January 2002, What is New in Perl 6 by Randal L. Schwartz <merlyn AT stonehenge DOT com>

Randal is an international recognized Perl hacker with many credits to his name including such books as: Home Page

February 2002, Linux Clustering for Small Business by Michael Rasmussen <rasmussenm AT columbiafunds DOT com>
An overview of Linux based clustering for small businesses. The whys and hows of clustering. The content of the talk will be based on what I found out when investigating and (almost) implementing Linux clustering for my employer.
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Mar 2002, Virtual Computing: Computers within Computers by Shannon C. Dealy <dealy AT deatech DOT com>
Many if not most of you have probably heard of virtual computing environments such as VMWare which allow you to run "virtual" IBM PC's inside of an X Window under Linux. This will be an overview of basic virtual computer concepts, some of the many reasons/uses for virtual computers, a number of different virtual environments for Linux (both free and commercial), and a few tricks/techniques which can make them even more useful.
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April 2002, Wiki Wiki by Ward Cunningham <ward AT c2 DOT com>
Ward Cunningham is the original developer of wikiwiki. He lives here in Portland and has a long history of software development. His company hosts the wikiwiki sites for Extreme Programming and (you guessed it) wikiwiki.
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May 2002, Customizing X by Geoff Burling <llywrch AT agora DOT rdrop DOT com>
This will be an overview of how to customize applications under X, which appears to be a forgotten art. We will discuss X resources and how to set them, toolkits & widget sets, and a coward's guide to hacking source code.
This talk is intended to be an intermediate-level talk.
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June 2002, Personal Telco Project by Adam Shand <ashand AT pixelworks DOT com>
The Personal Telco Project and it's sister organization, pdxWireless, are building a cooperative wireless network in Portland. Come to the talk and hear about the project.

Their web sites are available at:

July 2002, General Discussion about Linux.
This meeting was held the Thursday after 4 July at It's a Beautiful Pizza.

August, 2002, An Introduction to the OpenACS Project by Don Baccus <dhogaza AT pacifier DOT com>
Don is instrumental in creating OpenACS (Open Architecture Community System), an advanced toolkit that uses the AOL web server along with the postgress database for creating scalable, community-oriented web applications. Think of it as an alternative to Zope or midgard.

Don will talk about OpenACS and his most recent project which was a rewrite of Green Peace International's web site using OpenACS.

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September, 2002, Linux Terminal Server by V. Steven Bartley <sbartley AT dsl-only DOT net>
Doug Davis <mindglow AT dsl-only DOT net> was originally scheduled to discuss the "Anatomy of a Network Attack", but he had a last minute conflict, so V. Steven Bartley from Gray Wolf Computer Services filled in.

October, 2002, Overview of LVM (Logical Volume Manager) by Cooper Stevenson <cooper AT linux-enterprise DOT net>
Logical Volume Manager (LVM) is a system for handling disks and disk partitions. It enables one to "glue" two or more disks or partitions together to form a larger virtual disk which can then be logically partitioned and used like a normal disk, only with extra features. For example, one can resize LVM based file systems.

November, 2002, WAP Security Cell Phone Internet by Zot O'Connor <zot AT zotconsulting DOT net>

December, 2002, Video Capture, Editing, and DVDs/SVCDs by Fedor Pikus <fedor_pikus AT mentorg DOT com>