[Sussex] Moot talks

[Dominic Humphries]

I thought I remembered somebody doing something like that. We switched
from svn to git about 6-8 months ago, and it's a massive improvement.

One of our other codebases is controlled by vcs, which I'm using right
now to try and find out when a change was made - GOD, it's painful!  Git
bisect would take an instant, git blame would remove the need to do all
this binary searching.. but I'm stuck with trawling through a thousand
commits at glacial pace trying to find the one I want. Roll on, the
weekend!

On Thu, 2011-03-17 at 19:04 +0000, Steven Dobson wrote:
> 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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