[GLLUG] Two new articles and call for presentations

Charles Ulrich charles at idealso.com
Fri Apr 7 22:14:28 EDT 2006


We have two new articles posted to the GLLUG website:

A Day in the Sun by Frank Dolinar
Desktop Linux Overview by Caleb Cushing

Go check them out at http://www.gllug.org if you get the chance. I'd 
like to point out that anyone on the mailing list or attending the 
meetings can send me their articles for publication on the website.

And speaking of contributions, we're very nearly dry on meeting topics 
for April and beyond. If you have anything you'd like to present, please 
let me know. The meeting topic doesn't have to be a presentation per se. 
If you'd just like to have a Q&A session, that's fine too. We can even 
spend the evening just talking about something or working on a problem.

In short, I'm putting it to the group to toss out a few ideas. Not long 
ago, Jeff suggested that we, as a group, start or contribute to an open 
source project. This is a good idea, but experience has shown that most 
people attend for the information and the socializing. Most of the 
actual work done on a project or workshop at a meeting is done by one or 
two people. Maybe after Penguicon, we could start up something like 
that, but it definitely won't take over the meetings. June has an extra 
Thursday in it, so maybe we could do a BBQ that month.

It won't be a train wreck if we just spend a meeting here and there 
socializing. But if we don't have some direction for most of the 
meetings, it'll be hard to maintain and expand our membership.

Here are a few topics worth considering:
- Databases
- Basic command-line concepts (since we have a few newer Linux users 
attending regularly)
- Virtualization
- Networking
- Desktop environments (KDE, GNOME, your favorite window manager)
- Security concepts

Any other topics that you would like to see covered?
-- 
Charles Ulrich
Ideal Solution, LLC -- http://www.idealso.com



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