[GLLUG] Topic Suggestion

Charles Ulrich dincht at securenym.net
Wed Oct 13 18:35:12 EDT 2004


On Tuesday 12 October 2004 19:54, Chris Strandt wrote:
> I have made a suggestion to Charles in relation to a meeting
> suggestion, and nothing so far has come of it.  I'm emailing the list
> as a whole to get an idea if there is interest.
> 
> Liquid Web Inc would like to host a LUG meeting.. providing tours of
> our facility and/or presenting material about our operations/use of
> Linux.

I think this is a great idea and I recall admitting as much in my 
previous communications with you. If I let this fall through the 
cracks, I apologize, as there was a lot going on with starting the LUG 
back up while summer was winding down.

Curt (asenchi at asenchi.com) is the current point of contact for proposed 
presentations. He should be able to help get the ball rolling. One 
thing we will need are good directions so that people can find the 
place where we'll be meeting.

To the GLLUG members: Chris, representing LiquidWeb approached us with 
the idea of holding LUG meetings at LiquidWeb in their new facility.
Jeff (a.k.a. El Presidente) and couple of us mulled over the idea, but 
the general consensus was that it would be an even longer trip for a 
large percentage of our attendees who come from East Lansing. If the 
size of the meetings outgrows the AAI conference room, however, it was 
decided that LiquidWeb would be a good backup plan until some place 
closer to the center of the greater Lansing area could be found.

> If anyone is interested, we can set something up.  Ideas are welcome
> as to what should be presented.  We can talk about datacenter design
> (cooling, power, etc), network hardware and design, open source tools
> we use (rsync, mrtg, nagios, apache, exim, various spam tools, etc,
> etc), or various other aspects of linux administration (raid
> configuration, kickstart, service monitoring, etc).

I, for one, would be highly interested to learn more about network 
monitoring and intrusion detection systems. I admin a couple networks 
and paging through the output of just a few machines every single day 
gets awful tiring and makes me wish I had a big red "Delete it all so I 
can hurry up and get on with REAL work" button on my keyboard. 

What else would you guys like to see? I'll bet LiquidWeb has some pretty 
nifty stuff to show off and it's not every day a chance like this comes 
along for a geek to see first hand. (Unless, of course, you happen to 
work there.)

Charles
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