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

[Bob Jonkman]

I'm good for five minutes of "Adventures at Installfest". If Brian's good for it, we can stretch to 10 minutes.  No slides? Well, I have no pictures of the event anyway.

--Bob.

Paul Nijjar <paul_nijjar at yahoo.ca> wrote:
>
>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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