Re: report on last meeting

[Jama Poulsen <jama@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 03:20:58PM +0100, Joost van Baal wrote:
> A small report on the meeting, so that people who weren't there know
> what they've missed :)
> 
> About 13 people attended the meeting, which lasted from 20:00 to 03:00.
> Henk Kuijpers gave an excellent presentation about the introduction of
> Open Source and GNU/Linux at the Rabobank.  (Thanks to Kees Stravers and
> Stedelijk College Eindhoven(?) for supplying the beamer!)

Yes, thanks for the Rabo presentation and the SCE beamer!
The presentation really sparked some interesting and funny dialogs.
 
> What do people think about the space at my place?  Was it OK?  Should we
> look for another location? 

The room is excellent, with the large table in the center, kitchen,
different furniture, the terras (and the beamer :-).

> For sure I very much enjoyed the meeting; C u next time!

me too.

Perhaps next time we should allow people to request a presentation type?
Something they would like to know more about. After people cast their vote
on a topic, some people could prepare for a small presentation and help
guide the discussion.

Some ideas:
  - Setting up a XFree86 based thin-client system with 'old' hardware
    and a fast server.
  - Explain and demo free software games (freeciv, bzflag,
    free quake engine mods, flightgear, egoboo, gtkgo, etc.)
  - explain ALSA and other sound technologies
  - Advanced GIMP techniques
  - DVD/CD mastering with data/audio/video content
  - Linux 2.6 feature overview and configure/compile instructions
  - Bochs / UML / virtual server management
  - Firewalling with *BSD/Linux (including helper scripts)
  - Wireless networking with Debian
  - OpenLDAP directory management and applications
  - Postfix, Courier/Cyrus installation and configuration
  - using the GNU autotools (automake, autoconf, libtools, etc.)
    for your projects
  - writing SOAP services with Perl/Python/...
  - Lire from source :-)

Jama Poulsen
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