On Tuesday 02 January 2007 14:21, bogi wrote: > As i understand it, we do have someone from SUN, to visit us for February > and present us with an extensive chunk of information regarding Java, > openJava and GPL and all that wend down. It looks to be intresting to boot, > more so, we could get intrest from Java people, I know they are worried > about the GPL , I was trying to calm them a bit, but i guess they choose to > be worried , but nevertheless the presentation would prove to be very > intresting. For January we had to find a presentation, and we did get a > good one regarding VOIP from Simon. I am sure it will be a blast.
While this isn't a topic that I am personally interested in, I can see how it would be for others. > Dave has delegated me to handle the presentations in the upcoming period, > that is why i am responding in detail to presentation connected postings. Yes, I am aware of this Szemir, Sorry, I didn't mean to step on toes it just seemed like the list was pretty quiet and I thought something like this might bolster some support. Start the year off with a kick. > the Asterisk presentation is a natural after the voip, so i will be looking > for a presentation on Asterisk in March .... Good luck. As I said, I think it would go well. > I think the GPL presentation would be better after GPL V3 is finalized, > sometimes in Q2 as expected. Ah, yes. This makes good sense. I am hoping to hear good things about V3. > KDE stuff is allways welcome, specially from Aaron, i guess he is busy now, > but will be less so after the next release, a more better time to tell us > about the new and changed things, also to tell us about the new 3d engine / > api that looks really promising even after seeing the current one :-) Well, Aaron never fails to enlighten and entertain. Hopefully he will be available to do something for us. It would be nice if there were some other KDE guru willing to demonstrate to take some of the pressure of Aaron or just to provide a different point of view. > I think IpCop definitely deserves a good presentation, it has been quite > the time since we had a firewall or networking presentation. I would also > go into installing extra modules onto IpCop for content filtering and > Parenting purposes, yep, kids are getting older ... I would not be able to go beyond a basic install. I have taken a look at some of the extra modules but haven't dabbled. I was pretty clear about what I would be comfortable in presenting. > GNUPG and Tellico, very intresting, specially the Tellico, did not know > about that one. I would add KGpg for the GNUPG, it does make life a lot > simpler with your and other keys also. I think these 2 subjects would well > fit a single big presentation or maybe 3 mini presentations on the same day > depending on how you want to look at it. I sent an email a while back regarding Tellico as I was looking for a good collection manager for my comic collection. Tellico fit the bill nicely and it appears to be easy to hack if you so desired. Of course KGPG is a good tool if you are using KDE. I did tack it onto the end of my last GPG presentation but yeah it makes life a little easier. The command-line stuff is dead simple though. I think KGPG's strength comes from the ability to handle encrypting and decrypting stuff, it's all there a click away. > GNUCash, and maybe even add sql-ledger is a big subject, i would wonder if > we could get an accountant , or someone familiar with accounting to shed > some more light of how these programs are meant to work. I could contact > the sql-ledger team lead in Edmonton :-) He might be intrested in a good > presentation about Ledger, And maybe we could also give justice to GNUCash. I am not prepared to go into SQL-ledger. It seemed pretty scary to me when Shawn presented it. GNUCash could be used for a small business I suppose but to me it's simply a personal finance manager like Quicken or Money. However, if you could convince the Edmontonian to come down an present SQL-ledger then more power to you. > I prefer doing the discussion here in talk, and do the boring detail in > private e-mail afterwords, regarding the subject, scope, blurb, etc ... > it is allways a good idea to have as many $.02 CAD added to the discussion > as possible. Agreed, hence why I was trying to promote a discussion on the topic of presentations. However, I do think it's nice to throw a free-form meeting in there to break things up a bit from time to time. That's my .02. > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To: [email protected] > > Sent: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 13:10:42 -0700 > > Subject: [clug-talk] Presentation topics > > > > Hey All, > > > > Since we seem to be having some difficulty in getting presentations > > rolling, I thought I would start this thread now in advance of February's > > meeting (at least). > > > > As a follow-up to Simon's presentation on VoIP, I would love to see an > > Asterisk presentation. Some other topics I would like to see covered (in > > no particular order): > > > > Creative Commons, Copyright vs. Copyleft, Patents and Licensing (GPL, > > Apache, etc.) More KDE tips & tricks > > Mail Server Administration (yes, I am still wrestling this bad boy) > > Network Administration (specifically Traffic Shaping or Content Filtering > > for those of us with Families) > > Port Knocking > > > > Just so nobody thinks I am all about taking and not receiving, here's > > what I have to offer if anyone is interested: > > > > IPCop: Setup and Basic Administration > > GNUPG: Setup and Daily Use > > GNUCash: How to track your Personal Finances > > Tellico: Collection Management > > > > And is it just me or are we overdue for a Workshop? I would love to > > participate/volunteer for a VoIP/Asterisk Workshop or an Email Server > > Workshop. We have had a few in the past and I think they were pretty > > successful. I know that we are coming up on another AGM and this is the > > last thing the Executive probably wants to think about as they are coming > > to the end of their terms but this _could_ be set up by the group at > > large and not require the Executive unless absolutely necessary. Take > > some of the pressure off. > > > > FYI, this could be broken out to another thread. > > > > Thoughts? > > > > Jarrod > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying -- Jarrod Major (403) 730-2551 230 Berwick Drive NW Calgary, Alberta T3K 1P5 _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
