[Newark] Learning by doing (was: PodCast)

[Chris Hayes]

Referring the the GIMP - Tom is the GIMP master, he's always pushing
it to do cool stuff - and seems to know it inside out. Hmm, it might
be worth me mentioning that Tom and I are both artists - and that's
kinda know we got to know each other. Now, obviously, I can't bring
Tom up here to Newark to do a seminar - however, I wonder whether he
would be interested in doing a screencast for us regarding the use of
the GIMP? Just a suggestion, mind.

In addition to that - although I haven't had much recent experience
with the GIMP (I don't even have desk space for my tablet right now
where I'm living) - I really need to learn it properly, so I don't
mind investing some time into that and preparing some kind of demo of
it's more interesting features - and, more importantly, how to use
them... Of course... I'd need to sort out a larger desk before I could
proceed with that plan....


Chris Hayes / cbhworld


On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 12:52 PM, Steve Caddy
<steve.m.caddy at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> AngelLaHash at aol.com wrote:
>
>  > Im intrested in any thing, the best way for me to learn is by getting my
>  > hands on things and messing them up and learning how to fix them.. or watching
>  > someone else, i get bogged down with reading stuff and there is so much of
>  > reading for linux stuff, so Im basicaly willing to try and help on any thing if
>  > i learn a bit more.
>
>  You are so right. I really loath reading HowTo docs. Few seem to make any sense
>  to anyone else other than the author. My main fear is that by trying to fix
>  something, I end up making things worse in such a way I get completely stuck.
>
>  Now pub meetings are really sociable, and great for discussions, but they're no
>  good for whipping out your laptop and demonstrating how to hack
>  /etc/xyzzy.conf. We've been offered use of a room, so maybe we could have a
>  more formal seminar or workshop.
>
>  For example, I've got an old BT848 based analogue tv card (PCI). In my RedHat
>  days, I could just about use the config tool to compile in the modules that I
>  needed to get xawtv to use it. Under Gentoo, I have to admit I got a friend to
>  do it for me, and I have no idea what he did. Under Ubuntu, I'm guessing it'd
>  work out what drivers were needed, but I'm not really sure, and I wouldn't know
>  where to start if it required some manual intervention.
>
>  Another example. I'd used photoshop for years. Now that I've ditched Win2k,
>  I've had to get to grips with gimp. Does anyone here know gimp well enough to
>  demonstrate the use of layers, and how to apply useful effects, etc, and point
>  out where all the tools are?
>
>  Is there any merit is doing a session demonstrating an install, and invite a
>  few local IT people to show them what all the fuss is about? I've done 3 Ubuntu
>  installs so far, all for different things. My first was to set up a file server
>  with samba, using the 7.10 minimal install (the hardware was very second hand,
>  and really would take the graphical interface). The second was a basic web
>  server for an intranet, again from the minimal install. My last was my new
>  desktop, with brand new hardware, and so I went for an all singing all dancing
>  effort. The flexibility of adjusting what you install to suit the intended
>  purpose is something that has to be worth showing off?
>
>  Getting over that installation and configuration barrier is probably one of the
>  main reasons I wanted to join a user grouop. It's the visible side of
>  "community support" that is always mentioned when people talk about Linux. The
>  web forum based "community" can provide some hints and tips, but seems very
>  remote, inhuman, and won't have a pint of beer with you next to a log fire...
>
>  Steve
>
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>  Steven M Caddy, MEng ------------------------------------------------------
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