Here's the list of potential SLUG meeting talks that the committee brainstormed at our last meeting: > - advocacy > - internationalisation > - desktop forum > - emacs > - introduction to glib > - introduction to gtk > - introduction to glade > - history of Linux > - big news in the FS world > - the free software landscape > - kernel walkthrough > - Mono/C#/.NET > - how to give a talk at SLUG > - legal talks > - free software in business > - GRUB > - government and FS > - Linux 2.6 kernel
We'd love to hear from SLUG members and [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribers if they want to give any of these talks, have further talk ideas, or want to give talks not in this list. Here's a rundown of our talk structure: 1. General talk Audience: Every meeting attendee. A general talk would need to interest the majority of attendees -- so it shouldn't be an exclusively newbie or exclusively techie talk. Talks on new applications that you've recently discovered (or written!), talks on using common Free Software apps in new ways, and talks on "the Free Software universe" (for example, advocacy, Free Software in business, the structure of Free Software projects) would all be examples of good general talks. 2. Techie talk Audience: The meeting normally splits in two for SLUGlets and the techie talk, so you can target your talk at a subset of attendees (for example, your talk might be for programmers, or for sysadmins, or for audio geeks). Talks on applications or tools that might not interest all attendees, but would be very interesting to some, would be good techie talks. Examples include: talks on programming languages and tools, and talks on tools for particular specialised purposes (accounting applications, kernel debuggers, mission critical backup servers). 3. SLUGlets Audience: A reasonably diverse group, whoever isn't interesting in the techie talk. SLUGlets can be aimed at an introductory or intermediate level. SLUGlets are normally a less formal discussion centering around a particular topic. Topics have included: building and installing kernels, compiling your own software, and home networking. SLUGlets topics are normally drawn from discussion on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list. Keep an eye out for the meeting announcement each month, and if you think you can help out with a particular topic, let the meeting organiser know. Alternatively, you might like to suggest a topic if there's been a lot of discussion of it on [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply to committee and let us know if you want to give a talk or have talk ideas. -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
