Tracy R Reed wrote: > 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) >
Hey Tracy- and others.. Neil will be out of town next general meeting (Apr 13), and he has asked if I would stand-in for him (which I said I would). But, it looks more and more like we probably won't have an rpath presentation since we cannot determine that there ever was any confirmation from a presenter. Someone might still show up, I suppose, but it seems like we ought to plan on having _something_ else on standby. I have prepared a 15-minute thing on tarball (very-) basics, and wonder if you, Tracy (since you liked the idea <heh>), and anyone else might like to think of having something ready along those same lines? Even if we collectively only have 2 or 3 of the 15-minute jobbies, that would probably be enough to stimulate sone Q&A filler for the rest of the meeting. If this seems to the steer-group to be a good idea, perhaps we can put an announcement in the meeting section of the KP website, maybe even inviting _anyone_ to think about contributing a short presentation satisfying the (proposed) objectives as follows: (proposed) How to organize your Express-Howto Presentation: ---------------------------------------------------------- 1. Pick a topic along the lines of a FAQ question: "What is ...", or "How do I ..." 2. .. that can be illustrated with a _simple_ example (or 2 or 3) 3. .. that can be understood and appreciated by an audience without specific expertise in this subject area 4. Draft a short summary, bullet-list, cheatsheet, outline (anything, any format, one short page is fine) that conveys the idea of the basic topic/question, and shows some (simple but realistic) examples that illustrate your point or solution. (we can put a link to my not-so-brief tarball page, if anyone thinks that helps illustrate the presentation idea) 5. Post the outline to the kplug wiki, or email it to <a proxy: who?> who will be glad to post it for you. Then as Neil has suggested elsewhere, someone (just about anyone, I would think), who hints at having something to say can have his 15 minutes worth at the beginning of _any_ meeting (say, one per meeting, per Neil's choice). Neil- do you think something about this should go on the KP-site meeting announcement page before you leave on Friday? ==> I repeat the basic appeal: would people on this list see if they might find an hour-or-two to think about an Express Howto for the Apr 13 meeting. Thanks, ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-steer
