This is going to be a synthesis of MeetingIdeas and MeetingSpeakers. To be combined into at least a 3-column table. Add past meetings?

The following table lists some speakers and what they are willing to talk about.

And check individual TWiki pages (for example: BruceDawson) to see find topics that person is willing to talk about. And see MeetingIdeas for topics that people have requested. And see the VolunteerList for general volunteers. And don't begin a sentence with the word "and".

Person	Topics
Richard Soule	Oracle database
RobLembree	Home automation, X11, embedded linux, kernel internals
BruceDawson	TWiki, X10, home automation, CollaborationTools
BenScott	Security, IPTables/Netfilter, DNS, networking, Samba and SMB, Windows interop, dual-headed X, Linux as SOHO server, LVM, backups, IPsec, OpenS/WAN, OpenVPN, L2TP, X.509, diald, Wiki, random stuff
Mark Komarinski	Security
Paul Iadonisi	RPM
PaulLussier	LyX, GnuCash, exmh, security
Karl Runge	SSH tunneling/VPN
Rich Payne	PHP, php-gtk, DNS, NIS, NFS, TCP/IP, Hammer/x86-64
BenBoulan	IPTables, Network Monitoring, Managing DNS, Expect
EdLawson	(Mail) gLabels (a great little label maker for all types of labels), Thunderbird (Mozilla e-mail program), Straw (RSS feed reader), J-Pilot (Palm applicationBasic productivity/office applications, Palm)
BillSconce	(Mail) Pilot (HTML for presentations), SciTE (a great, lightweight, intelligent, (and cross-platform) text editor), Fluxbox (a lean, mean window manager), Libranet (a packaging of Debian), Gentoo (a two-pane, highly configurable-by-GUI file manager for GTK), Newbie scripting intro, Newbie CUPS intro, Newbie Wi-Fi intro
TedRoche	WebMin, Sveasoft Linksys router firmware, Introductory LAMP, MySQL, phpMyAdmin, SQL, database design and normalization
MattBrodeur	PGP Introduction/keysigning, automated system installs (kickstart), network monitoring (nagios)
Bill Stearns	ssh, LVM, and others. See http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/private/gnhlug-org/2005-December/001665.html
DavidBerube	perl, php, ruby, web spidering, rss aggregation, web development, apache, DTC GPL control panel

Some potential "vendor speakers" from Linux World 2006 Boston are: (they indicated an interest in speaking to GNHLUG)

• Vault Logix; Zak Karsan; 78 Turnpike Rd, Route 1; Ipswich, MA 01938 1-877-VAULTLOGIX, 1-978-356-3555x22; zkarsan@vaultlogix*REMOVE*.com - Backup/storage solutions
• Novell; Skip Paul; 404 Wyman St STE 500; Waltham, MA 02451; 781-464-8000; 781-464-8031; spaul@novell*REMOVE*.com - talk on Novell, SuSE, ...
• Next Computing; Jeanne Ledwell; NextCom LLC; 131 Burke St; Nashua, NH 03060; 603-459-2472 - scalable, mobile computing.

-- BruceDawson - 09 Apr 2006

This is a list of ideas and suggestions for meetings. Various sources have contributed over the years. This list includes both topics (subject matter) as well as techniques (how to go about having the meetings).

There is MeetingSpeakers page that lists people who are willing to give presentations on specific things.

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.

Some of the ideas that have been floated for meetings are:

* The Basics o A "From the Ground Up" Installation session. Maybe with different distributions, how to do dual/multi-boot systems o Some answers to the "Now what?" feeling one often gets after a successful Linux install * Hardware o How to choose hardware o How to choose hardware that works well with Linux o Neat hardware o Using a Palm Pilot with Linux o X10 - control your home/office from your Linux box! o Laptop sleep/standby/hibernation o USB Support * User environment o screen - commandline terminal tool to maintain multiple persistent terminals across unreliable/disconnected connections o Customizing Emacs/vi o NX - remote terminal services for Linux o VNC - cross-platform remote GUIs, Virtual Network Computing, including RealVNC? and other variations * Communications/networking o IPV6: what is it, will it ever arrive, and how to deal with it when it does. o Mail filtering (complete and end-all) o Conferencing software (Video, whiteboard, audio, etc.) o Cablemodems: tricks of dealing with (Ben Boulanger ben@blackavarNoSpam*REMOVE*.com) o Apache Configuration (Rich Cloutier 20 Apr 2002) o Sendmail setup/configuration o Different Mail clients (compare/contrast (X)pine, mutt, (n)mh/exmh o Video conferencing o CollaborationTools - an overview of Linux based collaboration tools. * Fun, entertainment, education o Gaming (and games) on Linux * Systems stuff o System Administration Techniques and practices o Realtime o Linux Clustering - Making several Linux boxes perform as one. o Virtual Machines and Linux * Generalized meeting ideas o Demo night of various small applications (organization needed) o Favorite packages (everyone has their own, maybe a Show'n'Tell?) o General "help solve problems" meetings - I'm trying to do X, and need help o Linux on the desktop - We tend to focus on server/admin stuff * Advocacy, politics, legalities, etc. o Marketing Linux to: Your Boss, Someone Else's Boss (Maddog will take this on) o Licenses of Open Source (what do they mean) * People (as topics, or potential speakers?) o alan cox o esr o rms o doc searles o ken coar * Programming o Intro to Unix development tools (automake/autoconf, make, cscope, etc.) o perl (Ben Boulanger ben@blackavarNoSpam*REMOVE*.com) [break the topic up] o IDE tools - Kylix o JAVA - IBM o Java on Linux (Paul Courchene; 4 Jan 2002) o Guile o Glade o PHP - rasmus * Security o PGP/GPG and key signing o Cryptography o intro to security (Ben Boulanger ben@blackavarNoSpam*REMOVE*.com) o Introduction to Firewals - An intro to the new IP Tables firewall code in the 2.4.x kernel series o Anti-spam/Virus techniques - How can you deal with Spam/viruses * Misc Applications o E-commerce o Accounting software o Lilipad: Music typesetter o Office Automation - Linux Office applications. o Favorite Tools and Productivity applications o LyX - The WYSIWYM Document Processor o GIS software o CAD Software o Factory Automation and Bar Coding (Kurth Bemis (kurth@usaexpressNoSpam*REMOVE*.net), carl@helmersNoSpam*REMOVE*.com)