[H-GEN] Talks at Humbug

[Greg Black]

As those who were at the Humbug meeting last Saturday will
remember, we were blessed with an abundance of talks: a
fast-paced talk by Pia Waugh in her role as Linux Australia
vice-president; a wrap-up of the recent LCA in New Zealand with
Clinton Roy in the lead, assisted by Russell Stuart and Anthony
Towns; and a smaller group under the leadership of Ben Carlyle
discussing his Efficient Software concept.

There seemed to be plenty of positive response to all that, and
I must say I was delighted to see some of this kind of activity
at a Humbug meeting -- it seems a long time since we had this
kind of activity.

So, to get to the point, I'm hoping that some of our members
will take this as an indicator that talks will be welcomed and
that if you have some topic that you can cover in a half hour or
so, it would be worth planning to deliver a talk at a meeting.
We have members at all levels of experience and with a range of
interests, so no talk can possibly be perfect for everybody --
but any reasonable talk is likely to be of interest to a decent
number of members.

Take this as an open invitation and plan to present something.
Once you have your idea organised, contact the executive to have
your talk slotted into the program -- and then it will be
announced on the mailing list and the web page, and a crowd of
enthusiastic people will turn up to hear you (and probably ask
questions and maybe even debate things).

What are you waiting for?

Cheers, Greg