[COLUG] Presenters Wanted

[Scott Merrill]

Hi everyone.

I've secured one 'mini-presentation' for July: Brian Miller will
introduce `sar`, the "system activity report" tool.  He has about 30
minutes worth of material, which leaves ample time for someone else to
introduce us to any of the other GNU/Linux and/or UNIX tools useful in
everyday systems administration.

Presentations need not be guru-level, in-depth tutorials.  A brief
overview, with enough examples to allow one to dig in deeper on their
own, should suffice.

Suggested tools include:
* dhcpd
* bind (Stephen Potter?)
* dnsmasq (to replace both of the above on a small network)
* nfs
* lpr / CUPS
* syslog (consolidating log data on a remote syslog server)

Stephen Potter suggested a wiki to coordinate these things.  Russ
Herrold has said that he'll never run a publicly accessible wiki on any
host under his control.  Since colug.net is under his control, we're
unlikely to have a wiki in the colug domain.

For now, consider emailing me to be the same as posting to a wiki.  ;)
Feel free to email me off-list if you're shy.

If we can get a small collection of mini-presentations lined up for the
next few months, we'll have a nice "intro to professional systems
administration" suite.  Presentations are a _great_ way to make a name
for yourself: presentation announcements and slides are indexed by the
search engines, giving you no small amount of credence as a subject
matter expert.

Presentations need not be entirely technical, either.  A "how to survive
a technical interview" might be quite useful for some members.

Thanks!
Scott

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