[NCLUG] Speakers for 2007/2008?

[Sean Reifschneider]

On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 07:46:49PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote:
>I'd actually like to see a lot of stuff presented in the context of both
>home and datacenter use -- and anything in between.  A sort of general

I'm wondering if there might be interest in a kind of overview of the
datacenter environment.  That's something I could do fairly easily.  Kind
of a virtual tech tour of a data center hosting a bunch of Linux boxes.
Any interest in that sort of thing?

>That's pretty general.  Maybe I could address some security-related
>matters, if I had some idea of more specifics for what's desired (so I'd

Kevin pretty regularly gives a security talk about things you can do to
secure a box or topics like that.  Since he's the co-author of the Linux
Security HOWTO, he has quite a bit of material.

>Oddly enough, between Lisa and I, we might be able to put something
>together for this.  Maybe irc-nick _rockstar could contribute as well.

I'm wondering if that might be more of a "short topics" sort of talk, as
the Linux component is largely related to getting the Windows software
working under Linux, right?

>  1. I'd like to see more stuff about non-Linux open source OSes -- stuff
>  like FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, PC-BSD, Plan 9, and even Haiku.  Others

Maybe a bunch of mini-presentations, each person representing an OS and
providing information on the benefits?  I could do Nexenta, which is a
Open Solaris distribution based mostly on the Ubuntu run-time.  Anyone else
have an alternative OS they'd be willing to present on?

>  2. As I mentioned in the IRC channel, I'd like to see stuff about print
>  layout using tools better suited to the task than word processors and
>  spreadsheets, like Scribus and the various LaTeX tools.  I'm usually

I use inkscape mostly for that sort of thing and it's delightful, but I'm
probably not one to present on it.  I use it very little.

>  programming, and security than I am in application-level stuff, but
>  some of the more useful productivity-enhancing applications are on my
>  list of things I'd like to see as well.  Also, perhaps ironically in

Chandler was just recently released a "end user" version of their software.
I've contacted them to see if anyone is in Colorado to talk.  Perhaps this
would be another good multi-person presentation.  We use Google Calendar,
and a few in-house tools that I could talk about.

>  some sense, I'd be pretty keen on a presentation dealing with several
>  options for software used to create presentations.  Something like that

Again, another topic for multi-person talk.  I use S5, which runs entirely
in the browser.  There are TONS of options.

>  3. On the subject of presentations . . . maybe someone that really
>  knows his way around the approrpiate drivers and hardware could address
>  the matter of getting a system to work with a projector.  That'd be
>  nice to know.

I think Kevin said that for his presentation all he needed to do was use
"xrandr", which might be a topic for presentation?  Any interest?  xrandr
allows tuning the video to different rotations and sizes, but also recently
got the ability to add extra monitors I think, and that's what Kevin did.

Thanks,
Sean
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