On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 10:50:44PM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> While I know it's late (the conference itself is on December 22nd), 
> I've been asked to come up with ideas for lectures and lecturers in all 
> Linux related fields for the Go-Linux conference. Please send me your 
> ideas, and we'll try to sort through them and get the interesting stuff 
> in.
> 
> A simple idea of the type "Shachar should talk about his sterile cat's
> sex habits", along with contact info for the proposed lecturer (if 
> available), should be quite sufficient.


  Here is a sort of request for topics, along the lines that someone
else, and not myself, should talk about something:

1) Take the code for a kernel subsystem/module/concept/block and discuss
   it, both from the macro point of view as well as from the micro point
   of view. When hardware is involved, show the code for the interface
   and discuss it and don't forget to speak about the standards for the
   interfaces involved.
2) Likewise, for other software components: X server, desktop
   environment, name service software, mail software, whatever.

I guess the most important aspect here is the ability to present the
micro as well as the macro. That is, being fluent in the code itself as
well as the broad concept and the way to configure the relevant piece of
software.

  Something which is probably easier to find lecturers for in a short
time is to present and discuss major concepts and building blocks for
major pieces of software: kernel, X server, mail daemons, standards for
hardware interfaces. That is, concentrate in the macro.

3) A Tutorial on programming languages: 1 hour on C, another on python,
   Yet another on Perl, C++, bash, Ruby, lisp ... One might also show
   advanced topics like C89 vs C99, Perl 5.8 vs Perl 6, the standard for
   C++ (there is one, right?).

4) Fonts issues. Creating fonts, using fonts, anything that is related
   to fonts.

5) Wine. Turn it upside down: concepts, code, why I can't figure out if
   it an emulator or not.


  Whatever you choose from, try and concentrate on it and turn it upside
down. Don't do a 15 minutes Perl talk, 15 minutes fonts issues and 15
minutes on configuring a mail server.

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