East & West side topics

[der.hans]

Am 19. Mär, 2009 schwätzte Matthew A Coulliette so:

moin moin Matthew,

> I have been using linux on and off for 7 years now, and have
> occasionally attended an East side meeting.  But, it only occurred to me
> yesterday when I was browsing the Internet of how many chat rooms,
> mailing lists, and online events there are.  I was thinking that this
> would be a great subject for the next available meeting.
>
>    "How to  become a part of the linux online community."

A great topic.

>       A tour of the PLUG website.
>          The Calendar
>          The Chat Room
>             Discussions
>             Etiquette
>          The Mailing Lists
>                What is a signature?
>                How to sign a signature.
>                How to have your signature verified by others.
>                What is PGP?
>                Email Etiquette
>                How to encrypt emails.
>                When to encrypt emails.
>                How to send the decryption key.
>
>       A tour of different distribution websites of interest.
>          Ubuntu
>          Debian
>          Red Hat
>          Suse
>          Mandrake

A good set of items to cover. We have room for a 30 minute presentation at
the west side meeting next week and at both meetings in April.

I do not yet know how much time OpenStreetMap needs for the May east side
meeting.

In any case, thank you for volunteering!

ciao,

der.hans
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