Advocacy planning for 2003.

Some freeform notes from the meeting:

Apply for a WEL Energy Trust grant - perhaps purchase data projector

We need topics for the year (need about 9 or 10)

• Desktop Linux

  • the LUG should select a "desktop linux distro" of choice and look at having a common platform for supporting users issues
  • a distribution for business users

• An introduction to Unix - what it is, why it does what it does etc, the Unix model; similar to what was covered in Uni tutorials

  • What is a load average?
• Installfest? (See Distro of Choice)

• What can linux do now (that it couldn't do previously)

  • Multimedia - music, video, cd copying
• Windows + linux compatiblity
• Wireless and wardriving - CRCNet presentation?
• Anti spam and anti virus
• Advanced routing, gateway, qos, source based routing,

Work to establish the WLUG Library.

Approach:

• IBM
• O'Reilly

• McGraw? Hill

• Apple
• Member owned books/loans - need some system for this

Throw a Linux lan party?

Need diversity of membership - try and up membership numbers in both Linux professionals and new users

Use Knoppix to show Linux off to new people

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