| Topic | Speakers |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|
| SuSE | NovellInc |
| Libranet (a packaging of Debian) | BillSconce |
| Hardware |
|
| 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 |
|
| 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 |
|
| 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 |
|
| Gaming (and games) on Linux | |
| Systems stuff |
|
| 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 |
|
| 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 |
|
| Alan Cox | Alan Cox |
| ESR | ESR |
| RMS | RMS |
| Doc Searles | Doc Searles |
| Ken Coar | Ken Coar |
| Programming |
|
| 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 |
|
| Oracle | RichardSoule |
| MySQL | TedRoche |
| phpMyAdmin | TedRoche |
| SQL | TedRoche |
| Database design and normalization | TedRoche |
| Security |
|
| 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 |
|
| 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 |