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Contents 1 Mark Krenz 2 John Hill 3 Bob Piercy 4 Jeff Welty 5 Chris Ellis 6 Christoph Weidemann 7 Bob Boyken 8 Nate Johnson 9 Dan Gregory 10 Evan Boggs 11 [[Simón A. Ruiz]] 12 Kevin Makice 13 Chad Gillis

Mark Krenz

• Writing a GTK/Gnome program with Glade
• Converting and working with digital videos using those mpegtools, yuv2lav and stuff like that.
• Building Linux for optimum speed (customizing kernel, using alternate threads libraries, filesystems, etc.)

John Hill

• Customizing linux for an entertainment/living room pc (support old tv cards, play all video files, pvr programs, tv listing programs, building and easy to use remote control supported menu to access and play recorded tv, live tv, music, photo viewing)
• I would love to find and learn how to use a midi or usb recording software program like apple's garage band. I DO have a keyboard, but sadly no midi to usb cable...yet! (seconding Bob's request and adding that we could use my yamaha djx keyboard!!!)

Bob Piercy

• Linux for musicians - present some of the sound card/mixing/midi capabilities with ALSA and the open source music apps out there - demonstrate on keyboard (I can help with the ALSA stuff, but I don't have a keyboard, maybe a co-presentation with a music student or someone who has equipment)
• Customizing linux for an entertainment/living room pc (I second John's request :)

Jeff Welty

• Features of the latest kernel.
• Recompiling a kernel to accommodate desired features or hardware.
• Applying Oscar or the OpenMosix kernel extension to create a supercomputer-class set of networked Linux machines.

I think I would like to do a presentation on one of these at some future meeting.

Chris Ellis

• I'd like to learn about CVS, from setting up the server to using on the client side. Presented in November, 2005

Christoph Weidemann

• I second Chris Ellis' request regarding CVS (server & client) and would also like to learn about alternatives to CVS (subersion?).

Bob Boyken

• rsync/unison and backups

Nate Johnson

• VOIP using a cheap service provider and free software: linux and Asterix.

Dan Gregory

• I like all of the ideas above. Of particular interest would be a presentation devoted to audio processing within Linux; multi-channel mixing and also perhaps realtime audio processing, such as ASIO, VST, and (dare I say) making DirectX audio plugins functional in Linux. I second the ideas of John & Bob. -- ( I do have a keyboard (an old Korg with all the MIDI cables). I also have lots of audio equipment (mixer, amps, PA's, as well as a four channel digigram pcmcia card (that I've never really even messed with). )

Evan Boggs

• I'd like to see a presentation on servers--setting them up, maybe a bit on domain names and such, using them, programs and features I might not discover easily but would find useful. Good stuff.
• Features of the latest kernel would be cool.
• Building Linux for optimum speed without using Gentoo. ;)

[[Simón A. Ruiz]]

• Customizing linux for an entertainment/living room pc (Thirded, as I'm looking at this as a necessary future part of my household)

Kevin Makice

• It would be wonderful to have members of your community participate in a community conversation taking place in Bloomington in three weeks. Your experiences would be very welcome to the discussion. Maybe it would be possible to relay some details of this event at your upcoming meeting on the 20th.
  
  On Saturday, January 6 from 1-4p we will be holding an unconference -- The Politic Exchange -- at the Monroe County Public Library (Room 1B) to discuss "The Ideal Bloomington Portal." This is an ad-hoc format for small group conversations that should include participation from the City IT and other local stakeholders. There is more information on my blog and a new Yahoo! group that has been created. Please contact me (kmakice@indiana.edu) if you have any questions. Thanks. --Kmakice 11:23, 18 December 2006 (EST)

Chad Gillis

• I second the suggestion on compiling and customizing the kernel. For example, it would be nice to somehow know which modules I have installed that are not necessary, for purposes of streamlining and better understanding what the different components do.
• An introduction to being an administrator of a network. Since it's an introduction it could be oriented towards setting up and maintaining one's own home network. I've used Linux for a couple years and have gotten comfortable with installing it on my own computer, but I typically only have one computer and one user. I would like to know more about how to set up a network with the appropriate servers and clients, add/remove users and so on. Also, if you're running a home network, how do you connect (from somewhere else on the internet network) to a computer that has its IP address dynamically updated.
• An intro to some version control stuff would be nice too (thirding what is above).
• Also if anyone has some good tips on what tools to use for debugging C/C++ code (particularly locating memory allocation errors) then I would love to learn about it. Or for that matter debugging in general.