[Wylug-discuss] November Meeting: Speekers Needed Urgently

[Mike Goodman]

I can't help as a speaker but I have a couple of things I'd like to know
about which enough members would be very competent to address us on at
least a couple of:

1. Networking. Not the /etc/hosts and all that bit, that's done very
well by the distros themselves these days. It's more about different
ways for users to log in to a LAN (or wider). I'm thinking of things
like hot desking, so you sit at a desk with a computer on it and log in
to your space, which is actually held on another computer on another
desk. However, there are a variety of methods of setting this up (I am
aware so far, but from here on I'm lost). What are the pros and cons of
the various methods, and in particular the three or four shown as
alternatives when installing most distros. How do we go about setting
the right parameters in the various boxes offered?

2. Electronic filing. I receive emails pertinent to a subject for which
I already have a folder containing, say, a couple of PDFs received, a
couple of WP documents I've done, a report and/or draft leaflet and so
on. How can I keep them all together, or at least link them somehow.
Which leads on to (probably a separate topic) the fact that I learned
all about email on "software" supplied by a marketing giant I shall not
even utter the name of in these hallowed environs. How are the much
lauded but, in my case at least, only heard of email clients such as
mutt and pine, among others, to be used? No, no, not the most obvious
answer, I mean in a practical sense ;-)

3. Setting up a printer, particularly for LAN access. Similar for audio.

4. Inkscape or Sodipodi and how it fits in with Scribus and/or The GIMP.

5. And a topic you have raised most recently, Dave, VoIP with Asterisk.

Best,

Mike Goodman