DFWUUG Presentation Ideas

(For those considering giving a talk, here are some guidelines for make a good presentation)

Tell us on which topics you'd like to see a presentation given. If possible, also give us the URL of a company or product and perhaps a contact person.

• Something on AMD's CPUs, either Opteron or AMD-64? ^{DONE 10/2005}
• Differences between Gimp 2.0 and Gimp 2.2 ?

Monty Dickerson suggestions:

• Parrot, the Perl 6 virtual machine ^{DONE 01/2006}
• Virtual Machines e.g. Mono virtual machine, Novell's cloning of the Microsoft DotNet technology
• Package management technologies (Debian, Redhat, Fedora, Mandrake, etc) and Progeny's revolutionary approach of interposing Components between Distributions and Packages
• Unix Authentication, Authorization, and Single Sign On, today
• Directory management of OS resources - Novell, Microsoft, Apple
• PostgreSQL or MySQL today - conquering everything under Oracle?
• Python's emerging role as a language for sysadmin, OS building, and even GUI apps
• Source Code Management - RCS, CVS, SVN, Bitkeeper, Monotone, Subversion - Effective Enterprise Planning, Deployment and Utilization
• TCO versus DIY - the role of the appliance mindset in today's IT environment

KWee suggestions:

• Missed the PmWiki presentation last year. Howz about an encore presentation? ^{DONE 09/2005}
• And missed Jeff's VOIP demo, how about an update on how well that works and what hardware's available now?

Ralph Green, Jr suggestions:

• P2P Journal The editor of the P2P Journal offered to speak about P2P and its legitimate uses(I will add contact info soon).

Pm's notes (taken from the mailing list):

• An overview of Pike
• An overview of awk

Robert Pearson suggestions:

• General Integration: Open Source Java
• Specific Integration: Technology Architecture
• Specific Integration: ITIL ^{DONE 090607}
• Specific Integration: IT Service Management
• General Integration: SOA (Service-oriented Architecture)

Chris Nystrom:

• NewI\O