Hi,

Do we want a full from scratch to desktop linux install demonstration? If so, which distribution? Certainly we have quite a few debian developers in the group, maybe we should go right through an install from the beginning to having X running, with KDE/Gnome/XFCE4? Do we want a demonstration on reuse of old kit for small servers, samba, LDAP, HTTP, FTP, etc? How about someone talking on how to give talks, maybe that'd be useful? Maybe demonstrations of what other Free operating systems can do?

One of the more complex distros installed from scratch to desktop would be interesting - Debian, Gentoo even FreeBSD.

Do people want to know about specific topics, like 3d, DVB, graphics, DTP, Office applications? Without a starting point we'll never get any talks written.

As someone else said somewhere, if someone could give some useful pointers on howto get started on Blender, that would be marvellous!

Do we actually want talks, or a quick guide on the website for how things work? should we be using the ALUG wiki more? should there be more technical documentation/recommendations available from the site?

All of these sound good. Talks backed up with the salient points on the website would seem like a good way to go - to give people somewhere to go for reference after the talk. Cheers David -- David Reynolds david@reynoldsfamily.org.uk