[kwlug-disc] Presentation needed for April

Bob Jonkman bjonkman at sobac.com
Wed Mar 7 14:10:10 EST 2018


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As a technical member of a technical group, I would love to see
Sandeep's presentation!

- --Bob.


On 2018-03-07 01:54 PM, Sandeep Johri wrote:
> Hi Paul
> 
> I had sent a response to you earlier (it may have been one that got
> lost in the glitch you had talked about in January) - and would be
> happy to present - 'My Linux Journey - an end users perspetive'.  I
> am a non-technical person and had hoped to share what I did - how I
> bounced around the various distros, lessons learned and how I
> landed where I am now + where I see myself going with my learning.
> 
> As this is a technical group though - they may not find this
> interesting....
> 
> Let me know.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Sandeep
> 
> From: Sandeep Johri
> 
> On 07/03/18 12:37 PM, Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc wrote:
>> William won't be able to make the April meeting, so we need a
>> new beginner-friendly presentation for that month.
>> 
>> 
>>> From my archives, here is a list of topics suggestions that
>>> have come
>> up. If you want I can clean this up and put it online.
>> 
>> - Paul
>> 
>> 
>> - What are volumes - What are mount/umount - What filesystem
>> should I use? What are the tradeoffs? - Blockchain mining
>> 
>> How the Internet Works - DNS - IP routing - Server ports - Search
>> Engines - Email - Facebook - CDNs - Web caching - Web browsers:
>> Javascript, CSS, HTML Bob: Password Managers - Tim: Keeppass
>> multi host per database? Integrating Windows and Open Source
>> 
>>> Other potential topics... 1. Scripting in the BASH shell. 2.
>>> Pros/Cons of using various open-source, free/libre operating 
>>> systems 3. Managing/maintaining your family photo collection. 
>>> 4. SELinux 5. Systemd (pros and cons, how about an honest
>>> discussion) 6. Licensing types (https://www.fsf.org/licensing) 
>>> 7. Avoiding vendor lockin (ex.
>>> http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/79417.html) 8. Email vs.
>>> texting vs. twitter vs. FB vs. good old fashioned phone cal l 
>>> 9. Open firmware / open hardware 10. Encrypted  backup to your
>>> home network 11. Web browser vulnerability and how GNU/Linux
>>> distributions compare to OpenBSD,OSX,etc. 12. I've never used
>>> Arduino, would it be useful for me? Could it replace my old
>>> computers? 13. Energy savings. Would it be less expensive to
>>> run a newer computer that hibernates vs. my old computer. Does
>>> it cost more per year to run my old computer than a modern
>>> computer?
>>> 
>> 
> 
> 
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