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?

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

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.