NOTE: Minutes posted on the wiki are always unofficial.

Schedules for upcoming presentations are always tentative. (Some more tentative than others!)

These lists are used during Steering Committe meetings, when planning presentations.

These are some people who can present, and possible topics they can speak about.

• Matt Skipton (via Carl)
  • VMware
• Jim Roe
  • Selling Free Software
• Scott Granneman
  • Snow Leopard
  • iPhone
• Rick Clark (Ubuntu)
  • TOPIC: TBD
  • Might be able to talk to STCLUG and STLLUG
• Kyle Cordes
  • Puppet
  • Flying Boxes
• Hostirian/Primary.NET
  • Tour of their data center
  • What it takes to run a hosting data center
• Wehrenberg Theaters (via Gary)
  • TOUR/DEMO: Digital cinema projectors
• Sammie from IBM
  • Live Demo of IBM Virtualization (previously scheduled but canceled)
• Sanjiv Bhatia (or someone from UMSL, via Lee)
  • TOPIC: AIX 6
  • TOPIC: Open Grid Computing
• David Letscher (Prof of CS at SLU) (via Gary)
  • TOPIC: TBD
• Jeff Logullo (formerly of Sun)
  • TOPIC: MySQL - now a Sun product
  • TOPIC: Project Indiana, a new package management system a la apt/dpkg
  • TOPIC: Versioning filenames (snapshots?) in ZFS
  • TOPIC: New release of ZFS
  • TOPIC: Belenix & other live CD's based on Open Solaris
• Scott Nesler
  • TOPIC: GIMP (follow-up from previous presentation)
  • TOPIC: PGP and GPG
• Jeff Muse
  • Software RAID
  • Mailman
  • Various other Solaris topics
• Stan Reichardt
  • Evaluating Security (Internet access required)
  • Using Scribus
• Tim Dreste (via Stan R)
  • TOPIC: Untangle Gateway Platform
  • TOPIC: CentOS Linux
• Don Ellis
  • Mac OS X Snow Leopard
• Craig Buchek
  • GNU grep (–count, –context, -e, –color)
  • wget and curl
  • Mac OS X topics
  • Ruby on Rails
  • Test-Driven Development (or get Brian Button, if possible)
  • logcheck, fcheck
  • fail2ban
  • Munin
• Tony Lovasco
  • TBD
• Mike Wilkerson
  • Round-Table on Joe Linux User (moderator)
• Jerry Stutte
  • TBD

These are some topics that we've had requested, or brainstormed, but for which we need to find speakers.

A version of this list was posted to DISCUSS on 25 May 2009, asking for volunteers.

• Dia (drawing software)
• IRC
  • How to use IRC with a couple different clients.
• Processes
  • How to tell what's running on a machine
• Google Wave
• BSD jail
• Audio processing software
• Video processing software
• Knoppix karaoke (various users sit in front of Knoppix system)
  • regedit - edit Windows registry from Linux
• Drawing network diagrams using Dia or OpenOffice Draw
• AIX current release, features, future
  • Someone from IBM corporate?
• Apple current release, features, future
  • Someone from Apple corporate?
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL 5) or Fedora recent releases
  • Still looking for volunteer; tried Clark Smith at Red Hat
• SuSE or OpenSUSE recent releases
  • Someone from Novell corporate?
  • Gary Hollingsworth?
• Solaris or OpenSolaris current release, features, future
  • Someone from Sun corporate?
• HP-UX current release, features, future
  • Someone from HP corporate corporate?
  • Dave Mills?
• iSCSI
• CPUs
  • Features of modern Intel/AMD CPUs
  • x86-64
  • x86, x86-64, IA64, Sparc, PowerPC, ARM, POWER
• iPhone
  • Developing for (web, native)
• iPhone competitors
  • New Google Android Phones (Verizon Droid)
  • LG Dare
  • Samsung Instinct
  • Other Linux-based phones
  • LiMo versus Google Android
• SplashTop - a quick booting distro.
• PGP/GPG use in Email
  • Thunderbird Enigmail
  • KMail
• Google Android
  • Gateway and STL JUGs both recently had presentations
• GUI builders (GLADE, KDevelop)
• WHOIS, Domain Registration Process, Registrars, Cyber-squatters, and Name Servers

Tutorials cover the basics of a topic, and are mostly targeted at newbies. (Although everyone attending usually learns something.) We can repeat these topics every few years, as not too much changes with the basics.

• File permissions
• Boot process
• Regular expressions
• Grep, sed, awk, etc.
• DNS