Monitoring - John L

Getting By On The CLI - Would be a great talk at any level, maybe just using a TTY and screen. sed, awk, talk about everything being a file, piping, bash scripting etc. I am not a wizard at it so would be keen to see someone who is, perhaps if we brainstorm on the wiki.

Shell one-liner contest - Prize for the most useful shell one liner, thoughts on rules?

standards_preservation - file standards, the importance of open ones and other data preservation issues (suggested by Rob Hardy)

(Tom's ideas posted to wylug-discuss last September - posted here in case it inspires anyone)

I would like to see something on: Samba, LDAP, Rails, Haskell, Functional Programming, Hacking the Linux kernel, Thin clients, High performance computing, Why I love <SomeProgrammingLanguage>, Concurrency, Authentication, Cryptography, security, Apache, Cool things to do with FUSE, KVM, getting by with the CLI, My EMACS setup, Why should you use {free,open,net}BSD?, I use linux in <SomeInterestingPlace>, Apache, I hack on <SomeProject> and its ace!, Web 2.0 - its not just a useful set of technologies, its also a buzzword, Why Javascript does not suck, Linux Media Centres, Hacking the Xbox, Linux on the PS3, filesystems in linux, I replaced <Something> with <SomethingFree> and it also performed better. That all I can think of, come on guys - you know what gets you excited, do a talk on it.