Re: Appropriate LUG Topics
Andrei Smirnov <[email protected]>
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On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, Michael Bond wrote: > > 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 Wind/crossover office is nice, but not in relation to MS-Office in particular, but rather to any windows-based applications. How to install, and use with a minimum pain. > 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. I would add: - Web-development: Apache, PHP, MySQL. - Perl (never really had time to learn, but always wanted) --------------------------------------------- Dr. Andrei Smirnov, West Virginia University Dept. of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Morgantown WV, 26506-6106 Tel:+1(304)293 3111 x2345, fax:+1(304)2936689 Email: [email protected] http://smirnov.mae.wvu.edu 1024g/BF007E7C ---------------------------------------------