under 8) Another *good* thing to do is to go over the official tools people need to be good UMD citizens. Some of this is on OIT pages, but we should regularly check that linux is well represented (or else written down on our pages). Examples are:
1) phone dialup (now probably totally abandoned) 2) vnc 3) vpn (needed for doing UMD stuff off-site on comast, verizon etc.) 4) email (thunderbird, kmail, ....) setup for UMD stuff 5) anything else I haven't thought of and guess what, I got my first DOCX attachment yesterday :-( - peter On [Tue Jan 29 13:51], Ed Kohlwey wrote: > Hi everyone, > I'm trying to plan an introductory presentation for next Wednesday on > 'neat' open source applications. If we can get 3-4 people to volunteer > to present an app (or apps), we'll go ahead with it, if not our first > presentation will be Wednesday the 16th at 6:00 pm (the Rsync > presentation). If you have any spiffy, guified Linux apps you'd like to > present, please let me know. Here's a list of examples I'm thinking of, > but if you have anything else please let me know: > > 1. Cool desktop managers - Gnome, KDE, Compiz > 2. Office applications - OpenOffice, Evolution > 3. Communication - Konversation, Pidgin > 4. Graphics - Gimp, Inkscape, Cinelerra > 5. Multi - user functionality via VNC/SSH/Xorg > 6. Database management tools - MySQL GUI tools, anything Oracle related? > 7. Anything multimedia - Mythtv, Amarok, Banshee, Mplayer, Xine, VLC > 8. Anything else I haven't thought of...
