[H-GEN] Talks and stuff

[Anthony Towns]

Hey all,

What do people think about having some more regular talks at HUMBUG,
or other sorts of things other than just turning up for net access,
informal chatting, and dinner every other week?

What sort of talks would people be interested in turning up to see?

There's a few I could give, but I'm not really sure how in depth people
like it. Do people want to hear talks about how debbugs (bugs.debian.org)
is implemented, or clever tricks you can do with ifupdown (Debian's
ifup/ifdown tools), or a basic introduction to using Debian? Or is Debian
boring and would people be more interested in things like how bittorrent
works (or does everyone who cares just read the protocol anyway?) or
what? How about setting up a blog with blosxom -- you could repeat the
talk five times to fill up an hour... :)

Would it make sense to try having a talk every meeting, at, say, 5pm? With
chatting and dinner afterwards at 6:30 or something?

Are there any newbies lurking on the list who'd like to know more about
something? Maybe a talk on the gimp or something?

The LCA wrapup talk is this weekend aiui, starting at 4:30; and Pia
Waugh, the Linux Australia vice-president and one of the organisers
of linux.conf.au 2007 in Sydney will probably be around to talk to
also. Maybe we could have an informal little BOF about what sort of
talks people would like to see / do at HUMBUGs then?

Cheers,
aj

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