Future topics
From Vermont Area Group of Unix Enthusiasts
These are ideas for future meetings or events that are of interest to the group or perhaps the larger public.
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Meeting formats
- Presentation by developers of open source software packages.
- Task-based collaborations in small groups.
- The group working to create or enhance documentation for a project.
- SAMBA
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Presentation ideas
- Software and systems
- GnuCash (see Josh Sled's GnuCash presentation)
- Linux High Availability (see Jim Lawson's LVS presentation)
- Emacs vs. Vi (vs. pico) (see Emacs presentation)
- GNOME vs. KDE vs. XFCE (vs. FVWM ;)
- Databases: Postgres, MySQL, SQLLite...
- Package management systems / frontends (apt-get, aptitude, synaptic, yum, portage, ...)
- Distro shootout
- Forensic analysis, data recovery tools
- Presentation from the Segue authors of Middlebury
- Presentation by Chris Murphy about running Linux under the sea.
- Linux games
- Multimedia Software
- Image editors
- Video & cinematics
- Audio & recording software
- 3D modelling
- Environments and programming languages
- AJAX (html, javascript, + server-side support)
- HTTP and the REST architecture
- Basic and advanced shell scripting
- Bash shell and Bash completion
- Shell comparison (bash, csh, tcsh, zsh, perl shell, Emacs shell, ...)
- Basics of python, java, ruby, or perl. (See Josh Sled's Python presentation).
- software internals for users (stack traces, compilation, and bug reporting).
- Agile web frameworks (like django, rails, ...)
- Text-only programming for terminals (curses, slang, ...)
- Math and statistics (GNU Octave, GNU R, Maxima, and Axiom)
- Licensing issues.
- GPLv3
- Inviting IP lawyers
- Issues of single- and multiply-licensed projects in an organization.
- Virtualization (Xen, vmware, qemu, &c.)
