[Speakers] Which one(s)?

Adam Tauno Williams awilliam at whitemice.org
Mon Jan 2 23:17:30 EST 2006


> I've got a couple projects/presentations in various stages of
> completion,  and I'm just curious which ones (if any) someone might be
> interested in seeing  (although you might be doomed to eventually see
> all of them, depends how many volunteers I get :) ...

Just an update here...

> Business Integration Engine 6.0.x - This is basically an update from the
> BIE 5.7.3 presentation I did.  The package is much improved (not to
> mention much much faster) and rapidly aquiring new functionality.

The status of BIE is currently in flux as the company maintaining it (or
not) has semi-officially ended their involvement.  So until the transfer
of control to some other party is cleared up I'm holding off on this
one,  which is disappointing as 6.0.x does some pretty cool stuff.

> Jabber With JIVE - My last presentation was on setting up the "official"
> Jabber 2 server.  We've since ditched Jabber 2 and switched to JIVE
> Messanger.  Setup is much more wizard-like and lask hack-config-file but
> most importantly it offers a really top notch administrative interface.
> Other than that it is just-another XMPP server.

Hey, I did this one!

> Wireless Authentication Via EAP & RADIUS - Currently working on this
> one.  Basically a way for clients (called Supplicants) to perform 'real'
> authentication to a wireless network (via 802.1x) without any iptables
> hackery.

My RADIUS installation is working wonderfully.  I hope to do this one
early this year.

> IV4 - This isn't actually a topical presentation but an overview of what
> we've done with Morrison Industries' fourth generation intranet.   How
> we've solved certain problems and what techniques we used to glue
> disparate packages into a 'seemless' intranet.  Don't know if anyone is
> interested in this but I think we've poked into some interesting (and
> sometimes dusty) corners of the Open Source universe.

Still intend to do this one,  but it is more a connection of neat tricks
than a end-to-end presentation.

I'm also thinking about a couple of OOo oriented presentations:

One about printing specifically things like letters and labels since I
always want to do this but have never knuckled under and figured out how
to do it properly.  Also I can think of a couple people who might
appreciate it. :)  I might also include gLabels in this as I have used
that application to print labels quite successfully.

A second one would be about creating and managing large documents with
OOo.  As of 2.x these features seem to work reliably and I'm currently
using an ODM (OOo Document Master) to maintain a large document with
table of contents and indexes, etc... without loosing my mind scrolling
all over the place.  Anyone who has edited a 50+ page word processing
document probably knows what I'm talking about.

Thoughts?



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