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What do you want to see @ Taclug?
Basic Electronics
Basic electronics hacking including soldering, basic electronics concepts (how do I use resistors to keep the magic smoke from escaping my LEDs?), breadboarding, microcontroller programming and more.
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Web Application Security
Web application security and security testing.
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Content Management Systems
Content management system kung fu including Drupal, Wordpress, Magnolia, MediaWiki, TWiki, Joomla! and more. Andrew Becherer can't theme a CMS to save his life and would enjoy learning more.
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Tiny Computers
Low power, small form factor linux systems like the linksys WRT54G series, net45xx/net48xx/WRAP embedded PC, Gumstix, etc.
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Andrew Becherer
Kurt Forsberg
Nick Webb
Robotics
Mobile robotics, unmanned air vehicle, unmanned land vehicles, unmanned marine vehicles.
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Andrew Becherer
Kurt Forsberg - Is anyone interested in learning about stepper motors? I know a little.
Networks
Network security, routers, VLANs, performance, etc.
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Web Application Performance
Apache, MySQL, drupal scaling and performance.
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Web Application Development
LAMP basics as an introduction, and Perl, Python, Ruby, Java, Drupal, MediaWiki, etc. as intermediate/advanced topics.
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More cool Arduino stuff
Andrew, please show us how to make an Arduino do a lot more cool stuff :D
I had a thought on this actually... many µC's, PROMS, EEPROMS, FPGA's, etc. (though fewer and fewer new ones) require exotic, expensive, and/or proprietary programming equipment. I wonder how difficult it would be to undertake developing a codebase/designbase of programmers/shields to accomplish this. Has it been done? I looked around the web. It doesn't seem like it.
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My distro is better than your distro
Okay, maybe this would be counterproductive, but I know you all secretly want to do it. Let's have a distro deathmatch. Let's have an all out free-for-all argument about whose distro is best, whose is worst, and why.
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Legal issues surrounding open source
I was in another state when we had a lawyer visit TacLUG. I was really bummed that I missed it. Maybe we could make it an annual event? :D
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