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General Meetings

Plug General Meeting Agenda Archive

PLUG General Meetings are usually held on the first Thursday of every month. The next meeting will be held on 2007-12-06. We typically email an announcement and the meeting agenda to the plug and the plug-announce lists the week of the meeting.

Location

The meetings are held at Portland State University at the Smith Memorial Center, in room 294. This is on the block bounded by S.W. Montgomery, S.W. Broadway (7th), and S.W. Park (9th).

Typical Agenda

7:00 - 7:30 Business
We will discuss the status of our ongoing projects including the monthly hands on clinics, PLUG for Education, etc.
7:30 - 8:30 Presentation
Generally, there is a speaker who comes in to give a presentation of some sort. They are quite interesting and informative.
9:00 - ... Beer (optional), Food, and open Conversation.
The Lucky Labrador Brewing Company, 915 SE Hawthorne.

Linux Advanced Topic Talk (LATT)

The advanced topic meeting has been a dream of Zot O'Connor and David Mandel for quite a while. The purpose is to have a meeting where we can dive deeply into the technical and theoretical details of a specific topic, without covering the basics.

The meeting rules are:

The speaker has 15 minutes or so to present the meat of his topic speech. The audience is expected to maintain attentive and respectful silence and to let the speaker expound, jotting any questions for later. At the end of 15 to 20 minutes, the speaker should begin accepting questions, and be prepared to go off-script for the remainder of the talk.
There are stupid questions. The speaker (and the group) can deem a question too basic for this topic discussion, too off-topic, or just dumb. This may seem rude, but the idea is to get right down into the details of technique and theory, expecting the audience to either already have the necessary foundation knowledge, or to be capable of jotting some notes and finding what they need during later self-directed library or Internet research.
For instance, given a talk on Cryptography, it can be expected that the room knows all about public/private key pairs. The speaker should list topics you are expected to know before arriving.
There should be a lot of questions and feedback from the audience.
All are invited, but be sure to know the talk is aimed at experts/advanced Linux persons (or those who think they're experts).