James G. Sack (jim) wrote:
> If we don't have a presentation for April, how about some suggestions:
Suggestions are always welcome.
> How about some kind of howto panel-discussion with a few seeded ideas
> +
> open questions
That's always a fallback.
> 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, if we can get enough presenters, or perhaps, use
them as an intro, right before my announcements. If presenters are
ready to go at 7:00 PM, I'll surrender the floor for 15 minutes. I'l
make this a standard offer, send me an email linked to your outline on
the KPLUG web site at least a day before a meeting and I'll surrender
the first 15 minutes of the meeting. No matter if we have a prsenter
from outside the group or not. I think short topics might enliven the
meetings.
> 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)
OK, we'll make that a requirement, email me a link to the outline of a
presentation on the web site, and I'll add it to the schedule.
> Possible Topics
> ---------------
> - Most common usage of tar (and zip, cpio), maybe add a few words
> about
> command line vs gui-tools)
I like it.
> - OpenOffice tools probably suggest several mini-howtos:
> impress, calc, simple-wordprocessing
Another good topic.
> - FireFox plugins
That's topical. Maybe Carl can do that one! :-)
> Anybody care to toss in some more candidates?
Please!
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