[GTALUG] meeting tomorrow: topic?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Mon, Dec 08, 2014 at 12:47:51PM -0500, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> According to <http://gtalug.org/> :
> 
> "GTALUG is currently looking for speakers for the 9th December, 2014 
> meeting. If you are interested in speaking please contact our talks 
> coordinator."
> 
> Let's brainstorm on this.  Here's a poorly organized dump of some of my 
> thoughts.
> 
> - I'd love to hear Lennart talk about what he's learned working on
>   routers.

How many hours do you have?

Or Anthony could talk about all the legacy sysadmin disasters of mine
he has had to clean up so far.

> - I'd like to learn what each of you has learned using Linux (or
>   perhaps, not able to do using Linux) and what your current
>   Linux-related interests are.
> 
> - I'd like to hear how people have set up their internet gatways.
>   What's worth doing, what's easy, what's hard.
>   (It's time for me to revisit this after having a pretty static
>   setup for a decade.  I'd be willing to talk about what I've done
>   but it is pretty stale.)
> 
> - I'm interested in setting up my in-house services like a cloud.
>   Perhaps <http://owncloud.org/>.  Motivation: I want to keep control
>   of my own data as much as possible.  Can anyone speak to this?
> 
> - Subproblem of above: I run MediaWiki already.  Tips and tricks (eg.
>   from Drew) about care, feeding, and use would be welcome.
> 
> - I'd be willing to share 10 minutes worth of what I've learned about 
>   little Windows gadgets as Linux platforms.
> 
> - I'd love to discuss whether this is interesting and useful
>   <http://www.banana-pi.com/eacp_view.asp?id=64>
> 
>   This is a version of the Banana Pi with an added ethernet switch:
>   5 x 1G eithernet ports.
> 
>   The Banana Pi is intended to mimic the Raspberry Pi in some ways but
>   with a stronger processor; my impression has been that this is goofy
>   and that the Cubieboard2 and Cubietruck <http://cubieboard.org/>
>   were more transparent uses of the Allwinner chips.
> 
>   But gluing on a switch seems very attractive.
> 
> - chatting about peoples' workflow always seems useful: it's not just
>   the tools, its how we use them, how we find them useful, and where
>   they don't quite meet expectations.
> 
>   Examples: backup methodology, distro update methodology, favourite
>   editor (leave out tribalism), programming language, etc.
> 
> - why Go is interesting <https://golang.org/>.
>   Why Rust is interesting <http://www.rust-lang.org/>.
>   Why Python 2.x still has a loyal following.
> 
> - what are you doing with your _____?  Example: Raspberry Pi.
> 
> - How you make your mobile device work with your desktop?
> 
> Summary: we've had Question and Answer sessions, how about an Answer
> and Question session?  By that I meen: people give a mini-chat about
> something they think is interesting and have the rest of us ask
> questions in response.

Could be interesting too.

Pretty sure I am not making the meeting this month.

-- 
Len Sorensen