Configuration Planning

• Determining what we are trying to accomplish
  • Front page for people searching for a LUG
  • Providing information on who we are, what we do, how to participate
    • Nice to have: a calendar easy to post and query, RSS or iCal/vCal
  • Becoming a long-term repository of what we have done
    • Bragging rights about past meetings
    • Link to resources we have discovered or presented
• Determining what we are NOT trying to accomplish
  • NOT becoming another "destination" place on line
  • NOT a high-interactivity forum
  • NOT a high-maintenance site
• Base configuration
  • Choice of distro - ServerDistro
  • Partition layout
  • Disk management - RAID, LVM, etc.?
  • Directory layout
  • User account strategy
• DNS
• Web
  • Apache
  • TWiki
• Mail
  • SMTP server
  • List manager