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-Any suggestions
for topics you would like discussed?
+Advocacy planning
for 2003.
+Some freeform notes from the meeting:
-See also OldMeetingTopics
+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
