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

[Brian Bentley]

Sure, I'll tag team with Bob. There is 1 picture in our G+ Community.

Brian

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On Jun 13, 2014 10:16 PM, "Bob Jonkman" <bjonkman at sobac.com> wrote:

> 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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