[clue-tech] Additional study groups and/or topics?

[Chuck Downing]

Collins Richey wrote:

>On 11/17/05, Jed S. Baer <thag at frii.com> wrote:
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>>On Sun, 13 Nov 2005 20:14:37 -0700
>>Collins Richey wrote:
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>>>I'm just curious to know if there are others who might be interested
>>>in get-togethers outside of the CLUE once-a-month meeting and
>>>Installfests for the purpose of establishing / extending one or more
>>>study groups for Linux and Linux-related topics?
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>>I'll just toss out the thought that while I see this thread has gotten to
>>the point of several folks agreeing on a time and place, there's no reason
>>why there has to be only one more study group. If other folks want to pick
>>a topic and a schedule, then go for it. Personally, I can't see myself
>>heading downtown on weekends on a regular basis. YMMV and all that.
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>Just what I said earlier. If the DownTowners want their own meeting,
>go for it. Linux is all about choices. Someone could play recording
>scribe and send Jed brief summaries to post on the CLUE website.
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>>Also, once plans are firmed up, please shoot me an announcement type
>>e-mail, with appropriate levels of info and detail, so I can put something
>>on the CLUE website.
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>>FWIW, I'm up for something happening more or less along/near the C-470
>>corridor, i.e west or south. My current interests are:
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>I could deal with that. Is there anything not too far west of I25?
>Just to keep things in perspective, Park Meadows Mall is about 40
>minutes from my house.
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>>  How to make RPMs (tried to get started on that a while ago, and petered
>>out)
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>I can give a little presentation on making binary rpms.
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>>  Privacy, Encryption, and Security. This could include VPN, SSH, proxies,
>>GPG
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>All of that's good.
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>>  Music on Linux -- softsynth, ALSA, jack, sequencing, MIDI. For example,
>>MIDI on my machine right now is just trash.
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>Don't know all the terms, but converting VCR tapes and/or 33rpm
>records to CD/DVD would be fun.
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>>  I'd probably participate in stuff on graphics creation/manipulation.
>>Although I'm spending less time messing with The GIMP these days. Almost
>>none, in fact.
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>I'd still like to know how to make this bugger (GIMP) work.
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>>  PHP/MySQL techniques. Secure websites. Code management. This all ties in
>>to developing/running the CLUE website. It's also the most immediately
>>useful to me, since I'm way behind on my to-do list.
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>Postgres, too.
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>>  And, just for fun, if anyone wanted to spend a bit of time twiddling
>>with FVWM, I'd be up for that for sure. One of these, days, I'll get off
>>my butt and dump KDE to return to the one true window manager. ;D
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>We were going to offer that in our latest RHEL3 image for users at
>work, but I can't get past square one on the freakin' RH setup.
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>1st Saturday in December would be 12/03. Someone who knows the C470
>corridor could pick a pizza/beer (or maybe breakfast would be more
>appropriate if we do mornings ???) parlor and meeting place. We could
>haggle about 12/17 (too close to Christmas?).
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>Keep those cards and letters coming in.
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>--
>Collins Richey
>      Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code ... If you write
>      the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not
>      smart enough to debug it.
>             -Brian Kernighan
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December 3 would be great.  I'm sorry, I don't have a clue about eating 
places.

I'll stay tuned.

-- 
Chuck Downing
Leadville, Colorado



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