. * Favorite Tools and Productivity applications * Factory Automation, BarCoding (Kurth Bemis <kurth@usaexpress.net>, carl@helmers.com) * Introduction to Firewals - An intro to the new IP Tables firewall code in the 2.4.x kernel series * Anti-spam/Virus techniques - How can you deal with Spam/viruses * Sendmail setup/configuration * Some answers to the "Now what?" feeling one often gets after a successful Linux install * Favorite packages (everyone has their own, maybe a Show'n'Tell * LyX - The WYSIWYM Document Processor * Using a PalmPilot with Linux * A "From the Ground Up" Installation session. Maybe with different distributions, how to do dual/multi-boot systems * Different Mail clients (compare/contrast (X)pine, mutt, (n)mh/exmh * System Administration Techniques and practices * Customizing Emacs/vi * Intro to sw development tools (automake/autoconf, Makefiles, cscope, etc.) * Cryptography * Security * CAD Software * USB Support * Video conferencing * GIS software * PGP/GPG and key signing. This list is by no means exhaustive! If you have an idea, add it! If you have a prepared presentation, attach them to your new topic. ----- *N.B.* The first part of the list curtosey maddog and the MELBA meeting attendees of April, 2002.
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