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2004 HLUG Presentation Schedule, 1st Half Year

HLUG holds 2 General Meetings each month, on the 1st & 4th Saturdays
Meetings start at 2 pm, in SIG Room A at HAL-PC HQ

We try to end the formal meeting by 4 pm,
and usually adjourn to Dimassi's (or other fine restaurant) for food & further conversation

"Light & Fun" (L&F)			"Deep & Meaty" (D&M)
4th Sat	Topic	Speaker	1st Sat	Topic	Speaker
Nov 22	Blender	John Lightsey	Dec 6	TWiki	Rick & Russell
Dec 27	Cancelled - HAL-PC closed	Santa!!	Jan 3	Cancelled - HAL-PC closed	Make a Resolution
Jan 24	Hierarchical File System	Richard Lawson	Feb 7	Web Scraping w/Perl	John Lightsey
Feb 28	GettingTheGoods	Aaron Estrada	Mar 6	Installing Debian	John Lightsey
Mar 27	The Bird Bath	Aaron Estrada	Apr 3	(open)	volunteers?
Apr 24	(open)	volunteers?	May 1	(open)	volunteers?
May 22	(open)	volunteers?	Jun 5	(open)	volunteers?
Jun 26	Elections?	& eat	Jul 3	Cancelled? (HAL-PC closed?)	Have a safe 4th

About the Schedule

When Aaron became our President last June, he suggested that we should should alternate presentations between:

beginner oriented -- "easy", "fun", "light",
veteran oriented -- "challenging", "serious", "deep"

I have distilled these categories down to the "Light & Fun" & "Deep & Meaty" you see in the table above. Aaron's original intention was to have the "1st" meeting (see next paragraph) be beginner oriented, and the "2nd" meeting be veteran oriented. As you can see from the schedule so far, it doesn't always work out that way.

Each line is (normally) a 2 week period. It may look confusing because we meet on the 4th Sat. of one month followed by the 1st Sat. of the next. And so some of us refer to the 4th Sat as out "1st" meeting, and the 1st Sat as our "2nd" meeting.

Suggestions for Presenters

Of course we hope that all speakers will try to have something for everyone. If you are presenting a beginner topic, throw in a few references to advanced uses to pique the veterans' interest. Not much detail, they can probably figure it out on their own, but enough to make them feel it was worthwhile listening to you.

Conversely, if you are presenting an advanced topic, try not to leave us novices too far behind. Even if we don't understand half of what you say, opening our eyes to the posibilities can make the time worthwhile. You want us leave thinking: "I want to know more about that." & "I'll remember this for when I'm ready for it."

And don't forget the

Door Prizes

We try to have real door prizes to raffle at every regular (Sat.) meeting. The number will depend on attendance & availability. In addition, we have Micro Center coupons, O'Reilly stickers, & the current O'Reilly catalog for everyone.

Presenters: As your Librarian, I can get (virtually) any O'Reilly book for the prize at your presentation. Please let me know what you want 4 weeks in advance by e-mail.
-- RickArchibald

Proposed Presentation Topics

What you'd like to hear, what you'd like to give. We need suggestions & volunteers. (Does anyone know any outside speakers we could get?)

Possible speakers -- JohnLightsey

The city of Austin is switching from Microsoft Office to OpenOffice.org. Can we get a speaker from the city to discuss the decision making process or it's implimentation?
The city of Houston somewhat recently started offering SimHouston, another MS Office replacement, free to residents. Perhaps we could get someone from the city or SimHouston to discuss the decision or deployment? (Not really a Linux topic though.)
Would ChrisCheney? be willing to give a presentation on KDE, Debian, or freedesktop.org?
The space program and Linux. Someone from the Space Center?
Invite the presidents of the nearby LUGs to talk about their groups, preferrably all on the same day.
Presentation on dbops by WilliamSimmons??

The Hacker Mind-set and How to Get It (L&F) -- RickArchibald

Starting w/ Eric Raymond's Jargon File & its appendices, I would look at the profile of a typical hacker. I would explore attitudes, tastes, & experiences we in HLUG share; and end w/ a suggested reading list.

Boolean Algebra / Symbolic Logic (D&M) -- RickArchibald or ???

