Re: Ann: East Side Meeting, Thursday, May 12th

Derek Neighbors said:
> Some ideas that might appeal to people and be easy to find presenters
> for that have to deal with basic user functions on Linux...
>
> 1. Creating a presentation with Open Office Presenter

I was actually going to do that, if there was time and intrest.

> 3. Transfering/Editing Video Camera movies to VCD/DVD.

I have had so much of this lately I don't really want to demo it tomorrow!
Maybe someday...

> 4. Good/Easy photo gallery program (f-spot,gallery, gthumb, etc).
> 5. Something on groupware/calendar options for small groups.
> 6. A quick GNUCash introduction.

Good ideas.

> 7. A very quick GNU PGP overview and how to make it work with
> Thunderbird, Evolution and the likes...

Have a good, quick explanation of keys ready!

> 8. Overview of an HTML editor (I use emacs so am clueless to what is out
> there, but something like Bluefish or even more WYSWYG would be good)

Quanta!

> 9. IRC tutorial to get people started down path of self sufficiency. :)
> 10. Remote control (VNC, rdesktop, etc)

More good ideas!

> 11. Book/Music/Movie collection management (Kmusicdb, Alexandria, etc)

I'd like to see those. Do they use barcodes?

> 12. GRAMPS genealogy software intro
> 13. SWORD bible study application (maintainer is local)

Interesting. I looked at GRAMPS long ago. I should look at it again.

> I am sure there are other everyday applications out there that could be
> "introduced" by people who use them everyday. I find that after 10
> years of using Linux I still am amazed that I can find completely
> feature rich applications that do exactly what I want that have existed
> for sometime that somehow escaped my scope of vision. The only way to
> find these things often is through word of mouth. :)

This is true. Someone start a new thread: "My favorite Apps"

Alan



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