Everyone invited: please contribute .. criticism or suggestions or questions.

For suggestions and volunteering specific to the upcoming meeting, see the MeetingAug10 page.

Don't worry..

..about wiki format, or language skills, or technical details. Just choose an appropriate place in the existing page (at the bottom if there seems no good place), click on the edit tab which appears on the wiki navbar (if you are logged-in), and just type whatever you wish. Even if something gets a little messed up, somebody will fix it.

If you're still worried about offending someone or making a big mess of it, add something to the bottom of the page like: "I'm thinking of ...", and add "Can someone give me some advice or watch my progress?" Maybe add your email if you want direct mentoring.

The most important guideline about this wiki, is to insert blank lines between things. But if you really want to, you can refer to the WikiEditing page for additional help and suggestions.

All so-inclined are invited to neaten-up at will. And, collecting a growing discussion and moving it to another page is a good thing. Just replace the old text with a WikiLink to the new page.

Meeting Times and Format:

Although everybody knows this, it seems worthwhile for the sake of completeness to recap: Meeting Times are 7-9pm, on the 2nd Thursday of each month, although sometimes a meeting is skipped or shifted on busy holidays, or rescheduled by our SDCOE host due to room reservation conflicts. Closing time is mandated by the janitorial schedule. Start time is 7pm by traditon, although the room is available at 6:30.

Current meetings (generally) follow this format: announcements, then short presentation(s) if any, then longer presentation(s) if any, then raffle if there are any goodies (most meetings). There is usually a meeting after the meeting:

    Denny's at Camino del Rio S. and Mission Center Rd.

General Comments and Suggestions:

If it doesn't seem to fit here, feel free to add miscellaneous remarks at the bottom of the page.

• Consider a 6:30-7:00 pre-meeting activity? If it were dedicated to beginners' questions, or troubleshooting, or just social purposes, it might even offer the possibility of coming for the early session if one were not especially interested in the announced (say) specialized/technical presentation. Hmmm, it this were to catch hold, maybe the meeting format could consider moving the raffle to (say) after announcements and before (main) presentation.
• One suggestion (from JD, I think) that I really thought had a lot of potential was to have something to hand out at meetings to welcome people and to collect feedback. I have started a draft at MeetingFeedback for such a handout and would appreciate some contributions.

Suggested Presentation Topics

This might be the place to suggest ideas for longer presentations.

• Presentation HOWTO
• postgres
• tcl/tk
• gnome vs kde
• major applications -- gimp, etc
• backup
• security best-practices (should be an annual?)
• panel discussion(s)
• use subversion to revision control your system config files
• configure logwatch
• configure and use webdav for inter-office filesharing
• configuration differences of various Linux distributions

Suggested Short Subjects

One short-presentation format is a 15-minute session (maybe only 10, if 5 mins is wanted for Q&A). The objective is to achieve general appeal through the choice of likely-to-be-useful topic or problem and limited/focused subject-matter with no deep technical prerequisites. See further discussion at MiniPresentation.

It would be great to gather many suggestions here.

• Short Presentation tips
• KPLUG website usage tips
• gnome nautilus setup/usage tips
• kde konqueror setup/usage tips
• gui file find and content searching
• gui archive/compression tips
• cmdline vs gui
• common cmdline recipes (with links: docs! docs! docs!)
• selected OpenOffice? tools and tips
• FireFox? plugins
• selected topics/tips from vi, emacs, ssh, sed and awk, shell scripting
• brief summary of "religious" wars (eg, vi vs emacs, shells, ..)
• selected answers to perennial FAQs?
• linux-windows tool-equivalents (or at least simularities)
• selected application pitfalls and program inadequacies
• comparing .ps and .pdf (and .. ?)

Notes:

• I (jgs) suspect we need to invest some editorial time organizing these topics into categories, and finding a way to cross-reference things, too. Ah well, in my spare time..
• it's not requiired, but if you wish, you can sign your comments. One signing format is shown next. 2006.07.24 (page created) jgsack
• there is a Meetings and presentations section on the SiteGuide page. This page sh/could probably be refactored to be more useful in the long run.

comments:

Bacula Backup --mevasquez, Fri, 20 Apr 2007 08:16:57 -0700 reply
Would like to see a discussion regarding Bacucla, a Linux backup solution for Linux and Windows servers.