Presentation:An Overview of Plone/Zope
by Richard Amerman <ramerman AT 7technw DOT com>

Zope is an Open Source Content Management System which gives web developers a complete framework to use in building dynamic web sites. Plone is a zope application that allows one to build complete web sites with lots of features quickly.

Presentation:Wiki in the Enterprise Environment
by Cindy Rockwell <cindy AT customervision DOT com>

Cindy Rockwell will talk about the role of wikis and other collaborative technologies in an Enterprise Environment; and what needs to be done to deploy these tools in large corporations which as pretty much dominated by Microsoft and require software with tight management controls.

Cindy Rockwell is currently CEO of CustomerVision which is an Iowa based company that provides collaborative technologies such as wikis, weblogs and RSS to large corporations. She has degrees in computer science and business, and has an extensive background in executive management in Fortune 500 companies. This includes experience as a Vice President at Wells Fargo and senior management positions with the Principal Financial Group.

Presentation:ImageMagick
by Michael Still <mikal AT google DOT com>

Michael Still has done a lot of work on Open Source image software. Most recently he has written a book on ImageMagick (a command line image processing tool) which was published late last year by Apress.
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Presentation:Open Source Software in Education especially moodle
by Dan Carrere <carrere AT gmail DOT com>

Moodle is a course management system (CMS) - a free, Open Source software package designed using sound pedagogical principles, to help educators create effective online learning communities. You can download and use it on any computer you have handy (including webhosts), yet it can scale from a single-teacher site to a 50,000-student University.

Dan Carrere has worked with Linux and other Open Source Software for many years. He has also taught and worked at several post secondary institutions. He is currently working at Lane Community College where he has been active in building a Moodle site.

Presentation:VectorSection (previously known as UberConverter) an Open Source File Format Translation for CAD and Vector Graphics
by Eric Wilhelm <scratchcomputing AT gmail DOT com>

VectorSection uses concepts such as "small pieces, loosely joined" to inform the design of a set of transparent and simple-yet-capable interconnected tools for manipulating and translating 2D and 3D vector graphics data between multiple common and uncommon file formats. Learning how this system is put together has applications not just to vector graphics, but to data translation/migration in general.

This presentation will cover the basics of CAD/vector graphics interoperability issues and details about how VectorSection allows for ad-hoc extension in any programming or scripting language.

Note: We have been told that CNN is in town doing a story on Open Source Software in Portland. Maybe they will come to our meeting. Better yet, they should go to the Lucky Lab after the meeting.

Presentation:Rapid Discussions on Any Topic
by Everyone and anyone

Instead of having a formal presentation, we will get together and discuss anything anyone wants to discuss in brief sessions of no more than a few minutes each. If we have enough people involved we can break into smaller groups to handle each topic. David Mandel will provide a structure to make this work and come prepared to discuss one or two of his favorite hacks from Linux Server Hacks. This should get us started.

Presentation:Introduction to Tex
by Robin Lasskso <office AT tug DOT org>

TeX is a computer language designed for use in typesetting; in particular, for typesetting math and other technical material. Extremely high quality work can be done with TeX. Indeed, this is TeX's niche market. Robin is the Executive Director of the Tex Users Group, which is the guiding organization for Tex. She and a colleague will describe TeX along with some of it's extensions.

Presentation:Installing Networks with Fiber
by Jon Dolan <jon DOT dolan AT oregonstate DOT edu>

Jon Dolan runs the core networking group for Oregon State University and the OSU Open Source Lab as well. He has been involved with OSU's efforts to "Build a Champagne Internet2 Network on a Beer Budget" as well as OSU's enforcement of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and many other issues involved in running a major campus network.

Presentation:Inkscape
by Bryce Harrington <bryce AT osdl DOT org>

Inkscape is an Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, Freehand, CorelDraw, or Xara X using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format. Supported SVG features include shapes, paths, text, markers, clones, alpha blending, transforms, gradients, patterns, and grouping. Inkscape also supports Creative Commons meta-data, node editing, layers, complex path operations, bitmap tracing, text-on-path, flowed text, direct XML editing, and more. It imports formats such as JPEG, PNG, TIFF, and others and exports PNG as well as multiple vector-based formats.

Inkscape's main goal is to create a powerful and convenient drawing tool fully compliant with XML, SVG, and CSS standards. We also aim to maintain a thriving user and developer community by using open, community-oriented development process, and by making sure Inkcape is easy to learn, to use, and to extend.

Presentation:MPlayer
by Bill Barry <barryb AT proaxis DOT com>

Barry will talk about MPlayer, a GPL'd software for playing movies. He will talk about what can you do with it, and discuss a few of its many capabilities.

Presentation:The OSU Open Source Lab
by Alex Polvi <polvi AT onid DOT orst DOT edu>

Alex is bringing a small group of people from OSU to talk with us about the Open Source Education Lab, the Oregon State Linux Users Group, and the Open Source Lab. As many of you know they have a lot of cool projects going on. The Open Source Lab at OSU is nationally recognized and is home to a number of major Open Source projects. The Open Source Education Lab and the Oregon State Linux Users Group are also neat and provide ways of getting undergraduates involved with OpenSource software.

Presentation:Ingres is Open Source
by John Murphy <john DOT murphy AT ingres DOT com>

Ingres is a well known Relational Data Base Management System similar to Oracle, DB2, and many others. Like Oracle, Ingres has been around for a long time, has a significant user base and David Mandel believes it has more built-in and/or add-on tools than postgres or mySQL.

Ingres has been available on Linux for quite some time, but Ingres is now Open Source and Ingres Corporation is developing an Open Source strategy for Ingres.

John Murphy will be in town and will tell us more about Ingres. He is also hoping to bring an associate to discuss a new generation of Ingres where they bundle a Linux distribution from rPath as part of Ingres.