[H-GEN] Talk Subjects.

Matthew Franklin matheist76 at westnet.com.au
Sat Mar 7 22:47:06 EST 2009


Hi,
      Just letting you know that I am the new Talks Maintainer. We are 
now looking for talks.
So if you want to get up and talk about anything Humbug/Unix related I 
would like to hear
from you. Just give me a brief summary of what it is that you want to 
talk about and I'll
respond. I may ask for more information or we may have one another talk 
on that night.
I am setting aside 5pm to 7pm for talks. The talks should be at maximum 
an hour long.
We may do video talks (talks taken from LCA or off the internet) as 
fillers. I would however
prefer live talks.

The following are a list of subjects that Peter Robinson suggested 
(please see emails from
him around the 9/2/09).  I think these are great subjects to do and we 
will do them! Even
if I have to do them on my own.

1. downloading packages - e.g. synaptic (and update manager)
2. su (root) discipline
3. using xterm and basic commands like cd, ls
4. man, info
5. use of some text editor - e.g. vi, emacs, gedit or whatever - emacs 
might be a bit hard and vi might be a bit strange for those used to MS 
editors. It seems lots of sites that provide fixes for things tend to 
use gedit to edit files.
6. gnome v KDE v ...
7. pointers to sites to help with problems - and being able to google - 
e.g. ubuntu ibex ATI
8. firefox, thunderbird
9. tar, zip (useful for student assignments)
10. document construction - ooffice, latex???
11. xorg.conf
12. compiz???

So please save me the embarrassment and ask to do one of these topics.

Thanks to Russell for pushing Peter's idea's and for all the help he 
provides at Humbug.

Matthew (Librarian, Event coordinator, Talks Maintainer)

PS Next Session Install fest.





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