[GLLUG] Two new articles and call for presentations

[Alec Warner]

Caleb Cushing wrote:
> I can do a demo on getting linux to work on an HP Pavillion zv6000 for
> EDUARDO. LOL. Hey maybe I can get that blonde to do the demo so I know he
> would pay attention. lol.
> 
> Here's an Idea for an open source project, that could help a lot of new
> linux users, a wiki that helps break people into linux.
> 

I was actually thinking about doing something like that, but I haven't
had time other than installing drupal on my webserver and playing with
all the modules ;)

> (note: when I say other I assume that there isn't any other)
> I'd like to see demo's on more networking things, like apache(other web
> servers), squid (other proxies), iptables (other firewalls), SQL... if I
> come up with more....
> 
> On 4/7/06, Charles Ulrich <charles at idealso.com> wrote:
> 
>>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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