James G. Sack (jim) wrote: > 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).
I like this idea. Some of the talks can get long and boring for some people. If we advertise the list of topics perhaps there is likely to be something which will interest more people so more will show up even for just a short talk. > 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 How to use subversion to revision control your system config files. I can set up and demo subversion basics in 10 minutes easily. How to configure logwatch (I'm doing this now) How to configure and use webdav (working on this now also, a great way to do inter-office filesharing without having to resort to nfs/samba) -- Tracy R Reed http://copilotconsulting.com 1-877-MY-COPILOT -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-steer
