[Charlug] March Meeting Notes

[Leam Hall]

Several topics were discussed and some brain synergy percolated forth. 
Here are the working notes, feel free to discuss your opinions with the 
appropriate guilty parties.

The RHCE Study Group (RHCE-SG) will move forward with a 30 minute 
workshop after each Saturday meeting. This is open to everyone whether 
or not you're going after the RHCE. We will discuss topics relevant, 
work on our skills, and just happen to focus on the ones required for 
the test, like iptables and SELinux. Chip is POC for the RHCE-SG.

Future meetings are the last Saturday of the month, and should include 
roughly 60 minutes of primary presentation followed by 30 minutes of the 
RHCE-SG. After that an unspecified time of social banter, soda swilling, 
and talking about past and future projects.  :)

No one voiced support for a weeknight LUG meeting. Of course, no one 
voiced opposition so those wanting to meet at some other time in some 
other place are welcome to do so.

LUG meetings will feature guest speakers as can be arranged; Bob Evans 
is the coordinator of guest speakers. When LUG members present we are 
moving to a "workshop" format. Chip is preparing a Nagios Monitoring 
workshop that should either happen in April or May. Since Bob is working 
with D. Richard Hipp of SQLite fame Chip has agreed to stand in on 
whichever meeting Richard cannot make.

For the Nagios workshop please come prepared with your laptop, the 
software installed and running, and a network connection/cable. Chip 
will provide specifics but this is not an "install it" time but heavy on 
configuration and usage.

Previous presenters like Greg DeKoenigsberg and Kevin Jones 
(http://www.freelinuxpc.org) (if anyone has Kevin's e-mail address, feel 
free to pass this along) were discussed and everyone was well pleased 
with their presentations. Greg and Kevin will be contacted by (???) to 
see if they are available at a later date.

There is some interest in an OpenLDAP workshop but the folks present 
didn't have as much experience as they would like to organize that one. 
If you have OpenLDAP operational experience and want to help out, speak 
up and you'll be brought into the fold. Topics will include basic and 
enterprise configurations as well as using Radius.

Other workshops discussed but not really resourced include:

	Joomla
	Virtualization (client and server)
	Wordpress
	Subversion (CMP?)
	Apache
	OpenAFS
	LAMP
	Python (PS?)
	Kerberos
	Mail (TLS, sendmail, postfix) (PS, CC)
	Cobbler and Koan
	Spacewalk and Kickstart (Brad?)

If you are interested in giving a workshop please speak up. We found 
that two to three people talking about the idea gave enough conversation 
to keep things going and in the coming months we can work out the bugs 
in the process.

Final note about e-mail and group discussion. Please remember that we 
are open to all ages and belief systems. Your use of the language 
reflects on all of us. Keep it family friendly.

Hope that comes out clear for everyone. If there's any confusion let me 
know and I'll try to clarify. If you don't like the topic selection, 
show up and voice your thoughts.  :)

Leam