[kwlug-disc] Fill-in talk needed for July

[Paul Nijjar]

Okay. I think that a short event night would work out. Maybe have
people give talks that are from 5-15 minutes in length, with the
emphasis being on informal and low-stress? We could even say "no
slides" or "demo only".

Do we have some offers? There are lots of topics, some not directly
related to Linux: 

- Khalid talking about his adventures in free TV (maybe slides would
  be necessary for this, since Khalid is not willing to give a live
  demo of mounting an antenna at SJK)
- Cranky talking about cutting the cord
- Somebody talking about a new release of <distro> (eg Ubuntu 14.04)
- Bob/Brian talking about their Bits and Bytes evangelism/installfest
- Helpful Firefox/Chrome plugins
- Living life on the commandline
- Buying FLOSS-friendly hardware in 2014
- Something about FLOSS tools in the maker movement
- How to make a podcast using FLOSS tools (I don't think I should
  suggest this as a possibility..) 

There are lots more, I'm sure. 


As for Bob's suggestion: I guess we could do a social night, but I
would prefer for us to schedule one explicitly. Using social nights as
backups for missed talks is a bad precedent. However, if lots of
people want a social night then we could do this.

- Paul



On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 06:47:54PM -0400, Tim Laurence wrote:
> Yeah but finding people to speak for 10 minutes should be easier. I will
> take one of the slots.
> --Tim
> 
> --Tim
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 6:34 PM, Paul Nijjar <paul_nijjar at yahoo.ca> wrote:
> 
> > So now we have to schedule 10 talks instead of one?
> >
> >
> >   On Thursday, June 12, 2014 6:05:29 PM, Tim Laurence <timdaman at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > How about a contest?
> >     10 people
> >     5 minute presentation
> >     5 minutes of Q&A/setup
> >     The audience votes on the best.
> >     The Firkin crowd cover's the winner's beer
> >
> > --Tim
> >
> > --Tim
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 4:49 PM, Bob Jonkman <bjonkman at sobac.com> wrote:
> >
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> > How about a swap meet/social night/installfest?
> >
> > - --Bob.
> >
> >
> >
> > On 14-06-12 01:48 PM, Paul Nijjar wrote:
> > > Once again it looks like the high-availability computing talk won't
> > > be happening in July. Is there anybody who can fill in with a
> > > replacement talk on short notice?
> > >
> > > Sorry about this.
> > >
> > >
> > > - Paul
> > >
> > >
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