[kwlug-disc] GNU Parallel presentation... with homework!

[Paul Nijjar]

We have (tentative?) confirmation from Ole Tange the GNU Parallel
developer to present in February. 

We did not get anywhere as far as we wanted in Andrew's tutorial,
which was not Andrew's fault. So we want to make sure that at least a
subset of our audience is familiar with the GNU Parallel basics. 

My goal is to have at least five (and preferably 10) people who are
willing to commit to being prepared for the presentation. I
arbitrarily define this to mean:

- Watching the playlist here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpaiGYxkSuQ&list=PL284C9FF2488BC6D1
- Trying at least three invocations of GNU parallel on their own
  computers
- Will attend the February meeting either virtually or in-person.

If you are willing to commit to this (and will keep that commitment)
please let me know either on the list or offline.

The goal here is to increase the likelihood that Ole will have an
informed audience for his talk so that he will feel the experience was
worthwhile for him. I want all of our presenters to have worthwhile
experiences, but (a) Ole has requested that we be prepared, and (b) he
will be presenting to us from many timezones away, so it is a big ask
for him to speak.

- Paul

On Sat, Dec 30, 2023 at 05:13:13PM -0500, Andrew Sullivan Cant wrote:
> Holidays are somewhat over, time to start sending emails again. :)
> 
> First thanks Chris for reaching out to the author. Bring developers of
> projects to our region, whether virtually or in-person, is awesome!
> 
> FYI I am scheduled to do a Parallel per-presentation on 2023-01-08
> * https://kwlug.org/node/1360
> * https://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/parallel_tutorial.html
> 
> Hopefully this will get enough of us up to speed on parallel, to get the
> most out of a more technical presentation.
> 
> I will mostly go through the tutorial, and review anything that I had a hard
> time with. I have also not used parallels before, so this will also be a
> relatively fresh eyed walk through.
> 
> If nothing else, this will be a scheduled time to do the tutorial while you
> listen to me! :)
> 
> 
> All the best and Happy New Year,
> 
> Andrew
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 2023-12-17 13:57, Chris Frey wrote:
> > If you use Debian or a derivative, GNU parallel comes already packaged:
> > 
> > 	apt-get install parallel
> > 
> > - Chris
> > 
> > 
> > On Sun, Dec 17, 2023 at 05:18:52PM +0000, Mikalai Birukou wrote:
> > > Looking at the video. Install in video does "wget ftp://ftp.gnu.org/...
> > > ". Is there an sftp access point, and/or may be hashes to check,
> > > delivered via channel that protects from "rust in pipes"?
> > > 
> > > Not a nitpick. Not a nitpick.
> > > 
> > > On 2023-12-12 14:33, Chris Frey wrote:
> > > > So I've been in contact with the author of the command line tool
> > > > GNU Parallel, to give a remote presentation about it to KWLUG.
> > > > 
> > > > He has responded that he is available in Jan, but he would like
> > > > to give an advanced presentation, which assumes that everyone
> > > > has already watched the following videos, and played with the tool
> > > > a bit first, and tried the examples:
> > > > 
> > > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpaiGYxkSuQ&list=PL284C9FF2488BC6D1
> > > > 
> > > > This is a slight departure from our usual style, but I think it's
> > > > worth it to get an advanced presentation from the author of the tool
> > > > directly.
> > > > 
> > > > But before committing, what does the community say?
> > > > 
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > - Chris
> > > > 
> > > > 
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