[kwlug-disc] Fill-in talk needed for July

Paul Nijjar paul_nijjar at yahoo.ca
Fri Jun 13 22:32:19 EDT 2014


I am surprised that you could not go on for a little longer about your
experiences.  You had to choose distributions and how to present the
topic, as well as getting Linux on people's machines. 

"No slides" is just a suggestion. You could make slides if you really
wanted to, but I do not think this should be an obligation. Making
slides takes a long time. Showing pictures probably takes less time.

- Paul


On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 10:15:26PM -0400, Bob Jonkman wrote:
> I'm good for five minutes of "Adventures at Installfest". If Brian's good for it, we can stretch to 10 minutes.  No slides? Well, I have no pictures of the event anyway.
> 
> --Bob.
> 
> Paul Nijjar <paul_nijjar at yahoo.ca> wrote:
> >
> >Okay. I think that a short event night would work out. Maybe have
> >people give talks that are from 5-15 minutes in length, with the
> >emphasis being on informal and low-stress? We could even say "no
> >slides" or "demo only".
> >
> >Do we have some offers? There are lots of topics, some not directly
> >related to Linux:
> >
> >- Khalid talking about his adventures in free TV (maybe slides would
> >  be necessary for this, since Khalid is not willing to give a live
> >  demo of mounting an antenna at SJK)
> >- Cranky talking about cutting the cord
> >- Somebody talking about a new release of <distro> (eg Ubuntu 14.04)
> >- Bob/Brian talking about their Bits and Bytes evangelism/installfest
> >- Helpful Firefox/Chrome plugins
> >- Living life on the commandline
> >- Buying FLOSS-friendly hardware in 2014
> >- Something about FLOSS tools in the maker movement
> >- How to make a podcast using FLOSS tools (I don't think I should
> >  suggest this as a possibility..)
> >
> >There are lots more, I'm sure.
> >
> >
> >As for Bob's suggestion: I guess we could do a social night, but I
> >would prefer for us to schedule one explicitly. Using social nights as
> >backups for missed talks is a bad precedent. However, if lots of
> >people want a social night then we could do this.
> >
> >- Paul
> >
> >
> >
> >On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 06:47:54PM -0400, Tim Laurence wrote:
> >> Yeah but finding people to speak for 10 minutes should be easier. I
> >will
> >> take one of the slots.
> >> --Tim
> >>
> >> --Tim
> >>
> >>
> >> On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 6:34 PM, Paul Nijjar <paul_nijjar at yahoo.ca>
> >wrote:
> >>
> >> > So now we have to schedule 10 talks instead of one?
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >   On Thursday, June 12, 2014 6:05:29 PM, Tim Laurence
> ><timdaman at gmail.com>
> >> > wrote:
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > How about a contest?
> >> >     10 people
> >> >     5 minute presentation
> >> >     5 minutes of Q&A/setup
> >> >     The audience votes on the best.
> >> >     The Firkin crowd cover's the winner's beer
> >> >
> >> > --Tim
> >> >
> >> > --Tim
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 4:49 PM, Bob Jonkman <bjonkman at sobac.com>
> >wrote:
> >> >
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> >> > How about a swap meet/social night/installfest?
> >> >
> >> > - --Bob.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > On 14-06-12 01:48 PM, Paul Nijjar wrote:
> >> > > Once again it looks like the high-availability computing talk
> >won't
> >> > > be happening in July. Is there anybody who can fill in with a
> >> > > replacement talk on short notice?
> >> > >
> >> > > Sorry about this.
> >> > >
> >> > >
> >> > > - Paul
> >> > >
> >> > >
> >> > >
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