We're looking for speakers for the Feb 3 OCLUG meeting. If you can speak on a topic but won't be ready by Feb 3, let me know anyway. Advance planning would be nice. Possible topics (or suggest your own): RSS/ATOM feed readers - What are they? Why would I want to use them? - Sample programs and how to use them. virtualization - what is it? - samples: zen, vmware, others presentation software - OpenOffice is fairly easy to use but requires the use of a weak editor. - Other packages use markup codes that allow using a fully featured editor to create presentations. - eg: MagicPoint, LaTeX Beamer, AsciiDoc(?), others Firefox extensions - A widely used browser (someone can talk about other browsers too) - Describe some useful extensions you've found Eg: Vimperator, NoScript, It's All Text!, Adblock Plus, others Screen Casting - what is it? - describe some tools (eg: ffmpeg, ImageMagick). Databases - How to select from mysql, postgress, sqlite, etc. - Features and limitations. Firefox (This is one I've been looking for.) - Most applications allow me to run on a remote machine and display results on a local machine through an ssh tunnel. Firefox is clever, it starts a session on my local machine. Unfortunately, that isn't where the data is. New-to-Linux or Win2Lin - Adding a (possibly short) new-to-Linux topic to each meeting would be good to attract new members. Since experienced members don't have time to learn about all topics, they might learn something too. Discussion followup to oclug-events [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca or send mail to me. Since I was out of town, I missed the panel discussion at the January meeting. Let me know if the format went well and if we should use it for future meetings; especially if you want to volunteer to be a panel member. thanks roland Roland Renaud rjrenaud [ at ] rogers [ dot ] com