[Preston] PLUG Reboot: (1) Meeting topics and style

[Guy Heatley]

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PLUG seems to have rebooted!

The meetings in the past generally were conducted in an "open workshop"
format:
i.e. Someone would volunteer host the meeting, and direct discussion,
but not be expected to be an expert on the topic in question. The
knowledge was transferred between attendees in a peer-to-peer fashion.

It is possible to have meetings that are more along the lines of a
lecture, but these will be notified beforehand, and obviously require
someone who knows their stuff volunteering to do this.

PLUG members would attend (all meetings if possible), but particularly
those where the topic was one they had expertise in, or obviously wanted
to know more about.

Coming up with topics to discuss with enough advance notice was a
problem in the past because of our ad-hoc style.
So I have put together a list of default topics below. These can be
over-ridden (if no-one volunteers etc), but if all else fails we revert
to the default. So at least we're not left without direction.

This list can be changed, of course etc.

1) Newbie users / installation problems / which distro?
2) Databases - web integration
3) Networking - wireless / embedded Linux routers, OpenWRT etc
4) Multimedia - audio (ALSA, ripping WAVs to free and non-free formats,
streaming audio, audio players, MIDI, squeezebox)
5) Multimedia - video (X Windows, video playback, producing playable
DVDs, editing, 3D acceleration)
6) Network security - VPNs, SSH
5) Data security - encryption e.g. LUKS, eCryptfs, GnuPG
7) The boot process - LILO/GRUB, booting from USB sticks
8) The commandline - running with no GUI
9) Compiling software - package managers, kernel building, Linux from
Scratch
10) Programming - compiled vs interpreted, object orientation, bash
scripts, flex, bison
11) text processing - sed, awk, regex
12) Linux file systems  - structure, different types

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Guy
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