[Malvern] LUG Up Front

[Andy Dixon]

The Assisted technologies would be interesting
definately..! It would be a good thing to let people
know how accessable linux was..

I would be happy to do a speech about Onion Routing,
but my public speaking is pretty poor...!

Andy

--- Ian Pascoe <ianpascoe at btinternet.com> wrote:

> Hi all
> 
> Following on from a discussion held at the GMH a
> couple of months ago, it
> has been suggested that we bring FOS and Linux to
> the masses.  So we are
> looking to some of you lot to help us with this most
> noble of causes!
> 
> What we are looking for is just a little something
> to start off with that
> shows off your experiences with using FOS, why you
> chose FOS as opposed to
> proprietry  software, or even, as Phil has, how to
> use it.
> 
> If you've never done presenting before this is a
> real scary thing to do, so
> the easiest thing I've come up with is for us to dry
> run the presentations
> either at a LUG meeting, or in front of a few
> especially selected people.
> Anyone got any questions on how to do presentations,
> give me a shout as this
> type of stand up stuff I do quite regularly at work.
> 
> Yeah, I know what you're thinking, I'll leave it to
> the regular core members
> of the LUG and wash my hands of the complete idea. 
> Don't!  There is a great
> deal of potential to preaching the word and if you
> can get the confidence to
> go along with the presentation, you might even find
> it's got life changing
> potential.
> 
> Phil has already done some initial enquiries, quite
> accidentally as it
> happened, to a couple of the local schools and they
> almost bit his hand off,
> so the audience is there.
> 
> So, what do you need to do?  Firstly don't ignore
> this mail - I know, I know
> I'm laying it on thick but I really think this is a
> good idea.
> 
> Next, look at the way you use FOS / Linux.
> 
> You may use it for a desktop only, that's fine so
> tell us why you chose the
> desktop and distro you did and how you got there.
> 
> Maybe you use it professionally for web building /
> hosting, or running
> networks and servers.  That's fine too as this is a
> bit more techy and will
> appeal to a different type of audience.
> 
> It doesn't matter, just think about it.  To give you
> some more ideas, some
> of the suggestions from last night were:
> 
> - how to and why use the command line
> - BASH and simple command line commands
> - security and backups
> - GIMP 2
> 
> And putting my neck on the proverbial chopping block
> I have decided to do
> something on Assistive Technologies and the disabled
> as it's something I
> know about!
> 
> All this being said, we do have the fallback of
> asking guest speakers to
> come along from other LUGs and other FOS groups like
> the Perlmongers, UK
> Ubuntu etc, but why should we rely totally on  these
> guys when we've got
> such a diverse range of people and interests within
> the group.
> 
> OK, normal service now resumes.
> 
> Ian
> 
> 
> 
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