Appropriate LUG Topics
Michael Bond <[email protected]>
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I was recently speaking with a friend of mine about his troubles using Ghostscript on windows to create PDF documents and suggested he join the LUG mailing list and discuss it here. The topic of "what is appropriate for a LUG topic" came up. He is a die hard windows user, mostly because of games, but uses various Free software to get what he needs done. He didn't, and probably won't, email the list because he doesn't feel talking about Ghostscript (a gpl'd application) on windows is appropriate for a Linux User Group. Here are some examples of what I feel are good topics for this group, and some that are not. Good Topics: 1) Anything Involving Linux, BSD, etc ... 2) Running Microsoft Office on Linux with wine or crossover office 3) OpenOffice.Org, Gimp, and any other GPL (or other Free license) Running on Windows, MacOS X, BeOS, Solaris, etc ... 4) Topics that concern Free software, licenses and copy rights. 5) Just about any programming topics, thought I would prefer not to discuss visual basic in an MS Application. 6) Many others ... The only topics that I would discourage are those that involved only proprietary software. I don't want to discuss running MS Office on Windows (or MacOS X). I don't want to discuss Running MS-SQL on Windows Server ... but I wouldn't mind discussing SQL in general, just use it in the mySQL context. What do others thing about this? I would like to gather enough information now about this and place a page on the website so that people know what they are welcome to discuss with us. Mike.