This time we went back to HBCSE for the meet. The turnout was also a healthy 21 Linuxers (Unixers would be more precise) The best thing was that these people were regulars who had attended before. So this is an encouraging trend :-) We seemed to have a lot of converts this time though. Kiran seems to have shifted to Suse, Rohit kept harping the FreeBSD line, i am planning to go Debian ! Come back to more meaningful topics, we did not have a real agenda for this meet. We had many suggestions for possible agenda but nothing was confirmed. This is something we probably have to look into seriously - deciding and sticking to agenda. So Kiran Jonnalagadda gave us as impromptu talk on Qmail installation. He covered basic installation and then fielded queries from people on how qmail could be customised for specific cases of network architecture. One of them was Seshan (of Godrej fame) :-) who wanted to know if Qmail could handle his problem of routing mail in different domains. Since no other topic was forthcoming in discussion, Kiran started off with the 'in-thing' in Linux - Zope application server. But he found it difficult to explain and rightly so, it was postponed till we had a projector in some later meet, where we could see things as he did them. Nagarjuna came up with a few good ideas on how to propagate Linux in the city. He suggested that we hold a workshop, where we could invite computer assemblers to participate and teach them Linux Installation, Configuring a Home PC for internet, mail etc. All members chipped in with more suggestions and everybody finally agreed that a cybercafe installation would be the most attractive. We have decided on the following workshops - - Cybercafe - SOHO (Homer user) - Corporate Network The following is the list of requirements for a Cybercafe setup - - Acounting information - PPP setup - Dial-in setup - Secure shell - Proxy - Email - Firewall - IP Masquerading We will require to configure each of these and then document them, so that the docementation can then be given to all those who attend the workshop. We need *volunteers* to do this for us. We also need more *inputs and suggestions*. Another important decision that will have to be made in the coming weeks is whether to *register ilug-bom* as a society so that we can handle sponsors, money etc. The need was mainly felt in order to get sponsors for our workshops. These sponsors would not be willing to spend money on something that does not have a name. Comments about this issue are welcome to the list. Nagarjuna also announced that our site will be moved onto a server in TIFR (thanks to Pablo for providing a secure machine and Prakash Shetty for donating a 17 Gb IDE HDD). There will also be an *anonymous FTP server* where we will store stuff required by the LUG such as distros, documents, custom software etc. Prakash as always came with lots of CDs to share with fellow Linuxers, FreeBSDers and BeOSers. Whew ! Thats all i can think of. On a departing note, we had no coffee and biscuits since HBCSE was being pest controlled ;-) To sum it all up, 1. Discuss the registration of ILUG-BOM as a society 2. Setup of configuration for Cybercafe, SOHO and corporate network 3. Inputs required for conducting workshops for the above. ciao for now, Amit To subscribe / unsubscribe goto the site www.ilug-bom.org ., click on the mailing list button and fill the appropriate information and submit. For any other queries contact the ML maintener
