Presentation: "About User Mode Linux (Running Linux under Linux)"
presented by Chris Jantzen <chris AT maybe DOT net>

Presentation: "RSYNC and Dirvish for Disk-to-Disk Backups"
presented by Keith Lofstrom <keithl AT ieee DOT org>

Presentation notes can be found at http://www.keithl.com/linuxbackup.html
Russell Senior gave a similar presentation at the December, 2003 Advanced Linux Topics meeting; his Presentation Notes (in pdf format) are also online.

Note: With the death of Jonathan W. Schultz, the creator of Dirvish, Keith has undertaken the task to maintain this software package. He has set up a new website and a wiki to support Dirvish.

Presentation: "HOW-NOT-TO: Avoiding Intellectual Property Quagmires"
presented by Zach Welch <zw AT superlucidity DOT net>

Release of the complete description of this talk is waiting on the approval of Zach's lawyer and his client.

Presentation: "VMware"
presented by Brian P. Martin <Brian AT MartinConsulting DOT com>

VMware is a popular tool for running "virtual" Linux and/or Windows operating systems under a Linux or Windows host operating system. Brian prepared and gave this talk Brian to at LinuxFest in Bellingham. In the demo portion of the talk he has four networked virtual machines running at once, including RH9, Fedora, Win2K and Win95.

Presentation: "A Discussion of Replacements for MS Exchange"
led by Mark Allyn <allyn AT well DOT com>

This discussion will cover Open Source and partially Open Source replacements for Microsoft Exchange, such as Open Group Ware, SuSE OpenExchange, Kolab, Bynari, and others.

Presentation: "Greylisting and a Look at the Anti-Spam Landscape"
by Hal Pomeranz <hal AT deer-run DOT com>

Black lists (both automated and not), white lists, keyword/regexp/Bayesian filters, SPF, and now "greylisting"-- where will the continuing anti-spam arms race take us next? This talk includes an overview of current anti-spam techniques with some thoughts on their relative pros and cons, and a more in-depth look at the recently available "greylisting" technique, which is proving amazingly effective at blocking certain classes of spam.

Hal Pomeranz is the technical lead and official spam eradicator for Deer Run Associates, a small consulting firm (recently relocated to Eugene, OR). But this is merely his "mild-mannered secret identity" that hides his exploits as a Faculty Member and Senior Unix Instructor for the SANS Institute, Technical Advisor for the Center for Internet Security, and Technical Editor for Sys Admin Magazine.

Presentation: "A Realistic Appraisal of the Legal Risks Associated with Open Source Software"
Bradley Schrock <bard AT schrocklaw DOT com>

Bradley Schrock is a local attorney. He has significant experience with American and international laws regarding Licensing and Intellectual Property. His experience includes six years working for the Toyota Group company Aisin Seiki in Japan.

Mr. Schrock will discuss the Legal Risks Associated with Open Source Software. This discussion will include a discussion of the SCO lawsuit against IBM as well as other issues. For more information check out this article.

Presentation: "Comments on the Linux Terminal Server Project"
Eric Harrison <eharrison AT mail DOT mesd DOT k12 DOT or DOT us>

Eric is head of the Linux Terminal Server Project as well as the Multnomah Education Service District, and will bring us up to date on this important project.

Presentation: "Building Web Sites with phpGroupWare"
Dale Zeutenhorst <dale AT zeutenhorst DOT com>

Dale, formerly of MicroSharp Inc., will discuss building web sites using phpGroupWare.

Presentation: "A Discussion of the role of Open Source Software in Career Education"
David Mandel <dmandel AT pdxLinux DOT org>

This is not a technical presentation, because David hasn't had time to do much new technical work lately. Instead he has been busy teaching Information Technology at Pioneer Pacific College.

So, David will discuss a few things he has learned in this position.

Presentation: "An Introduction to Subversion"
Frank Torres <frank DOT t326 AT comcast DOT net >

Programmers (and other creative artists) need version control systems to coordinate different contributors' work and to keep track of all the different releases or versions of a project. In recent years, many people in the Open Source community have used Concurrent Version System (cvs) for this. cvs works well, but it has a number of problems and limitations.

Subversion is a replacement to cvs which has most of cvs's features without some of the problems and limitations of cvs.