It seems our technical meet format is liked! ;-) ----- Forwarded message from Nik Clayton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -----
> Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 22:58:59 +0100 > From: Nik Clayton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: London technical meet, sometime late July/early August > > Hi all, > > It's high time we had another user group get together in London. So I'm > organising one. > > I thought it might be worthwhile to do this a bit differently though, and try > and get in a bit more technical content than we normally cover. This is > (mostly) because I've been following the London Perl user group quite closely > over the past few months, and seen how well this approach works for them. > > Once a month or so they have a technical meeting. The technical bit lasts for > about two hours, then everyone decamps to the nearest pub to continue the > discussions in a convivial atmosphere. Some of them have even be known to go > for the odd curry or to. > > The technical bit is broken up in to 'n' presentations, where a presentation > is anywhere from 5 to 40 minutes. I want to shamelessly steal this format. > So I'm looking for volunteers to speak about something appropriate to the > (Free)BSD and/or wider Unix community. > > This doesn't have to be hardcore Unix geek-ery. For example, if there's time > to spare, I'd like to do 20-25 minutes about the current state of the art in > fighting spam, since I've been doing rather a lot of that recently, and I > suspect it's going to be of interest to a lot of you. > > But you can talk about anything you want. Perhaps you've discovered a really > neat utility in the ports tree that's making your life much easier. Or maybe > you've just successfully used FreeBSD in a large project, and want to talk > about your experiences, and how it went. > > Maybe you've been successful in advocating FreeBSD (or the more general open > source concept), and want to share insights you learned from that. > > Given that there are going to be a bunch (well, at least 1) of the FreeBSD > committers in the audience, you could also talk about what you don't like > about FreeBSD, or things that you think the FreeBSD development > community misses that are important to the business-using world. I've > increasingly discovered that things about FreeBSD that I don't give a second > thought to can cause real problems for people trying to use FreeBSD, and > it's important that this feedback reaches the development community somehow. > > And, of course, the second European BSD Conference is only a few months away. > If you're speaking there, perhaps you'd like to get some public speaking > practice in, and try out a draft of your talk before a live audience. > > If you don't want to talk, please feel free to suggest a topic you would > like to see covered. That might give someone else the incentive they need > to talk about it :-) > > The only thing we don't have yet is a venue and a date. I'm almost certain > I've got the venue sorted (and hence the date) lined up, thanks to a very kind > donation from a large FreeBSD-using design firm in central London -- but it's > not confirmed yet, which is why I'm not announcing a date yet. However, I'm > looking towards the end of July/beginning of August as about the time > this'll happen. > > I expect to know about venue (and date) definitively by the end of next > week, at which point I'll (assuming everyone thinks this is a good idea) > send out an e-mail with more concrete details. > > However, on the off chance this falls through, perhaps you could make > enquiries at your place of work and see if they have facilities to host this > sort of meeting one evening. Even if I get the venue for this one, it'll be > good to have other venues lined up for future meetings (assuming this is a > success). > > The rough timetable will be: > > 6.30pm Begin arriving at venue. Coffee, tea, etc > 7.00pm First presentation starts > 9.00pm Last presentation ends. Decamp to pub/restaurant as necessary > > Comments? > > N > -- > FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://www.freebsd.org/ (__) > FreeBSD Documentation Project http://www.freebsd.org/docproj/ \\\'',) > \/ \ ^ > --- 15B8 3FFC DDB4 34B0 AA5F 94B7 93A8 0764 2C37 E375 --- .\._/_) ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Natalie S. Ford ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.natalie.ourshack.org/ http://natalief.livejournal.com/
