Linux World Canada Show task list.

Evan Leibovitch evan-ieNeDk6JonTYtjvyW6yDsg at public.gmane.org
Thu Mar 23 00:28:51 UTC 2006


Colin McGregor wrote:

>April NewTLUG meeting will be at the show, with the topic being a distribution comparison.
>
Actually it's somewhat more than that. The topic is separated into four
segments:
- Introduction to NewTLUG
- What is a distribution
- 15 minute segments where people describe what's unique about what they use
- Q&A

There's a lot of FUD out there regarding the diversity of Linux; it's
helpful to new users to understand the concept of the Linux
distributions and how it differs from, say, the different mutations of
Unix.

>Herb has the following speakers:
>  - Debian - Colin McGregor
>  - Fedora - Paul Mora
>  - Mandriva - Evan Leibovitch
>  - MEPIS and PCLOS - Geoff Mitchell
>Still need SuSE and Ubuntu speakers, Herb has suggested I talk about Ubuntu, not sure if I am the right person to do that.
>  
>
Given the time constraints we only have room for one more speaker at
most. The purpose of the 15-minute segments is not so much to compare
the ones demonstrated to each other, but rather to highlight what makes
distributions unique and how they are similar.

The suggestion to combine Ubuntu and Debian was because Ubuntu is based
on Debian, to make room for someone talking about SuSE. But it's not a
big deal either way; in fact, maybe someone could talk about
Kororaa/Gentoo instead. With hundreds of distros out there, we know we
won't please everyone, but the intent is to help describe the concept of
the distro and to give people an idea what to look for in picking one
that's right for them.

>Putting together an "Exhibitor" list for submission to Plum Communication. The follow people have expressed an interest in working the booth as exhibitors:
>  
>
No comment.

- Evan

PS: CLUE (booth 704) will be offering free digital certificates (through
CaCert.org) and key-signing throughout the show. We will also be working
with a number of open source user groups to educate visitors about the
attempt by the new government's plan to re-establish a new copyright
bill entrenching DRM. I'd still like GTALUG to be part of this coalition
if that's possible.


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