[Sussex] Moot talks

[Gavin Stevens]

Hi Dominic,

I know I'd certainly be interested. Given the positive response & good
attendance at previous talks related to the command line, I would be
very keen to see a presentation on this topic.

Do any of the dates below fit in with your availability? (I realise
that the March is probably too soon). You can of course choose a final
Thursday of a month later than May if you wish.

31st March - 

28th April - Gavin: Introducing free software to beginners in
computing.

26th May -

Many thanks for the offer & I look to seeing the presentation.

Best wishes,
Gavin.
On Tue, 15 Mar 2011 09:54:58 +0000
Dominic Humphries <linux at oneandoneis2.org> wrote:

> Hi Gavin,
> 
> given the recent interest expressed in the command-line, I'm wondering
> if there'd be any interest in a presentation along the lines of "Linux
> as a developer's environment".
> 
> Basically, although we're all familiar with Linux as a desktop PC OS
> with a fully-featured, compiz-enhanced desktop environment, my working
> life is spent using a custom GUI designed entirely to make it quick &
> easy to do a lot of collaborative command-line work, primarily with
> Perl and Cobol. That places radically different demands on the
> interface, but Linux's phenominal (but sometimes overlooked)
> flexibility means that it can easily meet those demands.
> 
> So if there's any interest in it, I'd be happy to give an overview
> covering topics such as the advantages of minimalist window managers;
> usage of bash/xterms; how helpful regular expressions are; why Gnu
> Screen is better than GoToMyPC will ever be; some useful aspects of
> the git VCS; and so on.
> 
> I can go into more or less detail on the sub-topics depending on how
> much interest there is in them, so if people would rather have, say,
> just an intro to git, then that's fine too :o)
> 
> Dominic
> 
> 
> On Sat, 2011-03-12 at 16:36 +0000, Gavin Stevens wrote:
> > I am most interested to hear from anyone who can offer a
> > presentation for the monthly moot in Horsham (last Thursday of the
> > month).
> > 
> > 31st March - 
> > 
> > 28th April - Gavin: Introducing free software to beginners in
> > computing.
> > 
> > 26th May - 
> > 
> > I was hoping to give my talk at the March moot but I have a
> > rehearsal on that evening that I can't change as I am conducting
> > it. However, this could be good for my talk as I will have run two
> > courses for beginners by then. I have been using OOo & AbiWord to
> > show word processing & one of the students has asked to see a
> > GNU/Linux distribution in action & several students yesterday
> > downloaded OOo onto sticks to take home. The extra month could give
> > me much more source material.
> > 
> > Best wishes to all,
> > Gavin.
> > 
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