LGOTW (Linux Guru of the Week) (was Re: [olug] Cox and Web Servers)

[Timothy G. O'Brien]

Sorry you can't commit. The LGOTW (Linux Guru of the Week) sounds like a superb idea to me – I'm passing it on to the OLUG list & Adam (the OLUG “VP”) to make the determinations – I'm just a fellow member like you.

Well, not like you – I make some of the meetings! ;)

OLUG - what do you think of Wild Bill's idea? This would be a good idea for increasing the traffic to/from OLUG.org (like mentioned at the last meeting).


"William E. Kempf" <williamkempf at hotmail.com> wrote:

>From: "Timothy G. O'Brien" <IrishMASMS at netscape.net>
>> Bill - this would be another great topic for the next OLUG meeting. Could
>you give a presentation, with a summary of what you are trying to do and
>what solutions you came up with? Please? :)
>
>I'd be happy to share information, but I've never attended an OLUG meeting
>and have a busy enough life that I can't commit to attending any specific
>meetings. :(
>
>> Other fellow Linux newbies, web admin newbies, and Cox users (myself
>included in all three groups) would love to learn from your experiences....
>
>This brings up an idea I've been tossing around that OLUG may find useful.
>If there's any other C++ programmers in the crowd you may be aware of GOTW
>(Guru of the Week: http://www.gotw.ca/gotw/index.htm).  This was a novel
>idea started by Herb Sutter, a well known and respected C++ educator and
>member of the C++ standards committee.  Basically, once a week (roughly) he
>presents a challenge/question on comp.std.c++ that illustrates some of the
>dark corners of the C++ language.  For the rest of the week people try to
>supply answers/solutions to the challenge.  After this he provides the
>"official" answer and summarizes the more interesting things brought up in
>discussions during the week.
>
>I'm a Linux newbie, and so would not stand a chance to start something along
>these lines with the exact same format.  But I'm not sure that exact format
>would be needed.  Instead, what I was thinking was that we'd pick some
>subject, such Apache or Bash Scripting, and for the rest of the week people
>would discuss this topic and provide any unique/novel/interesting/useful
>solutions/uses/links/references/etc that they've come up with related to
>that topic.  Afterwards the information given during the discussion can be
>summarized and compiled into a useful web page on the topic.  All that would
>be needed to make this work is an e-mail list, some web space and enough
>interested people to get it started and build the momentum.
>
>Is this something that others would be interested in?  Would it be something
>that OLUG could help provide the e-mail list and web space for?  Is there
>other ideas that could make this one better?
>
>Bill Kempf

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