Hi Everyone, We're beginning the process of looking for presentations for the new semester. Anyone who would like to present on a subject that they hack on or are otherwise interested in, please let me know. We would also like to hear suggestions on what people want to hear, and if there's a lot of interest in the subject we'll try to actively recruit someone to present that topic.
In addition to the normal presentations, we're trying to put together some special events geared particularly towards people who might be interested in F/OSS, but who would be totally confused by everything if they came to our normal meetings. We need to find presenters for these topics, so please let us know if you'd like to do any of them. There's a tentative list below, please feel free to add/remove items: 1. Open source desktop applications and interoperability with common non-open applications (Modern window managers, media applications, games, IDE's, office/mail clients, file sharing via samba, rdesktop, etc... basically just to show that it is possible to have a totally functional "windows-style" desktop thats open source) 2. Value of open source to businesses, both technology "users" and "developers" 3. How open source software projects generally work (there's a maintainer, they have a bug reporting system, forums, etc), and how the community surrounding open source projects enhances software quality. 4. Different kinds of software licensing/distribution (Freeware/Shareware/Adware, F/OSS, OSS, Public Domain, Shared Source, SAAS, Closed Source, etc), what types of software use each model, and the general philosophy (if any) behind each model. 5. Getting used to the *nix way of doing things (filesystems, common conventions (what is /etc, /bin, /usr, /opt, /proc, etc.) pipes, no c: drive, multi-user environments, power on the command line, etc.)
