Well, at ALUG-40 today, everyone there thought that making the IRC meetings a regular event was a good idea, so please join us online at 2000 (8pm) each Monday evening, on OpenProjects IRC. Server names include hogan.openprojects.net, eu.openprojects.net and irc.linux.com, but make sure to use port 8001. IRC clients include epic4, BitchX (console), kirc, kvirc (KDE), x-chat, yagirc (gnome), tkirc and netplug (Tcl/Tk) amongst many others. See you tomorrow? -- MJR (For addresses, telephones, fax, etc, see headers.)
I was thinking that to draw more people into the ALUG meetings it would be a good idea to have 1 or 2 structured talks at each event for a duration of 30 mins each (20-25 min talk, 5-10 mins Q&A). If members of the group talk about stuff they have expertise in doing on Linux, the talks will require very little preparation and probably done on the fly. An initial list of talks could be: Building a Linux cluster - Mark? Building a very popular website - Gareth? Using XML/Cocoon/etc - Andrew / Paul? Installing every distribution of Linux - BJ :) PHP - James? 3D and Linux - Ashley? Load Balancing - Adam? Speakers just need to give enough information to bring people from a basic level to knowing what to do (and major pitfalls to avoid) if they are want to play about with the topic of discussion. Other topics could include: Recompiling the linux kernel Installing using Debian package manager Installing using Redhat package manager IP masquerading Linux Kernel Internals Installing Linux for the first time etc. What do you think? What other topics would begineers and experienced people like to see presented? We all have experience in different areas and this would be a great way for each of us to expand our knowledge. Ashley Dr. Ashley T. Howes PhD Web Developer & 3D Graphics Hacker Email: ashley@blueskyresearch.net Web: http://www.ashleyhowes.com "When all the animals of this world are gone, man will die of loneliness"
As a list lurker and as yet, non-attender at meetings I would just like to add my voice to this and say that I think it's an excellent idea. "Ashley T. Howes" wrote:
I was thinking that to draw more people into the ALUG meetings it would be a good idea to have 1 or 2 structured talks at each event for a duration of 30 mins each (20-25 min talk, 5-10 mins Q&A). If members of the group talk about stuff they have expertise in doing on Linux, the talks will require very little preparation and probably done on the fly. I think that the talks would probably end up being longer than this but each speaker would probably find their own natural duration to deliver the talk, and the Q&A would probably vary depending on who was present and the level of interest in the subject matter.
An initial list of talks could be:
Building a Linux cluster - Mark? I would be very interested in this.
Building a very popular website - Gareth? And this.
PHP - James? This would also be of great interest as I recently had to write a password change page for LDAP based on PHP3.
Load Balancing - Adam? DNS based or cluster based? Either would be good, but especially cluster based with redundancy/failover if the functionality is there.
Recompiling the linux kernel I wouldn't mind contributing to this.
Installing using Redhat package manager Or this.
What do you think? What other topics would begineers and experienced people like to see presented? We all have experience in different areas and this would be a great way for each of us to expand our knowledge. I've recently spent a good deal of time working with IMAP (Cyrus), OpenLDAP, EXIM, SaMBa, NetAtalk, SSL, NSSLDAP and loads of other bits in order to build an alternative to Netware and NT servers so if there was any interest...
The reason I haven't attended to date is that I like to spend Sundays with my family but I think that if there were people speaking on things like clustering then I would probably be swayed. Best regards, Joe Frost IS Engineer Omnis Software Ltd
As another lurker (aged 75 and hoping to be more mobile after an operation next week) I also think it is an excellent idea. Hoping to be able to join in after two months R.T. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ashley T. Howes" <ashley@blueskyresearch.net> To: <alug@stu.uea.ac.uk> Sent: 01 September 2000 14:20 Subject: [Alug] Some structure...
I was thinking that to draw more people into the ALUG meetings it would be a good idea to have 1 or 2 structured talks at each event for a duration of 30 mins each (20-25 min talk, 5-10 mins Q&A). If members of the group talk about stuff they have expertise in doing on Linux, the talks will require very little preparation and probably done on the fly.
An initial list of talks could be:
Building a Linux cluster - Mark? Building a very popular website - Gareth? Using XML/Cocoon/etc - Andrew / Paul? Installing every distribution of Linux - BJ :) PHP - James? 3D and Linux - Ashley? Load Balancing - Adam?
Speakers just need to give enough information to bring people from a basic level to knowing what to do (and major pitfalls to avoid) if they are want to play about with the topic of discussion.
Other topics could include:
Recompiling the linux kernel Installing using Debian package manager Installing using Redhat package manager IP masquerading Linux Kernel Internals Installing Linux for the first time etc.
What do you think? What other topics would begineers and experienced people like to see presented? We all have experience in different areas and this would be a great way for each of us to expand our knowledge.
