| Eric at Lucii.org on 29 Jan 2013 07:08:09 -0800 |
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| Re: [PLUG] Needed - What PLUG talks you'd like to see...and speakers for those talks |
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I'm all for a Raspberry Pi install fest! If it's going to take longer than an hour perhaps we can forgo the Q&A hour and make it a special double session. I'm also in agreement with an earlier poster about holding some "beginner" sessions. I don't need them but I'd be willing to assist in any way I can. Eric On 01/29/2013 09:56 AM, Will wrote: > Would there be any interest in a Raspberry Pi install fest? I was thinking along the lines of getting an operating system on the pi, how to use the command line interface, work with GPIO to turn on an LED an read a button press, and end with learning to install games ending with a Quake 3 lan party maybe? Just throwing that out there, the idea is open for discussion. > > -Will C > > On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 9:33 AM, Kyle Yankanich <kyleyankanich@gmail.com <mailto:kyleyankanich@gmail.com>> wrote: > > After talking to the guys from #hive76 and #plug - Would you folks be interested in a non-linux oriented Hackerspace talk? > > > -Kyle Yankanich http://hive76.org > > > > On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 6:50 AM, Kyle Yankanich <kyleyankanich@gmail.com <mailto:kyleyankanich@gmail.com>> wrote: > > As no great linux Guru, I'd personally love to attend some beginner to intermediate talks. > > -Kyle Yankanich http://hive76.org > > > > On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 10:41 PM, Paul L. Snyder <plsnyder@drexel.edu <mailto:plsnyder@drexel.edu>> wrote: > > As Eric, Fred and Rich have said...PLUG needs to know what topics you want to hear about! > > While I'm in the final throes of my Ph.D., my available time for chasing potential speakers and nailing them down is limited. I can ask for volunteers, and if someone gives a date that they want to talk, I'll add them to the calendar (or Walt or someone else will). But...speakers need to feel like someone wants to hear them speak! There's clearly a lot of interest in the Raspberry Pi, for example. > > Should we put together a series of beginner talks? Are any of the topics in Fred's list of interest? Anyone want to volunteer for any of those topics? Or a different one? > > Be bold...even if reaction on the list is quiet, nearly any relevant topic is likely to turn out an interested audience. > > At the moment, the calendar is wide open after the March Central meeting. > > Paul > > On Thu, 24 Jan 2013, Fred Stluka wrote: > >> PLUG, >> >> On 1/24/13 9:37 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: >>> We actually have had a bunch of suggestions... What I haven't heard much of is expression of interest... ... I'd like feedback on what people WANT to HEAR talks on. >>> >> I agree. >> >> I've seen lots of offers to give talks in recent months, especially along the lines of novice talks, MythTV talks, and and short lightning talks. I haven't seen much interest being expressed in the talks, and no one seems to step up and pick one to make it actually happen. We seem to be coasting along with good intentions, but few results. >> >> I suggest everyone start submitting their suggestions for talks they'd like to see, which will inspire more speakers to volunteer. Personally, I could give a talk every month and never run out of interesting stuff to present, but I don't bother because people don't seem interested. I've even posted outlines of entire talks and seen zero response. >> >> Personally, I'd like to hear about: - Advanced Linux command line tricks - Linux hardware gadgets (Raspberry Pi, Arduino, CuBox, etc.) - Screen/session sharing tools (join.me <http://join.me>, WebEx, GotoMeeting, etc. -- GNU screen was a great talk) - Sys admin tools (Puppet, Chef, yum, apt, etc.) - Monitoring tools (Nagios, etc.) - VCS (Version control) tools (Git, Mercurial, SVN, etc.) and VCS sites (GitHub, BitBucket, SourceForge, etc.) - E-mail in a sea of spam (how to write effective e-mails, how to filter spam, how to avoid being filtered, etc.) - Android - Managing a virtual data center (Lee Marzke) - Virtualization/hypervisors (Xen, VMWare, VirtualBox, etc.) - Emulators (Wine, CrossOver, etc.) - Mixed Windows/Linux/Mac environments (Samba, etc.) - Linux/Android tablets >> >> I could easily talk about: - Some of the above topics - Cloud Computing - Security tools (logwatch, fail2ban, tripwire) - Automated backups via rsync - Advanced piping and redirection - Advanced aliases >> >> If someone wants to take the trouble to comb through the PLUG archives, there are a ton of recently offered talks, many of which were +1'd, but the talks never actually happened. Might be interesting to just search for all archived messages containing "+1" and "talk". Or just read all of the messages with a day or two of 18 Nov 2012 19:41:56. >> >> Also, if anyone's interested, feel free to look through my Tips pages: http://bristle.com/Tips/Unix.htm http://bristle.com/Tips/Internet.htm http://bristle.com/Tips/CloudComputing.htm http://bristle.com There's a lot of material there that I could speak about at a moment's notice. Or get ideas from my links page: http://bristle.com/~fred where many of the rows might be good topics. >> >> --Fred ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fred Stluka -- mailto:fred@bristle.com <mailto:fred@bristle.com> -- http://bristle.com/~fred/ Bristle Software, Inc -- http://bristle.com -- Glad to be of service! Open Source: Without walls and fences, we need no Windows or Gates. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> On 1/24/13 9:37 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: >>> On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 9:04 AM, Eric H. Johnson <ejohnson@camalytics.com <mailto:ejohnson@camalytics.com>> wrote: >>>> Alrighty...since no one stepped up to volunteer >>> I have to echo some of what Eric said. We actually have had a bunch of suggestions for topics that could be presented (though not too many presenters - I doubt everybody wants to have Eric and I alternate every other meeting). >>> >>> What I haven't heard much of is expression of interest in actually hearing about these topics. I'm sure many of us could prepare talks, but if nobody actually wants to listen to them there isn't much of a point in doing so. >>> >>> I'd like feedback on what people WANT to HEAR talks on. Otherwise I fear we'll just end up doing general discussion at our meetings, assuming we even hold them. That's the main thing holding me back from perparing any topics - that and the fact that I think I'm still the last to present at North (and that was last summer I think). I don't mind presenting more than once a year, but the group would benefit from more variety. >>> >>> We could just have general discussion (perhaps shortening the meeting when this is the case and retiring earlier to dine/etc). I think the question is what we all want to get out of the meetings. I don't mind general discussion, but it seems like many turn out for the talks as the general discussion turnout has not been terrific. If you're in it for the talks, then please act in self-interest and let us know what talks you'd like to hear... > ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > - -- # Eric Lucas # # "Oh, I have slipped the surly bond of earth # And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings... # -- John Gillespie Magee Jr -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlEH5b4ACgkQ2sGpvXQrZ/4CqACgpLAIZAicZtebnZqgp3/pAJxq uHAAn18KIGqGiYaiiUGKmvsZv7PJRwdD =Qnk8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug