[GLLUG] Two new articles and call for presentations

[Caleb Cushing]

a mail server. I want to know how to set a mail server. Specifically I'd
really like a good tutorial for ssmtp. It the default mailer on gentoo and
it's not configured nore is there a good how to do it.

On 4/9/06, Alec Warner <warnera6 at egr.msu.edu> wrote:
>
> 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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