Ashley
Dr. Ashley T. Howes PhD Web Developer & 3D Graphics Hacker Email: ashley@blueskyresearch.net Web: http://www.ashleyhowes.com
"When all the animals of this world are gone, man will die of loneliness"
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An initial list of talks could be:
Building a Linux cluster - Mark? Building a very popular website - Gareth? Using XML/Cocoon/etc - Andrew / Paul? Installing every distribution of Linux - BJ :) PHP - James? 3D and Linux - Ashley? Load Balancing - Adam?
Working with Linux in multi-language environment - Tats ... Though it's way to far away to join :) You guys can make a book about Linux, if you seriously do that above! Yours Tatsuhiko Maekawa [Network Integration Dept. System Div.] Computer Engineering and Consulting, Tokyo Japan mailto:t_maekawa@cec-ltd.co.jp
On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 02:20:18PM +0100, Ashley T. Howes wrote:
I was thinking that to draw more people into the ALUG meetings it would be a good idea to have 1 or 2 structured talks at each event for a duration of 30 mins each (20-25 min talk, 5-10 mins Q&A). If members of the group talk about stuff they have expertise in doing on Linux, the talks will require very little preparation and probably done on the fly.
I do think that this would be useful; practical demonstrations being the order of the day here, perhaps? This all assumes that I one day turn up to a meet. :P
An initial list of talks could be:
Building a Linux cluster - Mark?
Like I can afford enough machines. :)
Building a very popular website - Gareth?
Bah, this is my day job ;)
PHP - James?
This might be handy. I use ASP/VBScript at work, and I tend to roll my own CGIs in Perl or Python at home; PHP is on the Big List Of Stuff To Look At.
What do you think? What other topics would begineers and experienced people like to see presented? We all have experience in different areas and this would be a great way for each of us to expand our knowledge.
A few on scripting languages would be nice; although pretty much everyone is at least aware of Perl, a compare-and-contrast exercise with Python, Tcl, and weirder things like Ruby might be interesting, and it would work well as a group presentation (a person taking each section), or something of that ilk. Talks can be more than just auditory HOWTOs, hopefully? Aq. -- Although "Aquarius" could be a random choice for a project name by those who fabricated the Telex, the situation fits perfectly with the definition of disinformation -- http://www.cufon.org/cufon/Aquarius/aquarius.htm
On 02-Sep-00 Aquarius wrote:
On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 02:20:18PM +0100, Ashley T. Howes wrote:
I was thinking that to draw more people into the ALUG meetings it would be a good idea to have 1 or 2 structured talks at each event for a duration [snip]
Building a Linux cluster - Mark?
Like I can afford enough machines. :)
Well, I did manage to pick up a batch of 486/25s for �1 each. Not exciting, but useful for playing with. ---------------------------------- E-Mail: Raphael Mankin <raph@wwuk1.webwright-uk.com> Date: 03-Sep-00 Time: 22:12:15 This message was sent by XFMail ----------------------------------
Hm. So, I've tried using the URL interface on the alug website to subscribe *this* address (aquarius@kryogenix.org) to the alug list, and unsubscribe aquarius@kryogenix.albatross.co.uk (which I still get, but which I stopped paying for in June, so I'm expecting it to disappear ;) and I can't get it to work. I've just looked at the mailman interface on rabbit.stu.uea, and that doesn't give me the opportunity to change my address afaics, only to unsubscribe, and I don't want to unsubscribe the old address before I subscribe the current one (otherwise I'll miss messages). I deliberately didn't just send this whinge to list-owner because I'm wondering if anyone else had the same problem. If not, then I shall hang my head in shame and mail list-owner directly...# Aq. -- "You can criticise my methods if you want, but keep your snide comments to yourself. Oh, and while you're at it, don't criticise my methods." -- Rupert Giles, "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"
On Sun, 3 Sep 2000, Aquarius wrote:
I can't get it to work.
Yeah, it doesn't work. I got bored with changing it every time Mark changed the list software or moved the list. I'm sure it'll be fixed on the shiny new website(tm).
I've just looked at the mailman interface on rabbit.stu.uea, and that doesn't give me the opportunity to change my address afaics, only to unsubscribe, and I don't want to unsubscribe the old address before I subscribe the current one (otherwise I'll miss messages).
Er... so why not subscribe the new one, then as soon as you're getting emails, nuke the old one? Andrew. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- A.Savory at uea.ac.uk All views are my own - who else would want them? -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
On Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 09:42:16PM +0100, Andrew Savory wrote:
On Sun, 3 Sep 2000, Aquarius wrote:
I've just looked at the mailman interface on rabbit.stu.uea, and that doesn't give me the opportunity to change my address afaics, only to unsubscribe, and I don't want to unsubscribe the old address before I subscribe the current one (otherwise I'll miss messages).
Er... so why not subscribe the new one, then as soon as you're getting emails, nuke the old one?
I tried subscribing the new one from the website. Probably I should try mailing the list help address to find out how to subscribe in a non-web-front-ended way, I just haven't had enough tuits recently... Aq. -- "Out of the frying pan and into the very same, identical frying-pan. Smegging great." -- Lister, "Last Human"
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Joe Frost -
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Richard Tunnard -
Tatsuhiko Maekawa