The first meeting was a general brainstorming of Linux issues that
various people would be interested in talking about. Some of these
issues included:
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General Linux questions:
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What is Linux?
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How does it work?
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What are the advantages over windows?
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Why am I doing this? lol
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What can I do on Linux?
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What is the history of Linux?
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Where is Linux going?
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Where do companies stand on the Linux issue? |
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Hardware
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What printers are Linux compatible?
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How to configure printers
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HP 710 series drivers
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Scanning on linux |
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Software
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What software is available?
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What are substitutions for word, excell etc?
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How do you play games on Linux?
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What applications are available?
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Where can I buy Linux Applications? |
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Ideas on how to format meetings
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reserve half an hour at the beginning of the meeting for a Q &
A session.
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Set asside an hour for presentations or guest speakers.
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The last half hour should be dedicated to applications.
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form special interest groups.
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Do SIGS want to meet during the meeting or on a seperate night? |
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Web site
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Patrick and Leonard have agreed to work on the website. Any
ideas would be appreciated. Some ideas included:
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New members could sign up on the web page
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Keep people's names off site(for security)
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What's on the agenda for next meeting
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People could communicate needs and wants through the web site |
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Ideas for meeting topics
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Experts among us could do presentations
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Installation demonstrations
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Free lessons on running and using Linux
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Differences in window managers |
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How to promote slug
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booth at the Peter Trap show
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radio--NPR
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TV--ComputerGuys and Point-n-Click |
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Fund raisers
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if we organize as a non profit group and have officers etc
then fund raising would be an issue. Ideas included:
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Burn distributions and sell them. |
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