These are some of the topics discussed at tonight's meeting. Please comment on which you'd prefer and/or suggest new topics.

• Intro to LISP
• Wireshark and other network diagnostics tools
• What is OSS?
• Application parallels between Windows, Mac and Linux.  (e.g., use OpenOffice instead of Word)
• How to use GRUB
• ...

Haven and I were talking about neat tricks we can do with various pieces of software and came up with what we think is a pretty cool idea. Let's have a presentation that consists of a bunch of really short mini-talks on tips and tricks.

For example, I'll do two talks about Firefox. One will be on quicklinks and the other will be on bookmarklets. Come to the presentation if you'd like to find out what those are!

If you have neat tricks that you'd like to share, post an offer in the comments and we'll schedule as many of them as we can.

Come one, come all and show off your mad hax0r skillz!

So we're planning a web development tech talk for the end of February or beginning of March. Opera will be sponsoring us and we may also be able to get some swag from Mozilla. IEEE might be co-hosting with us.

What we are waiting on:

• Ship date confirmation from Opera (for the Opera swag)
• Co-hosting agreement from IEEE
• Swag from Mozilla
• Setting a date (based on Opera's ship date)
• Reserving a room
• Recruiting speakers

The format that I would like to follow is simply 3-4 short 20 to 25 minute presentations about various topics. Some topics I had in mind were: