[kwlug-disc] Jon "maddog" Hall talk: Monday, 6pm, UW

[Ron Singh]

Aww, shame that. We got to the lot by 5:55 and basically ran to MC.

The talk went long, 2.5 hours in the comfy room and apparently went on even
longer over beers near by.

Very good talk, lots of extremely interesting history from the 70s and 80s
especially, valuable coverage of open source software and hardware in
Brasil.
No chance to see the hardware platform though as Maddog seemed a bit
reticent about having it in view.
Good input from the 2 guys from LPI who were present.

Most of the last 90 minutes was spent with back-and-forth banter about how
to make money with FOSS and I am not sure that Maddog was able to convince
anyone in the room that it is possible to make GOOD money on it, at least,
not easily.

For my part, my concerns were mostly about how to promote Linux-based
distros to the masses and how to fight past the mis-perception that Linux
is *only* for fan/adepts of CLI. Grassroot attempts seems to be the only
useful answer from a couple of students and 1 seasoned IT guy -- social
platforms, hitting up libraries, mebbe even do a song-and-dance routine
complete with flashing lights and a couple of laptops running Linux  just
inside the entrances to the local libraries.

Lovely man, glad I went.

Thanks,

Ron Singh


On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 6:13 PM, Chamunks <chamunks at gmail.com> wrote:

> I was there but couldn't locate any reasonable parking.
>
> On Tue, Mar 13, 2018, 6:09 PM Ron Singh <ronsingh149 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Talk starts now...
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 4:46 PM Chamunks <chamunks at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> It seems to be pretty intermittent.  Its sunny as all hell one minute
>>> then its a blizzard the next.  https://transfer.sh/tNeVi/
>>> cham-screenshot.png according to this radar screenshot it should likely
>>> not be consistent all day so whatever snow we do get should only last a few
>>> minutes at a time.
>>>
>>> On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 4:20 PM Ron Singh <ronsingh149 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> My buddy, Paul_K and I are going, the snow is coming down real hard by
>>>> my hovel, but not enough to be a problem.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Ron Singh
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 3:57 PM, Chamunks <chamunks at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Who's going tonight? I'm contemplating going.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 5:23 PM Ron Singh <ronsingh149 at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks Paul, this sounds extremely interesting, my buddy Paul_K and I
>>>>>> are definitely going.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Ron Singh
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 2:31 PM, Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc <
>>>>>> kwlug-disc at kwlug.org> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> FYI, maddog is also holding a session on Tuesday at 6pm, in the same
>>>>>>> place. I think this discussion will be less structured than the other
>>>>>>> one was.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/events/MC_Comfy-2018-03-13-6:00pm
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Fri, Mar 09, 2018 at 05:44:33PM -0500, Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>> > I saw a poster for the Jon "maddog" Hall talk. It will be held
>>>>>>> Monday,
>>>>>>> > March 12 at 6pm.
>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>> > The location is the third floor of the Math and Computer building,
>>>>>>> in
>>>>>>> > the "comfy lounge". If you are looking on a map of the floor, the
>>>>>>> room
>>>>>>> > number is 3001, but everybody calls it the Comfy Lounge. It is
>>>>>>> beside
>>>>>>> > the Coffee and Doughnut shop.
>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>> > Here is the talk abstract, from
>>>>>>> > http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/events/MC_Comfy-2018-03-12-6:00pm
>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>> >  Abstract: Many things have changed since the early days of
>>>>>>> programming, but many programs are written as if they were for the machines
>>>>>>> of the 20th century which had small memories, no cache, single core CPUs,
>>>>>>> small address spaces. Even the definition of "performance" has changed.
>>>>>>> This talk will investigate some of these issues and hopefully lead people
>>>>>>> to better programming.
>>>>>>> >
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>>
>> Ron Singh
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