I don't know if I remember enough of this to make a good presentation, or if anyone would be interested; but it is one of the underpinnings of computing.

Presentation Topics Actually in-the-Works:

DiskImaging and Partiton Recovery - (D&M) Aaron Estrada

How To Get A Distro from HLUG (L&F) -- idea by Pete Jamison, concocted by Aaron Estrada

Should you show up or can you grab something remotely? Do you need to be a member? Where's the roster of stuff now owned/available by the group? Find this out, and more, from the presentation entitled: GettingTheGoods.

Any chance you're going to cover LVM or EVMS? Or should I make that a separate presentation?

-- RussellAdams - 09 Jan 2004

Linux Hierarchical File System (L&F) -- RichardLawson?

SteveMusacchia? presented this at one of the 1st Sat. meetings I ever went to. Very useful topic, worth repeating. Richard will give us his version, which has the benefit of Steve's material.
There will be a panel of experts to help answer questions.

Postgres (D&M) -- RobertCarlile?

Postgres & other db's

Remote Server Monitoring (D&M) -- RussellAdams

A subject near & dear to Russell's heart, & a major pain in my ears when that damn beeper goes off . . . But seriously, if your IT people can immediately fix that main server that went down at midnight; then your employees may never notice the outtage. I.E. no work flow interruption.

Links to Other LUG's Calendars

SETXLUG Southeast Texas GNU/Linux Users Group (Beaumont)

SETXtwiki:FAQ/EventCalendar
SETXLUG:main -- this doesn't work exactly right

SETXLUG also runs TWiki, & links here from their EventCalendar above.

NOLUG New Orleans Linux Users Group

NOLUG:UpcomingTopics

The NOLUG site is all Kwiki

2004 Calendar (from `cal` of course)

                               2004                                

       January               February                 March        
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa   Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa   Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa 
             1  2  3    1  2  3  4  5  6  7       1  2  3  4  5  6
 4  5  6  7  8  9 10    8  9 10 11 12 13 14    7  8  9 10 11 12 13
11 12 13 14 15 16 17   15 16 17 18 19 20 21   14 15 16 17 18 19 20
18 19 20 21 22 23 24   22 23 24 25 26 27 28   21 22 23 24 25 26 27
25 26 27 28 29 30 31   29                     28 29 30 31

        April                   May                   June         
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa   Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa   Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa 
             1  2  3                      1          1  2  3  4  5
 4  5  6  7  8  9 10    2  3  4  5  6  7  8    6  7  8  9 10 11 12
11 12 13 14 15 16 17    9 10 11 12 13 14 15   13 14 15 16 17 18 19
18 19 20 21 22 23 24   16 17 18 19 20 21 22   20 21 22 23 24 25 26
25 26 27 28 29 30      23 24 25 26 27 28 29   27 28 29 30
                       30 31
        July                  August                September      
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa   Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa   Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa 
             1  2  3    1  2  3  4  5  6  7             1  2  3  4
 4  5  6  7  8  9 10    8  9 10 11 12 13 14    5  6  7  8  9 10 11
11 12 13 14 15 16 17   15 16 17 18 19 20 21   12 13 14 15 16 17 18
18 19 20 21 22 23 24   22 23 24 25 26 27 28   19 20 21 22 23 24 25
25 26 27 28 29 30 31   29 30 31               26 27 28 29 30

       October               November               December       
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa   Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa   Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa 
                1  2       1  2  3  4  5  6             1  2  3  4
 3  4  5  6  7  8  9    7  8  9 10 11 12 13    5  6  7  8  9 10 11
10 11 12 13 14 15 16   14 15 16 17 18 19 20   12 13 14 15 16 17 18
17 18 19 20 21 22 23   21 22 23 24 25 26 27   19 20 21 22 23 24 25
24 25 26 27 28 29 30   28 29 30               26 27 28 29 30 31
31

-- RickArchibald - 14 Nov 2003
Minor formatting changes. -- RussellAdams - 02 Dec 2003
Major Section additions. -- RickArchibald - 06 Dec 2003
Topic additions. -- RickArchibald - 12 Dec 2003
Added SETXLUG link, removed old

icons -- RickArchibald - 28 Jan 2004

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