Neil Schneider wrote: > James G. Sack (jim) wrote: >> I believe we have accepted an offer from rpath to give a presentation >> at >> our April meeting, right? > > We are alleged to have accepted an offer to speak. I have not received > any information that I can post on the web site. I don't have any > contact information for the person who is going to be presenting. I > have had no direct contact with rpath, that verifies they will be > speaking. > > Currently we have no speaker for April scheduled, though I've been > holding the spot open for rpath. >
jhriv might know -- he's the one who had contact with rpath, I think. see: http://www.kernel-panic.org/pipermail/kplug-steer/2006-February/002627.html ..or.. If we don't have a presentation for April, how about some suggestions: How about some kind of howto panel-discussion with a few seeded ideas + open questions Or maybe a series of short howtos. 5-minute blitz howtos have been showing up at conferences, with some success, I gather. But on consideration of the needs of newbies (as opposed to serious hackers representative of conference attendees), perhaps we should relax to the pace to 15-minute (maybe: 10min presentation + Q&A). Best would be to have a coordinator providing a laptop, then require at least a page (on KP site) of something representing a topic-outline. (Needn't be fancy, by any means -- 1-hour's work, maybe) Possible Topics --------------- - Most common usage of tar (and zip, cpio), maybe add a few words about command line vs gui-tools) - OpenOffice tools probably suggest several mini-howtos: impress, calc, simple-wordprocessing - FireFox plugins Anybody care to toss in some more candidates? ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-steer
