[KLUG Members] The KLUG Calender (and why KLUG instills shock and awe in other LUGs)

[Adam Tauno Williams]

There are only *EIGHT* more available days in 2003!  Lets fill this year
before the end of April.  That KLUG manages to fill a weekly schedule,
and has been able to do so for several years now, continues to amaze and
impress members of other LUGS.  Lets leave 'em speechless by booking a
full 8 months out (all of 2003), which will also be a KLUG record.

Don't forget the upcoming visits by RICIS and IBM to demonstrate their
groupware products that run on the Linux platform.  Remember to invite
your fellow IT people, who may not be interested in Linux personally, to
these meetings. 

We'd like to welcome Erik Gillespie (WMU Computer Science Graduate) to
the ranks of volunteer speakers.  He will be presenting to KLUG for the
first time on the 20th of May concerning "Doxygen",  and then again on
July 29th about ODBC.  Thanks Erik!  KLUG appreciates your time and
effort.

And we would be remiss if we didn't mention that there are only 195 days
until Geek Jeopardy.  KLUG has invited other LUGs to send teams this
year, so you KLUG'ers need to be on your game to protect our reputations
as the geekiest geeks in the great lakes area.  The questions and
answers for the 2002 Geek Jeopardy competition are available at -
ftp://ftp.kalamazoolinux.org/pub/pdf/GeekJeopardy2002-Summary.pdf

The current schedule -
2003-04-22  Bill Hollett - A Floppyfw Demonstration
2003-04-29  Bill Hollett - Script-O-Mania: Whats New With PHP
2003-05-06  KLUG - Beginners Meeting
2003-05-13  Adam Williams - Samba III, Whats New
2003-05-20  Erik Gillespie - Documentation Generators: Doxygen
2003-05-27  Dirk Bartley - Script-O-Mania: Scripting for the insides of
files
2003-06-03  KLUG Beginners - Meeting
2003-06-10  Bill Hollett - Relational Databases
2003-06-17  Adam Williams - Data Access Revisited
2003-06-24  RICIS, Inc. - SLOX, SuSe's Exchange Alternative
2003-07-01  KLUG - Beginners Meeting
2003-07-04  KLUG - Party time !!!
2003-07-08  Adam Williams - Kerberos V, The New Security Standard
2003-07-15  Brian Ritz - GNUCash Revisited
2003-07-22  IBM - Lotus Notes On Linux
2003-07-29  Erik Gillespie - ODBC
2003-08-05  KLUG - Beginners Meeting
2003-08-12  Robert Brown - Perl DBI: Database/Datasource Access With
Perl
2003-08-19  Stu Gillis - Photo compositing with GIMP
2003-08-26  KLUG - *******Date Available*******
2003-09-02  KLUG - Beginners Meeting
2003-09-09  Brian Ritz - GNUCash and the small business
2003-09-16  Adam Williams - Win32 Administration With Linux
2003-09-23  KLUG - *******Date Available*******
2003-09-30  KLUG - *******Date Available*******
2003-10-07  KLUG - Beginners Meeting
2003-10-14  KLUG - Duelling VPNs: CIPE & PPTP (Shorts)
2003-10-21  KLUG - *******Date Available*******
2003-10-28  KLUG - Geek Jeopardy!!!
2003-11-04  KLUG - Beginners Meeting
2003-11-11  KLUG - *******Date Available*******
2003-11-18  KLUG - *******Date Available*******
2003-11-25  KLUG - *******Date Available*******
2003-12-02  KLUG - Beginners Meeting
2003-12-09  KLUG - *******Date Available*******
2003-12-16  KLUG - *******Date Available*******
2003-12-23  KLUG - Meeting Cancelled!
2003-12-30  KLUG - Meeting Cancelled!
2004-01-06  KLUG - Beginners Meeting
2004-01-13  KLUG - Elections & Advocacy
2004-01-20  KLUG - *******Date Available*******
2004-01-27  KLUG - *******Date Available*******

Requested topics
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1. StarBasic: Writing programs and macros in Star Office / Open Office
2. SGML: Huh?  (I wanted documentation and they told me they could build
it from the sgml included in the tar ball.....WTFM?)
3. SSL, Public Keys and Certificates
4. CORBA
5. Video / Multimedia with Linux
6. Automating Desktop Tasks in GNOME (Macros)
7. DNS servers: bind and djbdns
8. LTSP
9. Voice over IP, IP telephony
10. Manging large documents in Open/Star Office (table of contents,
indexes, document linking, cross referencing, versioning)
11. ACPI and power management
12. Java, and what is JBoss, Tomcat, J2EE, etc..
13. IPSec VPNs

Speaker Guidelines:
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1. Presentations should be 30~90 minutes in length.  Length of 120
minutes for advanced topics is allowed,  but please notify the program
director of your intention to run long.
2. There is typically time after the presentation proper for one on one 
conversations with members of the audience.  The meetings close around
9:15 - 9:30pm.
3. KLUG can provide an SVGA projector that works with most computers.  
The projectors native resolution is 800x600x16bit,  but it will work,
with some negligable loss of quality, at 1024x768.  We have had very
good luck with compatibility but we cannot GUARANTEE compatibility.
4. Please consider that the meeting room is quite large,  if your going
to display text/examples, please plan ahead to use a LARGE and CRISP
font.
5. Presenters should provide a title, one paragraph bio, and one
paragraph topic description for inclusion on the KLUG schedule page.  
Please provide these in plain text.
6. It is appreciated when presenters can provide their presentations (in
some open format), notes, or other content for inclusion on the KLUG
past presentations page.
7. Internet access is available, both RJ-45 and wireless, at the
facility. But KLUG cannot guarantee it's functionality at any given
time.  Presenters are advised to avoid reliance on external resources
when possible.