VTLUUG:Roadmap

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[edit] Action Items

This list is for items that need to happen in the near future.

  • Update the wiki
  • Print Gobblerfest handouts
  • Reserve an InstallFest room
  • Make InstallFest flyers
  • Make a getting started after the InstallFest wiki page
  • Arrange a lunchtime sysadmin meeting
  • #vtluug Bot
  • Document Linux tablet usage
  • Schedule fall speakers
  • Setup email

[edit] Long-Term

Below are tasks that can be put off for some time but should be acted upon eventually.

[edit] Activities

  • Work on Hokie Linux
  • Write wiki templates
  • Expand wiki coverage of using Linux and Free Software for coursework
  • Recruit (esp. on campus and from Blacksburg High)
  • Strengthen corporate recruiting and sponsorship ties
  • Write DyKnow-compatible client

[edit] Infrastructure

  • Wikimedia mobile deployment
  • Add symbol copy area to MediaWiki footer
  • Use transclusion for VTLUUG portal

[edit] Tangibles

  • T-Shirts (Find somewhere cheaper than Exper-Ts?)
  • Stickers
  • Thumb drives to preinstall Hokie Linux on

[edit] Someday/Maybe

Activities that are under consideration include:

  • Document access to the Montgomery Regional Hospital wireless network
  • IRC statistics ([1]?), idlerpg
  • Use static OSM maps [2] on the wiki
  • Set up an local OSM tile server
  • Build a RepRap
  • Write nice pedestrian-oriented map renderer style sheets
  • Publicity
    • T-shirts and stickers
    • Generic tablecards
    • WUVT PSA
    • Sustainable and automated publicity
  • Infrastructure
    • Server for SCSI raid box
    • SSL certificate

[edit] InstallFest

  • Publicity
  • Logistics
    • Building access (VTPD)
    • PXE boot
    • Power strips, switches, cables

[edit] Hacking Competition

  • Format
    • Wireless component?
  • Logistics
  • Sponsorship

[edit] Round tables

  • (CS, ECE software side - Hacking open source projects for grades)
  • ECE hardware side - Free Software for digital and analog circuits
    • Using QUCS in class
    • Free Software schematic capture, simulation, routing and layout software for the Open Electronics Lab - Fedora electronics remix
  • CoE - Chat with Dean Scales, faculty technology committee about the computer requirement
  • Engineering education
  • OCS - i.e. improving assignment notification

[edit] Tech Talks

[edit] Funding applications

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