Current speaker schedule (For 2002 Quarterly meetings)
- March: IBM (IBM's Linux strategy and new Linux products)
- June: Ximian (talk to Paul)
- October: VMware/EXS
- December: maddog
Some of the ideas that have been floated for meetings are:
- Mail filtering (complete and end-all)
- Realtime
- Conferencing software (Video, whiteboard, audio, etc.)
- Demo night of various small applications (organization needed)
- Neat Hardware
- How to choose hardware
- How to choose hardware that works well with Linux
- Cablemodems: tricks of dealing with (Ben Boulanger ben@blackavar*REMOVE*.com)
- Marketing Linux to your: Boss, Someone Else's Boss (Maddog will take this on)
- Licenses of Open Source (what do they mean)
- IPV6: what is it, will it ever arrive, and how to deal with it when it does.
- Lilipad: Music typesetter
- e-commerce
- accounting software
- alan cox
- esr
- rms
- doc searles
- ken coar [I am not sure if the last five are to give a talk about a topic or just stand on the stage and glow...but this was brainstorming, and I did not want to break the flow of consciousness to ask. - md]
- PHP - rasmus
- mySQL - nusphere
- intro to security (Ben Boulanger ben@blackavar*REMOVE*.com)
- perl (Ben Boulanger ben@blackavar*REMOVE*.com) [break the topic up]
- IDE tools - Kylix
- JAVA - IBM
- Guile
- Glade
- Apache Configuration (Rich Cloutier 20 Apr 2002)
- Java on Linux (Paul Courchene; 4 Jan 2002)
- Virtual Machines and Linux (")
- X10 - control your home/office from your Linux box!
- LinuxCollaborationTools - an overview of Linux based collaboration tools.
- LinuxClustering - Making several Linux boxes perform as one.
- OfficeAutomation - Linux Office applications.
- Favorite Tools and Productivity applications
- Factory Automation, BarCoding (Kurth Bemis <kurth@usaexpress.net>, carl@helmers*REMOVE*.com)
- Introduction to Firewals - An intro to the new IP Tables firewall code in the 2.4.x kernel series
- Anti-spam/Virus techniques - How can you deal with Spam/viruses
- Sendmail setup/configuration
- Some answers to the "Now what?" feeling one often gets after a successful Linux install
- Favorite packages (everyone has their own, maybe a Show'n'Tell
- LyX - The WYSIWYM Document Processor
- Using a PalmPilot with Linux
- A "From the Ground Up" Installation session. Maybe with different distributions, how to do dual/multi-boot systems
- Different Mail clients (compare/contrast (X)pine, mutt, (n)mh/exmh
- System Administration Techniques and practices
- Customizing Emacs/vi
- Intro to sw development tools (automake/autoconf, Makefiles, cscope, etc.)
- Cryptography
- Security
- CAD Software
- USB Support
- Video conferencing
- GIS software
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.
N.B. The first part of the list curtosey maddog and the MELBA meeting attendees of April, 2002.
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