[SWLUG] Lightning Talks

[Kris Zani]

sorry i've been so slow.  been away for the weekend.

I was actually thinking slightly longer.  probably an hour session.
no more for beginners otherwise it's brain melt time.

I might (stress might) be willing to put together a programming course 
for distribution via this mailing list if anyone is interested.
If you are use this list or email me directly.  I would want to know 
what language and what you know already and also how often you'd want 
the updates, how much homework you'd want etc.  Let me know if you 
interested.   If there's enough response then I'll start gathering some 
lessons together and we'll see how we get on.  If you're new to coding 
then we won't be starting with C or C++ as the compilers alone raise too 
many questions for a newbie.  Lets start with something simpler like an 
interpreted language - if you don't know what I'm going on about then 
you're perfect!!

:-)

Kris

Neil Greenwood wrote:

>Just to clarify your message, I guess you're intending that a
>programming workshop would be longer than the 10-15 minutes lightning
>talk slot...
>
>I can help with the Java talks (and a bit of Python), but I also live
>in Cardiff, so the same proviso applies to me too.
>
>I might have a contact or two in Cardiff Uni. I'll see if anything can
>be arranged.
>
>On 18/08/05, Kris Zani <kriszani at iscavision.com> wrote:
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>>linux programming workshops.
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>>starting with the basics in either C or C++.
>>maybe even bash.
>>
>>since linux is really about community driven development the more people
>>who can program the better!!
>>
>>Id be willing to run a couple on Python, php or Java.  Although
>>scheduling would be important for me as I live in Cardiff.
>>
>>for this type of thing you'd have a max of about 10 people per session.
>>and session 1 would have to be software setup so that everyone has a
>>stable environment for the course.
>>
>>This kind of thing could perhaps be done in other Uni's as well.  Anyone
>>have any contacts in Newport, Cardiff, UWIC or Glamorgan?
>>
>>Lightning talks:
>>what would perhaps be best here is to set up a forum or such where users
>>can request talks and then other users can say - yep I know about that -
>>so I'll give the talk.  That way you only get talks on stuff people want
>>to hear about.
>>
>>anyway, just my humble opinion.
>>
>>Kris
>>
>>As an aside, got E17 working on FC4 yesterday.  Beautiful piece of work!!
>>and FC4 on my laptop no where near as fast as Gentoo.  :-(
>>
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>>Justin wrote:
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>>>In a complete change of topic.
>>>
>>>We have discovered that we can obtain the use of certain rooms on the
>>>Swansea University campus in the evenings should we want them.
>>>
>>>Some of these rooms have a large conference table, with whiteboard and
>>>projector facilities, so would be great for more organised debate /
>>>talks. Although there would be no refreshments directly available, the
>>>pub (and campus bars in term time) are only a few minutes away
>>>afterwards.
>>>
>>>So i'm looking for suggestions on what we could do with such a room, as
>>>a one off, or as an occasional change of style.
>>>
>>>One suggestion is the idea of 'Lightning Talks' which consist of 5
>>>minute timeslots, where people can give a short talk on, well, pretty
>>>much anything they like. It can be a short talk with a few slides on
>>>some project you've been working on, through to just a few words on some
>>>program you love/loath and why.
>>>
>>>The idea being that the short time span makes it much easier, and less
>>>daunting for people to think up something and organise themselves, as
>>>there has been request for more talks but a shortage of people with the
>>>experience or confidence to stand up for a half hour or more in front of
>>>a crowd.
>>>
>>>To make this really work we would try to encourage everyone that came to
>>>the meeting to stand up and say something, once, or many times.
>>>
>>>What do people think of this idea? or any other suggestions?
>>>
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