Hi folks, Gonna try an experiment here. I've been holding newbie sessions before the general meeting of the Milwaukee LUG for about a year now. They've been a good way for me to learn something about Linux administration (I'm a custom software developer and part-time book publisher by trade, so the admin part is all new to me) and have been my way of giving back to the community for all the questions I've asked over the years. These newbie sessions have been pretty well received - they're not strictly one-way presentations, but more of a guided discussion about a topic. That way, even the very experienced members learn something once in a while. After each newbie session, I incorporate the feedback I get from the meeting and write up the session into a whitepaper. They're all written with a Creative Commons (http://creativecommons.org/) License. Over the past year, I've done newbie sessions on cron, choosing a partition scheme, the top ten command window tips, how Linux starts up, and so on. I also do whitepapers on other topics where I've needed substantial help, and figure the best way to say 'thanks' is to write up the notes and make them available to those that follow. There have been members of other user groups who have attended our meetings at times, or who have stumbled across one of them online, and used these topics and whitepapers as a source of sessions for their own meetings. It dawned on me that maybe a more systematic dispersal of these would be useful to other user groups. So... I just finished writing up the whitepaper for our August meeting's newbie session on ssh. It's available here: http://www.hentzenwerke.com/wp/remoteaccessviassh.htm My question to you is.... would your group be interested in having me post a note to the mailing list each time I make a presentation and/or write up a new whitepaper? Given that most groups are looking for help with presentations at one time or another, I'm guessing this would be of interest, but at the same time, it's only polite to ask, rather than just barge in and start blabbing all about. -- Whil Moving to Linux: Freedom, Choice, Security, Opportunity http://www.hentzenwerke.com _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list