[Discuss] June 10th VLUG meeting

John Blomfield jabfield at shaw.ca
Tue May 27 14:24:35 PDT 2008


How about a little controversy, such as, for and against sudo (Ubuntu) 
and su (The rest of Linux)?

or "how best to organize your hard drive(s), partitions and mount 
points?  These are bound to generate wildly different opinions!

John Blomfield

Murray Strome wrote:
> My preference would be number 1): question and answer night.  I would 
> be most interested in a topic dealing with connections among computers 
> on a Local Area Network (things like SSH, rsync, file sharing, 
> printing on other computers, etc.).
>
> Murray
>
> Larry Gagnon wrote:
>> We have a presenter lined up for out VLUG July meeting but not for 
>> this June 10th meeting. What I am proposing is either one of the 
>> following scenarios for the June meeting:
>>
>> 1) question and answer night. We pick a maximum of 4 topics, probably 
>> typical Linux problem areas such as wireless, multimedia, whatever 
>> and have a serious MODERATED discussion on possible solutions to 
>> problems members might be having with these topics. I will moderate 
>> the evening so it does not generate into a free-for-all. Please post 
>> to the discuss list your suggestions for topics we could discuss, or 
>> problems you would like solved.
>>
>> 2) Alpha Geek quiz night. Similar to the annual alpha geek Open 
>> Source quiz that happens yearly at LinuxFest NorthWest. I would 
>> present a bunch of trivial Open Source questions and the winner 
>> becomes VLUG Alpha Geek for the year...
>>
>> 3) or something else if anyone has any good ideas...
>>
>> Larry
>
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