[Sussex] Moot talks

[Steven Dobson]

Hi Dominic

I gave a presentation of GIT some years ago, calling for the abandonment
of the broken centralised SCM models as offered by CVS and Subversion.

Steve

On 17/03/11 16:54, Dominic Humphries wrote:
> Heya,
> 
> March would be a little too soon, I'm afraid, although I am intending to
> attend. Can certainly have something ready for the May moot, tho!
> 
> If there's nothing else on the cards & there's any interest in either
> topic, I could probably come up with an intro to either git or Gnu
> Screen for March's moot - I have a vague recollection of git getting a
> mention on slug's mailing list before, can't remember if it had an
> actual presentation done on it or not tho..
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Dominic
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2011-03-16 at 21:23 +0000, Gavin Stevens wrote:
>> 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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