[Wolves] THINGS FOR THIS YEAR

[Andy Jewell]

I can do an intro to moin-moin wiki (a python based wiki) - installing, using and extending.

Doesn't involve any electronics tho. :-(

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From: wolves-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk [wolves-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Adam Sweet [adam at adamsweet.org]
Sent: 12 February 2010 15:32
To: Wolverhampton Linux User Group
Subject: Re: [Wolves] THINGS FOR THIS YEAR

Dave Morley wrote:
> I have a bit of breathing space so I thought I would get this out there:
>
> 1. I'd like to organise a once a quarter Saturday or Sunday workshop.
> This will be to discuss things that don't fit into one week day meeting.
> For example practical things like setting up a server, firewall box,
> nagios, etc.  Learn to program with python, perl, php, etc. Configuring
> KDE oh wait that might take an entire weekend (Sorry Chris E I couldn't
> resist).  These days will have a small £5-10 charge to include the cost
> of a meal and refreshments, anything left over I thought it would be
> nice to give as a gift to the person/people doing the talk.

Sounds good to me.

> So to this end I need volunteers for the big talks, and ideas on what
> people would like talks on. Please reply to this mail with

Volunteer: Adam Sweet

* Introduction to Linux and the command line for beginners and avoiders
* Virtualisation with Xen (and virtualisation in general ie VMWare ESX,
Virtualbox, containers etc).

I've done both of these talks for work, but I've been meaning to the
Linux/command line for beginners for the LUG for a long time, but most
of the people who it was targeted at either don't come at all or don't
come very often and most of us are relatively proficient these days. As
it says, it's for people who are new to Linux, new to the command line
or people who have been using Linux for quite a while but have avoided
learning to use the command line because it can seem a steep curve. It's
not just about the command line, it's about configuration, how Linux
boots, where things are, where to look when things go wrong and all that
kind of stuff, run-levels, init scripts, kernel modules, crontabs etc.

I could also do a Nagios and host/resource graphing one but it would
cover much of the ground James Turner's Nagios talk covered a few years
back.

I'd be interested in anything to do with development (Python, Perl, PHP,
C, assembler, packaging, dev tools, debugging, triaging etc),
MySQL/PostgreSQL, Asterisk, LDAP and home project stuff like 'set up an
xyz server' or hardware hacking/homemade electronics/Arduino etc. I know
f*** all about electronics and I'd be interested in broadening my
horizons a little.

I guess if anybody has a nice recipe for a cool or helpful server app
then I'd be interested. I gave most of my machines away now so I guess
'Build a Beowulf Cluster in a Day' is out unless James is feeling lively ;)

Regards,

Adam Sweet

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