Website contributions (Was: Re: The site is down)

[Craig White]

On Thu, 2006-09-07 at 12:16 -0700, der.hans wrote:
> Am 07. Sep, 2006 schwätzte Craig White so:
> 
> > I am about to 'go live' with a large section of ruby on rails
> > development for a non-profit. If I get the time, I intend to replace the
> > development data with some junk data (HIPAA concerns, etc.) and then I
> > could demo a wide ranging Web 2.0 application which I would expect would
> > be of interest to some...perhaps a month away.
> 
> Sounds like a great presentation, even if the site really has no
> relevance. Success stories make great topics, especially if we have the
> magazine format running and they're just part of the evening.
> 
> You wanna do the "How I use Free Software" schtick at the beginning of
> next week's meeting and just give us a summary of what you setup? Just 1
> to 5 minutes of talking about something you've done with Free Software.
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talking about it and demo-ing it are entirely different things. I would
rather get some obscured data in there and demo it live (another time)

I wouldn't mind demo-ing a live Horde/IMP/Kronolith/etc. groupware setup
with LDAP with several addressbooks & cyrus-imapd backend, as that has a
ton of 'wow' factor...it's brand new, just went online yesterday. I
think if there were enough early notice, there might be some interest in
a robust open source groupware setup. There are a lot of bells &
whistles. Much like Exchange users, they don't grasp the possibilities
that are at their disposal.

This is the kind of thing that I think might be of interest to a variety
of Linux admins which is really where my head is at. Inkscape is nice
and I've played with it. I understand Adobe Illustrator and don't really
need a demo of it but I can understand that desktop users might be
interested in those kind of things.

Craig