Perhaps, but we do a good deal of that sort of thing already at the intro talk and the installfest. I'd like to do some higher-level talks this year.
~John On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 18:28 -0400, David Zakar wrote: > I gave a talk a couple years ago about the current state of graphics > drivers in X. It was well-received (at least, that's what I'll claim > now). My guess is that most people are interested primarily in "hey, > does my graphics card work properly or not?" > > -DMZ (whose damn Xpress 200M does not) > > On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 22:28 -0400, George Koehler wrote: > > On Sep 12, 2005, at 4:36 PM, John Demme wrote: > > > > > > > Notice that there are no topics scheduled for the last two. > > > > > > > Your web page also lists October 27, which makes it last three. > > > > After going to the ice cream meeting, I had this idea to present X > > Window System. After using it a lot, I can tell what many of the > > different parts of X do. Mostly I would list the different parts of > > X, like core fonts versus Xft, xmodmap versus xkb, DRM, DRI, fbdev, > > Xaw and the other toolkits, window managers and desktop environments, > > xrdb, and maybe why xterm confuses ^H and ^? so much, even the > > disadvantages to forwarding X over ssh. Also I would review why some > > people dislike X. (I do not know how to program X libraries.) > > > > I do not know whether I would make PDF slides and present them, or if > > I would use a computer running X to present (possibly not mine, > > because I am stuck at 256 colors until I get Xorg 6.9). Also I might > > need to pick a free license for my presentation. > > - George Koehler > > > >
