[SGVLUG] Wanted: your ideas for presentations

[Jason Riker]

On Fri, 2005-06-24 at 14:06 -0700, Emerson, Tom wrote:
> Well, the calendar on the wall keeps reminding me that "time marches on" -- as far as I know, we do NOT have any presentations lined up for the next few months [I had hoped to get one for July, but it turns out the person who can do it won't be available until September, at which point she'll be a freshman here at Caltech, so I think we can wait for that one ;) ]
> 
> We *DO* get a bit of a break in that the first of the month is Friday, meaning our general meeting date is the 14th (the latest date possible for any given month); OTOH, our "devsig" meeting is at the opposite end of the spectrum: the next scheduled devsig date will be the 2nd! [though as this will be a "holiday weekend", we may not hold a meeting -- of course, without a location or topic, there won't be much of a meeting to hold anyway...]
> 
> Any leads would be appreciated -- post your ideas [or better, names of people to present] to this list and Somebody(*) will get this to the website and on-stage, so to speak ;)
> 
> Tom
> 
> (*) see http://www.volunteermemphis.org/MTVVOLGUIDEPOEM.htm

Hi all,

I was wondering what level of presentations you all want to have at
SGVLUG?  You are all much more experienced with Linux than I am and
don't want to bring the level of presentation below what the group would
like.  Personally, I wouldn't mind seeing some introductory Linux stuff.
It would be nice to see someone show some things like command line
tricks, working with the Gimp, nmap, system recovery with a live cd.
Orv Beach from SCLUG said he wouldn't mind coming down and doing a
presentation that he gave up there.  I believe it was on command line or
BASH tricks.  I'll send him an e-mail and ask his availability.  

Another idea would be to do a series on Linux certifications.  Maybe we
could get an LPI book from O'Reilly and take a look at a chapter or two
either in terms of what a SysAdm really would use at work or maybe focus
on someone actually wanting to certify.

That's just my two cents.

Jason