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_Note: this page is a synthesis of the former pages MeetingIdeas and MeetingSpeakers. We're trying to normalize our redundant data a bit._

The following table lists some ideas for meeting topics, speakers willing to speak on those topics, and previous instances of these topics being presented at meetings.

If you'd like to add yourself as a possible presenter (pretty please!) do so here, and not in a bunch of other places, so we can have one place to look for meeting planning.  Please make sure you have a !Main.MyUserName page and add a note there about which GNHLUG's (GNHLUG.OurChapters) you're willing to present at.

Also, add topics you're interested in seeing a speaker for.  

_Note: the above sentences contain the sort of ugly grammar up with which we will  not put._

| *Topic*  | *Speakers* |\

|*<DIV STYLE="text-align: left;">The Basics</DIV>*||
| 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 | |\

|*<DIV STYLE="text-align: left;">Distributions</DIV>*||
| !SuSE | Main.NovellInc |
| Libranet (a packaging of Debian) | Main.BillSconce |\

|*<DIV STYLE="text-align: left;">Hardware</DIV>*||
| How to choose hardware | |
| How to choose hardware that works well with Linux | |
| Neat hardware | |
| Using a PalmOS device with Linux  | Main.EdLawson |
| Home Automation | Main.RobLembree <BR> Main.BruceDawson |
| Laptop sleep/standby/hibernation | |
| USB Support | |
| Scalable, mobile computing | Main.NextComputing |
| Hammer/x86-64 | Main.RichPayne |\

|*<DIV STYLE="text-align: left;">User environment</DIV>*||
| 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 | Main.RobLembree |
| Dual-Headed X | Main.BenScott |
| Fluxbox (a lean, mean window manager) | Main.BillSconce |
| Windows Interoperability | Main.BenScott |\

|*<DIV STYLE="text-align: left;">Communications/networking</DIV>*||
| Introduction to Networking | Main.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 | Main.PaulLussier |
| Conferencing software (Video, whiteboard, audio, etc.) | |
| Cablemodems: tricks of dealing with | Main.BenBoulanger |
| Apache Configuration | Main.RichCloutier |
| Sendmail setup/configuration | |
| Different Mail clients (compare/contrast (X)pine, mutt, (n)mh/exmh | |
| Video conferencing | |
| GNHLUG.CollaborationTools an overview of Linux based collaboration tools | Main.BruceDawson |
| [[TWiki.WebHome][TWiki]] | Main.BruceDawson |
| Network monitoring / Nagios| Main.MattBrodeur <BR> Main.BenBoulanger |
| ssh | Main.BillStearns |
| SSH tunneling/VPN | Main.KarlRunge |
| DNS | Main.RichPayne <BR> Main.BenScott <BR> Main.BenBoulanger |
| NIS | Main.RichPayne |
| NFS | Main.RichPayne |
| TCP/IP | Main.RichPayne |
| Samba and SMB | Main.BenScott |
| !IPSec | Main.BenScott |
| L2TP | Main.BenScott |
| !OpenS/WAN | Main.BenScott |
| !OpenVPN | Main.BenScott |
| X.509 | Main.BenScott |
| diald | Main.BenScott |
| Wiki | Main.BenScott |
| Apache | Main.DavidBerube |
| DTC - GPL'ed web host control panel | Main.DavidBerube |
| WRT54G 3rd-party router firmware | Main.TedRoche |
| Introduction to Wi-Fi | Main.BillSconce |\

|*<DIV STYLE="text-align: left;">Entertainment and education</DIV>*||
| Gaming (and games) on Linux | |\

|*<DIV STYLE="text-align: left;">Systems stuff</DIV>*||
| System Administration Techniques and practices | |
| Realtime | |
| Linux Clustering - Making several Linux boxes perform as one | |
| Virtual Machines and Linux | |
| Backup and Storage Solutions | Main.VaultLogix <BR> Main.BenScott |
| Automated System Installs | Main.MattBrodeur |
| LVM | Main.BillStearns <BR> Main.BenScott |
| Linux as a SOHO Server | Main.BenScott |
| Introduction to CUPS | Main.BillSconce |\

|*<DIV STYLE="text-align: left;">eneral meeting ideas</DIV>*||
| 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 | Main.MadDog |
| Licenses of Open Source (what do they mean) | |\

|*<DIV STYLE="text-align: left;">People</DIV>*||
| Alan Cox | Alan Cox | 
| ESR | ESR |
| RMS | RMS | 
| Doc Searles | Doc Searles |
| Ken Coar | Ken Coar |\

|*<DIV STYLE="text-align: left;">Programming</DIV>*||
| Intro to Unix development tools (automake/autoconf, make, cscope, etc.) | |
| perl | Main.BenBoulanger |
| JAVA - IBM | |
| Java on Linux | Main.PaulCourchene |
| Guile | |
| Glade | |
| Perl | Main.DavidBerube |
| Ruby | Main.DavidBerube |
| PHP | rasmus <BR> Main.RichPayne <BR> Main.DavidBerube <BR> |
| PHP-gtk | Main.RichPayne |
| RSS Aggregation | Main.DavidBerube |
| Web Development | Main.DavidBerube |
| Web Spidering | Main.DavidBerube |
| embedded linux | Main.RobLembree |
| kernel internals | Main.RobLembree |
| Introductory LAMP | Main.TedRoche |
| Introduction to Scripting | Main.BillSconce |
| RPM | Main.PaulIadonisi |
| Kylix IDE | |
| Expect | Main.BenBoulanger|\

|*<DIV STYLE="text-align: left;">Databases</DIV>*||
| Oracle | Main.RichardSoule |
| !MySQL | Main.TedRoche |
| !phpMyAdmin | Main.TedRoche |
| SQL | Main.TedRoche |
| Database design and normalization | Main.TedRoche |\

|*<DIV STYLE="text-align: left;">Security</DIV>*||
| Introduction to Security | Main.BenScott <BR> Main.PaulLussier |
| PGP/GPG and key signing | Main.MattBrodeur |
| Cryptography | |
| intro to security | Main.MarkKomarinski <BR> Main.BenBoulanger <BR> Main.PaulLussier |
| Introduction to Firewalls - An intro to IP Tables/Netfilter firewall code | Main.BenScott <BR> Main.BenBoulanger |
| Anti-spam/Virus techniques - How can you deal with Spam/viruses | |\

|*<DIV STYLE="text-align: left;">Applications</DIV>*||
| E-commerce | |
| Accounting software | |
| Lilipad: Music typesetter | |
| Office Automation - Linux Office applications | |
| Favorite Tools and Productivity applications | |
| !LyX - The WYSIWYM Document Processor | Main.PaulLussier |
| GnuCash | Main.PaulLussier |
| Pilot (HTML for presentations) | Main.BillSconce |
| !SciTE (a great, lightweight, intelligent, (and cross-platform) text editor) | Main.BillSconce |
| Gentoo (a two-pane, highly configurable-by-GUI file manager for GTK) | Main.BillSconce |
| GIS software | |
| CAD Software | |
| Factory Automation and Bar Coding | Main.KurthBemis <BR> carl@helmers.com |
| gLabels (a great little label maker for all types of labels) | Main.EdLawson |
| Thunderbird (Mozilla e-mail program)  | Main.EdLawson |
| Straw (RSS feed reader) | Main.EdLawson |
| J-Pilot (Palm application) | Main.EdLawson |
| Basic productivity/office applications | Main.EdLawson |
Topic revision: r5 - 2023-12-13 - BenScott
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