Wanted Presentations

From GoLUG

Presentations people want to see

This is a list of topics which GoLug members would like to see presented at future Golug meetings.

• Wiki usage
  • Especially now that our web page is a wiki
• iptables made easy
• OpenBSD's PF (Packet Filter)
• Introduction to Networking in Linux
• Introduction to apache
• lexx and yacc
• Introduction to Latex
• awk and sed
• Introduction to the ubiquitious "perl" language
• How to set up a DNS server in Linux
• How to set up an e-mail server in Linux
• how to tweak and troubleshoot the process of: "compiling your own kernel" which could include:
  • - how you know what to add and what not etc...
  • - troubleshooting errors that you'll get *alsa errors for instance ~_~*
  • - how to handle loading/unloading kernel modules
• Editing sound with audacity
• General desktop Linux.
  • Should cover more than one window manager and be newbie compliant.
• Replacing a Windows server/domain with Samba
• Linux PVR (MythTV)
• Xen/UML (User Mode Linux)
• How to make your own livecd
• How to make your Linux distribution as secure as you possibly can without hindering productivity.
• IPv6
• Web Development using popular open source languages such as PHP and "Ruby on Rails" in conjunction with common open source databases such as MySQL and PostreSQL
  • Covering:
    • Secure Development
    • Collaboration (naming schemes, CVS, Best Practices, etc)
    • Architecture (modularized programming with emphasis on OOP)
    • General Technique (such as how to consolidate common code for use in functions/methods/classes with security and functionality in mind)
    • Different ways of integrating presentation (HTML/client-side scripting) with logic (PHP/RoR/server-side scripting)
    • Reducing server overhead with JavaScript and AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML)
    • How all of the above can be used together to reduce "time to market" for the release of stable web applications
    • Suggestion by Patrick Nelson