Well, I talked with Jennifer and she is alright with me having people over to the house a couple of times a month. So, I am willing to host a small group (3-5) for cooperative study or mentoring. Is anyone interested? If so, let me know what days/times would be good. Also, we need to discuss a topic. I for one would love to learn even more about debian package management system, both how to make a package and how to setup a debian mirror or partial mirror (apt-move and apt-proxy I believe). I should have a system with enough disk space now.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >begin Stephen M. Helms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>Maybe we could even have a group mentoring project? >> > > Sounds good. What format were you thinking of? > > As Pete said it's always a problem finding people who >who have time and interest in doing the organization or prep work. >Finding bodies to come to things is easy. If no one from lugod wants >to show there is always the CS Club... ;) > > I've been thinking about trying to put together a hacking party, >or some sort of local hacking group. Basically people meet and >work on some coding/debugging project for a few hours... but I don't >think I'd be able to interest enough skilled people to put in effort >in organizing. Some of the formats I was thinking about would support >little mentor sessions before and during. > > >On Friday 12 April 2002 10:29 am, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > >>i think this was the point of the 10-20 minute talk thing i wanted to do >>at lugod meetings. we had a few of them. >> > > I agree the mini-talks are good... easy to find something to talk about >for 10 minutes, easy to prepare, doesn't bore people to death if they are >not interested but it only lasts a short while. > > A few weeks back I asked Bill to give a short 10 minute demo of the mmap >interprocess communication and process state freeze/thaw stuff I did at >your place a few weeks back. A few people may be very interested in >using it, some may find it interesting to hear about, the others the >material would go way over or wouldn't care (not applicable to them). > > Since seti@Home was being presented, Bill suggested doing it at the >next meeting instead (I'm glad I didn't cut into the Seti@Home time, >very interesting talk). > The last meeting being April 15th was bad, scheduling that day is always >complex (when I owe I wait till the last day to mail, and sometimes >things get complex, the last two years I've found myself walking past >hundred of stopped cars in West Sac a few minutes before midnight :). > > So I'm very glad I didn't try to demo last meeting too, but would like >to give a quick demo of the mmap stuff... maybe at the next meeting. > > >Other mini-talks subjects I'd be interested in covering that come >to mind right now are: > - mmap IPC, realtime monitoring, and freeze/thaw of running program. > - Debian packaging system short tricks (dpkg -L/-S, ac search/show, > ag -yu/update/upgrade, zgrep Contents, debsums) > - netselect (and netselect-apt). > - Debian reportbug > - how to locally mirror Debian... > - Fun With Poll (how to have a single process serve thousands). > > >>i can give a 10 minute talk on marks and registers in vi which would be >>a nice complement to verbus's presentation. i can also give a 10 minute >>talk on using strace, although mike would be more suited for this. >> > > I thought I gave a talk to lugod about strace already, a good while >back. If there is still interest I've certainly done a few more bizarre >things with it since then, which I can only explain. (Can not demonstrate >because I don't have access to the code to do a demonstration anymore and >it would take motivation to recreate something that complex right now). > >the cream of the pile: > - real-time generation of transaction server logs from strace output. > - millisecond timing of message flows in Oracle database servers. >(those might fit in 10 mins, no more than 15). > > or I could just cover strace's main useful purposes... figure out >what a program is doing. > > >On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 12:01:22PM -0700, Rusty Minden wrote: > >>I have an interest in mentoring both to mentor and be mentored. >> >>My questions would be: >>1 Who is interested. >>2 When would you like to meet. >>3 [...] interest paths >>4 What are the limits. >>5 [...] you should be expected to mentor another. >> > >1 - interested in both. >2 - some weekend day, maybe as much as twice a month. >3 - many. really want an overview of packages that fit a category > (strengths and weaknesses) rather than in-depth material > on one option. This is because it's normally not hard finding docs > and learning a particular app once you know it does what you want and > it's best in class (so you don't waste time). >4 - What I would recommend is any questions are free game at the talk > or during discussion after the talk. Then after the session breaks > up only questions via public mailing lists (unless you are being paid > or want to). >5 - I agree the objective is good... continued flow of knowledge, but > it's hard to arrange. Many people who want to learn things don't know > something well enough to be of interest to others... and I think most > people don't learn something well enough to be able to teach others > until they use it for a while. >_______________________________________________ >vox-tech mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech > _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
