Topic | Speakers |
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The Basics |
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A "From the Ground Up" Installation session. Maybe with different distributions, how to do dual/multi-boot systems | |
Some answers to the "Now what?" feeling one often gets after a successful Linux install | |
Distributions |
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SuSE | NovellInc |
Libranet (a packaging of Debian) | BillSconce |
Hardware |
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How to choose hardware | |
How to choose hardware that works well with Linux | |
Neat hardware | |
Using a PalmOS device with Linux | EdLawson |
Home Automation | RobLembree BruceDawson |
Laptop sleep/standby/hibernation | |
USB Support | |
Scalable, mobile computing | NextComputing |
Hammer/x86-64 | RichPayne |
User environment |
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screen - commandline terminal tool to maintain multiple persistent terminals across unreliable/disconnected connections | |
Customizing Emacs/vi | |
NX - remote terminal services for Linux | |
VNC - cross-platform remote GUIs, Virtual Network Computing, including RealVNC and other variations | |
X11 | RobLembree |
Dual-Headed X | BenScott |
Fluxbox (a lean, mean window manager) | BillSconce |
Windows Interoperability | BenScott |
Communications/networking |
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Introduction to Networking | BenScott |
IPV6: what is it, will it ever arrive, and how to deal with it when it does. | |
Mail filtering (complete and end-all) | |
exmh | PaulLussier |
Conferencing software (Video, whiteboard, audio, etc.) | |
Cablemodems: tricks of dealing with | BenBoulanger |
Apache Configuration | RichCloutier |
Sendmail setup/configuration | |
Different Mail clients (compare/contrast (X)pine, mutt, (n)mh/exmh | |
Video conferencing | |
CollaborationTools an overview of Linux based collaboration tools | BruceDawson |
TWiki | BruceDawson |
Network monitoring / Nagios | MattBrodeur BenBoulanger |
ssh | BillStearns |
SSH tunneling/VPN | KarlRunge |
DNS | RichPayne BenScott BenBoulanger |
NIS | RichPayne |
NFS | RichPayne |
TCP/IP | RichPayne |
Samba and SMB | BenScott |
IPSec | BenScott |
L2TP | BenScott |
OpenS/WAN | BenScott |
OpenVPN | BenScott |
X.509 | BenScott |
diald | BenScott |
Wiki | BenScott |
Apache | DavidBerube |
DTC - GPL'ed web host control panel | DavidBerube |
WRT54G 3rd-party router firmware | TedRoche |
Introduction to Wi-Fi | BillSconce |
Entertainment and education |
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Gaming (and games) on Linux | |
Systems stuff |
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System Administration Techniques and practices | |
Realtime | |
Linux Clustering - Making several Linux boxes perform as one | |
Virtual Machines and Linux | |
Backup and Storage Solutions | VaultLogix BenScott |
Automated System Installs | MattBrodeur |
LVM | BillStearns BenScott |
Linux as a SOHO Server | BenScott |
Introduction to CUPS | BillSconce |
eneral meeting ideas |
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Demo night of various small applications (organization needed) | |
Favorite packages (everyone has their own, maybe a Show'n'Tell?) | |
General "help solve problems" meetings - I'm trying to do X, and need help | |
Linux on the desktop - We tend to focus on server/admin stuff | |
Advocacy, politics, legalities, etc. | |
Marketing Linux to: Your Boss, Someone Else's Boss | MadDog |
Licenses of Open Source (what do they mean) | |
People |
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Alan Cox | Alan Cox |
ESR | ESR |
RMS | RMS |
Doc Searles | Doc Searles |
Ken Coar | Ken Coar |
Programming |
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Intro to Unix development tools (automake/autoconf, make, cscope, etc.) | |
perl | BenBoulanger |
JAVA - IBM | |
Java on Linux | PaulCourchene |
Guile | |
Glade | |
Perl | DavidBerube |
Ruby | DavidBerube |
PHP | rasmus RichPayne DavidBerube |
PHP-gtk | RichPayne |
RSS Aggregation | DavidBerube |
Web Development | DavidBerube |
Web Spidering | DavidBerube |
embedded linux | RobLembree |
kernel internals | RobLembree |
Introductory LAMP | TedRoche |
Introduction to Scripting | BillSconce |
RPM | PaulIadonisi |
Kylix IDE | |
Expect | BenBoulanger |
Databases |
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Oracle | RichardSoule |
MySQL | TedRoche |
phpMyAdmin | TedRoche |
SQL | TedRoche |
Database design and normalization | TedRoche |
Security |
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Introduction to Security | BenScott PaulLussier |
PGP/GPG and key signing | MattBrodeur |
Cryptography | |
intro to security | MarkKomarinski BenBoulanger PaulLussier |
Introduction to Firewalls - An intro to IP Tables/Netfilter firewall code | BenScott BenBoulanger |
Anti-spam/Virus techniques - How can you deal with Spam/viruses | |
Applications |
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E-commerce | |
Accounting software | |
Lilipad: Music typesetter | |
Office Automation - Linux Office applications | |
Favorite Tools and Productivity applications | |
LyX - The WYSIWYM Document Processor | PaulLussier |
GnuCash | PaulLussier |
Pilot (HTML for presentations) | BillSconce |
SciTE (a great, lightweight, intelligent, (and cross-platform) text editor) | BillSconce |
Gentoo (a two-pane, highly configurable-by-GUI file manager for GTK) | BillSconce |
GIS software | |
CAD Software | |
Factory Automation and Bar Coding | KurthBemis carl@helmers*REMOVE*.com |
gLabels (a great little label maker for all types of labels) | EdLawson |
Thunderbird (Mozilla e-mail program) | EdLawson |
Straw (RSS feed reader) | EdLawson |
J-Pilot (Palm application) | EdLawson |
Basic productivity/office applications | EdLawson |