NOTE: Items posted on the wiki are always unofficial.

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

These lists are used during Steering Committee meetings, when planning presentations. A version of these lists was posted to our DISCUSS mailing list on 25 May 2009, asking for volunteers.

Trying to integrate the dynamically changing wiki list of potential tutorials, topics and speakers into the monthly agenda and minutes proved cumbersome. Moving the information into a LibreOffice BASE database allowed faster generation of a schedule that can track everything better.

A short period (30 to 45 minutes) prior to each main presentation at the SLUUG general meetings is dedicated to basic subjects. These tutorial sessions often are more hands on and less formal in nature. They are mostly targeted at newbies, although everyone attending usually learns something. Sometimes the focus can be on a single unique command, application feature, concept or technique. Live demonstrations of new hardware or specific application software are welcomed.

In general, the tutorial subject should differ from the theme of the main presentation topic. We can repeat these tutorials every few years, as not too much changes with the basics. Different presenters often provide different information and fresh perspectives.

As of 2020-02-09 all listed potential tutorial ideas were moved to the Planning Schedule database.

These are some topics that we've had requested, or brainstormed, but for which we need to find speakers. They would likely require more time than the basic tutorial sessions.

As of 2020-02-09 all listed potential tutorial ideas were moved to the Planning Schedule database.

Try accessing using the Wiki planning.pdf

or

Try direct from the website planning.pdf https://www.sluug.org/planning.pdf

As of 2020-05-28 all listed potential speakers and their topics were moved to the Planning Schedule database.

Items that are stricken thru below are no longer possible or have been moved to the Planning Schedule database. The goal is to remove everything below. Throw it away or move it to Planning Schedule database.

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

• Ken Johnson * OpenBSD for Linux users * Mint (or other) distro * Discussion of Technical Books That Had an Impact

• Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier (Red Hat) * Cloud topics * Red Hat topics * community topics

• Kyle Cordes * "Swiss Army Knife" of ffmpeg * Flying Boxes

• Sammie from IBM * Live Demo of IBM Virtualization (previously scheduled but canceled)

• 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

• Craig Buchek * Everything You (N)Ever Wanted to Know About The Web * HTTP * HTML * Web Servers * Web Browsers * CoffeeScript, HAML, and SASS * wget and curl * Mac OS X topics * Ruby on Rails * Test-Driven Development (or get Brian Button, if possible) * logcheck, fcheck * fail2ban (was done by Ken Johnson)

• Yi Yang (Security professor at Fontbonne) * Security issues * Key management