Currently, at the regular meetings we have presentations and then a group chat and bring-your-computer-with-you talks. I think this format tends to leave the meetings a bit dry. How about we reverse the order of the events for regular meetings? Thoughts? I'm thinking this will keep the meetings a bit more geeky.
Regards, Dustin At 08:36 AM 1/23/2002 -0600, you wrote: >Yup, every 3rd Monday for the foreseeable future. I'm typing up some notes >and URLs from the meeting and will hopefully post that tonight. > >We have determined that we will use the RUTE book (http://rute.sf.net) as >our tutorial for BRLUG Newbie Nights. > >Here is the rough agenda for the future BRLUG Newbie Night meetings: > >1. Intro to Distros 2/18/02 >1.1 RedHat, Mandrake - RPM based >1.2. Debian - deb based >1.3. SuSE >1.4. Yellow Dog Linux >1.5. Other distros? >1.6. What intro is best for newbies? >1.6.1. Currently, Mandrake is the favorite. > >2. Installation and Configuration 3/18/02?, 4/15/02? >2.1. Booting Up >2.2. hard disk partitioning - fdisk, DiskDruid >2.2.1. Sizing partitions >2.3. Installing software >2.4. Configuring X Window (GUI) >2.5. Lilo, GRUB >2.5.1. Kernel Who? > >3. Installing software - Intro and Use 5/20/02? >3.1. Software Package Management >3.1.1. RPM >3.1.2. deb >3.1.3. Ports tree >3.2. Compiling Software from Source >3.2.1. gcc - intro and use >3.2.2. make >3.2.3. Finding, downloading source code >3.2.3.1. on-line software archives >3.2.3.2. tar, gzip, bunzip2 > >4. Basic Networking - Intro, Config, Use 6/17/02?, 7/15/02? >4.1. A Short History of the Internet - (Egads! A taxpayer financed govt >project that works!) >4.1.2. RFCs >4.1.2. More Acronyms Than You Can Shake a Stick At >4.2. TCP/IP >4.2.1. Return of the Acronyms >4.3. How to setup a network >4.3.1. Cabling - Orange, Green, Blue,... Purple? >4.3.2. NICs, hubs and other alien technology >4.4. Setting up servers >4.4.1. Mail >4.4.2. Web >4.4.3. etc. > >5. GUIs - Intro, Install, Config 8/19/02? >5.1. X Window >5.1.1. XFree >5.2. Window Managers >5.3. Desktop Environments >5.3.1. Gnome >5.3.2. KDE > >Possible future topics: >a. Compiling Your Own Kernel >b. Linux From Scratch >c. Intro to C >d. How to Participate in a Free|Open Source Software Project >e. Free|Open Source Software Licenses - What's the Deal? > > >This agenda WILL change to suit our needs as we go along. _Please_ give any >feedback, help and ideas you can, it will be most welcome. If you plan to >attend the next meeting or any meeting, please send me an email so that we >can plan to have enough chairs for everyone. > >Thanks, >John Hebert > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Dustin Puryear [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2002 10:24 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: [brluglist] Cheap Official RedHat Linux 7.1 > > Basic packages > > still in shrink wrap > > > > > > I also want to thank John for giving some time to the newbie > > cause. So will > > this be a regular, monthly event? > > > > Regards, Dustin > > > > At 08:50 PM 1/22/2002 -0600, you wrote: > > >John, I want to say thank you for the excellent "Newbie" > > class Monday. In > > >just a little while you had me understanding the basics. Now > > all I have to > > >do is study for the next few years and I may understand how > > Linux is put > > >together. > > >Thanks again and see you next month. > > >Larry > > > > > > > > >================================================ > > >BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group > > >Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. > > >Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change > > >your subscription information. > > >================================================ > > > > --- > > Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Information Systems Consultant > > http://members.telocity.com/~dpuryear > > In the beginning the Universe was created. > > This has been widely regarded as a bad move. - Douglas Adams > > > > ================================================ > > BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group > > Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. > > Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change > > your subscription information. > > ================================================ > > >================================================ >BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group >Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. >Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change >your subscription information. >================================================ --- Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Information Systems Consultant http://members.telocity.com/~dpuryear In the beginning the Universe was created. This has been widely regarded as a bad move. - Douglas Adams ================================================ BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change your subscription information. ================================================
