Help Plan Future OCLUGMeetings

Help Plan Future OCLUG Meetings

Next Meeting

• August, Ottawa-Gatineau WiFi
• September, X/OpenGL

Future Meetings

• October onwards

  • Speakers wanted

Future Presentation topics

• Neil Fraser: resurrecting a compromised system )(10-15 min) (Jody emailed May 1 and cc-ed Jerry)
• Linux and Multimedia

• Linux for small business (Suggest 4 speakers on 4 topics)

  • accounting
  • office suites
  • operational issues: why/what/can-it-work/how to transition
  • bottom line
  • case studies
• Using commandline tools
• The right way to be a Linux advocate
• System Backup with Mondo
• The Window Manager Menagerie
• Alternative window managers (or "How to survive without Gnome and KDE") (MichaelRichardson could do this)
• Web authoring with Linux -- for Emacs/VI types
• Web authoring with Linux -- for WYSIWSYG types
• Emulators (Don Chiasson)
• Tomcat, Jakarta, Web Services (Rod Giffin)
• Programming Wars (Can Bart do this again?)
• Network Security With Shorewall (speaker?)

Introduction to Programming talks

• Introduction to Perl
• OO Programming in Perl
• Introduction to Python
• OO Programming in Python
• Introduction to C
• Introduction to Expect
• Introduction to programming on Linux (maybe a series of these for non-programmers)
• Porting code from Windows to Linux, using a cross compiler. (MichaelRichardson)

Installation talks

• Installing Debian/GNU Linux
• Firewalls with IPTables
• Managing daemons with daemontools
• Automating tasks on Linux
• Why I use Mutt/Procmail/Fetchmail/MTA (or maybe, "Why graphical mail clients suck") -MichaelSoulier
• How Perl runs everything on the Mitel Networks SME Server
• Securing your services with PAM

Ideas for places to get speakers

• http://www.luinet.org/groups.php mentions that Novell occasionally provide speakers...

see also: Meeting Coordination Checklist