Hey Guys,
What do ya want to know? If I can't do it myself, I can pull in
allot of great resources.
I recently did a presentation with Dave Caplan -- he wrote the
"SELinux by Example" book
(http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/book_review_selinux_by_example).
The other author, Karl MacMillan, sits in the desk next to mine.
Security is a hot topic internally to Red Hat right now.
Shawn
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Shawn D. Wells
Solutions Architect, Federal Team
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Cell: 443-534-0130
Office: 703-748-2250
Ed Kohlwey wrote:
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.)
