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
Alan Cox	Alan Cox
Applications
Communications/networking
Databases
Distributions
Doc Searles	Doc Searles
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Entertainment and education
ESR	ESR
Hardware
Ken Coar	Ken Coar
Cablemodems: tricks of dealing with	BenBoulanger
perl	BenBoulanger
Expect	BenBoulanger
Dual-Headed X	BenScott
Windows Interoperability	BenScott
Introduction to Networking	BenScott
Samba and SMB	BenScott
IPSec	BenScott
L2TP	BenScott
OpenS/WAN	BenScott
OpenVPN	BenScott
X.509	BenScott
diald	BenScott
Wiki	BenScott
Linux as a SOHO Server	BenScott
Introduction to Firewalls - An intro to IP Tables/Netfilter firewall code	BenScott BenBoulanger
Introduction to Security	BenScott PaulLussier
Libranet (a packaging of Debian)	BillSconce
Fluxbox (a lean, mean window manager)	BillSconce
Introduction to Wi-Fi	BillSconce
Introduction to CUPS	BillSconce
Introduction to Scripting	BillSconce
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
ssh	BillStearns
LVM	BillStearns BenScott
CollaborationTools an overview of Linux based collaboration tools	BruceDawson
TWiki	BruceDawson
Apache	DavidBerube
DTC - GPL'ed web host control panel	DavidBerube
Perl	DavidBerube
Ruby	DavidBerube
RSS Aggregation	DavidBerube
Web Development	DavidBerube
Web Spidering	DavidBerube
Using a PalmOS device with Linux	EdLawson
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
SSH tunneling/VPN	KarlRunge
Factory Automation and Bar Coding	KurthBemis carl@helmers*REMOVE*.com
Marketing Linux to: Your Boss, Someone Else's Boss	MadDog
intro to security	MarkKomarinski BenBoulanger PaulLussier
Automated System Installs	MattBrodeur
PGP/GPG and key signing	MattBrodeur
Network monitoring / Nagios	MattBrodeur BenBoulanger
Scalable, mobile computing	NextComputing
SuSE	NovellInc
Java on Linux	PaulCourchene
RPM	PaulIadonisi
exmh	PaulLussier
LyX - The WYSIWYM Document Processor	PaulLussier
GnuCash	PaulLussier
Oracle	RichardSoule
Apache Configuration	RichCloutier
Hammer/x86-64	RichPayne
NIS	RichPayne
NFS	RichPayne
TCP/IP	RichPayne
PHP-gtk	RichPayne
DNS	RichPayne BenScott BenBoulanger
X11	RobLembree
embedded linux	RobLembree
kernel internals	RobLembree
Home Automation	RobLembree BruceDawson
WRT54G 3rd-party router firmware	TedRoche
Introductory LAMP	TedRoche
MySQL	TedRoche
phpMyAdmin	TedRoche
SQL	TedRoche
Database design and normalization	TedRoche
Backup and Storage Solutions	VaultLogix BenScott
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
How to choose hardware
How to choose hardware that works well with Linux
Neat hardware
Laptop sleep/standby/hibernation
USB Support
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
IPV6: what is it, will it ever arrive, and how to deal with it when it does.
Mail filtering (complete and end-all)
Conferencing software (Video, whiteboard, audio, etc.)
Sendmail setup/configuration
Different Mail clients (compare/contrast (X)pine, mutt, (n)mh/exmh
Video conferencing
Gaming (and games) on Linux
System Administration Techniques and practices
Realtime
Linux Clustering - Making several Linux boxes perform as one
Virtual Machines and Linux
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.
Licenses of Open Source (what do they mean)
Intro to Unix development tools (automake/autoconf, make, cscope, etc.)
JAVA - IBM
Guile
Glade
Kylix IDE
Cryptography
Anti-spam/Virus techniques - How can you deal with Spam/viruses
E-commerce
Accounting software
Lilipad: Music typesetter
Office Automation - Linux Office applications
Favorite Tools and Productivity applications
GIS software
CAD Software
People
Programming
PHP	rasmus RichPayne DavidBerube
RMS	RMS
Security
Systems stuff
The Basics
User environment