Re: [activities] URGENT call for talks!
James Polley <[email protected]>
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On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 12:50 PM, James Polley <[email protected]> wrote: > Speaking with all my hats, except the generic slug member hat, taken off. I > reserve the right to put on some/all of my hats later and vote against my > own ideas. > We have swanky new rooms at Google. We have two rooms that hold 40+ people > each (one holds 80) and have projection equipment; and we have some smaller > rooms we could use (one for ~20 people, one for ~10, and a few rooms for > very small groups). We have interwebs, and power can be arranged. > > Perhaps, if we have no speakers lined up, why don't we take the opportunity > to try something novel? How about something along the lines of Atlassian's > "Fedex Day", but shorter: you have 3 hours to work on a project, and 3 > minutes to present it at the end. > By "a project" I don't just mean coding. Been wanting to try out that KVM thing and set up virtual machines on your cheap server in Germany? Been wanting to polish some of the docs on slug.org.au, or document that cool project you saw on github that doesn't have any documentation yet? Been planning to write a script to grovel through your iTunes library and find all the files not listed in the XML index so you can clean them up? I'm up for several of those. Anyone got other suggestions? > > > On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 11:45 AM, Melissa Draper <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Greetings all, >> >> It appears that August is a busy month for our potential speakers -- it >> is now Monday and we still haven't got talks for this Friday. Eek! Since >> speakers are the lifeblood of our meetings, this is not good at all! >> >> Your mission, freedom fighters, if you so choose to accept it: Propose a >> talk for one of the two slots we have open! >> >> Choose between a General talk and an In-Depth talk. Seriously, you don't >> need to be the next Linus or RMS to give a talk at SLUG -- all you need >> is a passion for discussing your favourite F/LOSS project or technology. >> >> SLUG is also a great way to get a test run for talks for conferences >> such as OSDC or LCA. >> >> If you have a talk that fits, feel free to let us know. >> >> -- >> Melissa Draper >> >> w: http://meldraweb.com & http://geekosophical.net >> p: +61 4 0459 5395 >> >> -- >> SLUG Activities >> Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html >> > > -- SLUG Activities Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html