What's Next?

This page is designed to hold ideas for the next steps after the event.

Training Events

Which topics are specific to the V&C sector? What sources of training exist for these and for the non-V&C topics?

Technical Issues - Security, scalability, manageability etc.

e.g.

• how to turn services off (what are services,daemons, which ones do we need?)
• how to set up your firewall (what is a firewall, what can i do with it?)
• using putty and ssh to get secure access to remote machines
• setting up email clients to use pop3s, imaps, smtp-auth and TLS
• settings up irc clients to use ssh
• building encrypted tunnels across the untrusted networks using ssh, vtund or ipsec

Applications

• OpenOffice?.org - installation and basic use
• Samba - basic configuration
• Setting up an OSS mailserver
• using the GIMP
• Direct replacements for Windows applications

Discussions/talks

Principles

• Open Source & Open Society
• International aspects of Open Source & the NGO movement

Tech/IT Decision making

• Open Source and/or/vs Open APIs? and/or/vs free (zero cost) software & shareware
• Open Source and/or/vs interoperability ("I don't mind if it's open source, I just need to be able to swap components in & out")
• Accessibility features in major OSS projects
• Interworking between organisations - how to find and how to choose between open standards

Perhaps also a 'business-oriented' view for V&C organisations that aren't using much IT?

• Discussion of typical sets of core requirements for different kinds of V&C organisations.
• Compare the typical IT configurations meeting these requirements.
• What potential benefits do these introduce beyond meeting current requirements? Etc.

Contributing

• How to give something back when you're not a programmer
• How to involve your end users in OSS

Architecture and Migration Strategies

• Windows to Linux
• Mixed Architectures
• Service Oriented Architectures

Resources

• Plugging the gaps - what is missing from OSS for the VCS?
• Support - being part of the support community
• Searching for solutions on the webs (FAQs?, BBs?, Google etc.)

Demonstrations

Install

• Installing a Linux distro alongside Windows

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