Re: [activities] URGENT call for talks!

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 ;)
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