On 1/25/07, Gustin Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If the team or individual leading the workshop was comfortable with both > environments this could be doable. The problem is that we cannot > guarantee that both will be covered for a given workshop as it depends > on the skill set and familiarity of the "experts". > Agreed. All we need to do is agree on a setup that would work for the majority of the participants.
> As I see it, this will be driven by the team leading the workshop on a > case by case basis. I would not want to dictate distros to the kind > souls donating their time and energy. > Agreed. Hence my suggestion as a possible compromise. > As an aside, RPM distros vary within themselves more than the Debian > based ones do. The differences between SuSe and Red Hat are more > significant than between Xandros and Ubuntu. > We could poll the particpants beforehand to see which distro generates the most interest. > > would think it would be easier to make comparisons and notes between > > the two boxes and have the attendees physically see the differences. > > My experiences at previous workshops is that this sort of thing chews up > way too much time, at the expense of the actual topic, unless that topic > is "exploring the differences between distro X and distro Y". :) > Myself, I have not been to any previous workshop so i would defer to those who have had the experience. > I personally do not see much benefit to this comparison. I like to > focus on accomplishing a given task, rather than get lost in myriad > number of implementations (apache configs are unorganised quite > differently between Red Hat, SuSe, and the Debians). > Agreed. However, I wouls not be surprised to hear that there will be questions pertaining how to do the given task on any particular distro. > I am not against covering more than one distro, but we need to be > mindful of people's time (both the experts and the audience), which > means we need to realistically asses our resources against our goals. > If this means not covering distro X, then so be it. > > Of course this presents a lot of opportunity for presentations at our > monthly meetings (ie. since distro X was not covered/represented at the > workshop, here is a presentation on accomplishing Task Z on Distro X). > Agreed. You have brought up valid points to consider. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFFuOonwRXgH3rKGfMRAvYSAKCDBNVurzaE9kndMmnECN/sIEn0mwCgiuof > Bdxzjn536JUx47+r2is1zu8= > =By5t > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > I look forward to attending the workshop and having something new to explore. -- Virtually, Tom W _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
