Future Meeting Topics

NOTE: PLEASE edit this. Add your name by topics that you would almost certainly attend a meeting to hear. Use ALL CAPS if you would give said talk, in parens put the earliest month you would be ready to give the talk (or minimum warning time, e.g. 2 weeks).

I'm finding the interested versus can present name conventions a little confusing. I used a somewhat different format for the items I added to the list. -Chip

Just because someone has volunteered to give a talk doesn't preclude anyone else from also volunteering to give the same talk. Presenters often work together and cover each others weak points.

MythTv

  • I'd like to walk through an install if anyone's done that yet.
  • Possibly talk about configuring encoding options and space requirements.
  • If time permits maybe some discussion about lirc.

Came up in the March meeting and I'm interested in hearing a talk -Marcus

Topic for Brad Knowles

Building apps, the pitfalls (WAYNE WALKER(1 week)

  • How does one create a .la file when automake wants one and it doesn't exist?
  • What are all these cryptic messages I get during make?
  • interested: David Day, Rick Richardson, Donald Davis

Django Web Framework - (BRYAN REED (2 weeks))

  • Installation
  • Hello World app
  • Full DB based app (blog, etc)
  • Advanced Django features
  • interested: MarcusWilson
  • can present: WilliamMcVey

Creating and building RPMs - (BRYAN REED (2 weeks))

  • Setting up a build environment
  • Building from source RPMS
  • Creating spec files
  • Using chroots for muli-distro support
  • RPM tips and tricks
  • interested:MarcusWilson, Seth Miller

Creating and building .deb, along with APT repository maintence - (William McVey (1 week))

  • pretty much same topics as above (RPM building) but for debian packages
  • can present:
  • interested: Donald Davis

VNC - (WAYNE WALKER(1 week))

  • How to use it?
  • How can I use it thru a firewall?
  • Why would VMware users really need VNC?
  • interested: Rick Richardson, MarcusWilson

VMware - (WAYNE WALKER(1 week))Les Elliott

  • What is it?
  • Compare it with (Xen, Qemu, Win4Lin, Wine, User Mode Linux, ...)
  • What's the catch in the "free" VMware Player?
  • interested: Rick Richardson, David Bluestein
  • can present:

WINE, Crossover Office, Cedega(WineX), ... (WAYNE WALKER(2 months))

  • .....

INSTALL FEST (WAYNE WALKER(1 week))

  • Get your newbies to bring machines and we'll install for them
  • Get your newbies to bring a Windows box, and we'll install VMware Player and a pre-installed Linux virtual machine so they can run both at once!!!
  • Show them some of the Live CDs (Knoppix, Gnoppix, Ubuntu, )
  • (I would be interested in helping organize public installfests. -Chip Rosenthal)
  • interested: Rick Richardson, Luis Torres (curious about VMWare Player)

NAGIOS (Jeffrey Taylor(1 week))

  • Installation
  • Structure of configuration files
  • Configuration
  • Plugins
  • interested: David Day, Rick Richardson, David Bluestein, Seth Miller
  • can present:

PYTHON vs. RUBY vs. PERL

  • interested: David Day, MarcusWilson(I'm interested in the debate8-)
  • not interested Shane ;-) (This seems to be all I've been talking about lately.)
  • can present:

SECURITY

  • IP Tables tutorial
  • Network Intrusion Detection - SNORT
  • VPN server and client - IPSec
  • ->(most of these could be topics on their own)
  • interested: David Day, Rick Richardson, David Wolfe, Les Elliott, David Bluestein, Luis Torres, WilliamMcVey, Donald Davis, MarcusWilson, Dave Sanford
  • can present:

Linux on the WRT-54G

  • interested: William McVey, Donald Davis
  • can present:

MANAGING EMAIL

  • Anti-SPAM
  • Server - reliable, manageable, friendly (procmail, postfix, sendmail)
  • Web client - Whats solid, fast, user friendly?
  • interested: David Day, Rick Richardson, David Bluestein, WilliamMcVey, MarcusWilson
  • can present:

BACKUP OPTIONS

  • Favorite method, tape (amanda, tar), disk (rsync), CD/DVD
  • interested: David Day, Rick Richardson, Luis Torres, MarcusWilson
  • can present:

Survey of Version Control Software options (IAN REMMLER (1 month)) Rick Richardson

Using LDAP as a replacement for NIS

  • interested: David Wolfe, Les Elliott, Shane, WilliamMcVey
  • can present: David Duncan

Linux game night (IAN REMMLER (1 week)) (luis cuellar)

  • There are plenty of fun little Linux games out there.
  • You know you play them.
  • Share your favorite time-waster with the group.

Active Directory Integration with Windows 2003 and 2003 R2

  • What types of Integration are there?
  • What is the advantage of Active Directory?
  • What steps are necessary?
  • What services are necessary?
  • Configuring a Linux Server to authenticate to Active Directory.
  • How to use Active Directory Accounts and Groups with PAM
  • interested: David Day, Shane, WilliamMcVey, MarcusWilson
  • can present: David Duncan

Using "trac" project management software (http://www.edgewall.com/trac/) (WILLIAM MCVEY (1 week))

  • Capabilities
  • Setting it up/Configuring
  • Customizing
  • interested:
  • can present:

Security Enhanced Linux

  • When should it be enabled?
  • When is it not worth turning on?
  • What does it get you?
  • Is it really as big a pain in the ass as it seams?
  • interested: Chip Rosenthal Rick Richardson David Day. WilliamMcVey, Dave Pinckney, MarcusWilson
  • can present: ?

Linux-based Home Media Systems

  • audio ripping, tagging, players
  • DVD recording and playback
  • TV tuner cards
  • Video codecs and recording software (Myth Tv)
  • interested: David Day, David Wolfe, Luis Torres, WilliamMcVey, Dave Pinckney, Donald Davis, MarcusWilson(ReallyCuriousAboutMythTV)
  • can present:
    • Chip Rosenthal - I can talk about the audio system I setup. I'd be interested in hearing from other people, and have somebody talk about video.

Linux Wireless Networking.

  • Laptop configuration.
  • USB adapters.
  • Configuring WEP and WPA.
  • Utilities to manage connections.
  • interested: Chip Rosenthal, Donald Davis
  • can present:
    • Chip Rosenthal - I can if there isn't anybody else available. I'd need about a month to prepare, though.

Linux Hardware Roundup

  • What's the current state of motherboards, processors, and other hardware?
  • Which chipsets (and other equipment models) are best suited for Linux systems?
  • IDE vs SCSI vs SATA vs NAS vs RAID vs ...
  • interested: Chip Rosenthal Rick Richardson David Day
  • can present: ?

March 6 Meeting: I would very much like to discuss either: Building apps, the pitfalls: especially a focus on interpreting config and make errors; or: BACKUP OPTIONS * Favorite method, tape (amanda, tar), disk (rsync), CD/DVD as both of these are something I am working with daily, but all of the subjects are of interest. Rick Richardson.

For April 3: I still vote for Building apps, especially interpreting config and make errors. Rick Richardson