At Thu, 22 May 2003 22:43:48 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: > <quote who="Angus Lees"> > > At Sun, 18 May 2003 17:36:57 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > > <quote who="Matthew Palmer"> > > > > I suggest that SLUGlets either be a presentation as they are, or (if > > > > such a topic walks in) a newbie-friendly technical topic. > > > But that's where the general talk comes in; hopefully it will be pretty > > > intermediate, to keep techos interested, newbies challenged, and > > > everyone finding out about new things. :-) > > > > What about (say) a 30min "Intro to shell scripting" talk (or many other > > "Intro to foo" talks). > > > > I wouldn't consider that a suitable general talk, nor would I consider it > > interesting to a typical "advanced" audience. When would such a talk be > > scheduled? > > They'd sound like good general talks to me. General is intermediate, > intended to be hopefully useful to everyone.
but my point (and i believe matt palmer's point) is that it *isn't* useful to everyone. i believe most "techos" would be bored silly sitting through 30mins of simple shell scripting. why do newbie talks have to be short? (or conversely: when a newbie talk is long, why is it suddenly of general interest?) -- - Gus -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
