Re: [activities] URGENT call for talks!

On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Ben Leslie <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon Aug 24, 2009 at 14:05:14 +1000, James Polley wrote:
> >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?
>
> But of course, we wouldn't be looking at anything iTunes related, since it
> isn't free software, and no-one at SLUG uses OS X ;)


Except for ripping the data out of the XML file and migrating it to
something open, of course :)

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