[Linux-SIG-Planning] Subject for Sept. meeting?

[Paul Visscher]

Dave Lundy [lundyd at dmapub.dma.org] said:
> It's less than a week until this month's Linux SIG meeting and I don't 
> know what the topic is going to be.  Any volunteers?  Obviously we'll 
> mention Ohio LinuxFest.  Also, it's been ages since we've had key 
> signing party.  Eventually I'll offer to demo video editing in Linux, 
> but not for another few months, at least.

I've been thinking about a presentation on Quality of Service and/or
Installing OpenWRT (and why you'd want it in the first place). I may
have some time this weekend, I'll see if I can find some motivation...

> We've been advertising for several months that the first part of the 
> meeting is for beginners, but we haven't had a presentation for 
> beginners.  It's always been Q & A.  Not that there's anything wrong 
> with Q & A.  We certainly should keep that as part of the meeting.  I 
> think we should demonstrate a few commands each months - ls, cat, more, 
> less, grep, find, locate, I/O redirection, etc.  Can any of us do that 
> in terms that a beginner can understand?

Yes, I think I can handle that. It's hard for me to judge how clearly I
explain things to other people, though. It's all very clear in my head
though. ;)

--paulv