I would love to see a workshop every month or two and there is enough topics of interest out there. I had thought that Shawn was too comprehensive with his list a month or two ago, but you brought up one that was not on that list.
With regards to space, our relationships with Devry is very good and we are likely to be able to use their space. For a smaller group, there is always our office space. With regards to time, I tend to disagree -- a day is a big chunk of time for both the participants and the sme (subject matter expert). But standardizing on a distro and the use of vmware, we can narrow down the information transfer time by more than half (when appropriate). This way we don't spend a lot of time looking at why it does not work in a certain distro or version; worrying about getting stuck at a certain point so one person is lagging everyone else. What is even better is that I can participate without lugging all my economic gear around because I can bring my laptop even though it is not dual boot or it's not mine so I can't make it dual boot, or I just haven't had time to (none of which is the case for myself). It allows people to participate without too much hassle. This means we can get the core concept down and be able to try it out and play with it. Doesn't mean that people can't get together to work through the issues with another a distro and hardware with some other twist. I personally like the second follow up workshop particularly with the more novice types, because we will see problems that are obvious with experts and typically discount. In most cases, the sme is likely still around to answer questions where things were not clear or configurations are a bit different. From the multi-media side, there could be up to 3 workshops that are in the works. One on ripping dvds and transcoding, one on sound synthesis - midi - sound editing and one on dealing with raw video to dvd. We have sme that have stepped up for the first two (though not confirmed) but not the latter. Some of these workshops may not even need a sme - just a couple of people that know enough to be dangerous and they can likely work things out in 3-4 hours. A small group of these individuals with a good documenter and a good trainer would give you a nice workshop or a talk for others. (Note the sme does not have to stand up on stage if they don't want to.) I have had a BSD Unix firewall which we commission someone to build over 10 years ago but have only flirted with Linux in the last 5 years. I have only made a commitment to Linux in the last two years, yet am not comfortable in turfing my Windows box. Because of the nature of what I do, I likely never be free of Windows completely. I am approaching probably my 20th Linux install, sometimes it is due to leaving it too long and forgetting the password (no longer a problem), sometimes it is due to the system corrupting (happened a couple of times - easier for me to reload), sometimes it is due to the source of information that uses a specific distro and not knowing enough to do otherwise. I am still very much attracted to open source and cross-platform - for instance I found an application called freemind which is really good for what I need to do, however the Windows install was very simple but it took about 3 weeks lapse time before I got it working on Linux. The more popular applications that are part of the repositories are great to install but the new releases and esoteric software can be a real problem. What has dawn on me last night because of the system corrupting is that we could benefit from a strategy workshop for installation of Linux, doing a dual boot, adding ext3 drivers on the Windows side, adding ntfs drivers on the Linux side, partitioning of drives and making home a separate partition, strategies on sizes of partitions. This is something that I think would greatly enhance our install fest. I'm all ears. A bit off topic, but the ideal of looking for nubie for discussions (likely on irc so that everyone can join in) has resulted in a number of people that are not nubies - not because we don't want them, but because I thought we could seek them out later. There are resources in clug that are untapped, potential contributers that would contribute but don't want to be called upon to stand up in front of the crowd, contributers that can't travel, contributors that are not in Calgary, contributors that have time constraints and all would contribute if there was an avenue to do so. Been a little slack in that area as I have struggled myself to get going. For the nubies that responded, I have not forgotten, just a tad busy until the fires get extinguished this week. jarrod wrote: > Hey Gang, > > I posted this forum topic on CLUG.ca on Workshops http://www.clug.ca/node/513 > > I would like to drum up some support for more workshops. The VMware Workshop > is fast approaching > and it would be nice to have the next one in the queue. I think we have the > interest, we just need > to drive this a little. We have had some pretty successful workshops in the > past and I for one > would like to see more. It involves getting a small group of participants, an > organizer or two and > a workshop leader. Typically this has been done in someone's home but we > might be able to ask the > Executive to secure a room at SAIT or UofC on our behalf. Everyone typically > brings everything they > need to set up their server or workstation. Networking paraphernalia is also > usually the > responsibility of each participant although network access is not necessarily > a requirement or > always available. > > I would personally love to participate in a workshop on setting up an email > server (MTA using > PostFix). Another Workshop that I would be interested in would be > Port-Knocking. > > The sky is the limit of course but settling on a topic is the first step. Do > we have any email > server gurus that are willing to step up to the plate and champion an email > server workshop? Having > been involved in organizing one of these myself, I can say it is rewarding. > > Typically a workshop takes place on a weekend as these usually end up as > day-long affairs to > maximize the time we spend working on the Workshop topic. Be prepared to > commit to an 8 hour day. > > Thoughts? Suggestions? > > We could move this to clug-events if there is enough interest. > > Jarrod Major > Registered Linux User #224211 > http://www.linuxcounter.org/ > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
