On 2004-06-29 16:01:51 +0100 Brett Parker iDunno@sommitrealweird.co.uk wrote:
[...] Certainly we have quite a few debian developers in the group, maybe we should go right through an install from the beginning to having X running, with KDE/Gnome/XFCE4?
I'm quite happy to help with this.
Do we want a demonstration on reuse of old kit for small servers, samba, LDAP, HTTP, FTP, etc?
I'm quite out of touch with this, so I'd like to hear from anyone who's done this recently with really old/small kit.
How about someone talking on how to give talks, maybe that'd be useful?
I'm happy to regurgitate stuff from training courses I've been on, but maybe that's a bit heavy, given the generally random nature of most ALUGs, unless we want to change things totally.
Maybe demonstrations of what other Free operating systems can do?
HURD? FreeBSE?
Do people want to know about specific topics, like 3d, DVB, graphics, DTP, Office applications?
I'm quite interested in DVB and 3d, too.
Do we actually want talks, or a quick guide on the website for how things work? [...]
Quick guides added to the web site are always welcome, but there's no substitute for seeing it done, having how it works explained and maybe even having a small test. I like talks if they're interesting, but I know they're quite stressful for the people doing them, so could understand it if they don't happen too often. I think there's some mileage in adapting http://www.lcsc.edu/ss150/poster.htm to fit ALUG (mini-posters? top-posters: you can have as much as you can stick on the back of your top?), but does anyone else?
Maybe we should start with a set of subjects, perhaps as part of the ALUG wiki, and go from there?
I added one, as you seem to have noticed already. I'd appreciate help tending the wiki, as it's been hit by spammers twice recently.