| Mike DePaulo on 9 Nov 2015 04:33:16 -0800 |
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| Re: [PLUG] Suggestion for covering open source project's history before 8:00 |
I am still preparing my presentation itself, but I'll plan on this. Also, here is a teaser for why Red Hat acquired CentOS: 1. http://mattdm.org/fedora/2013next/ (Use arrow keys to proceed through slides.) 2. https://www.rdoproject.org/ On Sat, Nov 7, 2015 at 3:01 PM, Fred Stluka <fred@bristle.com> wrote: > +1 for always taking time to discuss history and WHY > > +1 for history before the talk > > +1 for intros just before the talk. Personally, I'd like to see > name tags too, just to make it easier to tie names on the > mailing list with faces. We're all nerds, right? Are ANY of > us good with names. I know I'm not! > > --Fred > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Fred Stluka -- 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 11/7/15 1:13 AM, JP Vossen wrote: >> >> +1 for that idea. >> >> I'd also like to propose that attendee introductions wait until right >> before the preso, which is what we do at North, but not West and I dunno >> about Central. But when we do them too early at West latecomers miss >> them. >> >> It might also be good to include in the intros some clue about >> experience and skill-levels for the topic, which may help the presenter >> tailor the presentation a bit. It might not too, odds are good there >> will be some utter newbies and some experts for any given topic. Still... >> >> Finally, OK, I'll bite. Why *did* RH really acquire CentOS? >> >> >> On 11/07/2015 12:19 AM, Mike DePaulo wrote: >>> >>> Hey guys, >>> >>> As we've been discussing in other threads, it is very valuable to talk >>> about an open source project's history, or the history of prior >>> projects, during a plug talk. >>> >>> However, this makes the talk last more than 1 hour. >>> >>> Since all 3 locations have people typically arriving at 7:00, but the >>> talk starts at 8:00, how about we give the presenter the option of >>> covering the history from either 7:30 to 8:00 or 7:45 to 8:00? >>> >>> Then at 8:00 there would be a brief refresher on the history for those >>> walking in, or eating noms outside the classroom at plug north. >>> >>> The recording could begin at 8:00, or earlier if the presenter prefers. >>> >>> Personally, I am going to finish preparing my 1-hour long fedora talk >>> for 10/10/2015 with only 1 or 2 slides on Fedora's history. (Where >>> history == prior to the last ~4 years; when many cool things have >>> happened and many challenges have arisen (cough: "why did Red Hat really >>> acquire CentOS?")). Then I'll see if I have time to prepare 15-30 >>> minutes of history. >> >> Later, >> JP >> ----------------------------|:::======|------------------------------- >> JP Vossen, CISSP |:::======| http://bashcookbook.com/ >> My Account, My Opinions |=========| http://www.jpsdomain.org/ >> ----------------------------|=========|------------------------------- >> "Microsoft Tax" = the additional hardware & yearly fees for the add-on >> software required to protect Windows from its own poorly designed and >> implemented self, while the overhead incidentally flattens Moore's Law. >> >> ___________________________________________________________________________ >> 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