[Charlug] March Meeting Notes

[Jason Edgecombe]

Leam Hall wrote:
> 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.  :)
I'm still up for presenting on Kerberos and OpenAFS. I just don't want 
to go all the way to Matthews.

I haven't done toastmasters, but does giving a presentation at a 
technical conference in front of 100 people count for experience?

;)

Jason