Talks suggestions / volunteers 2009Q3

[Colin McGregor]

On 4/15/09, Richard Weait <richard-gNTHUr35LhcAvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Please add your talk topic suggestions and requests here for July
> through September 2009.  Ideally, suggestions will include a title and
> brief description of what will be covered in the talk.  Like this:


> Baz Berlios presents: Using FooBar to Improve Jimson Saddle Yield
> Baz found that yields improved by nearly a bajillion percent when the
> FooBar.project was applied to her manufacturing team.  Learn the top
> five decision points for deploying FooBar vs. ABC project, Key
> configuration options and three really entertaining stories from the
> trenches.

Two I would be happy to do on fairly short notice:

- The Care and Feeding of Portable Media Players: This would be a
upgraded version of the talk I did earlier this year at NewTLUG,
looking at what is involved in keeping the various MP3, video and
other portable media players happy under Linux (read, most of the talk
and most of the slides for the presentation are already done :-) ).

- A Unix Unanimous style question and answer session. Each month I act
as moderator at Unix Unanimous and I would be happy enough to run that
sort of meeting (as I have on a few occasions in the past at TLUG). No
projector, slide, or computer are needed for this, just a chalk board,
and chalk, or white board and markers are required...

Looking a bit longer term, I have agreed to write an introductory
article on MisterHouse (a home automation program) for one the major
Linux publications. At some point I would happy to turn that into a
talk (but likely not say for May...).

Colin McGregor

> There were a couple of suggestions last night at the LUG and discussion
> after.  Please flesh these out if they appeal to you.
>
> Those interested in presenting these or other topics should copy the
> talks committee at: talks-+7+y8uhm9Opg9hUCZPvPmw at public.gmane.org
>
> A gentle introduction to git.
>
> Project management software.  (Bill suggested mrproject)
>
> Inkscape - Get started with vector drawing software
>
> Scribus - Document layout and creation with desktop publishing software.
>
> Blender - 3D video and animation
>
> Project management methods for widely distributed teams.
>
> Processing.org Creating graphics from code in perl (Ryan)
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