[Linux-SIG-Planning] Presentation for November?

[Paul Visscher]

Dave Lundy [lundyd at dmapub.dma.org] said:
> The same day as our SIG meeting, Microsoft will be in Beavercreek 
> doing a number of presentations.  George Ewing has invited a couple M$ 
> reps to attend our meeting.  Therefore, that might be a good time to 
> talk about interoperability (file sharing, printing, etc.) with other 
> operating systems, such as M$ Windows.

While I agree that it's been a while since we've talked about samba, I
will say here what I know for a fact that at least 3 other people
thought (but didn't say on the SIG list): Who cares about Microsoft? The
recent Novell news is proof positive that they are trying to destroy the
community. It's fine for them to come, the meetings should be open to
whoever wants to show up, but I don't think we should cater to them, and
I don't think we should give them the opportunity to speak.

> Paul, you have consistently done a great job with your presentations.
> Don't expect we'll get sick of you any time soon. ;-) On the other
> hand, it *would* be good to get some others involved in presentations.
> I'll try to share the load a little. We don't want to burn you out.

I agree that we should have other people giving presentations. And,
actually, I wasn't planning on giving a presentation at all this month
until the SOITA thing came up.

--paulv