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