[H-GEN] Talk Subjects.

[Peter Robinson]

My class started last week - there are about 350 students and I asked 
about OSs
It seemed on a quick headcount that there was about 30 linux users - 
seems to be increasing each semester :)
There was also about 40 Mac users.

There were also a few students who asked about installing Linux.

When you get talks organized I would be happy to publicize them in my 
class and/or on the course newsgroup.

Perhaps another to add to my list (possibly the most important one).

Installing Linux  :)

Peter


Matthew Franklin wrote:
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> 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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