Hey folks, At the BBQ Peter (Williams) proposed an evening of short mini-presentations/howtos. I like the idea and am fully behind giving it a test run.
It's a bit of a shift from our standard presentation format but I think every now and then it could be a lot of fun to do. Some of the strengths of this type of format are that technical levels can vary, giving everyone something useful to take home with them. Also, if a person is not really interested in any one topic there are others that may be of greater interest/utility to them. Finally, I think it would be a good way of getting more people involved in the speaking process. I for one have a bunch of cool bit's I'd love to talk about but find myself pained to draw any one of them out to fill an hour. Also there are a lot of really handy tools and utilities that one could simply introduce, briefly summarise, and possibly demonstrate within 10-15 minutes. Anyway, that's my $0.02 Marcel > -----Original Message----- > From: Jarrod Major [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 12:13 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: (clug-talk) Presentation Topics > > > Hey Gang, > > I think Craig, John and Jeff's ideas are great. > > A fifteen minute presentation is perfectly acceptable. We > don't have to go a > full hour for these and arguably the longer they are the less > interested > people are as time goes by. These presentations were only > meant to be fast > introduction kind of stuff, nothing too in-depth. > > Having said that, I certainly don't mean to discourage anyone > from doing > longer presentations. If you get the right presenter, it can > work very well. > And this is not meant as a slight against any of the past > presenters. I > thank you all again for stepping forward and volunteering to > share this > information with the group. It has made a significant > difference to our > meetings. People appreciate the topics you cover, myself included. > > We definitely want to try and always have a backup presentation in the > wings, there's no reason that we can't have a few. > > Keep up the great work everyone! > > Now would be a good time to make any suggestions as to what kind of > presentations you would like to see. This way we can > hopefully match up > topics with people willing to present them. > > Jarrod Major > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Craig McLean" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 10:38 AM > Subject: Re: (clug-talk) Presentation Topics > > > > I've been toying with some presentation topics as well. > > > > My suggestions for some I'd be interested in doing. > > > > 1: What is coming in Linux 2.6. > > 2: Linux Virtual Memory Manager, what is all the fuss about > > 3: Linux Scheduler, what is all the fuss about > > > > Also I've been thinking it would be neat to do some mini > presentations. > > Something that would only take twenty minutes, and would be > done before or > > after the nights main presentation. These could be done on > UNIX/LINUX > > commands that are more complicated then ls but less > complicated then awk. > > > > 1: CRON > > 2: AT > > 3: ANACRON > > > > Those are my ideas. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- This communication is intended for the use of the recipient to which it is addressed, and may contain confidential, personal, and or privileged information. Please contact us immediately if you are not the intended recipient of this communication, and do not copy, distribute, or take action relying on it. Any communication received in error, or subsequent reply, should be deleted or destroyed.
