[BGLUG] July IRL meeting notes

[Mint Spider]

Thank you so much Eric.
This indeed was a fantastic constuctive meeting, and one that I learned a
lot in.
It was great to see such teamwork.
Looking forward to all these coming meeting and the teaching and sharing
that will had.
Special thanks to Shaden for organising the Library location.

On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 7:10 PM, Eric Lake <ericlake at gmail.com> wrote:

> Today we had our July meeting at the Eagle Creek Library. What was
> expected to be a very short and low attendance meeting turned into what
> was probably the best meeting that we have had to date. There were a
> total of 12 people there and we met for the full 3 hours discussing what
> we feel the future meetings should be like. We decided that we want to
> have a set day of the month for our meetings. The 1st Thursday of the
> month at 9:00PM will be the time for our irc meetings while the 3rd
> Saturday will be reserved for our IRL meetings. We have decided to have
> the majority of our meetings at the Eagle Creek branch and when
> necessary we will go to the Tates Creek branch or East Side Tech.
>
> The general flow of the meetings will look something like this for now
> (times subject to change):
>
> 3:00            Start the meeting
> 3:00 - 3:20     Shameless self promotion. Go around the room and tell
> your name and what you do.
> 3:30 - 4:00     User centered presentation. Something that new users
> will be able to keep up with and that is not super technical (i.e.
> installing packages)
> 4:10 - 4:40     Business centered presentation. Something that will
> benefit members that use linux in a work environment (i.e. hardening the
> kernel)
> 4:40 - 5:00     Open discussion
>
> Current schedule of meetings
> August 15th: (Tates Creek branch (may change at this point)
>    Package Management 1
>    CoLinux
>    Open Networking
>        Vyatta, DDWRT, PFSense
> September 19th: Eagle Creek
>    Crypto 1
>    Backtrack
> October 17th: Eagle Creek
>    Text editors
>        vim     Rob
>        emacs   Bill
>        nano    Jordan
>        gedit   Shaden
>    Crypto 2 + key signing
> November 21st
>    Window managers
>        GNOME
>        KDE
>        Xfce
>    screen
> December No Meeting
>    Christmas dinner
>
> Other meeting ideas:
> Vyatta, Pirahna/LVS, LVM, Zenoss, Nagios, Cacti, Zimbra, SugarCRM,
> FreeNX, Thinstation, Freeradius, NST, key signing party, pen testing
> with BackTrack, DDWRT and PFSense, Wireless security.
> --
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Eric Lake
>
>
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Peter // MintSpider
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