CLUG meetings

[Bob Edwards]

Hey, I'm not a "key player". That's Tridge, Rusty, Paulus, Stephen
Rothwell and the other Linux Pros/Kernel Hackers.

Anyway, how about a straw-poll on what people would like to see
discussed at CLUG meetings? FreeBSD might be interesting, but not
really Linux - is it? The PPPoE/xDSL stuff (which applies equally
to TransACT and Telstra ADSL) would be good to cover.

Stephen Handley has offered to do a talk on User-Mode Linux (UML) -
I would be keen to hear that one.

I could do one on porting Linux to the EzeNet TV (cheapo
consumer-oriented 486 box sold by Harvey Norman earlier this year).

Other stuff I would like to see includes: how to _really_ get DVDs
playing on Linux (I can't get xine, vlc or mplayer to work properly),
anything on nifty projects that people are working on, etc. Any
volunteers?

Cheers,

Bob Edwards.

Nathan Le Nevez wrote:
> 
> Yes, I agree CLUG hasnt been the same.
> 
> Maybe there are other gurus out there who would volunteer to give some talks
> on various things. Anyone got any suggestions for possible topics? Being a
> FreeBSD guru, I would be happy to give a walk-through demonstration of
> FreeBSD and its uses, how to install, etc. Maybe someone with TransACT could
> give a talk on how to setup a nice gateway/firewall situation...
> 
> My $0.02,
> 
> Nathan.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Stephen Gibson" <stg121 at rsphy1.anu.edu.au>
> To: <sjh at wibble.net>
> Cc: <linux at samba.org>
> Sent: Monday, October 29, 2001 9:52 AM
> Subject: Re: CLUG meetings
> 
> > Well, I would like to back Simon on this one.
> >
> > CLUG without the key players (Tridge, Bob Ewards ...) tends to be a little
> dull.
> > It's all very well to just turn up and have a yak, but the real
> excitement,
> > for me, comes from learning from the "gurus" through instructive and
> > informative talks. Perhaps, that era has passed :-(
> >
> > FWIW,
> >
> > Steve.