[FredLUG] Re: Saturday meeting

[Nathan McBride]

Don't forget about Skype.  I know a lot of people who use it as their
only IM client as well.  Skype also handles voice and video.

On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 14:12 -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 12:00 -0400, Brian Maddox wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 11:54 AM, Peter Larsen <ego.alter at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >         It's Thursday and I think it's time to think a bit about this
> >         Saturday meeting.
> >         Given the turnout I think we should expect some new people to
> >         show up - it would be very nice if the turnout is more than a
> >         few.
> >         
> >         For that reason, I thought we may want to pick a subject and
> >         maybe a presenter and talk about open source or Linux in
> >         general. Either we do some presentations of software like
> >         OpenOffice, Gimp and a ton of the other major products we all
> >         use every day or we could show how to install Linux on a new
> >         computer for the first time (I can bring a blank box if that's
> >         what we want to do).
> >         
> >         Or a Q&A - if people do bring in their machines and issues, we
> >         could help each of them independently? I'll bring my wired
> >         switch regardless - but it sounds like we should think about
> >         bringing a repository server too for easy (FAST) installs?
> >         
> >         There also might be a few very young (13-ish) people there.
> >         Would anyone know of particular subjects that would be helpful
> >         to them?
> >         
> >         -- 
> >         Peter Larsen <ego.alter at gmail.com>
> >         
> >         
> >         
> > 
> > I think for the teenagers, things like IM, VoIP, etc, might be of
> > interest since that's all the rage for that age group.  Plus, friends
> > of mine who have converted to Linux and have teens have said they had
> > to address those issues from the start.  
> 
> Brilliant, Pidgin is pretty much the current 900lb-gorilla but Empathy
> is the next-gen solution that will be able to converge VoIP and other
> solutions, sinced libpurple simply isn't architected for that.
> 
> > For an install demo, would it be easier to use VMWare or VirtualBox to
> > do an install demo since you could show it on the projector or
> > something?
> 
> Whose projector?  Someone will have a projector?
> 
> If so, yeah -- but we should be demoing free Linux solutions, not
> VMWare.  Otherwise we're kind of undercutting the message that people
> can do it all with FOSS.  I personally think KVM is the way to go
> because it's got the healthiest upstream -- including the Linux kernel
> community -- and doesn't play any "free or fee" product games.
> 
> My lappy is 64-bit and vmx cpuflag, so it has great KVM performance --
> if anyone else is similarly situated we could use all the built-in
> features that come with Linux, which is a pretty neat way to show
> everything you get "free."
> 


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