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Requested talks

• Home entertainment:
  • Personal video recorders (PVR) - creating your own with MythTV

• Productivity suites:
  • openoffice.org 2 (vs openoffice.org 1.x)

• Business applications
  • Customer Relationship Management (CRM) i.e. sugarCRM
  • Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
  • Enterprise Email and Calendaring eg. Scalix Raw Edition

• Desktop improvements
  • Desktop environment
  • Optimizing for performance [ed: Install fluxbox?]

• Desktop Publishing & Graphics
  • Scribus
  • Gimp
  • Blender [ed: had a talk in 2004]
  • Inkscape

• Education
  • Debian Jr

• Science & Technical
  • GIS: grass & qgis
  • CAD: qcad
  • OpenDX - IBM's Data Visualisation
  • Cluster: transparent openmosix
  • NEC - Antenna response modelling software

• Programming Languages
  • Python
  • Kernel code style guidelynes

• Making your own distro | A.J. Venter
  • USB boot
  • syslinux

• Editors
  • Vim

• Sound & Video
  • Audacity
  • Videoconferencing (gnomemeeting)
  • Music Scoring
  • High-quality sequencing

• System administration & Networking
  • LDAP [ed: had a talk in 2005]
  • PAM [ed: had a talk in 2003]
  • DSPAM, CLAMAV
  • high availability
  • load balancing
  • Dynamic cluster management for set of servers
  • Software RAID

• Networking
  • DNS
  • dyndns, ADSL setup
  • Wireless
  • IP Assignment
  • Network monitoring and intrusion detection tools
  • South African home user ISP comparison: Frogfoot, Uninet, Telkom, IS, mweb, adept, eject
  • MPLS
  • Internet Exchanges
  • Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)

• Hardware
  • Do it yourself hardware (e.g. antennas)
  • 12V power supplies
  • Ultra thin clients (nivo, ndiyo)
  • UPS (requirements, notification, shutdown procedure)
  • Optical Fiber
  • Building a decent desktop from ordered parts.

• Web site administration
  • CMS (mambo, plone, typo3) comparisons
  • Webstat application comparisons
  • Development using AJAX

• Package Management
  • DPKG, APT, and Debian packages (installing / creating / managing)
  • Gentoo ebuild scripts

• Linux kernel
  • Kernel 2.6 new features description (modutils, pre-empting)

• Legal
  • Wireless networks licensing (which licenses exist, what we may and may not do)

• Privacy
  • GNU Privacy Gaurd

Satisfied Requests

• Laptop improvements
  • ACPI

• File System
  • Andrew File System (AFS) - Simeon Miteff

Talks that other LUG's have done

• K-LUG Wiki: http://k-lug.org/Presentations
• GTA-LUG Wiki: http://tlug.ss.org/wiki/Historical:Meetings