This is a working list for future meetings.  It contains notes from many sources, and is intended to provide the best information on the current planning of the 2010 lecture seires.

If you are interested in giving a talk on any of these topics, or have any other ideas, please contact me, we'd love to have you!

Confirmed & Scheduled Future Talks

• Git - Sean, January
• Arduino - Ed, Feb
• Sahana - Sean Swehla, March
• Nagios - Patrick, April
• Samba - Jeremy, August

Confirmed, but no dates

• A yet decided network management talk - Bruce
• BOINC (open source seti@home like system) - Eric (June or July)
• crack/llvm - Mike Muller
• Android - Frank with fallback on me.  Tenatively May.
• Internet Security - Mike

Actively working

• NY State Senate open government talk.  First contact made, hoping to hear back.  The scheduling of this meeting would trump others, so some reshuffle might be needed.
• Drupal.  Got a feeler out there, still having gotten a hit back yet.

Other Ideas that Would be Great if we could find a speaker

• Open Street Maps
• PGP/GPG
• Video capture, editing, and posting using open tools
• Firefox/Thunderbird extensions (some popular ones, and development)

7th Aniversary Talk

The March meeting represents 7 years of MHVLUG.  We should aim at a shorter presentation so we can do cake and socialize for a bit.

The Big Idea Pool (very raw, from survey)

• begining shell scripting
• distribution-neutral development
• developing for Gnome vs. KDE (or both!)
• 101 Great Ways to Wreck Your Linux Box
• a tutorial on a project from the current month's SourceForge Top 10
• More topics of interest to "professional" sysadmins
• Rolling your own Dynamic DNS
• How to use linux for file, application, and print serving in a small or medium business environment where the workstations are Windows or Macs.
• How to configure and run a virtualized system.
• A lightning talk on KDE4 Plasma interface. (How to exploit the new functionality).
• Linux Administration topics, Networking tools such as nmap
• Linux on commercial devices (success stories - tivo, android...)
• Distribution Shoot-out
• Virtualbox
• Thin Client Setups
• How to contribute to Linux/OSS development without being an uber-geek programmer or sysadmin.
• How to have a successful OSS or Linux business.
• VoIP troubleshooting: related to general network troubleshooting, using opensource apps to tackle a common problem that bedevils many VoIP users that many VoIP providers' or ISP technical support staffers often can't or won't lend a hand to effectively solve (packet loss, jitter, delay or latency)
• Interesting web browser tricks and add-ons and extensions for browsers such as Firefox and Chrome to do useful and productive things with
• Music and video production with open source applications as well as audio and video file formats
• General network security including good defensive practices and design as well as apps; including WiFi
• General network troubleshooting using opensource apps
• Bring in more academics and corporate experts from from the local community (Marist, Vassar, New Paltz, IBM) to give talks on technical subjects.  There have been a few in the past and they were interesting.
• Talks about initiatives such as One Laptop Per Child that use technology, especially opensource, for social benefit.
• More on programming languages: Python, Ruby, and others.