[clue-talk] meeting topics

[David L. Willson]

1 Aye for  business mentoring

On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:14:49 -0700, David Rudder wrote
> Hey, I've got another good idea for a talk.  Y'all probably know that I 
> started my own software company and have been selling an emergency 
> response tool.  I'm not the salesman that I should be, so I've been 
> augmenting my income by doing contracting programming.   A lot of the 
> details of the business are the same with contract network admin work.  
> Would anyone care to have me talk about topics like:
> *) Forms and Filings
> *) Finding client
> *) Who's full of crap and who should you pay attention to?
> *) Marketing yourself?
> 
> I have a lot of insight that most business mentors don't.  Like, the 
> fact that most business mentors are full of crap :)
> 
> -Dave
> 
> David Rudder wrote:
> > I never heard any yea or nays on this.  Is anyone interested in doing
> > web service integration from the command-line?  If not, is there
> > something in this general topic area that would be more interesting?
> >
> > -Dave
> >
> > David Rudder wrote:
> >> Would anyone be interested in hearing about REST?  I could give a 
> >> talk on using RESTful web services from the command-line and in 
> >> scripts.  It's not linux specific, but might be interested to linux 
> >> admins.  Send syslog to twitter, or start Amazon EC2 instances using 
> >> the "service" command.  Use 30 Boxes to schedule cron jobs.  Once you 
> >> know the basics of REST, anyone who can use all the unix utils, sed, 
> >> awk, grep, sh, etc.  should be able to do some pretty cool things.
> >>
> >> -Dave
> >>
> >> Dennis J Perkins wrote:
> >>> What topics would members like to hear?  And how many of you are 
> >>> willing
> >>> or brave enough to give a talk?  You don't need to be an expert.  Just
> >>> give a talk on a program, distro, whatever, that you are familiar with
> >>> or have just learned.
> >>>
> >>> Possible topics
> >>> ---------------
> >>> Firefox extensions
> >>> GNUPG & public key encryption
> >>> encrypting email
> >>> kernel compilation, tricks and options
> >>> CUPS (This seems to be a perennial problem.)
> >>> desktop publishing
> >>> simple bash programming
> >>> Ruby
> >>> Glade
> >>> KDE 4
> >>> Dbus, HAL and udev
> >>> minimalist window managers:  fluxbox, xfce, etc
> >>> video editing
> >>> music players: Amarok, ryhthmbox, gnomad, or another player
> >>> setting up a firewall
> >>> Linux in a business
> >>> Linux in education
> >>> your favorite distro
> >>> financial programs
> >>> editing tips in vim (or Emacs)
> >>> games on Linux
> >>> WINE
> >>> Samba
> >>> setting up SSH on your network
> >>>
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David L. Willson
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