At Mon, 25 Mar 2002 18:06:41 +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: > ... If you teamed up with a couple of other people, we could run a stream of > developer talks for new hackers, introducing all of the free software tools, > from project management stuff, compilers to debuggers and packaging systems. > > Anyone interested in this (from either a speaker's or listener's end)?
aye. and anthony's got a good point. we haven't had any *really* newbie stuff for a long time (in fact, i'm not sure if i can remember any..) i guess we pushed a lot of that out onto fests, but then never got close to the "an installfest every two months" point that was often mentioned. so now we do two (?) installfest/workshops a year, and there's little talking that happens at them even then. if we do have really introductory talks, i think we'll need to run them in parallel with "normal" talks though, or make them short enough that those who aren't completely new to linux will be able to sit through them without becoming too disruptive (quiet up the back). in fact, 5 minute "cooking show" intros after the Q&A (and again after the break?) might be an interesting way of doing it. -- - Gus -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
