I think you missed (or haven't yet reached) a couple of later messages in this thread, but see remarks interspersed below, anyway..
Tracy R Reed wrote: >.. > I have the books now and will bring them to the meeting for the raffle. OK. I'm not sure whether RaffleMeister Gus is coming to the Aug10 meeting or not, but I still have the tickets, etc from my stint as ersatzRaffleMeister in July, so I'll bring that stuff. > >> 2. If no one objects, I will coordinate the August 10th meeting program. >> I will volunteer one 15-minute presentation, and try to drum up >> commitments for more. My thinking is that we want to try a variety of > > Sounds good. .. Neil posted that you had agreed to presiding at the meeting, is that your understanding? >.. Do you have any commitments yet? I know I offered a short > list of things I could present on a while back but I don't recall what > they were now. Nor do I recall if they were short, shallow topics. .. Checkout some of the suggestions at http://www.kernel-panic.org/wiki/MeetingProgramIdeas as well as http://www.kernel-panic.org/wiki/MeetingAug10 and http://www.kernel-panic.org/wiki/MiniPresentation Some of the topics came from your earlier messages, in the March mail archives, I think. We have a couple of topics slotted-in /are/ still looking for 2 or 3 more. N O T E: ------- Nobody knows whether 15-minute mini presentations will really work. The 15-min number was just a thought -- 10 mins for a really-short verrrry-narrowly-focused howto, and 5 mins for Q&A. Maybe it is too easy to ramble over the limit, but I thought it still is worth a try to see how such a shallow presentation is received (if anyone is good enough to actually get it down to 10-15 mins). I don't see any law that forces such a time-limit. It's just an idea. I do think that aiming for general-interest topics, easily digested (supposedly helped by sticking to a narrow-scope), would deliver value to those KPLUGgers that have in the past been overwhelmed by technical detail or arcane subjects. Well, that's the idea, anyhow. >..The > only problem I see with doing mini-presentations is that most > interesting things will need a computer to demo or present with and the > setup time with the projector is always longer than we would like. I > wish I had a laptop right now that I could let everyone use for their > presentations. Oh, yeah! I overlooked that detail in my previous postings. Neil addressed the potential projector issue by confirming we have room 401 for Aug10, but I guess it would be nice to have a computer, also My presentation should have one with both gnome (for nautilus, file-roller) and kde (for konqueror and karchive). Hmmm, any volunteers? If no one offers a laptop/or? to share, I'm sure I can bring in something as above. Presenters should perhaps post their requirements on the MeetingAug10 page. > >> 3. What's the status of projection equipment for Annex-C. Was last month >> someone's personal projector? Seem like we just gotta have a projector >> for presentations, eh? This seems like a *high priority* issue. > > I missed the last meeting so I can't speak to this. Neil deflected this issue for Aug10, but I have started another wiki page to talk about it.. http://www.kernel-panic.org/wiki/KpProjectProjector ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-steer
