[bulug] Re: proposed presentations/tutorials for BU-LUG meeting
- From: Martin Owens <doctormo@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bulug-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 21:59:52 -0500
Hey Guys,
I'm doing a demonstration and class of Ubuntu development with the new
ground control project for the opportunistic developer week.
I could always give the talk again for blu.
Martin,
Ground Control:
http://doctormo.wordpress.com/2010/01/27/ground-control-demonstration/
On Thu, 2010-02-11 at 17:23 -0500, Benjamin Kraus wrote:
> Jimmy,
>
> Thanks for the offer.
> I can say that I would be interested either of these:
>
> 13. Basic LaTeX: for creating professional-looking reports and papers
> 12. Electronic design automation tools: gEDA & friends
>
> A few of the others looked interesting as well.
>
> - Ben
>
> on 2010-02-11 16:14, Jimmy C. Chau said the following:
> > It seems like we haven't done much as BU-LUG in a long while. To
> > prevent BU-LUG from disappearing due to inactivity, I'm offering to
> > present a tutorial on one (or more) of the following. Please let me
> > know if any of you are interested and which topics interest you.
> >
> > 1. How to report bugs
> > 2. Linux wireless routers: OpenWRT, Tomato, long-range antennas, and
> > connecting to BU's wireless network (from far away).
> > 3. wpa_supplicant and connecting to "BU (802.1x)"
> > 4. Basics of network security: netfilter/iptables (firewall)
> > configuration with BU specific rules and nmap
> > 5. udev basics
> > 6. Basic/intermediate SSH (& related): overview, key-based
> > authentication, connecting from a Windows computer, SFTP, chroot,
> > firewall, and nohup
> > 7. Accessing the BU engineering network drives: via SFTP and via CIFS
> > mount
> > 8. Locating drivers for USB devices (very short presentation)
> > 9. Working with (APC) uninterruptible power supplies: apcupsd
> > 10. Scripting and useful scripts: alarm clock program & simple dynamic
> > DNS updater
> > 11. Data-recovery (may also briefly cover backups and SMART)
> > 12. Electronic design automation tools: gEDA & friends
> > 13. Basic LaTeX: for creating professional-looking reports and papers
> > 14. Partitioning a hard-drive (this will probably be more of a
> > discussion of the various ways we partition our hard-drives)
> > 15. Intermediate dial-up networking: AT commands, chat scripts, kernel
> > configuration, (and possibly also over Bluetooth modem)
> > 16. How to build programs (basic overview): GCC, g++, makefiles, java,
> > configure files, flags, and Java.
> >
> > These are the topics that came to mind but there are probably others
> > that I can teach. If you want a different topic, let me know and we'll
> > see if I (or someone else) knows that topic well enough to teach.
> >
> > It'll take me some time (a week or two) for me to prepare the actual
> > tutorial after you choose. And obviously, some tutorials will be long
> > and some will be short. If anyone wants to team up and make another
> > tutorial to complement mine (or work together on one tutorial), that
> > will probably make the tutorials much better in general.
> >
> > Note that while I have experience in each of these topics, I am not the
> > authoritative expert on any of these topics; I may make mistakes, so
> > please forgive (& correct) me if I do.
> >
> > Ryan, if this tutorial happens, I'll probably need help with the
> > logistics: planning a place and a time. Let me know if this will be a
> > problem (I know you're probably busy with senior design & other work)
> > and how I can help.
> >
>
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