[ale] Meeting topic idea - Best Practices for your home network

[chris at vitalpowers.com (Chris Farris)]

So I was pondering how best to store my collection of mp3s, movies, 
rsynced server backups, email dating back to 1993, etc. I came up with 
an idea for an ALE meeting that would be interesting for beginners and 
experiences linux types alike.

The idea is a best practices panel discussion of our more interesting 
gurus, Mike Warfield, Dennis Boylan, Vernard Martin, etc. Prior to the 
meeting ppl would email questions to the moderator (I'll volunteer for 
that role), and I'd combine them into thoughtful questions for the panel.

Would this be of interest to ALE members? Are there any guru's that 
would commit to participating?

If this format works out we can do best practices panel discussions for 
lots of topics, but I think the first topic should be limited to home 
network issues. What do I consider home network? Storage and backup is 
one topic. Firewalls and routers, email storage and indexing (for when 
you have over a decade of email to search) Linux/Windows/Mac 
interoperability, etc. Cost is a major factor in home networks, we don't 
have the same big budgets as our employers.

Chris