Agenda:

This month's meeting will use a new format. Instead of having one long presentation by one person, we will have several shorter presentations, each 20-30 minutes long, on topics relating to a common theme. The theme for the meeting is "Collaboration Tools."

Collaboration Tools presentations

We will have several shorter presentations on various collaboration tools that can be used with Linux:

John McCaughey, "WebHuddle"

John McCaughey gave a demonstration of WebHuddle, open source web conferencing software written in Java. To participate in a WebHuddle, all you need is a Java-enabled browser, be it on Mac OSX, Linux, Windows or UNIX. To set up a WebHuddle server, all you need is Java and JBoss, an application server that is also open source. John put the project up on Sourceforge in July 2004, but only made it conform to the "Ten Minute Rule" a few weeks ago.

John McCaughey has been a programmer for about 8 years, doing mostly Java and some C. His first Linux encounter was in 2001, setting up an orphaned computer as firewall/wireless bridge box using Dachstein Firewall and lots of HOW-TOs. See the WebHuddle Project on SourceForge.

Harald Collet, Oracle Files Online: "Content management for the rest of us"

Content management is undergoing a major evolutionary change that executives, IT and line-of-business managers, and technologists need to fully understand. The term "enterprise content management" has been applied for the past few years to a range of technologies that manage documents, Web content, and other unstructured information assets. However, until recently the term has been a complete misnomer, because virtually no solutions have actually been implemented across an entire enterprise and only a very small fraction of workers who should use content management actually do so. This presentation describes Oracle's content management architecture as well as our internal deployment - Oracle Files Online - that manages more than 22M documents in one instance of the Oracle database with an average concurrency of 2000-3000 internal users adding 30,000 new content items every single day. This deployment is an example of how the database provides the foundation for "content management for the rest of us."

Phil Lavery, Scalix Corporation: "Enterprise Email and Calendaring on Linux"

Scalix offers organizations of any size a complete email and calendaring solution leveraging Linux and Open Standards infrastructure. Integrated email and calendaring from a choice of clients including supprt for Outlook (native MAPI), Webclient (IE and Firefox/Mozilla), and Ximian Evolution. Freedom from technology lock-in, lower total costs, less complexity.

Les Kopari, "SVJLL - the Silicon Valley Job Listings List"

Les Kopari has been a denizen of the Silicon Valley landscape since he started his career with HP in 1981 as a programmer/analyst After 11 years there and another 11 at various startups and contracts, he found himself wondering where all the jobs had gone. His topic tonight is the result of having found some answers to that question and a few others that came up along the way to finding Silicon Valley job listings. Visit the SVJLL Web site to see it in action.

Business Meeting

We will have a business meeting to discuss the organizational structure of the group. If you've been wanting to help out with the group behind the scenes, or have ideas for how to run it, please attend and give your ideas.
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