On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Jeffrey Yep wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Faber Fedor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 11:53 AM > > > > Actually this does bring up something in that it would be good if our 3 > > > LUGs (HAMLUG, LUG/IP, NJLUG) could work together more on speakers (and > > > other things). > > > > I agree. Smed said you guys were thinking of an installfest. How's that > > going? > > Good idea, combined strength never hurt anyone. Installfests are good, so > are combined representations at tech events. All of this should give us an > opportunity to meet each other. We are looking at doing it sometime in September. Wayne from HAMLUG was at our meeting and seemed interested in helping out. I think it would be good for the 3 groups to get together on this. We don't have a place yet but we were thinking at doing it at a local college. We have contacts at three colleges/universities in Mercer County we are looking at (Rider, TCNJ, and Mercer County College). We were thinking that a college would be a good place to find people and also probably have Internet connectivity if we need to download something). We figure to do it on a Saturday or Sunday. I know for us to get a place at Rider, anyway, a weekend is almost a must (with Sunday being even easier) plus it would give us more time before it got to late. If anyone has any ideas/suggestions I'd love to hear them. If it works out, we can maybe have the next one closer to NJLUG in Bridgewater. > > There are some activities that I'm interested in doing (approaching > > local and state governments, schools, public education, etc.) but I > > don't think NJLUG has the critical mass of people to pull them off. > > Maybe our three groups combined can do something. > > I work for a school district that is steeped in Novell. Our SLA agreement is > so reasonable that migrating to Linux is just not possible. It may become reasonable soon - providing if you want to run Novell on top of Linux. We have a few Novell servers, some I'm intersting to see where Novell goes with this. However, since I'm the backup admin, I probably don't have much say in trying it when it comes out. > Directory > Services, Proxy, Email, Desktop & Server Management are just a few things we > run. Plus with all the training they've sent us to, I doubt they'd want us > to migrate anytime soon. But this does not mean that they aren't any school > districts that are strapped for money and are open to Linux. They do have to > consider though who is going to maintain these systems which is a the key > issue considering that even school districts are laying off their tech > people. Also, not all tech people in school districts are into Linux. Plus > with all this hoopla surrounding the SCO v/s IBM on Linux, they might be > leery of jumping into this. Yea, but I think once the SCO/IBM thing settles, Linux may even get more momentum (of course this depends on how it all works out). > Which is why I would like to see the presentation on LDAP with PAM. Just to > see what I could have running on Linux to compete with the Novell Directory > Services. > > > Oh, and let's not forget the kids over at NJULUG (Rutgers?). > > Kids....LOL....I see the start of a whole new flame thread on this. > > Jeff Ed C.
