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Re: [Plug] what do people want out of plug talks
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oddly I think about that ethernet access at netaxs, why not have a
meeting there and someone set up a webcam and do a live meeting? I am
sure we can put it on the page with little or no problem...
--
-Rune
Time is Irrelevant to the worlds beyond this godforsaken place unto which
it destroys all.
-Aarune J. Oracle
"In the depths of a mind insane fantasy and reality are the same" -Slayer.
On Mon, 20 Dec 1999, John Kirk wrote:
:Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 16:28:28 -0500
:From: John Kirk <dystan@pac.net>
:Reply-To: plug@lists.nothinbut.net
:To: plug@lists.nothinbut.net
:Subject: Re: [Plug] what do people want out of plug talks
:
:On Sun, Dec 19, 1999 at 12:55:33PM -0500, Darxus wrote:
:> I'm still trying to get a grasp of what it is that people want to get out
:> of these talks. These are my guesses: ... (newbies) ... (not_newbies) ...
:> So.. what do you guys think ?
:
: I'd find it fun if, sometimes, we actually _do_ something rather than
:just talk. One way would be for a speaker to demo something, perhaps
:getting interactive participation from the group. Another would be for
:one or more sub-group(s) to do something together as a group project
:between meetings and then have a progress-reporting and decision-making
:meeting later to take responsibility for integrating and publishing the
:results. The results could be distributed/published on the plug website
:or on a new domain the group could register for the project. This would
:be a way for our group to contribute to the open source movement.
:
: Possible projects I can think of, are:
:
: 1. Documentation of some installation process that's
: currently a pain due to insufficient information. Perhaps
: just edit existing documentation. The printing problems
: (that Sandy Basicus has had), discussed at several of our
: meetings, could be documented, solved and the results published.
:
: 2. We could demo and document the steps to take one of
: the common, but arcane-for-beginners-under-*nix, tasks and
: quickly build a GUI interface for it under Perl-Tk, TCL/Tk or
: some such tool.
:
: 3. Demo a quick-and-dirty ad-hoc procedure for doing an
: edit using Emacs, that'd be real hard any other way. For
: those who don't use Emacs routinely due to the learning curve
: might still find it convenient to pull it up once in a blue
: moon to do something otherwise prohibitive. e.g. a complicated
: search-and-replace through a file, either because the search
: string or the replacement string is hard to specify (control
: characters or something) in most editors, or because the
: modification is more complex than just replacing a string with
: another. Another example is re-arranging a file that is
: formatted in columns. Having a rote recipe for doing such a
: task might break through the ice for picking up Emacs.
:
: 4. Doing something live on the internet would be a kick
: at a meeting. Even if it were just to demo places to search
: for answers to newbie tech questions. Making it concrete by
: online demo, with group input and collaboration would be very
: eye-opening for many beginners.
:
: 5. Demoing the competing desktop environments, live,
: (as well as, perhaps, their installation procedures) would be
: valuable for those who haven't seen many.
:
: The facilities at IQ group seem ideal for PLUG to me, because the
:necessary hardware is handy for this kind of meetings.
:
: regards, -- John Kirk
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