Re: [alg] Meetings and General Update
> 1. Work with your location (i.e. close and easy, too far, etc.)
Since I have to drive to almost Georgetown and back everyday the drive
to either current locations is fine with me. I have wished I could go
straight to the meeting after work, but I understand how an earlier
meeting time (6pm) wouldn't be good for alot of folks, so I don't
suggest that.
> 2. How do you like the atmosphere / "flow" of the meetings that take
> place at the locations?
At New Horizons, we can have more focus on a topic. I was a little
disappointed they didn't have a generic login setup we could use for the
workstations, but I can also understand that from an administration
standpoint (especially considering the last time I was there we were in
an area where students are meant to work on pentesting and such).
I do like the cafe as well, but sometimes we seem to be a little
unfocused in our discussions amongst eachother (plus I want to spend
money I shouldn't! lol). I do like when we have more technical
presentations (using puppet and the predecessor program who's name
escapes me at the moment), and that seems not too feasible at the
coffeehouse. I will follow up this in the next question- but I will
pre-empt the question by contrasting social noise pollution to an
occasional vacuum cleaner :)
> 3. Do you want to keep a two meeting place up or would you prefer to
> have just one?
They are so close together that I see no problem with two. I know other
people "have lives" more than I do but an either or option is not the
only solution. I might throw out there an idea that we can have the
formal tech presentation meetings on one day of the week and another
"happy hour, food, and talk amongst ourselves" day where we go to the
coffeehouse. This way we kind of have the best of both worlds, and have
a closer community. It was just a whim, but perhaps Tuesdays one place
and Thursdays at another.
If that's a bad idea, and people don't want to or can't participate that
often, I would suggest one week here and another week there. I think
both forums yield a rewarding time. I wouldn't mind getting together
twice a week as I said if anyone is up for it. After work (especially
my dumb non tech job) it is nice to be around people that share similar
interests.
> My personal preference and thoughts are that I like both places, but
> as far as creating a technical atmosphere for Linux growth and
> outreach, New Horizons offers the better facility to do that and we
> are guaranteed a room to ourselves (minus the occasional vacuum
> cleaner sound in the background). I know we've had some issues with
> the doors being locked -- which I'm trying to work on -- but I wanted
> to know how everyone felt.
Has the issue of the place being locked arisen again? Wow- I thought it
just the one time
> Also, as far as topics go...I would like to reach out and ask: What
> are YOU doing with Linux? And, as a follow-up, what do YOU want to
> see done with Linux?
>
> I would like to try to focus on linux in specific settings... Of
> course the home-end/newbie topics are always welcome but I would like
> to branch out into Linux in business environments and Linux and
> programming languages. Linux has TONS of business applications and
> programming languages for just about every task and I think it would
> be great to be able to share that with everyone.
I have been going over some RHEL 5 cert videos from linuxcbt.com I found
on bittorrent with poor audio quality. Over the past several months I
got the note-taking on what it shows from 68 30-45 minute vids down to
one left (finally!) last one is on using Snort for IDS rather than
packet sniff and tcpdumping, and I will try to finish that tomorrow.
Unfortunately they don't make a single mention of implementing KVMs and
perhaps other topics. Here is the thing that will make everyone laugh:
I was going to implement a server and never did it!
Robt Ristroph and others have wisely suggested I get into more LAMP
stuff like Drupal, MediaWiki. I have been wanting to reinstall Kloxo in
place of a cPanel suite. I haven't forgotten that, but wanted to finish
these RHEL vids (ew- then review-time to overview my notes- I guess
thats when I will finally install a dummy server).
I am getting the latest edition of Programming Perl (comes out this
month? I have it on back-order). I glanced at Ruby and Python too- very
torn on languages at this point. Perl is one thing I knew would be a
sure thing so I went for it.
One thing I would like to figure out- can a Linux LDAP server operate as
an Active Directory PDC for a bunch of Windows slave domain
controllers? It would be so nice to go into a bosses office and say- we
put the domain controllers on Linux machines". I am starting to ramble
but if an LDAP implementation can do that on Linux, and for Apple's Open
Directory as well, I'd love to push Microsoft and Apple's applecart
over the cliff :)
> Anyway, this is sort of an open topic and anything goes...good, bad,
> the ugly... I really want to know what to try to work on as far as
> presentations and themes and who to reach out to for topics. And most
> importantly I don't want you to feel like coming to meetings is a
> "chore" or boring.
I should say I haven't been to the meetings in a few weeks due to work
fatigue (I just wanna go home and watch old Marvel cartoons), or driver
fatigue ( dumb, dangerous people on the road on the way home), or
weather and it being colder
-T
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> As always, my inbox is open and all comments are welcome!
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> Thank you,
>
> - Robert Parkhurst, President, Austin Linux User Group
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