<quote who="Angus Lees"> > > > 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?
They don't really - it all depends on what has been offered for SLUGlets. One of the aims is to allow for shorter presentations (easier to prepare, much less intimidating, etc), but if someone wanted to do a lengthy intro talk or something like that, they could. In fact, Mick did that last month. > (or conversely: when a newbie talk is long, why is it suddenly of general > interest?) I thought your shell scripting suggestion was pretty general interest. It depends where your yardstick for "advanced" is, and how involved the talk was. - Jeff -- GU4DEC: June 16th-18th in Dublin, Ireland http://www.guadec.org/ "I'm offering you my body, and you're offering me semantics." - Caitlin, Clerks -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
