On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 02:20:18PM +0100, Ashley T. Howes wrote:
I was thinking that to draw more people into the ALUG meetings it would be a good idea to have 1 or 2 structured talks at each event for a duration of 30 mins each (20-25 min talk, 5-10 mins Q&A). If members of the group talk about stuff they have expertise in doing on Linux, the talks will require very little preparation and probably done on the fly.
I do think that this would be useful; practical demonstrations being the order of the day here, perhaps?
This all assumes that I one day turn up to a meet. :P
An initial list of talks could be:
Building a Linux cluster - Mark?
Like I can afford enough machines. :)
Building a very popular website - Gareth?
Bah, this is my day job ;)
PHP - James?
This might be handy. I use ASP/VBScript at work, and I tend to roll my own CGIs in Perl or Python at home; PHP is on the Big List Of Stuff To Look At.
What do you think? What other topics would begineers and experienced people like to see presented? We all have experience in different areas and this would be a great way for each of us to expand our knowledge.
A few on scripting languages would be nice; although pretty much everyone is at least aware of Perl, a compare-and-contrast exercise with Python, Tcl, and weirder things like Ruby might be interesting, and it would work well as a group presentation (a person taking each section), or something of that ilk. Talks can be more than just auditory HOWTOs, hopefully?
Aq.