James G. Sack (jim) wrote: > I had promised to develop some kind of outline that people might use for > preparing short presentations, which I had envisioned as taking about > 15-minutes. > > For this purpose I have prepared something a bit more than an outline > for consideration by those reading the steering committee list. > > Here is the not-so-brief page: > http://www.kernel-panic.org/Members/jgsack/pages/TarballsXH2/
After a gentle hint from one gentleguru, I have seen the error of my ways, and now have a version B of the not-so-brief page, which avoids encouraging people to put absolute paths into tarballs. http://www.kernel-panic.org/Members/jgsack/pages/TarballsXH2b/ > > Some questions: > --------------- > 1. Does this seem like a 15-minute presentation > 2. Does this seem of interest and value to relative beginners > The intention is to be narrowly focused and realistic but simple, with > the hope that beginners can both grasp and appreciate the examples. > 2a. Is the scope too narrow to be interesting > 2b. Is the detail adequate to be useful > 3. Is is worth further condensing into more of an outline-form > 4. Could someone other than the author deliver this as a short > presentation? How about if it were further condensed? > 5. If this is the right approach, what is a good way to refer to it? > My "Express Howto" is intended to convey the idea of brevity but > nevertheless useful (realistic), but there's probably other names > (well-) worth considering: BlitzHowto, Faqlet, ... > 6. Do you think documents like this could become pages in a larger > (maybe wiki) reference resource? Presumeably augmented somehow with > structure, indices, Q&A, more detailed explanatory text, more detailed > coverage links, etc. > 7. Could the concept work for (giving an intro to) advanced topics? > > What else? > > 8. Who would offer to contribute: > 8a. similar pages8 > 8b. suggested topics that fit this mold (or whatever it morphs into) > > ..jim > -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-steer
